Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-26
REVIEW Of The SPORTS
Season For Preliminary Foot
Ball Training Near at Hand
Prospects and Gossip
NEW COACHES FOR srATETEAMs
Heston Will Take Drake in Charge,
Bergen Has Been Secured by Grin
nell, and Clyde Williams Will Mould
cornelPs EIeven-Trouble In Base
Ball WorId-sports Notes Of Field.

/ summer, WITH us lOnB, not Gays, u
waning, and September Is near a,
H hand Activity in college athletic cir
cles is noticeable, for, with the COM
4 ing Of September the preliminary foot
4 ball training season begins. Already
the state warriors Of the gridiron are
winding up their summers work, and
are preparing to lay all else aside and
| gather to the campus of their alma
mater for early training. In another
two weeks training will be well under
way. But one school of the state, the
university at Iowa City, is able to af-
ford the luxury Of camp where the
first trying out will be gone thru with.
The squad of thirty or more candidates
will gather at Clear Lake early next
month, to remain there for two or
three weeks At least tire new coach
es will mould the players Of the Iowa
| teams this year. Heston, famous as
one of the greatest half backs Michi-
gan ever produced, and for three years
member Of Walter Camps all star
western team, will guide Drake. Mar
| tin ]. Bergen, the famous Princeton
player, will have charge of Grinnell.
and S. Clyde Williams, probably the
best known athlete in the state, has
been secured by Cornell This Is Will
Jams first attempt to coach college
team, altho the marked success with
| which he whipped Marshalltown's high
school team into shape last fall makes
him look like conner in the coaching
line. Given anything like the right
| sort of material Williams will give to
Cornell team that will make any Of
the schools Of the state Ego some" to
beat
There is good reason to believe that
the peaceful conditions which have 80
long prevailed in the base ball world
are to be broken up. The trouble will
probably date from the meeting Of the
national commission in Cincinnati.
President B. B. Johnson, of the Aneri-
can league, expressed the belief that
split between the major and minor
leagues is inevitable, and johnson
ought to know. johnson is after the
little fellows harder than anybody else.
and he says the ultimatum Of the ma
tional commission, issued at Cleveland
last month, will be observed to the let
ter. According to the American league
executive there Is to be no crawfishing
by the commission. All of which
means, in few words. that the pro-
lection of the national agreement is to
be Withdrawn from the minor leagues,
and the big league magnates will be at
liberty to raid the small leagues and
take whatever players they can get, at
any time, in any way they can.
Jimmy Gardner says he will chal-
lenge the winner Of the Britt Nelson
fight. 81 am going out of my class to
meet Ryan, weight" sale
Jimmy, while waiting for Nelson to
finish his afternoons work. Il can
make 1873 pounds for either Britt or
Nelson and be strong, and think
am entitled to a match with the win
ner Of the fight. feel confident that
can beat either Britt or Nelson with.
out much difficulty If succeed in get
ting either into the ring"
Over fifty men shot thru the program
Of 200 targets at the Sioux Gun Club
shoot at Spirit Lake. The weather
was fine but the targets were difficult
Heer broke 1874; Gilbert. 1913; Hirschy.
1888; Crosby, 1888; Young, 1856; F. Can
fan, Swinging Stone, Mont. 1875; s. A.
Huntley;s Sioux City, 1856; Harry Tay-
lor, Meckling, S. D.. 1874; Morrison, 1874.
The ALL Chicagos ball team is to
start out Sunday on trip over Illi-
nois and part of Iowa. where 1T will
meet the fast town teams Of the coun-
try at base ball. Sunday they open at
Dixon, ILL.,, after which game they take
a circle, striking the best cities of the
state.
Because he knocked out three
Dagger, which won the game for the
home team, Shortstop ]. w. Wells, also
captured the heart of Miss Gertrude
Benfield of Oklahoma City,, an enthus-
iastic fan. They were later married.
The grounds Of the Pekin. I'LL, Trot-
ting Association were purchased yes
terday by Henry Schnellbacher, a prom
inent local horseman, and it is probable
races will be held here this fall.