Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-24
VETERAN COACH TO WORK ONE
NONE WEEK WITH STATE COL.
LEGE ATHLETES.
LAST TRACK TEAM JUST
FINISHING GREAT SEASON
Iowa STATE College Track Men Make
Great Record, Defeating Nebraska,
Favorites in State Meet Today-Last
Appearance at St. Louis Next Week.
ecial to Times Republican.

! Special to Times Republican.
Ames, May 24.-Tomorrow is the be-
ginning Of the last week of Jack Wat
sons nine years as trainer of Iowa
State College athletes, With the Mis-
SQUIRT Valley conference track and field
meet in Washington stadium at ST.
| Louis next Saturday Jack Watson is
gone from Ames athletics, and the con-
ference. and there'no man on the Ames
campus whose going would be more
! regretted.
| Several months ago John p. Watson
john F." being his name as re-
| corded on the birth register buried
away in some court house, yet nobody
could be persuaded by faculty direc-
tory that 1t is aught by "Jack" -signed
contract with the State University OF
| Iowa to become trainer and track
coach of the university. few weeks
later, with expressions of regret, the
state board Of educatio accepted his
resignation, which was TO go into effect
not till near the end of the summer
| vacation.
Last Track Effort Successful.
Having resigned, he set about to
build track team that would come
up to the Watson standard as far as
the potential worth Of the material at
hand might allow. To comment on
how he succeeded would not add any
thing to the fact that he did succeed
glance at the results of the Nebras-
ka, Drake and Iowa duals and the all
state classic is amply enough. He de-
feat ed the north Of the Missouri Valley
conference and demonstrated to Iowa
that proof of the pudding Is in the eat
ing.
When Watson issued his first call
the list of April about sixty candidates,
on the whole about as raw as col
lege trainer ever saw. reported for
chance to make the teams. 1t was a
very unusual start of an Ames track
season: more men turned out and
never before had there been such
scarcity of seasoned or even tried tim
Der A few more or. less experienced
men were in the collection but as a
major proposition there was little or
nothing apparent upon which to hinge
varsity outfit. The 1912 stars were
all out of college, so to sort out and
bring out the green material was veX-
atious and an exceedingly hard job.
Defeats Team He Will Coach.
The Iowa meet on state field, May 10.
was Watson's last at Ames, and the
showing Of his teams was a most
cred liable, close for the veteran train
ers career at .kmes, the. best recon-
! mendation he could produce. Watson
feels that big job is before him al
the university. as big a one as that
at Ames which demanded Of him to
make athletic teams without the ath-
letic facilities to do ii.
He had come to be considered an in
stitution at .Ames, and when it became
known that he had resigned there was
general regret among students, facul-
ty and alumni. He did not decide to
move in hurry; the state university
and others had been after him for
years with bigger salaries, but he de-
cided to stick by" Ames.
Dozens After Watson's Job.
Dozens of applications for Watson's
place are being received by the state
board of educate and the college ath-
letic authorities. some of them froI.
the biggest men in the college training
business. The new state gymnasium.
which cost nearly 100000 to build
and equip. has enhanced the desirable
ity of the Ames Partnership and train
ers who would not have cared for
Watson's difficult task up to this year.
when the new gymnasium was opened.
are now scrambling for the place us