Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1911 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

I **?* a ® ,^ ,,plendid and pleasant rambles through the woods. Tuesday was a free day for (he boys and nearly all spent the day In the country. Many came home laden with sacks of walnuts and hickory ants. All reported an enjoyable time upon their arrival home. We were glad to entertain the following visitors the past week: Leo W. Canor, Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. Lena Hooley and daughter Olga, Logans-' port; J. V. Ripperger, Grand Rapids; Mrs. Geo, Kassmaul and sons Clarence and Leo, Hammond; Leo B. and Herbert J. Smith, Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. Si. S. Cyr, Heine Cyr, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cyr, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Senesca, Adelor Senesca, Miss Stella Senesca, Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry and Miss C, Granger, Fowler. Smarting under the sting of tha shut-out defeat they had suffered in the previous game of baseball with the Varsity, the Religious returned to the contest last Sunday'afternoon with the glim determination to wipe out that whitewash blot, the like of which they had not suffered in many years. They succeeded at the cost of hard labor and great worry, and then only with the aid of the Varsity’s bungled signals and over-anxious notions of playing the game safe.

The clouds mistook the. umpire's call play ball as for a heavy downpour of unnecessary rain; yet the game bravely continued. The Religious sacrificed a man around the circuit in the first half. Birkmier, the first man up for the Varsity, drove the first ball' pitched to him to the muain entrance steps of the Residence building for one of the longest home run clouts ever made on the local grounds. ,V There was nothing further doing till the third, when a little air flight on the part of the Varsity gave their opponents three more rins. The Varsity counted again in the fifth an'd seventh. By a near-rally in the ninth, they came near winning, but the horseshoe broke in favor of the team on the defensive, leaving a man stranded on third, and another on second, and the score 4 to 3, with the Varsity at the short end.. , Each team has now won a game, and the total score stands 4-4. The next contest will go a great way in deciding the autumn championship.