Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-18
SPORTS TALK
Interest In Race Horse Circles
This Week Has Center In
the American Derby
WAS RUN THIS AFTERNOON
Betting Is the One Thing That Has
More to Do With Marrins Sports,
Professional and Amateur, Than All
Other Causes COMMUNICATIONS 1t Has
Worked Out in the League.

| The interest this week among racing
men has been centered in the Amer
| lean Derby run at Washington Park,
| Chicago, this afternoon, aud as is the
! case every year, thousands have gone
| to the city to see this great annual
exhibition of famous Jumpers. The nell
be small. in comparison with other
| years, and out of the l19 nominations
| probably not more than a dozen Will
get away Chicago officials have
| threatened to put the ban on the bet
| ting at the race course, but just now
successful this attempt was, or whether
| il was more than bluh, has not peea
ascertained. In Chicago, as elsewhere,
While betting to a certain class Is the
| life of the game, it is the worst fea-
| ture OF all sports, professional or anna
| teur.
| Whenever there is sufficient rivalry
aroused between contestins teams or
| individuals betting almost invariably
follows, and is the one and almost sole
reason for the pangsNof soreness that
follow defeat. TO lose and still smile
| is better than to win and smile. The
latter is easy, it takes that sporting
quality known as gameness, to do the
former. Let the individual, however,
| wager any considerable sum on the
result, and the defeat, accompanied
| by the separation from his currency,
/ ~ AN
views the outcome from prejudicea
standpoint, brought on by what 1t has
cost him. His loss makes it almost
impossible for him to look at things m
| their true light, and to place the cause
of his losing where it belongs. What
| it has cost him is very uppermost in
his mind, and he must give vent to
his feelings, in exact ratio with the
amount for which he has been tapped
! 1t is this love of money and the
/ betting of it. that taints, more or less,
all sport, causes the likely winner 10
often be the loser, produces hard feel
| ings and hot words between friends
and contestants, and is generally detri-
mental to the sport in every sense of
the word. Were it possible to pre-
vent it, all sports would be lifted to
| a higher plane, would be purged of
the slurs daily flung at them and would
| be made better and cleaner III every
way Its evil fruits are ever cropping
out, and the poor loser is usually the
one who places sums on the outcome.
| Some evidences of this have been seen
lin recent events in the Iowa State
! League, and the release of Manager
Reynolds. of the Boone club is said 20
be due to this fact.
! The circumstances In that instance
are reported to be that one of the
magnates bet heavily ond lost repeat
eddy, and so much SO that his disgust
got the better OF his judgment, and
| he had influence enough to bring about
| the discharge of the manager. How
| true this charge may be is not known,
| but it is known that Boone is one
of the heaviest betting towns of the
circuit Had Reynolds been able to
pull his team thru his series of re
cent games by winning he would have
been the king bee in base ball circles
| in that city. But as it was he could
/ not win. and hence he must go.
/
ling games, ETC., are rumored, but they
all lack verification.
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| The Oskaloosa magnates also got
| tired of Tiley and he has gone the
Iway of other unsuccessful managers.
/ His release makes the third of those
| heading teams that has been brought
about in the different cities of the
league. Sullivan at Burlington. went
first; then Reynolds, of Boone, and
now Tiley. Oskaloosa had consider
| able grounds for it's action, and what
/ they We're those who have seen the
| Quakers when in action will readily
understand. He got together poor
team, to start with, and has UP to date,
| improved it but little. 1t lacked head
and team play, and that it won even
as much as it did is the only wonder.
/ 1t is hoped that Donahue, the new
imam, who halls from st. Louis, will
connect things up, that Oskaloosa may
make a better showing.
| Reports from DEBORAH, Waverly and
Cedar Rapids, which are the next
three towns In the Cedar Valley cir
suit, In the order named, beginning at
DEBORAH this week, are to the effect
that a considerably larger entry was
received by them than at Nashua,
New Hampton and West Union. Since
very fair meetings We're held during
| the past three weeks at the three
towns just named, considering their
| light entry, real interesting meetings
may we'll be looked for from this on
| in the Cedar Valley.
On the first indication of kidney
trouble, stop it by taking Foley's Kid
| ney Cure. b. A. Morgan.