Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-11
Fred Gilbert Ranks First
Among Trap Shooters For
Year 1907
MAxwELL's UNUSUAL RECORD
Iowa City Charges Ames Foot Ball
Player With Breaking Athletic Rules
j .--Drakes Basket Ball Schedule =
1 spokane Man Starts on $500 Mile
| WaIk-Gotch to Meet Haeken-
aehmidt.

tr,lp shot, ranks first among the trap
shooters for the year 1907. According
to the Sporting Life's figures, Gilbert
broke S,S17 out of 9,1s5 targets during
the twelve months. His percentage Tor
the season was .95S, which means that
h., missed but forty-two targets out OF
e,lch 1000, really remarkable rec
ord. ]. L. d. Morrison, of st Paul
r.lnks second, but he did not shoot at
n early SO many targets. G. d. Spen-
ser. Of st. Louis, is third. Among the
first twelve the only amateur Is Z. M
Powers, of Decatur, ILL.,, who is In sew
enth place, The remarkable record OF
the shooters for the year, however, IS
that OF George Maxwell of Hastings
f!eb. Maxwell shot at more targets
than most of the men. his total being
13.185, OF this number he broke H.
sta11. He stands twelfth in the list OF
shooters of the country, but OF the
5}rnen above him, but four have shot as
many targets as he.
charges of unsportsmanlike conduct,
,en the part of another Iowa state Col
iege foot ball player. This time II IS
yNillett, a back on last years team
that is charged with having played on
college teams much longer than the
athletic blue laws Of the state schoois
allow. In connection with this .nei-
,ient Iowa City comes out with the
abatement that 1t is now all but Ger
..ainty that all athletic relations oe-
tween the two schools will be severed
AS long as Williams is Ames' coacn.
iowa City, il it has an eye for It's ath-
3'letic future, and an ear for its athietlc
!! reputation, had best go slow IN arrlV-
ing at such a determination. II Ames
has been at fault, the state at large
IS willing to believe it is ready to make
amends. But il Iowa cuts loose from
i Ames it will place the university, IN
the position Of refusing to play because
/ A. could not win. Iowa City has al
+ ready been given much undesirable
F notoriety because of It's harangues
against Ames, which it should racog-
i inize IS, and perhaps always Will pe' a
worthy athletic rival.
Coach Pell Of Drake University has
been working hard with his basket pail
SQUAD and beginning tonight Will play
sa, series OF games with state schools.
warren is captain of the team this
wear. other candidates for the position
being Morgan, Wilder. Watts Yer
PIoeg and johnson. The schedule ar
ranged is as follows:
A 5
ian. 17-State Normal at Cedar
Falls.
Feb impson College.
FEB. ighland Park at Highland
Park.
Feb. .innell at Grinnell.
Feb 21-Iowa.
Feb. 29-Grinnell at Grinnell.
March Simpson at Simpson.
March 14-Highland Park at High
land Park.
The foot ball schedule of the State
I University Of Iowa will include games
with Minnesota, Illinois. Missouri and
Drake University. A fifth game Will be
PLAYED with Nebraska, Kansas or the
State Agricultural College at Ames.
The dates have not been announced as
yet.
Manager McCarey's northern repre-
SENTATIVE yesterday signed up Battling
Nelson and Kid Scaler to fight at Los
I Angeles Jan. %. Bat is scheduled to
meet J-.k Clifford at Ogden JAN IL,
1 but the outcome will have no effect on
the match made yesterday. Originally
SSealer was to give Bat $4,000 side
bet, but could only raise $1,000. Eddie
! Graney, the San Francisco promoter,
will hold the money and will be at the
ringside and decide the winner and
hand the money over Immediately after
the fight.
From Spokane to Chicago, q dis
tance of $500 miles, at the rate OF
thirty-five miles day, is the walk
undertaken by Carl Rauff and Oscar
Holland in carrying a message from
Mayor C. Herbert Moore, of Spokane.
to Mayor Fred Busse of Chicago. The
pedestrians were started by Mayor
Moore from the city hall at 9 o'clock
yesterday morning and will carry the
colors Of the 100000 club. If success
full in this "hike" they will continue
IHS JOuIllcy W VIEW VI ny AAAe~
the trip from Puget Sound over the
Cascade mountains to this city, 4o4
mile,A In twelve and one-half days,
thus eclipsing Weston's record.
Frank A. Gotch, champion wrestler
OF the United States. announced yes
terday that he had received telegram
indicating that George Hackenschmidt
had consented to meet him. The dis
patch was an inquiry as to whether
a date for match between April
and May I would suit. Gotch said
that it would, and that either Chicago
or Kansas City would be chosen as the
scene of the contest. Gotch is at pres
ent in Baltimore.
Following their match of last night
at South Bend. Ind, in which Will
Demetral of Chicago and Joe Collins.
of Kansas City, were unable to reach
a decision, altho wrestling until after
o'clock, arrangements We're started
which may result in the men again
meeting for purse of $1,000.
Disturbed the Congregation.
The person who disturbed the con-
gregation last Sunday by continually