Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1911 — Rensselaer High School 11; Wheatfield High School 9. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer High School 11; Wheatfield High School 9.

The Wheatfleld girls’ basketball team played their return game with the Rensselaer NJam, at Warner’s hall, Saturday evening, and were defeated by the close score of 11 to 9. The game was fast and closely contested throughout and many fouls were called on each side. Wheatfleld was more successful In throwing goals from the foul line’than Rensselaer; the former getting 7 to the latter’s 3. Rensselaer threw 4 field baskets, Edna Robinson throwing 2 and Irene Simpson 2. Hulda Jensen threw the only field basket that Wheatfleld was able to get during the entire game. The feature of the game was the foul throwing of Minnie Clark, of the Wheatfleld team, who scored 7 of their 9 points by free throws. The two teams were about evenly matched and It was anybody’s game until the whistle blew. This was the second game tin Rensselaer has won from Wheatfleld this season, but a third game may be played at Wheatfleld in the near future. Warner’s hall was agqin crowded with enthusiastic rooters and as the popularity of basketball increases, the problem of seating the Spectators becomes a difficult one, because the hall is too small. After the game the Remdtelaer team entertained the Wheatfleld people and a few invited guests at the hall, for a couple of hours. In the “curtain raiser,” Capt. William Babcock’s team put a stop to the championship aspirations of Capt. Geo. Padgett’s team, by the score of, 12 to 10. Both sides played well and the game was fast and clean throughout. This is the second game that Bubcock’s team has won and they stand ready to meet any team of its size in town.