Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-11
Dubuque Anglers League Will
Place Snags In Lakes and
sloughs oPrevent SEEMING
TO PLACE TREES IN WATER
Burlington Hawkeye Resents Abuse of
Its Team and Manager = Many En-
tries of the National Bowling Tour
nament - Umpires for Wisconsin
League-Gossip of Iowa Horses.

| The Dubuque Anglers League, an
organization recently perfected with an
approximate membership of 500, has
begun a peculiar movement to prevent
seiners from dragging the lakes ana
sloughs in the vicinity of Dubuque
| The movement is a peculiar one ana
SO far as is known the first of it's
kind ever adopted by Iowa fishermen
to do away with the man who fishes
with a seine. The organization pro-
poses to place the trunks and large
limbs of trees in the waters frequented
by seiners, so that drawing seine
thru the lakes and sleughs thus snag-
ged will be an impossibility. Only
those who have waded with the guy
line of seine in tow know how ardu-
Gus and disgusting the task becomes
when the water is filled with snags
which catch the seine and lift it and
allow the fish the run under. The Du-
buque league will do it's work with APP
parent ease as it intends to drag the
trees onto the ice and allow them to
remain there until spring. when the
ice will melt and they will be deposited
in the water, to tine everlasting cha
grin of the seiners. The move is
good one, altho in a sense, it Will not
improve the fishing, for what is snag
to the seiner is snag to the fisher with
line and hook. 1t would seem, how
ever, that it should abate the evil, but
a better way would be the appointing
of a half dozen Industrious and fear
less deputies.
Altho all is fair in love and war, and
especially base ball war, the Burling-
ton Hawkeye has just grounds for the
complaint voiced against the aPuse
heaped upon it's team and manager
by papers of Ft. Dodge and Waterloo
The abuse is made personal against
Manager Owens, of the Burlington
club, which shows a lack of the true
spirit of craftsmanship on the part
Of the papers referred to. They nave
taken as their cue the opinions Of Man
ager Boyle of Ft. Dodge and Thomas
Reynolds, of Waterloo, who up to the
present time have failed to disclose
any ability in the judging of players.
which would stamp them as belonging
to the class Of the all-wise. The Wa
terloo paper has not yet forgotten the
lambasting it's city received at the
hands of Mike" Flynn thru the col
umns of the Hawkeye, but the circuit,
barring Waterloo knows Flynn wrote
more of truth than of fiction.
Up to Friday the entries in the nat
Of hn Anna, ip.l,o
bowling congress received by Secre
tary A. L. Langtry of the Milwaukee
tournament company, numbered as
follows: Five-men teams, 125; two
men teams, 215; singles, 325. Secre-
tary Langtry predicted the total num-
Der of five-men teams to enter before
midnight February 10 would pass the
200 mark. All entries bearing post
marks prior to midnight February 10
will be accepted, but any with a later
stamp will be rejected.
The staff of umpires for the new
Wisconsin Base Ball League was an
nounced Friday by President John T.
Powers, as follows: Floyd Beardsley of
West Pullman, formerly with the
Three I League; Dan Boland, former
catcher for the Hot Corns; Major
Cornelius Mckinley of GAINESVILLE and
Ed Hasseman of Oshkosh. A meeting
to pass on schedule, constitution and
bylaws is to be held at Oshkosh next
Thursday. The season will open May
4 and close September Ia, and liz
games will be played. There will be
games each day, Sundays included, the
league only having twenty-five off
days. The circuit includes Lacrosse,
Wausau, Oshkosh, Racine, Green Bay,
Beloit, GAINESVILLE and F'reeport, III.
It is reported that half-1nile track |
will be built at independence, Iowa, in
the old Rush Park Kite track enclosure
and that an effort will be made by
those in control to secure membership
in the Cedar Valley circuit. If they
succeed this city will give half-mile
track meetings hereafter and abandon
the once famous kite.
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