Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-10
Writer For Horse Review Says
Kinkage of Cedar Valley Cir
cult Was Inevitable
THE CIRCUIT WAS uNwIELDLy
Only Five of the Old Members AS
signed Racing Dates-ScheduIe is by
No Means Settled as Number of AS
Assignments for Races Given Them
Other Towns May Join Later,

The shake-up and shrinkage in the
Cedar Valley Circuit, as a result of
the annual meeting at DEBORAH recent
ly, is ably told in the following ac-
count taken from this weeks issue Of
The Horse Review:
THAT there is natural limit, as to
number of towns, length of schedule
racing circuit must be easily apparent.
Those charged with the wellbeing of
the old reliable Cedar Valley have, in
a measure, been conscious of it's some-
what impractical, cumbersome length
of late years, the result of the strength
and popularity of the original circuit.
While this growth has. in a sense. been
gratifying, the cherished plan of safe
administration has not been lost sight
of. The necessity for concentration
and getting back to first principles has
of late impressed itself upon many of
the older members. Thus the result of
last weeks annual meeting at DEBORAH,
in shortened form and not completely
organized, is not particularly surpris-
ing. More associations could easily
have been added We're it not for the
expressed and certainly commenda BILE
desire, on the part of the old forces
still in control, to gradually enforce
more stringent rules and circuit reg
ulations with a view of maintaining
financial stability in behalf of all its
members and making the circuit as Il
whole serve the best interests of the
breeding, training and racing industry
in the territory it covers.
West Union, Nashua and MARSHALL
town, all old members, We're not rep
resented. A letter from the last nam
ed place was in the hands of President
Curtin, saying that they expected to
be in line but no dates could be as
signed them under the strict rules,
though there is yet some likelihood of
MarShalltown remaining in and being
assigned some suitable week in the fin
al make up of the 1905 circuit--which
is by no means complete. If that CEN
trally located city should finally fall
into the line, it will be somewhere not
far remote from the place or week
which will be or may be occupied by
Cedar Rapids, Waterloo or Mason City
on account of direct and short ship
ping facilities in connection with those
places.
Marion, one of the strong old men,
bers, has also not yet been given a
date, because the stewards were deter
mined not to assign that town their
old dates-the first week in. July =
which was the only week which the
new secretary there. Mr.. j. B. Travis,
was authorized to accept. What his
association will do with regard to an
early race meeting, under these cir
cumstances, Mr.. Travis could or would
not say beyond his intimating that
they would hardly undertake a con-
flicting early meeting against Cedar
Valley Circuit members, their efforts
being centered on their big annual in
ter-state fair held during the last week
in August.
Cedar Rapids, on the urgent request
of Secretary j. w. Griffith, was assign
ed the second week in June on account
of some big local celebration there at
that time.
"Waverly, the Oldest link in the
chain, and the town where the circuit
was born about ten or eleven years
ago, was represented by four we'll
known horsemen of that place--W. R.
Bowman, John Ruddick, her new sec
rotary; Carlos Kelley, the president,
and Circuit Secretary Ed Curtis, who
was the local secretary at Waverly
f,.c-t SyoI
and was unanimously elected circuit
secretary for 1906. Waverly was as
signed the opening week, the first of
June. and will likely hold those dates,
though a shift is possible. Waverly
was also selected for holding the an
nual circuit meeting in January, 1907.
waterloo was represented by Secre-
tary L. H. Stevens, who contended
for the first week in July,
which was finally assigned to that CEN.
trail and strong point.
1.-THE matter of just what towns will
precede and follow Waterloo is at this
time problematical, except the week
Just prior, the last in June which was
assigned to New Hampton, and the
next week after to Charles City, a new
located in the originally Cedar Valley
Circuit territory. Charles City should
prove strong member and was rep
resented by a member of the CONNER
,ial Club, which desires to promote
race meetings there, but has since de-
,lined to accept the dates assigned to
their town because of their closeness
10 chautauqua attraction, but init
mates that they might accept an earlier
date. and a shift there is quite prob
able
have been held the last two years, was
by it's president, N. C.
kotchell, and it's newly-elected secre-
tary, H. S. Stanberry. In the shake
up for dates the third week in July.
between those assigned to Charles
City and Forest City-another new
member-fell to Mason City. Because
Of the uncertainty of those new men,
bers finally accepting their dates,
Messrs. Kotchell and Stanberry also
refused to accept these dates, for the
time being at least, pending further
conference with their association at
home, but more particularly to await
the final action of Charles City and
Forest City. The latter point was
by P. Q. koto and R. ..
Plummer both well-known and prom
inent harness horsemen of that place.
The Mason City Association thru
It's officials, has, within the last few
lays, declared it's willingness to be
mart of tho oirciIit for 1905 If a rra ofi.