Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-12
REVIEW Of The SPORTS
This Week Marks the Open
ing of the Base Ball
Season
THE BIG LEAGUES ARE OFF
Revising Of the Iowa League Schedule
Stirs Up Egan-His Opinion Disre-
sarded by Majority Vote of the
Leasue-Quinoy Was Badly Treated
Other Sports Gossip.
THE BIG LEAGUES ARE OFF

Other Sports Gossip.
This is base ball week and every
where the business of getting teams
and leagues into action Is demanding
the attention OF thousands. To-Day the
local team opened It's practice season
at Sioux City Burlington has been
getting into condition for week past
and other teams are assembling BY
this time next week the Iowa State
League will be in full swing, and the
wedding out of the undesirable timber
from the squads will have been COM
menced. Waterloo has all but raised
$500 to support Boyle,s players
Parks are heing repaired In Oskaloo-
sa and> keokuk, and all about the cir
cult there is a buzz OF labor incidental
to the opening Of the fourth annual
season of the league.
ing much OF the base ball public's at
tenlion. the revision OF the schedule
is being made. On the face of the vote
to reconsider 1t would seem that when
the schedule was UP for adoption
weeks ago that 1t was scanned rather
hastily by the associations OF the cir
cult. Whether that be true or not the
fact remains that when defects in Il
were pointed out by Quincys profess
and President Peckham's circular let
ter the league was quick TO see the
mistakes made and anxious to have
them remedied.
There is probably not a dozen well
informed base ball men In the circuit
outside of Burlington, who were not
ready to admit that Quincy had re-
ceived the small end of the apportion
ment of Sunday and holiday games
after their attention had been called to
it. That Quincy had "A kick coming
and that 1t was well founded, is borne
out by the vote OF the league to re-
wise.
That vote was disinterested, at least
In part, and it was prompted by the
desire of a major portion Of the league
10 give Quincy a square deal Thai
Burlington had eleven to Quincy's
eight Sundays at home, was manifest
ly rank injustice. The fact thai
Quincy Is much the larger has nothing
to do with the case. 1t is merely In
the furtherance OF fair play.
,.lt Tor,
and by Burlington Is meant Ned Egan
has there come as vigorous protest
against this revision. Egan raises the
cry of injustice, and all that, in the
mere thought of losing Sunday game
or two at home. However, the league
will take little heed Of Egan's protest
and the changes desired are to be
made. Egan's protest Is the kick OF
the game hog, the man who wants tbs
lions share of all things, regardless
Of the other fellow. His attitude ir
this matter is directly in line with his
attitude in other business of the league
He has repeatedly posed as "the whole
show" and has wanted to hog II
about the circuit and dominate all af-
fairs of the league.
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Burlington's claim to more than 1t;
share of the Sunday games on thu
showing OF its being q good Sunday
town, should be taken with allowance
1t is not based on the facts of the rec
ords Of three seasons 1t is claimed or
the record of the last, and not of thu
two preceding seasons. Burlington
had good team last year and 1t drew
the people. The year before and tn
first year it's attendance was far from
credit to Burlington and thing o!
which Burlington never boasts. Tbs
first season of the league, Burlington
stood far from first in attendance. It:
next seasons attendance was but little
better. Egan should "curl up" and Il
he cannot pose naturally as sports
man, willing to give all corners a fai1
and equal run for their money, hi
should at least keep quiet and the
league would think better of him.
The big leagues, the American and
the National, opened their seasons yes
terday The American league opened
at st. Louis with Chicago, at Washing
ton with New York, at Detroit with
Cleveland and at Boston with
Philadelphia. The Nationals opened al
Chicago New York, Cincinnati anc
Boston. st. Louis played at Chicago
Philadelphia at New York, Pittsbure
at Cincinnati and Brooklyn at Boston
There is movement on foot in this
state, fathered by the rowing associa'
ton of Council Bluffs, Iowa, looking tc
the revival OF the old state rowing as
ISOLATION, which several years ago gave
the only regattas ever held in Iowa
The last of these regattas was held al
Lake Monawa about five years ago and
rowing crews from nearly all of the
river and lake cities in Iowa competed
inl the event, which attracted enormous
crowds during its continuance.
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