Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-15
REVIEW Of ME SPORTS
National and American League
Seasons Opened Friday
Where Games Were Played
SPRING OPEN SEASON ENDS

Law Protects Water and Wild Fowls
of Marsh and Meadow After April
15-Jessie Gaines, Famous Iowa
Trotting Mare, Dead-Once Held
Worlds Record--MiIwaukee League.
The one big game. the national
game, base ball, is on in the large cit
les of the east, and all fandom is Gag
err to spend another season with base
ball. BAH dope, pennant chasers and
sure winners. On paper they ali look
ed like they couldn't lose, but on the
field 1t will be different story. Fri
day marked the opening of both major
leagues, and while the weather was a
bit raw and chilly this did not prevent
the fans from being on hand when the
games started off. The American
League and the National open hand In
hand and will close on the same day.
IedCc DeJWeeH lHc OlS iiStil iSAS 49,
at the opening of the season bespeaks
for a prosperous year for both. All
differences were thrashed out and set
tied at the winter meetings and con-
ferences. Below is given list of the
cities favored with the opening games
of the American and National
Leagues: American League-St. Louis
at Chicago; Detroit at Cleveland; Bos-
ton at Philadelphia; and New York at
Washington. National League-Chi-
cago at st. Louis; Pittsburg at Gin
cinnati: Boston at NV York; and
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Today marked the closing Of the
spring shooting and hunters, to con-
form with the law, must, until next
fall, leave the water fowls, march and
beach birds to the duties of rearing
their broods undisturbed. Today the
open season for ducks, geese, brant,
snipe, rail, plover, sandpiper and
other birds of their kind, closed. AS
whole the season has been poor
one except In the very favored locali-
ties. This has been due in part to
the evenly moderate weather, and the
absence of sudden flurries of snow and
cold. Even those hunters who spent
days at the lakes in the northern part
of the state report the sport not up
to other years. Another cause respon-
sible for the fewer birds killed is the
fact that the fight is moving farther
west, and is following the courses of
such streams as the Missouri, Persist
emit inland hunting turnout Iowa and
the settling up of the country is res
ponsible.
A movement is on foot among the
high school students of Dubuque for
the formation of a state high school
athletic associat ton to include the high
schools of most of the largest towns of
Iowa. The old association has gone to
pieces but for the last two years there
has been agitation for a revival of in
terest in athletics. Iowa has developed
athletes who have won glory in the
east, and It is the purpose of those
back of the movement for the state
high school association to exert them
selves to the utmost that their efforts
may bear fruit.
Jessie Gaines, the greatest cam
paigner ever owned by the late R. T.
Kneebs, of Sioux City, is dead at the
Spencer stock farm at Sloan, at the
ripe old age of FL years. With this
grand old matron of the turf and Dim
wood Chief, 2:19A, Bob Kneebs made
the bulk of his reputation as a driver.
Back in 1892 when Jessie Gaines was
in her 9-year-old form she trotted a
mile at Des Moines in Q: 15A, and for
the brief period of one day held the
worlds record over a half mile track.
Her name and the name of Kneebs
was flashed over the wires to the
four corners of the globe. But the
next day when Kneebs and the mare
were enjoying fame for this achieve
the wires fased the news that Nelson
had trotted a mile on an eastern track
in 2:14A. Jessie Gaines never again
equaled the mark she made at Des
Moines However, she was a con-
sistent race mare, heady, well bal
anced, game to the heartstrings, and
had the staying powers OF a well
steamed engine. She never went
away from nome but she made good,
and in her day was recognized as a
money getter of rare qualifications.
A meeting of the proposed MilWau-
kee Base Ball League was held at
Madrid this week. Plans and pros
poets were discussed and it was decid-
ed to meet on Thursday of next week
to form a permanent organization.
Coon Rapids. Jamaica, Perry, Madrid,
Cambridge and Maxwell road, were
represented. 1t is proposed to tender
the presidency of the new league to
w. w. Sears of Des Moines, and there
will be one director from each town In
the circuit. schedule of thirty
games is proposed, with the season
opening in May for fifteen weeks, with
one game at home and one away for
each team each week. 1t is planned
for teams to hire batteries, with the
remainder of the teams made up
largely of home talent
Bob F'itzsimmons has declared his
WILLINGNESS to fight Marvin Hart at any
time and for any purse. He has said
ne had $1,000 to bind the bargain and
that he was spelling for fight with
the southerner.