Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-29
REVIEW Of The SPORTS
Playing Schedules of the Two
Big Leagues Have Been
Adopted
BOTH WILL OPEN APRIL IA
The Schedules Are Each of 1874 Games
Cedar Falls and Iowa College to
Meet-kent Will Coach the State
University Base Ball squad-other
Sports Gossip.
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The playing schedules of both the
tional, have been adopted and made
public within the past few days. The
adoption Of these schedules signals
the formal opening of the preliminary
weeks to the regular season.
The season of both of the leagues
begins April IA, and both close dur
ing the first week in october. chi
cago, Cleveland, Boston and New
York get the opening games Of the
American league. Detroit plays at
Chicago, ST. Louis opens at Cleve-
land, Washington at Boston, and Phil
adelphia at New York.
The National schedule is of 154
games, the same as the American. The
eastern and western teams Will open IN
their own territory, Boston playing at
Brooklyn, New York at Philadelphia,
Chicago at Cincinnati, and Pittsburg at
ST. Louis. There are only few con-
f1icting dates in the two schedules and
in the instance of Chicago the two
teams are playing on the nome
grounds at the same time only eight
days during the season.
Preparations are being made by the
teams of the big leagues for the train
ing season, and in most of the cities
that have clubs the players are assem-
bling. The migration Of teams to the
OF HN-1n
next week, snd within ten days all of
the teams wi. be on their way to th''
try-cut grounds Some of them go 10
the far south, others to California, an
others to Georgia and Arkansas
The basket hal team of Warmer
College, Sioux City, is contemplating
a trim, which for length and the num-
Der of games to be played rivals the
tour being made by the Muscatine five
The team will tour thru South Da-
kota, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebras-
ka, playing seventeen games The
team will play the universities of both
Colorado and Wyoming.
The gymnasium teams of Cedar
Falls and Iowa College. Grinnell, VIII
come together in dual meeting at
Cedar Falls on March 20. The Grin
nell team consists of Wills, Brundage,
Carter AMI Captain Mohr. The events
scheduled are the rings. parallel bars,
horizontal liars, tumbling and basket
bal. game.
Iowa college and the state university
are quarreling over the place Where
the third basket ball games between
the fives, representing the two schools.
shall be played. Grinnell makes the
contention that the third game OF two
years ago was played in Iowa CITY,
therefore this years should be brought
to Grinnell. The Iowa City men object
to the Grinnell floor because of its
size.
Maurice Kent, Of this city, will train
the state university base ball squad
this spring His selection has proved
popular with the men of the squad and
the university undergraduates general
w. Kent became a professional when
he joined Kennedy's team of this city
last year. He played in most of the
games after he joined the team. and
his record in the box ranks with the
best of the leagues pitchers.
Word has been received from Hayes,
the captain of the Muscatine basket
ball team, stating that they have
reached lower California. The tives
there are first-class, but the Musca-
tine men are getting better the farther
they travel. The latest victory of the
Muscatine group is with the Watson
willie five, which is supposed to be one
of the best in that section of the coun-
try. The score was 40 to 20.
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