Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-29
REVIEW Of The SPORTS
Iowa State Leagues Scheduled
Season Opens on Next Thurs
day, May 4
THREE I OPENS SAME DAY


Iected Their Teams-Few Finds
Have Been Made-Amateurs Show
Up Poorly BY Professionals.
Five more days, and the season will
be on. With Thursday the second
scheduled season of the Iowa State
League will have begun. The weeks OF
preparation of trying out world beat
ers," local prides' and "unknowns."
is almost over, yet it still remains a
fact that n few of the managers have
not yet chosen their teams, and will
not be able to until the season has adj
vanced two or three weeks more. There
have been but few finds made by
managers of the eight clubs this spring.
They will not exceed probably more
than half a dozen. altho ten times that
many amateurs have attempted to butt
into the league The pride of the
PASTURE, dIu lIlS PlOSHCl, VIM, oI
Podunk Junction made the opposition
look like a lot of has beens," when
turned under the limelight with the
leaguers, usually appeared to disadvan-
tage, and the much base bail he thought
he knew and the vast amount of abil-
ity he thought he had showed up poor
ly in comparison with the faster COM
pany. Which simply goes to en-
phasize the vast difference between
amateur and league ball. Not one TN
fifty amateur players ever become fast
enough to break into the game pro-
REASONABLY With the Iowa league
season the Three-I League also opens
on Thursday.
AS an opening ode to the season the
time is most opportune for the repub-
fishing of that lyric of all base ball
poems, Casey at the Bat" by Ernest
l.. Thayer, whose authorship of it has
entertainment of the reading fans 1t Is
published again below:
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the
Mudvile nine that day;
The score stood to 2 with but one In
ming more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first,
and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons
of the game.
A struggling few got up to go in deep
despair; the rest
Chung to that hope which sprF IS eter-
in, tho human braaS
They thought il only Casey ~ "a but
getsa whacS at that
They+8s3ut up even money now with
Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also
Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the
latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim
melancholy sat-
For there seemed but little chance ct
Casey's getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the
wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despised, tore the
cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and they
saw what had occurred,
There was Johnnie safe at second and
Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from five thousand throats and
more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled thru the valley, 1t ratified
in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain, and
recoiled upon the flat
LTOr ,11iphfv Casey was advanc.
ing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as
he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing
and smile on Casey's face;
And when, responding to the cheers,
he lightly DOTTED his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt
twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he
rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when
he wiped them on his shirt.
Then, while the writing pitcher
ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance cleaned in Casey's eye, a
sheer curled Casey's lip.
And now the leather covered sphere
came hurting thru the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it In
naughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball
UNDECIDED sped;
THAT amt my STYLE" said Casey.
Strike one!" the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people,
there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm waves
on stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted
some one on the stand;
And it's likely they'd have killed him
had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great
Caseys visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade
the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once
more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the
umpire said: Strike two!"
Fraud cried the maddened thous-
ands, and the echo answered.
Fraud"
But one scornful look from Casey and
the audience was awed.
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