Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-15
REVIEW OF The SPORTS.
Iowa State League Fails to Gain
Admission Into a Higher
Glass
ANNUAL BOWLING TOURNAMENT
Schedule of the Important Tennis
Tournaments Of the season-Racins
Circuit and Fair Dates of Eastern
lowa-coe's Base Ball Captain May
I'D Ruled out-other Sports Gossip.


mittance into Glass C" of the Ma
tional Association of Professional Base
Ball Leagues Its application has been
refused by Secretary Farrell, because
| of q lack of the required popular,
which for "Class C" leagues is 100000.
President Peckham was authorized to
make application for membership in
"Class c. by the league directors at
| the Ottumwa meeting. Certain advan-
tages would have been gained had the
application been favorably received.
The clubs. would have received more
for players drafted and they would
have been able to have drafted players
from "Class D" leagues
The annual tournament OF the Ma
| tional Bowling Association opens in st.
! Louis Saturday, and continues until
Wednesday of the week following. The
schedule of the tournament has just
been issued. The entries show 244 in
| the tive-men events. 514 in the doubles
| and 1929 in the singles. The entrance
fees aggregate s16,3s5 of which almost
$4,000 is offered in prizes Chicago
alone is to be represented by thirty :
six fve-men clubs.
Following is the list OF tennis tour
nameIlts to be held during the season
l5under the auspices of the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association:
MAY 11-Princeton interscholastic
championship at Princeton.
June 25-National championship for
women, singles, doubles and mixed
doubles, at Philadelphia.
June 24-Missouri state champion
ship at st. Louis.
July 6-Open tournament at Chica-
go.
July 1s-Illinois state championship
at Chicago.
July 20-open tournament at Chica-
go.
July 27-Western championship dou-i
bles, western singles for men and wom-
en-, at Chicago.
t August 5--Iowa state championship
/ at Des Moines.
August f6--Northwestern champion
ship at Minnetonka, MINI.
August 21-Championship of Iowa,
Nebraska, and Kansas, at Sioux City.
August 21-Championship of the
middle west at Omaha.
August 20-National championship
in singles, championship doubles and
interscholastic singles championship at
Newport r.
August 24-Intermountain champion
ship singles and doubles for men and
women at Salt Lake City.
October intercollegiate champion
ship at Philadelphia.
The Southeastern Iowa Fair Circuit
has been reorganized. This years dates
are as follows: Burlington, Aug. SO;
Mt. Pleasant, Aug. 1916; West Liber-
ty, Aug. 2O-23; West Point, Aug. 27-29;
Donnellson, Sept As; Columbus juno
ton, Sept. Al; Upton, Sept. 1913;
Fairfield, Sept. 1913; Wilton Junction,
Sept. 1920; Winfield, Sept. 1920; and
Wapello, Sept. 24-27.
Following are the dates chosen at
the meeting this week of the Corn Bet
Racing and Fair Circuit: Clinton, Aug.
$40; Leroy, Aug. 1917; Saybrook Aug.
1924: Fairbury, Sept. 81; and Farmer.
"a Fairbury, Sept 81; and Farmer
City, Sept. 1914.
Monte Mcfarland, manager of
Clinton's league team, says that city
is due to have q fast bunch A new
club house, equipped with baths and
other conveniences for the players, is
to be built soon. The seating capacity
of the grand stand and bleaahers is to
be greatly increased.
There is a chance that Baylor, cap,
tain of the Coe college base ball team,
will be disqualified for professionalism
from playing this spring. Last
season Baylor played on the
semi professionl Maquoketa team. This
is Baylor's last year at amateur base
ball as he has been signed by the
Clinton club, of the "Three-T' League.
George Hackenschmidt, the Russian
Lion of the wrestling mat, and Frank
Gotch will not meet after all for at
least another year. The expected
match which the Missouri Athletic
SlQU VI IAe1liSeAS Saeyy 4Aou OilSl VI Wv,
900 for is not to be pulled off. Hack
enschmidt's manager has written
Gotch that owing to the wrestler's
theatrical engagements he could not
meet Gotch before 1908.
"Packy" Mcfarland beat Joe Gall
ligan at Davenport this week in eight
rounds of what was rather one
sided fight. Mcfarland crowded CAL
ligan all the time. and the latter was
only saved from being knocked out by
his second throwing UP the sponge.
Galligan was a former sparring part
ner of Battling" Nelson.
EvADE ILLINOIS LAW.
Prominent Canton Man and Bride,
Latter a Divorce, Wed in keo-
kuk.
keokuk, March 15.-Because of a
provision of the Illinois law which pro-
hibits the remarriage of divorced peo-
pie in that state for at least one year