Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-02
This Week Has Been a Notable
One For the Duck Hunters
of the State
MANY BIRDS WE'RE KILLED
Towns Of the Iowa State League Are in
Readiness and Waiting lmpatienty
For the Schedule-Boone Catches Up
Williams Goes on a Ranch-Burns-
Fillmore Match.

This week has been a most happy one
for duck hunters, and has been a very
notable one from the standpoint OF the
number of birds killed. 1t has been the
Exceptional week not only of the spring,
but of several seasons past. This holds
true of central Iowa as well as of the
northern counties where the sport has
been unusually good. One of the espe-
cially favored spots, which has been
Visited by hunters. has been Lost
Island, in Palo Alto county where the
ilight has been fast and furious during
recent days. In central Iowa sections.
during favorable weather. the sport has
also been good, and bags of from a
dozen to several times that many birds
have not been unusual. 1t has also been
noticeable the number OF geese that
have been killed. During late years
these early migrators have not been
brought down in any great numbers in
central Iowa. but this spring has been
an exception.
The pause before activity, the quiet
before the blat and blare of the bleach
er's root and roar, characteriZes the
present situation in the eight towns of
the Iowa State League. All the pre-
Bminaries have been arranged, all the
details have been attended to, and
each team is signed and ready to re-
port to their several managers. Work
on grandstands and grounds is going
on in several of the cities and things
are shaping themselves rapidly for the
opening of the few weeks of training
and exhibition games. All are now
waiting impatiently for the schedule.
which was promised several days ago,
hut which is expected at any time.
After 1t has come from the hands of
Mr. Lander it is believed it will take
the managers but short time to ac-
cept it.
Boone. the last city to accept fran
chise aud the last town to secure it's
has been taking great strides
forward in the past two weeks. that it
might overcome the handicap enforced
by a lack Of prompter action. Since
Reynolds was secured things have been
moving rapidly. He disappeared for a
time from public view, Immediately
after he signed, but bobbed up ten days
later, with contracts enough to equip
almost two teams. Some of them are
good. and promise well, others are dark
horses, but Reynolds seems to know,
and is promising things will happen to
those teams whose upward gaze is al
ready fixed on the far-ofT pennant.
Rockwell City, the county seat of CAL
houn county. has graduated into the
ball ranks Ed Meade, who
has signed with a fairly fast company
in the Superior team of the Northern
League. Meade has been signed to play
infield.
Marshalltown duplicates the classes |
and purses at Waterloo. her predeces- |
sor in the Cedar Valley circuit. Briefly, /
The purses are $500 each, for 1920, 2: Is, |
2 % and 35 trotters; 2:20 .: TO- 2: Is |
md 2:35 PAGERS, with running races
each day. The entry closing date of |
Marion, Waterloo and Marshalltown in |
The Cedar Valley circuit has been ex-
tended from June 81 and June %.
shs
C. w. Williams.f the well-known |
aorseman, who was the king bee in the
clover patch at independence when that
place scared on race track boom, has |
again bobbed up and is still doing I
business on the broad principles that /
the development of Axtell, AL T
erton and other phenomenal equines I
hat made Independence famous. Mr..
Nrhn a
HI. has embarked in the I
farming business in Canada on mann
moth scale and is buying horses on the
Chicago market with which to till the
Canadian soil. Mr.. Williams will farm I
over eighteen sections of land and has |
already bought over fifty head of I
horses as partial equipment of the big I
.anch.
A match has been arranged in Des
AIoines for April 4 between Farmer"
Burns and Doc" Fillmore. Alridge |
who was So easily dafeafad hy Fillmore