Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-17
Would the Taxing of License
Hunters Prove Good Thing?-
One Reason Why Not
NO GAME TO BE PROTECTED.
The Lack of Game Birds to Need the
Protection Would Seem to Make
Such Law Useless-Enacted Years
Ago 1t would Have Proved a Great
Thins-other Sport Gossip.

The suggestion of State Game War
den Lincoln. of Cedar Rapids. that
license for all resident hunters OF ~
season would appear on the face OF
it to be good thing. Yet the lon
ger one thinks of it the more it aP-
pears to be like locking the barn after
the horse has been stolen. Its OBJ
funds with which to carry on the work
of the warden. This would no doubt
be successful, and would be the means
of furnishing Mr.. Lincoln sufficient
means to more ably perform the duties
of his office The money thus raised
might be put to good use but it would
seem as tho the day for protection had
passed, owing to "a lack of game to be
protected. The work OF the warden
has ever been handicapped by the size
of the appropriation. Had the gen
eral assemblies of years ago bestirred
themselves there might now be good
reason to compel every fellow who
packs a gun in search of game to pay
the price. The legislature, which in
respect to Iowa's game protection has
always been noted for its erratic ac-
ton, may arise and vote this license
howl from the hunter, who will disre-
gard it until he is caught. 1t is hard
to license hunter in country where
there is no game.
The college student who played
professional base ball, and got caught
at 1t, is barred from taking part in
the intercollegiate games. So said the
committee of the Iowa intercollegiate
Athletic Association. This will nip the
amateur aspirations of many an Iowa
player, who has fattened his summers
income by base ball played with the
professionals. This move is for the
express purpose OF barring professions
alism from the college games, and is
worthy of the support of those inter-
ested in the purity of amateur sports.
1t looks peculiar tho, in view of the
action taken by some schools to secure
purely amateur" athletes
While the representatives of Iowa
colleges We're striving for the so-called
purity in athletics at Des Moines, 9TH
err representatives of the same schools
were securing the country for foot ball
material and track team timber. What
is the exact difference which stamps
the player as a professional, who re-
ceives his salary with ball team
~ All .,,l,,
for certain Inducements" (never men
tionable in the vulgar phrase of dol
lars and cents) betakes himself to
this, that, or the other school, where
for the pittance agreed upon, he
makes the team, and as a bluff"
breaks into a certain prescribed course
Of study? An example of this kind
was seen in this city during recent
weeks, when two young men, both ath-
letes, were offered inducements" from
no less than three noted schools to
help them decide which one to enter.
Amateur athletics is great thing, if
it is purely and simply amateur, If not
it sinks to level below professional
ism, for it lacks the honesty of the
latter class.
Because football and osteopathy
locked horns on the ground of being
conflicting, the former has been barred
from the Still College schedule of
sports and games. So the college fac
ulty has decided, and the name of
Still will no more be found among
those who battle on the gridiron. The
Des Moines school made good record
for itself during the past two or three
years, but the glories Of the past must
satisfy those ambitious young men of
that school who crave honors on the
field.
Reports from southern Minnesota
have it that the crop Of ducks produce
ed in that section of the state is enor-
nous, and since the opening Of the
season in the localities favored by
lakes, the sport has been most ex-
cellent. Especially is this true of
those lakes which produce wild rice,
celery and other watery plants, upon
which ducks feed. How much this
condition of affairs may be due to the
closing of the spring season is not
known, but there are men in Mfnne-
sofa who think that that legislative act
had lot to do with it. At least the
fact remains that all the varieties Of
teal, and few mallards have bred
close to the Iowa line, and have raised
mighty families, which are now at the
most toothsome stage of their ca
reers.
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