Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1912 — CHOATE IS PICKED AS STAR HALFBACK [ARTICLE]

CHOATE IS PICKED AS STAR HALFBACK

Heze Clark in Indianapolis San Picks Rensselaer Halfback For Mythical Team. ;Heze Clark, old football player and coach and a sporting writer on the Indianapolis Sun, has picked Sheridan as being the unquestioned football champions 6t the high schools of the state. Clark also puts four of the Sheridan players on the all-state team, wlhich is a mythical team of the best players in Indiana high schools. The only Rensselaer man to get on the team is Leslie Choate, the Frankfort lad who played a star game at halfback, and who is given the left half back preference over all other backs in the state. Morocco is- not represented on the team, evidently the attention of Clark not having beefi called to some of the good players on tihat team. Worth McCarthy comes in for some favorable mention. Clark says of him: . “Worth McCarthy, of Rensselaer high school, is a fast player and might have been placed on the all-state team except for being slow at mastering the signals. He is a brother of Dr. Frank McCarthy, the one-time famous Indiana university end.” Of Fred Putt 3 he says: “Putts, full back of tihe Rensselaer team, is one of the best punters in the state and deserves honorable mention. He weighs 180 pounds.” In conclusion he says: “There are few if any half backs of real class this season. Leslie Choate, of Rensselaer, is the best in the state. He is a fast runner and good punter. He weighs 165 pounds and this is his last year on tlhe team. Paul. Miller, a half back on the Rensselaer team, is a hard line plunger and returns punts well. He is strong on giving his teammates interference.” Rensselaer, therefore, has inadf quite an excellent showing in the mind of one of the leading sporting writers of the state.

John Morgan, Rensselaer athlete, who played a star game of football with Butler college tJliis year, was selected by the Indianapolis Star as the all-state half back of the secondary college teams. Had he been playing with one of the'big colleges he would certainly have commanded notice iE &sJngfer ranks. , ‘ ,

Leo has a dandy line of blankets From 69c to SIO.OO a pair. Also some good numbers in ready-made comforts. Mrs. Barney Minebrook, south of town, has been ill for more than two weeks with typhoid fever. Apparently the disease is running Its course without seriously endangering the patient and her recovery is confidently expected. Mayor Thomas E.' Knotts, of Gary Saturday made the formal announcement that lie will be a candidate fox re-election next fall, thereby ending the rumors that he would retire from politics at the end of his present term. The Peoria board of trade has indorsed Willis U Moore of the United States weather bureau for appointment as the next secretary of agriculture and has forwarded a resolution to that effect to President-elect Wilson. 1 Henry Blessing, a well known farmer at Beatty’s Corners, Laporte county, lost both of his hands in a cornshredder on Thanksgiving. lit trying to save one hand he made a grab with the other and lost them both. The largest and most delicately adjusted seismograph in the United States has just been installed in the museum of natural history in New York city. It was presented to the Now York Academy of Sciences by its president, Emerson McMillan.

The “old beefhouse" of Armour & Co., at Chicago, was destroyed by fire Friday night. Thousands of cases of lard, canned goods, fresh and ealt meats, poultry, etc., were damaged by fire and smoke and water. The loss, it is estimated will reach $200,000. John W. Sibben, formerly cashier of the First National Bank at Manistee, Mich., Friday pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $44,300 and was sentenced to serve seven years and six mouths at hard labor in the fed-eral-prison at Fort Leaven worth. Governor Goldsborough of Maryland Friday night announced the ment of William P. Jackson, republican national committeeman for Maryland, to succeed the late United States senator Isadore Rayner. He Will serve until the legislature meets in January, 1914. Alfliough Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court is the oldest roan on the bench, he leads in the number of opinions read in court thus far this term. Justice Holmes has read four out of six opinions. "He will be eligible to retirement from the court December 8 Frank B. Reaves, former superintendent of the South Bend Watch company, who caused a sensation two years ago when he became lost in Europe, and Was not heard from for months, is dead. His mind became affected while he was crossing the ocean, and detectives throughout the world searched for hkn v He died at the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Logansport and will be burled, at South Bend.