Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-09
LOCAL TEAM BEATS
GR|NN[|L ON ALLEYS
BowIers Meet at Des Moines and
Marshalltown Wins by 100
Pins in Three Games
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BEATEN
Basket Ball Team Meets Defeat for
First Time This season-Team is
Challenged by Mason City = Indoor
Church Schedule Initial Game Re-
suits in Victory for Y. M. C. A.

Different varieties of sports, in which
local teams We're interested, were the
order of the night Friday. Marshall
town bowlers met the Grinnell five at
the Rex alleys, Des Moines, and won
by 100 pins. The high school girls bas-
ket ball team met the first defeat of the
season at Nevada. where the Nevada
girls trounced them to /. The first
game Of the indoor base ball schedule
of the church league resulted in VIC
tory for the Y. NJ. G. A. over the Bap-
lists by score of % to 8. The man
agement of the Mason City girls bas-
ket ball team has authorized the T.-R.
to extend challenge to the local girls
team. The boys of the high school met
the Colo team at basket ball at the
high school gymnasium this after
noon.
Great Game on the Alleys.
The bowling contest Friday nlghl
was one IN which considerable interest
among local bowlers was conferred.
sGrinnell recently defeated the local
team. and the game on neutral alleys
was Immediately arranged. Inc
match was for 800 side. Marshall
town rolled 2,460 in the three games
and Grinnell 1850. Neblett was high
man for Marshalltown, making an av-
erage of 215 for the three games. Dib-
bern was second high, with an average
Of 1863. Whitaker was high for Grin-
nell. and Brand second high. In the
first game Grinnell won by eight pins.
Marshalltown took the second with
twenty eight, and the third by eighty.
The personnel OF the local team was
d. D. Neblett, E. A. Francis, DR.. F. r.
Wood, Will Dibbern and DR.. D. A. Col
lison. Grinnens team comprised Bel
den, Wing, Wear, Brand and Whitta-
ker.
Basket Ball at Nevada.
After having played six games and
not met a single defeat, the MARSHALL
town high school girls team dropped
a game to Nevada Friday night in 9
manner that can not be explained. The
local team was perhaps overconfident,
as it never expected to lose for mo-
ment. Nevada was up and coming
from the start, and at the end of the
first half had piled UP five to its OPP
ponents' nothing The locals scored one
in the second, to Nevada's four, making
the final score 9 to l. The Marshall-
town team was composed of Ella Oli-
a Co1i CHI rd
Gerna McCluer and Hazel Sandoe, cen-
tiers; Ruth Sieg and Edna Swingley
guards; Gladys Anderson and Ethe
Leise, substitutes. Principal e. "
Brumbaugh and Miss Harriet Schulder
OF the faculty, accompanied the team
as did also Ed Swingley, Jr.
Challenge From Mason City.
The T.-R is authorized by L. Oliver
Stone, coach Of the Mason City girls
basket ball team, to extend the follow
ing challenge to the high school girls
team of this city:
.'It is understood that there is re-
port current in Marshalltown that the
Mason City girls basket ball team
Cancelled their game with Marshalltown
because, they feared defeat. We take
this way to, emphatically deny, this.
The truth OF the matter is that the
Marshalltown principal cancelled this
game.
1--WE do not care to have any i'll feel
ing between the two schools, but feel
that we must place ourselves right
with our friends at Marshalltown
Therefore we hereby challenge the
Marshalltown girls to game of bas-
ket ball to be played before April 1,
1907, each team to have ten days notice
of said game"
League Opens; ". M. C. A. Wins.
The church indoor base ball league
opened Friday night with the Y. M. G.
game, which the Y. M. G. A.
won by a score of % to 9. A small
audience witnessed the play. Up to
near the close of The game the score
was close, but as the game continued
the Y. M. C. A. team acquired a big
lead. The score by innings was as fol-
lows:
Y. M. C. A. ............0 Z z 7-23
Baptist ................0 0 3 0 s o.
The teams lined up as follows:
". NJ. C. AZ. 6. Schroeder, catch;
C. H. e. Boardman, pitch; Ray Scott,
first; Lee Williams, second; Will T.
Somers, short and third base.
Baptist-Howard Wilbur, catch; r.
w. McCreery pitch; Ray Doolittle,
first; Harry Waterman, second: L. R.
Maxwell, short. and DR.. L. F.. Kellogg,
third. H. G.. Brintnall was referee.
Colo Meets Boys Team.
The boys basket ball team of the
Colo high school met the Marshall
town boys team at the manual train
ing gymnasium this afternoon. A good
sized crowd witnessed the contest.
CANNON IS DISCHARGED.