Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-19
REN[NOF TIE SPORTS
Annual Open Season For Chick
ems Begins September l.
Prospects For Good Sport
IOWA CROP is SMALL
SMALL
IOWA {
Many Hunters Will Go to South Da-
kota and Minnesota-lowa State
Field Treats at Grand Forks, N. D..
-Far1 -rs Object to coursins Meet
New Proposed Base Ball Circuit.

AS August wanes, the man who loves
the open prairie, his dog and his gun,
is renewing his lease on life, and IS
looking forward with pleasant anticipa-
ton to the opening of the chicken sea-
son. September 1 will mark the be-
of the legal slaughter, altho
much of it that is illegal is now going
on. This year most of the Iowa hunt
ers. who get the game, will go to South
Dakota and Minnesota for it. Reports
from northern Iowa are meagre, unsat-
isfactory and contradictory. Few To-
calities give assurance of more than
kota and Minnesota. it is said, the sea-
son has been favorable and the birds
are plentiful. To these states then the
hunter will go to try his luck. Chick
en- shooting in Iowa is fast becoming
a thing of the past, and five years will
see practically the end Of what little
is left.
The season for field trials in the
northwest was opened this week by
the commencement of the Iowa State
Field trials at Grand Forks, N. D..
There We're three stakes, derby, all age
and subscription, the first two having
Il guaranteed purse of $500 each. AS
far as chickens are concerned, the
trials were very successful, for there
were large number of birds Matched
out and the birds have had very rigid
protection in the region of the trials.
However, there was smaller number
of dogs entered this year than for
many years, there being twenty-three
in the derby, twentyseven in the all
age, and thirteen in the subscription.
The reason for this is that the place
of meeting is so far away from Iowa.
A number of members of the Aber-
deem, S. D., Gun club are taking steps to
oppose holding the coursing meet of the
Waterloo cup there They argue that
the meet will arouse the hostility of
the farmers thru whose farms the
meet will take place, and that it will
injure hunting materially. A meeting
Of the club members has been called to
take decisive action in the matter.
Farmers in Brown county claim that
many more than usual will forbid
hunting on their premises when the
chicken season begins Sept 1. Chick
ems are reported to be plentiful and
the season promises to be a good one.
There is possibility of new base
ball league being formed next year.
The league is being worked up by
President Powers of the Wisconsin
State League. The clubs talked of for
the new league are LaCrosse;7 Winona,
Galena, Rockford, and Free
port, with perhaps Beloit and James,
vile to make an eight-club circuit. If
some of these towns should not prove
available, Chippewa Falls and Eau
Claire might be taken in.
Before the end Of the week fight fans
will see Britt and Nelson hard at work
at their respective training camps in
San Francisco. Nelson has arrived
there and will take UP quarters imme-
diately at Smiling Matzner's, at Lark
spur. Britt will hang out his sign at
Ocean Beach.
The police raided the Jamestown,
N. Y, track during the Lake Erie trot-
ting races and arrested four men
charged with, running a paddle wheel.
The police seized the wheel and $1,400
in money.
Springfield Central League base ball
team has re-engaged Jack Hendricks
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