Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-17

With the worlds baseball champion
ship series off their chests, the Des
Moines sports authors, critics extraor-
Ginary and forecasters par excellent
have turned their attention to PICKING
the winner in the state high schooi
football championship. Seven unde-
fea:ed elevens are named as oelns
contenders, while the other seventy
seven undefeated aggresations are no,
gwen mention. Following the usuai
custom the l>eS Moines dopesters afe
naming a few favcrltees. and all oth-
ers, regardless Of past, present or tu-
ture performances, are excluded from
consideration. One OF the seven CHOSEN
must win. That's one Of the rules VI
the game.
The seven selected arc North, Des
Moines, West Des Moires, Mason CITY,
Algona. Sioux City, Iowa City ana
Dubuque. North and West Des
Moinees are entered because two Des
Moines elevens must be chosen IN the
annual pre- Sc ison championship cara
East being excluded Only because II
failed to stop Oskaloosa In its annual
mix with The Mahaska county LADS
last week. Mason City, it would APP
near, is chosen because it has sooo
press agent ana Aisona is selected ow-
ing to it's great showing in 1916. S!ouN
City comes into the limelight because
1t appears 20 be the only team IN
northwestern iowa that is above the
a, erage Iowa City and Dubuque, ap-
Ha
of their good early season showing.
All Good Teams, But -.
All the teams named are formidioie
aggregations, possibly worthy OF con-
sideration as championship contend
ers, and no effort Is made here 10 ais
credit the ability of any. But, why
select seven Iowa eievens that nave
not met defeat, and exclude many oth-
ers that have equally good records
All are entitled to the same consid-
Grafton. Some of the teams named
have not met elevens usually ranked
among the better teams of the state,
and regulations have been founded on
scores piled up against inferior or
PLANTATIONS. 1t is early in the sea-
son to pick a championship team. but
the Des Moines sports editors must Dc
in the field early and then insist that
the dope be followed to the finish re-
CARELESS OF the net results.
BY Process Of Elimination.
Several teams considered in the run
ming were eliminated in Saturdays
games. East Des Moines and Clinton
succumbing. the former being held 10
tie by Oskaloosa- a team previously
eliminated, and the latter being smoth-
cred by Iowa City. The performance
of the Clinton eleven, in an interstate
game, however, failed to reveal any
real strength.
The announcement that Mason City
and Eldora were to battle for the state
title Saturday, was the funniest sketch
Of the day. Whatever claim Eldora
had TO a state championship engage
ment was purely in the minds OF the
Eldora followers. The team had done
nothing TO merit the assumption that
IT was in the championship class. The
result Of the game clearly showed that
1t was not.
Comparative scores always unreli-
able but the only means of Judging
teams which do. not meet, show the
fallacy of Eldora's claim to high rank.
Eldora defeated Cedar Falls, to O..
and Marshalltown, on the following
Saturday, piled up a score OF o6 to Q
against the Cedar Falls team. Again,
EIdora defeated Cedar Falls, to 0;
Mason City defeated Edora, 81 to o.;