Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1912 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

The college senior basketball league was brought to a close Sunday afternoon when the II Latins defeated the 111 Commercials and thus won the closest race in college basketball history by the margin of half a game. Great enthusiasm prevailed throughout the season, and many a hardfought battle was staged in the gym. The pennant winners are the lightest team in the league and it was their fleetness of foot and consistent team work that gave them their success. The various teams showed some excellent material that bids fair for another fast team next season, one that can even better the splendid record of the oft-victorious quintette that defended the purple and the cardinal that season. - -- St. Joseph’s SI; Rensselaer H. S. 13. The games nearest home were delayed to the last when the Varsity, much the worse for hard wear, played the local high school. had only two regulars in their lineup, and to offset this disadvantage the high school players were without their two reliable point winners. The game- was never in danger for the college boys for they gathered a safe margin before their opponents began to score. At all stages the game was fast and even as the score would indicate. It stood 16 to 7 in the first period, and each team doubled their points, minus one, in the second. S. J. Juniors 23; Rensselaer Juniors 17 In the curtain raiser, though the Rensselaer juniors lost, they held their oponents to a close score. And had they shown the same grim determination towards the end of the game that their elders exhibited, there might have been a different tale to tell, for the youthful collegians played a very poor game in the second period, and their over-confidence nearly cost them their game. The Rensselaer H. S. plays a return game in the college gymnasium, which will end the present season.