Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-07
REVIEW Of The SPORTS
Des Moines Gets Plums OF the
Western Leagues Playing
Schedule
SEASON OPENS ON April. 18TH
First Tournament of Middle West
Bowling Association at St. Joseph,
Mo-, Next Week-Hieh School Teams
May Settle Dispute at Iowa City -
Iowa College and Ames to Meet.

The playing schedule Of the West
ern league, which was made public a
day or two ago, contains interesting
information of the arrangement of the
games for those followers of this mid
western circuit. The leagues season
opens April 10 and closes September
IA. Omaha meets her deadly enemy
-Des Moines-aa3 Des Moines in the
opening game Sioux City takes on
Lincoln at Lincoln and Pueblo plays
Denver at Denver. The season closes
at Des Moines, Lincoln ard Sioux
City. Des Moines has Jared exceeding
ny we'll at the hands of the schedule
maker. In addition to securing open
ing and closing dates the capital city
gets Decoration day and Labor day
and twelve Sunday games.
The first tournament OF the recently
organized Middle West Bowling asso-
citation, which is to be held in st.
Joseph, Mo-, March 10 to 1G, both in
elusive. is attracting much attention
from bowlers in the valleys OF the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers. Every
thing indicates a most successful tour
nament, and from inquiries it is ex-
pected that at least siXty-tiNe tive-men
teams will be entered. Des Moines,
Sioux City, Omaha and Kansas City
will each enter several teams. besides
o;r,o nd i,,Ii Francisco
of Omaha, president of the association
is authority for the statement that
next to Cincinnati the st. Joe alleys
are better equipped to handle the
tournament successfully than any other
city in the west.
1t is probable that the much-di
pu twsa question of the high school bas-
ket ball championship of the state viii!
be determined at the state. university
of Iowa City. Four schools. Cedar
Rapids, Muscatine, OttumWa and West
Waterloo, are claimants for the honor.
The teams We're invited to go to Iowa
City and settle the dispute on the
university gymnasium floor Three
of them have accepted and it is thought
that the fourth will also do so. The
tournament is to be held on two sue
cessive nights, two games being played
each night.
Iowa College. Grinnell, has at last
lege, Ames, in dual track meet. 1t
has not yet been determined where
the meet will be held. 1'he Grinnell
home meet will be run on April IL.
Good will undoubtedly result from
the organization of the Central Iowa
Fair Racing Circuit, which was organ
lied at Eldora this week, with a mem
bership comprising Hampton, Eldora,
Des Moines, Marshalltown and Mason
City. Not only does it make possible
the arrangement of a continuous
schedule of races extending thru prac-
tically all of four weeks, but it makes
the way easier to increase the purses
from $500 and $500 an event to a uni
form purse of $500 for each race. This
arrangement cannot help but attract
more and better horses and result in
better sport.
After muCn correspondence. some
quarreling and a little i'll feeling, the
State University and Iowa College,
Grinnell. have finally decided to let
their basket ball teams come together
to decide the state championship The
teams have been matched to meet at
the Grinnell gymnasium on the even
ing of Wednesday. March II. The game
is to be played under the intercollegiate
rules and red hot battle may be ex-
pected.
The Iowa state high school meet will
be held May % at Des Moines. The
executive committee of the high school
association met at that pace and chose
that date. This leaves The state uni
versity free to arrange IL date for the
big invitation meet to be held at Iowa
City for the high schools Of the state.
It is likely that the date will be fixed
one week earlier, on May 16, as hat
on May Is, one week earlier, as that
is the only date open to the event the
state college meet being on the Friday
opening the state high school meet.
Coach Catlin is authority for the
statement that the badgers will not be
played on the Iowa schedule next
year. This is disappointment to the
Iowa rooters, who had hoped to meet
Wisconsin at least two more years in
snccecSion and DoSSihly IN form a con-