Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — Got a Trouncing at Delphi; Locals Ran Into Big Snag. [ARTICLE]

Got a Trouncing at Delphi; Locals Ran Into Big Snag.

1? The Rensselaer high school basketball team came home quite crestfallen thin morning. They had met Delphi high School in a basketball gamd and received a powerful and unexpected beating, . the score being 36 to 18 in favor of the “tall sycamores of the Wabash.’’ locals were handicapped by the absence of Adams, who has a choice collection of boils that make basketball Intolerable. His (dace was taken first by Tom Padgitt and later by Simon Thompson, both of whom put up a game scrap but the team work which had been built up With the original quintette was impossible and the contest was not what the team at Its best is capable of. Delphi played a fast game and really Delphi is the besfall-round basketball team that Rensselaer has been up 4 against this The next game willjbe with Monticello at the armory in Rensselaer, Friday evening, Feb. 9th. Charles Mitchell and Joseph Fultz, found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of James Mitchell, an aged .farmer, on the night of Nov. 4, last, have been sentenced to life imprisonment by Judgp Shea of the Lawrence cotfnty circuit court. Oliver Younger, jonitly indicted with the sentenced men, turned state’s evidence and was given a sentence of two to twenty-one years. The motive of the murder was robbery.