Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-25
IOWA SPORTS Talk
With Season About One-Third
Gone the League Promises
to Weather 1t Thru
CROWD oTTuMWA FROM FIRST
Other Teams are After Position so
Long Occupied by the Standpatters
This City Tops Them All in At
tendance The Microbes Take
Brace - HoIcomb Must be Careful.


tendance The Microbes Take
Brace HoIconb Must be Careful
With the schedule of the Iowa Stat
League about one-third completed it i
not amiss TO look back over the event
that have worked together to place TIN
clubs in the standings they now occupy
The league as a whole. is prosperous
and so far as can be learned. the indi
vidual associations backing the team:
are equally so. This would indicate
that the circuit will stand until at leas
1 July 4, which was predicted by some a:
the limit of the race it would run. With
] anything like the success which has at
tended the efforts of earlier in the sum
/ mer it should pass thru the season
! with flying colors. and be ready mex,
spring to launch into the second yeai
| of its career
Ottumwa, which for weeks stood I'M
/ disputed IN first place, has during re-
cent days lost her hold on that position
/ and even now has slid down to second
! This first came about during the middle
I OF the present month, while that club
! was touring the northern circuit, for
| the alleged purpose of showing the
| clubs of that section how to play the
mi. n1a
at the top. by no great margin, it is
| true, but while over topped from above
she is being pressed from below by
Marshalltcwn. and it would require but
a few more reverses to send the stand
patters sliding down the percentage
scale. True this may not happen, but
in the light of recent events is as likely
to occur as not.
1t must be a qualification TO Mar
shalltown people to learn that this city
heads the list OF all others of the league
in the number OF average daily adInis-
sions to the game, and what contrast
its patronage Isl with that of Ottuinwa
a city much larger in population. OF
tumwa's club, after touring the north
and still retaining first place, arrived
home, and with the Grays opened for
series of three games. The total at
tendance on the days was 1000. a frac-
ton over 333 a day Compare this with
1887, the total paid admissions of those
that witnessed similar number OF
games when 0ttumwa was here, and
the Grays had not returned from an
absence of two weeks either. The
showing speaks well for Marshalltown,
but the story is OF q different sort
viewed from an Ottumwa standpoint.
IT would seem that 1t Is up TO that city
to turn out and boost for its most ex-
cellent club headed by Kennedy.
Waterloo. strengthened by new ma
terial. has finally gathered her forces
together and commenced. that which
looks to many, as an almost irresist-
ible march to the top. That is what
the Microbes should have done long
ago, but for some unaccountable reas-
on could not, until it looked as tho
they had delayed too long.
Those looking at it from the outside
wonder what will happen to Manager
HoIcon1b of the Boone club, IL his
bunch does not hurry and take on a
few games. If he does not, may not
the powers that be rise up and prod
him from his perch? The string of
losses at Keokuk would indicate some
snch a thing might hannen as Il did
to Reynolds under like conditions not
go long ago. Perhaps, however Hol-
comb is safe owing to the distarce
those wads Of wealth
s,rear,,ne for action at Roe,e AM, tba /
scana os activities Probably n.aet- !
,gs ~ tba airectors have heen held a. |
ready ca 81 would hah,y. iIoicon,h RI (
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.aarchiny for q nlace an the hose wac
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