Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-16
IOWA SPORTS TALK
New Schedule of the Iowa State
League Now Being Con-
sidered by the Teams
FIT. DODGE FILES OBJECTIONS
Does Not Favor So Many at Home
Games-WaterIoo Pleased With New
Schedule and Has Voted For it
MarshalItown is Favorable Toward
lt-Matter Should Be Decided Soon.

The revised, or rather the new. sche-
in the hands of the eight different
clubs, and from the early Indications
promises to be but little more salts
factory than the first. Fort Dodge is
one of the prominent complaners this
time. The original schedule of li2
games, with the season opening on
May 6 and closing on September 5,
would probably have been adopted had
it not been for the kick" raised by
Waterloo and Ottumwa. The fornle.
objected because Its club did not closs
the season at home and the latter set
up the long yell'' because it could not
have the Fourth of July game on It's
home grounds. Now Fort Dodge OBJ
jects TO the 126 game schedule ON ac
count of the large numbes Of home
games.
With the second schedule Frank G..
Landers, of Rockford, its maker, wrote
an open letter to President f. c. Nor
ton, in which he did not miss the truth
could not make a schedule and then
educate the several mines to it's posi-
bilities and impossibilities. No one
team can expect to have the best of 1t
all the way thru on any schedule. and it
Is conceded by any fair minded person
that no one team can have every detail
of a schedule of this size just as 1t
would have 1t. Some of the pluins
must go to other teams, II 1t is desired
that the schedule should be accepte,
at all.
There has been an inclination shown
on the part of some of the clubs to
want all that Is coming to them and
then some. The original schedule was
equitable in every way. Waterloo
kicked about closing away from home,
Yet forgot the fact that they We're
granted the week during the travelling
mems convention, which will prove a
banner one to them. Had it not been
for this week at home they would not
have had to have gone to Fort Dodge
to close the season. 1t would seem
that Fort Dodge's objections, looking
at them from a distance, are not well
grounded. II other cities of the APP
proxi,nate size Of Fort Dodge can stand
a schedule of 126 games, IL would seem
that that city could. In view of the fact
that that city has been so loudly
'touted" as being such a hot base
ball town.
is believed by those who are clearly
NOS. N 10 ne 1,,5 ~,
with the longer series of games is the
better OF the two. The last gives 126
games from April 80 to September H.
The difference is fourteen games In the
twelve additional days. or seven at
home games for each club during the
same period. 1t is scarcely clear how
this furnishes an over abundance of
base ball for any one town.
The essential advantage Of the new
over the first schedule is the fact that
while it contains fourteen more games,
the mileage Is no more and in some
cases even less. This is accounted for
by the fact that instead of playing
a series of only two games at each
city on It's last trip around. each club
plays series of three This is fact
that is worehy OF consideration, for
each club has fourteen additional
chances to Tay out with the same trav-
cling expense to bear.
Waterloo is pleased with the last
schedule and has voted to accept 1T.
1t is viewed favorably by the local
association and its vote will probably
also be cast for its adoption. Boone
is the only other town of the north
ern section, which has not been heard
from. 1t would be wise plan for the
clubs to get together on this schedule
N tier as soon as possible for delays
and useless wrangling at this stage of
the game are bad thing for the league
just prior to it's opening.
With Friday the season for game
birds closed in the state and, in certain |
ways the springs sport has been unus- |
ual 1t has been years since the duck !