Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-19
Things Are Moving Along
Briskly In the Towns of
the Iowa State League
ALL CLAIM REMNANT TEAMS
Each Town States Itself AS Being the
One That Will Run Away With First
Place-Boone Gets Busy and Secures
Reynolds for Manaser-New South
ern Minnesota League.

With the opening of the Iowa State
League season. six weeks distant the
amount of base ball dope" that is be-
ing handed out in the various cities
of the circuit, indicates enthusiasm
of the deep rooted and lasting sort.
AS day after day brings the time nearer
when the. players will report at their
various towns, the prospects for the
league appear brighter and brighter.
The organization may not last for
any one OF several good reasons, but ii
the salary limit Is observed. and if the
clubs are, handled In a business-lika
way there is every reason to believe
that it should meet with reasonable
success. A base ball team requires tn 2
same business management and care
a private undertaking does, and be-
cause it is a sport will not warrant the
business end of it being treated as
such.
In their efforts to land among the
topnotchers managers are very liable
to overlook the salary limit of $500 4
month and allow the total OF wages TO
30 sailing away above that amount.
In SO doing the staying qualities Of
the league are liable to be worstel
1t is an open and shut" proposition
that the, average $500 team cannot do
business successfully with one drawing,
say $1,000. President Norton has
,yn ,aI Nh
1t must De observed or there may be-
something doing in some of the mines.
losing bunch, in almost any town,
cannot make the game pay out. For
that reason unless the salaries of the
players he closely watched. few
teams VIII be distancAd to the detri-
ment of themselves and the entire
league.
II there is a single town in the Iowa
State League that has not got, what it
believes, a bunch of pennant winners,
together. it is probably Boone,
alone, and for the very
good reason that that city's nine
has not yet been signed. From each
of the others assurance has come that
Its team is sure enough" winner.
More pennants have been won and
carried away during the past few weeks
than would supply battleship. They
are all out to win, and this spirit seems
to be especially prominent among the
northern towns of the league, where
Fort Dodge, Waterloo and Marshall
town are each slated to be at the top
OF the percentage column when the
final figuring is done. Boone, doubtless
as soon AS its men are signed, will be
laying claims with the rest.
Boone has now had her franchise a
little over a week, and the way in which
the sports" of that Northwestern divi-
sion point have been laying to" on this /
base ball proposition might furnish an
object lesson for other towns of more
sluggish movements. Since the bail
was started rolling there. a manager,
Thomas Reynolds. of Fargo, N. ID. has
been signed, a permanent organization
has been perfected, and articles Of in
corporation. are about to be filed. What
Boone has done in the past ten days
took Ma1shalltown, Oskaloosa and one
or two other towns Of the league a |
month or more to accomplish. 1t might |
be we'll for league towns to watch this |
little city's team after the season has |
begun.
In Reynolds, 1t is believed Boone has |
secured competent playing manager.
He Is an old Northern League player
and managed the Fargo team of that
aggregation last season. Thru rnisun-
dersandings with the board of directors
sor which Reynolds was in no wise to
blame. his services terminated with
Slight pleasantness. He was we'll
liked in Fargo and gave that city fast |.
oall. There is every reason to believe
he will dc the same for Boone, although
perhaps somewhat handicapped by the
ack of time.
The OSkaloosa correspondent of the
Sporting News, of st. Louis, in the fol-
owing manner tells of that citys
hances: with the good material that