Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-14
DovLE 70 Rg-ENrER GAME

Msrshal,te~u Pilot May Manage Team
In Newly Organized Texas League.
Frank Boyle. dean Of Central AAso-
citation pilots, and manager Of the
Marshalltown club In 1919 and 1917.
may re-cntcr the game this season
after q years vacation imposed by the
war. Boyle's return TO the diamond
may be az manager Of a club In the
reorganised Texas league. which Ia
expected to be ono OF the few minor
league organizations TO start the 1913
season.
Boyle has disposed Of his cigar BUSH
ness at Waterloo and gone to Chicago
to talk over the baseball situation
with promoters interested In the ma
tional sport In the south. II Ia said TO
be virtually settled that tho Texas
league will be revived this year. with
compact circuit Of first -class baseball
towns. The game has fiourished in
the southern states in recent years.
especially In Texas, and proved . sue
cess financially.
Boyle has looked upon the baseball
situation In Iowa as hopeless this year.
but expects to see a revival Of tho
same In 1890. when he believes an
all-Iowa league will be formed which
will Dc stronger than the organixa-
lions OF the past.
The situation in Iowa - peculiar at
this time. Des Motnes. which found
that Glass D ball players could play
better ball than its own higher class.
high salaried pets. insists on remain
Ing a member OF the Western league,
altho 1t should and possibly may be
at some future time member Of an
Iowa organization.
Waterloo may not have baseball for
several years to come Tho association
has lost its park and there Is NO avail
able park space in easy access OF the
business district. Mason City and Fort
Dodge. by reason of their poor sport
manship in the last campaign, are not
likely soon to be invited into a league
OF any sort, and Cedar Rapids L. said
to be unsettled regarding the game.
Those most interested in the game
predict that the next baseball organi-
cation must again include the river
towns. with Marshalltown probably
the farthest north and west of any
city admitted to membership. 1t Is
possible that an effort will be made
this year to revive the sport into its
own again next year. Among the pro-
posed circuits the one which is the
most logical would include Keokuk,
Burlington. Muscatine, Ottumwa.
Davenport, Clinton, Cedar Rapids and
,Marshalltown.
As comparing the sportmanship Of
the northern and southern cities Of the
state 1t must be borne in mind that
Burlington, Keokuk, and Muscatine
held membership in the old league year
after gear altho there were very. very
few seasons which showed . balance
for the club. much Of the time the
clubs staggering under a heavy deficit
while Mason City and Fort Dodge, in
their brief careers in the game, failed
to show even good sportsmanship. the
former Wrecking the league in 1917 by
dropping from membership a month
before the close Of the season, altho it
had been honored with the presidency
Of the association, and the latter re-
fusing settlement on it's Fourth Of
July game. when all clubs in the
league were in need Of funds.
1t Is said an effort soon is to be
made to sound out the sentiment of
eight or ten Iowa cities to determine
when baseball shall be revived and
what cities are to compose the new
organisation