Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Monticello Beat Rensselaer and Were Crushed by St. Joseph’s. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Beat Rensselaer and Were Crushed by St. Joseph’s.

The liveliest and roughest basketball game ever played in Rensselaer took place Friday afternoon between the Mohticello and Rensselaer high school teams and the visitors were victorious by a score of 20 to 24. Several of the players received rather severe bumps and Schlademan, of the visitors, suffered a bad wrench of one knee, sufficient to put him out of the game. The visitors were further weakened by the absence of their team captain who has a felon on one thumb. To offset his absence from the game, Rensselaer was short both Porter and Robinsqa. The former severely sprained one foot in practice the first of the week and Robinson has been confined at home for several days with a light attack of pneumonia. Both were able to get out to see the game by using a hack, but they looked like the advance guard of a hospital. Their places were taken by Hamilton at center and Padgitt at forward. The first ten minutes of play the teams seemed to be quite evenly matched, although the visitors towered above the local lads in size. The better team work of Monticello soon showed up and they succeeded in scoring four baskets from the field before the home quintette had made any. Ap element of luck figured In the coptest end some of the baskets made by the visitors were rather freakish, while the Rensselaer boys were making sopfe long shots that al-. most counted but caromed outside the basket. The Rensselaer players were making a game fight and as ±be contest proceeded they were wearing their larger adversaries down, but the whistle of the timekeeper blew, before Rensselaer had overcome the lead made by the visitors in the early part of the contest * * The Monticello team was accompanied here by about a half hundred enthusiastic rooters, who established themselves in the north end of the armory aid gave a good exhibition of high school rooting. The Rensselaer lads whose throats have rusted a little sines the football season closed, revived some of the inspiring yells of last fall and got into the game and there was uproarious applause every time some play of special merit was pulled off. It was a good game from the spectator’s standpoint and will doubtless aid materially In getting crowds pt future contests. In the evening the Monticello team went to St. Joseph’s college and played the swift quintette there, but did not make much of a showing, being liberally smothered by the score of 27 to 4, Monticello did not score until near the end of the game when seps&tiopai throws by -Jacks brought two baskets. 7 The line-up of the Rensselaer game follows: ~ Montieello ,Pos. Rensselaer Forwards Conn Miller Jacks i. Padgitt Centers Schlademan Hamilton Guards Turner Sage Ruikerv Adams Dodge ................... Thompson Field goajs—Contt 3, Jacks 2, Turner 2, Schlademan. 3, MSllef 2, Hamilton 2, Sage 3. Foul goals—Jacks 4 out of 6. MHler 0 out of 3. Hamilton 1 out of 3. Thompson 5 out of 6. Referee —$harp-Utterbeck. Timekeeper—Tutuer, McArdle. Scorers Clark and Beckman. Score—Monticello 24, Rensselaer 20.