Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-04
Of 1HE SPORTS
Tho.lsa1 fGamc Fish Perish
lR1ss IS of Western Iowa
by Being Frozen
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET
College Athletes Will Contest for Hon
ors at Des Moines May 27-New
Shot Put Record--John (. Wins
Bout--Gotch Throws Wittmer-New
Minnesota League.

Many thousands of game fish have
persisted i'm the sloug1is along the Mis-
souri, river as q result of the severity
Of the winter. The weather was so
severe during recent weeks that the
water in the sloughs was frozen to
the bottom, thus ert'ombing all the fish
they contained. The piscine remains
are now coming to the surface as the
Ice is melted by the warm rays OF the
sun. The dead fish furnish an abund-
ance OF food for hungry crows. and
thousands OF them are seen daily on
the surface of the ice devouring the
flesh. So many crows have collected
at the sloughs that the surface is lit
orally black with them.
G.. A. Duplesis of Milwaukee has ac-
cepted the invitation of the state
game committee to referee the Iowa
intercollegiate field meet at Des
Moines May 81. Mr.. Duplesis has been
refree OF the big conference meets and
is considered one of the best track
officials in the country The date for
the Iowa meet was definitely fixed
Thursday. The big intercollegiate
event will be held Saturday, May "a,
and the conference meet will be held
June 8. The games committee will
probably meet soon to complete the
preliminary plans for the meet.
A new worlds 16 pound shot-put
record OF 40 feet LIZ inches was es-
tablished at Medford, Mass, this week
by w. w. Coe, Jr., OF Somervile, Mass
at the indoor meet of the Lawrence
Light Guard Association. The former
records were: Professional, D. Ross,
46 feet s inches; amateur, Ralph j..
Rose, Chicago, 4S feet inches.
Candidates for the Iowa state COL
lege base ball team have begun prac-
tice in the training shed at Ames. A
bout fifty men are working each day
and "Yank" Brown already has caught
sight of several new men who promise
to be Of value for winning team
this season. A number of last years
players will be available again.
John T.. Sullivan, ex-champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world. knocked
out Jack Mccormick at Galveston, Tex,
in the second round OF what was to
have been a fourround boxing match
at Grand Rapids, Mich, Thursday.
Sullivan was the aggressor all the way
thru Sullivan weighed 273 pounds.
Mccormack 1906.
Frank Gotch, OF Humboldt, Iowa,
champion catch-as- catch-can wrestler
Of America, easily defeated Charles
Wittmer of Cincinnati, in mixed style
match Friday. Gotch won the first
bout catch-as- catch-can style, in
eleven minutes and the second at
Groeco- Roman in seventeen minutes.
A base ball league to rival the North
ern is being planned by a number of
teams in the northwestern part of
Minnesota, and will probably material
ize. T.. Il. Brady, manager of the Hib-
bling team, which made such a good
record last year, is one of the movers
in the scheme. 1t is intended to include
clubs from Superior, Hibbing, Cloquet,
Grand Rapids, Two Harbors, Virginia,
Eveleth and one other.
Aa
philadelphia Jack" O'Brien has ac-
copied the challenge issued by Robert
Fitzsimmons to fight him for a side bet
OF $4,000. He is waiting to hear from
F'itzsimmons relative to the time when
he will be on hand to cinch the match.
O'Brien says that he is ready to go any
place that is agreeable to F'itzsimmons
to make the match and sign articles of
agreement.
The New York American League base
ball team left New York for Montgom-
cry, Ala. where they will remain until
March 10, going thence to New Orleans,
Baton Rouge Jackson, Miss, Macon,
and Atlanta, Ga. and thence home.
Terry McGovern has issued a direct
challenge to Jimmy Britt, young Cor
bett," or Battling" Nelson, for fight
at 1870 pounds ringside, or 126 pounds at
8 p. m. He offers; to post a forfeit of
ST, 900 to bind any match which may
be made.
Strikes Hidden Rocks.
When your shrip Of health strikes
the hidden rocks of Consumption.
Pneumonia, etc, you are lost IL you
don't get help from DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. j. w.
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