Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-05
REVIEW Of ne SPORTS
Third Annual Season of Iowa
State League Will Open
Next Tuesday
PEckHAM AND THE uMPIREs
Victories of the American Athletes
Who Defeated the Best the World
Could Produce at Athens, is Source
Of National DeIisht-MoniIaw May
Go to Missouri.

Two days more and the season will
be on Two days more of waiting, and
if weather conditions are right, in four
of the best of Iowa towns enormous
crowds will flock into grand stands and
over bleachers to watch locally the
opening Of another year of the great
American national game. On Tuesday
the Iowa State League makes its third
bow TO the sport-loving public,
and starts on the course which ends
with Sept. 49, the pennant for the jubi-
liant winners and disappointment for
seven other teams and their respec-
tive hackers. Never in the history of
the Iowa League have conditions been
so favorable. The league is in a
healthier, more stable condition than it
has ever been before, and there is no
good reason, unless one develops later,
why the league should not so thru the
season with colors flying.
President Peckham has placed his
for the opening series by put
ting Hurry Up" Dainty here, Miller
at Boone, Hampton at Fort Dodge, and
Long at Waterloo. He has also out
lined a most sane and reasonable pol
icy when he said that he would change
the umpires about as much as possible,
Il ,,1, 1,a
lily can that familiarity between UNI
pires and players which breeds con-
tempt. 1t is to be hoped this year will
not see repetition of those unpiring
offenses to which the Iowa League has
been subjected during past years, with
its Mike" Flynns. Senator Quiggs,
and others of like stripe. Peckham
has tried earnestly to secure men of
for his officiating staff. II
he has failed to do so, as future events
may prove, it will have been thru no
fault of his own, but because human
Weaknesses and failings are ever due
to disrupt and tear asunder the best
of men.
1t cannot be without a stirring In
pride that the American public has
watched the winnings of that little
band of American athletes, who jour-
neying to far away ancient Athens
have matched themselves against the
best the world could Noduce and have
won from all. Their victory has been
because they had journeyed
far into new country, a strange ell
mate and have participated under un-
usual conditions. Yet they won, and
by so doing they have established an
other new high water mark of athletic
endeavor as pace for the world. OF
the total events they won one half, not
counting the second and third places
they incidentally ran away with, and
in the scoring of points they secured
more than any other two countries
representatives.
Dr. w. ]. Monilaw, physical direct
or of Drake University at Des Moines.
who has been considered by many to
be the man picked by the Iowa City
authorities to assist Physical Director
Chalmers as trainer for the football
team and coach for the track team
next year, has been rendered position
as physical director at the University
OF Missouri and is considering the of
fer seriously. 1t Is known in Iowa City
that the authorities of the board of
control of the university have decided
to make radical change in the man
agement of affairs there next year.
The program unofficially announced
contemplates the hiring of a general
manager and trainer who will remain
here permanently. 1t has been Gus
tomary for the board of control not to
consider the re- employment Of men I'M
til about the last meeting of the board
and there is possibility therefore tina:
Monilaw will accept the Missouri Of
fer before the matter comes up al
Iowa City.
c. o. Duplissis. official Handicapped
of the A. A. u, has been offered the
position of official starter in the state
meet which will be held in Des Moines
the last of May.
Another blow has been aimed al
football at the University Of Chicago
While the students and athletes wers
holding impromptu indignation meet
ings at the Midway campus Friday to
protest against the faculty's severance
of Chicago's relations with Michigan
and Wisconsin, it was learned that the
professors are planning "higher schol-
arship" requirement for the football
players, which, if put thru, will bs
second to none of the recent rules
adopted in reducing the game to 9
minor position. According to the rec.
ommendation of the university board
of physical culture and control made
to the senate, the athletes should be
forced to carry "three majors" instead
of two of work, which means that they
would have to take just one-half agat:
as much classroom work as is at pres
ent demanded of them. The rule is te
be applied to the athletes alone, no
other department of university activity
being mentioned.