Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14
First Week of the Season Has
Ended and Has Not Been
Particularly Successful
SOUTHERN LACK OF PATRONAGE
Some of the Cities of the South Halt
of the Circuit Fail to Give the Sup
port Needed to Their Teams-Mar-
shaItown Has Taken the Lead Thru
out the Week.

The first week of the season OF the
Iowa State League has closed, ana IL
has not been as suspicious TO the new
league as it might have been. just
what connection the forming of a new
league and the opening of It's season
may have with the weather is not GER
tain, but it is known that the past sew
en- days have been banner ones for
which are discouraging to
base ball, especially the financial end
of it. The week has taught other
things, and things that must be rene
died If the year is to be successful
one This thing of league base ball is
not play. but is a business proposition,
and must be handled as such II it
would be made to prove winner.
sGe
Some of the clubs, especially Mar
have started off with
rush and have been doing things"
down around the southern half of the
circuit. just how long this winning
lecture Others, noticeably Waterloo
and Burlington. which were touted as
being fast ones. have not showed up so
we'll, but the race has but started, and
it is a long lane that has no turning
point. From the towns where the
teams have been losing, especially those
of the south, the "knocker" is getting
busy, deeIning 1t his part to hammer
and rap away If every game be not
turned into victory. That every club
win each game is an impossibiiity. In
each contest there must be four win
ners and as many losers, SO there
should be no encouragement 1t Is
often the case that a slow getaway
means fast finish at the pole.
Despite the fact that Burlington has
been playing second time In most Of
the games, the patronage accorded the
team there has been most excellent.
This can not be said of the other towns
of the south. in which decided
brace" must be taken If the matter OF
game guarantees is going to be avoid
ed. Attendance of less than 400 on
week days is not going to pay. and the
in those towns should exert
every effort to get the. crowds out.
Citizens should have enough interest in
the welfare of their city's representa-
tive in this combination of teams to
give ii sufficient support to keep it go
ing.
Were 1t not so pathetic. what Wa
terloo was expected to do and what it
has done down south, it would be
son has but begun. and a month from
now the percentage column may wear
a different look. but just at present
those who read a week ago of what
was going to do can not help
but smile. Waterloo's team, according
TO that citys papers, was simply going
to swoop down upon those wouldbe
gangs of ball tossers at Burlington and
keokuk and play horse with them. The
Microbes broke even with Burlington
on two games, but We're not able to
take one of the three from keokuk 1t
simply goes to show that he who toots
his horn loudest before the fray may
have no cause to toot it afterwards.
The situation would have been less no.
ticeable had not the Waterloo boost
ars been so everlastingly confident.
SO
Tomorrow he who loves to fish, and
here are but few lovers of nature and
The woods who do not. may again re-
urn to his sport after months of en-
forced idleness. If Sunday is bright
fair day thousands will go forth with
-od and reel. and will thrash over miles
,f water Of rivers or lakes. Cold
weather and recent heavy rains have
lot tended to make the opening day an
promising one, and it is like
y there will be but few fish caught.
May Is is too early anyway for the
game fish season to open in Iowa, and
he last general assembly would have
showed much more wisdom and knowl-
edge of the ways of fishes had it ended
he closed period fifteen days later
June /.
The Sioux Falls, S. D., Daily Argus
Warner of the Marshalltown "Grays,"
sizes up the showing OF this citys team
lnder Warmers management as fol-
ows: Captain Bobby Warner has
started the same old tricks down in
.owa which made him popular In Sioux
Falls. He has placed the Marshalltown
,all club at the front of the procession
n the Iowa State League from the
Tery outset. And we want to give those
owa people a pointer and that is this, if
hey are not mighty careful Mr.. War
Ter will keep his colts at the head of
he procession from start to finish
That is faculty which Mr. Warner
sas of picking out team that can al
ways stay at the front. He was at the
lead of the Sioux Falls team from 1899
o 1903 and he gave the Queen City the
team every year but that
II 1903, and it was not his fault that
Sioux Falls did not carry off the pen
mt that year. If the town had stood
behind him in 1903 as they did in pre-
'ious years he would have landed the
,enant."
Race goers will be interested in the
'ale of Roy the Kid, the 10-year-old
,hestnut PAGER with a mark of 2:O7h.
which was sold this week in Chicago
or $3.50. The horse went to eastern
buyers. Roy the Kid was well known
N the Cedar Valley circuit, where he
lad raced for several seasons.
Quick Arrest.
J. A. Gulledge, of verbena, Ala, was
vice In the hospital from severe case
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