Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1910 — Monon Prover Easy For Francesville Baseball Team. [ARTICLE]

Monon Prover Easy For Francesville Baseball Team.

Baseball rivalry has been at a high pitch for some time between Francesville and Monon and culminated Thursday afternoon in a championship contest held on the Monticello grounds, with netral umpires. An agreement vas signed binding the two towns ti i.ie only players residing in the respec tive towns and naming the players from which the teams were to be selected. The partisans of the two teams went to Monticello in great force, i' being estimated that 100 Francesville fans and two hundred from Monon journeyed to Monticello to witness the game and to participate in the rooting. Nothing occurred to mar the sportsmanship of the contest. The rooting was constant and shafts of wit passed between the partisans of the teams but rney were friendly and amusing. The girls constituted the chief noise makers and the ruling of the umpires were drowned in a medley of singing and megaphones and shouts. Although Francesville took the lead in the first inning and increased it as the game waned and when the final result show ed that Francesville had made 16 to Monon’s three, it might be said that Monon had her boots on when she fell. To all appearances Francesville had realy much the better team, but the excitement may have been more than the nerves of the Monon boys