Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — NEEDED EXCUSE FOR THEIR DEFEAT [ARTICLE]

NEEDED EXCUSE FOR THEIR DEFEAT

Delphi Independents Made Puss After Reaching Home—Say They Are Fifty Per Cent the Best. That the Delphi Independents ’came here with the expectation of taking Rensselaer’s basketball team to an awful drubbing is qtdte certain. That they failed to do it was a big disappointment (for them). They went home and made a big fuss aboutethe treatment they received, alleging that they were slugged and maltreated in every way. The game was hard contested and yet were not a great many fouls. Their Mr. O’Connor, a member of the team, and the brother of the manager, refereed the first half of the game and umpired the second half. Prof. Dean, of the Reqsselaer high school, was the other official. No one was slugged, no one was hurt, so far as the writer of this article learned, and he witnessed the game throughout. Manager O’Connor, of the Delphi team stated before the game, that his team played a hard game and had been accused of being "dirty” at places they had played. He said he liked a hard game. He did more or less kicking during the contest, his kicks being strongest whenever Rensselaer made a basket. The Delphi team had no just cause for complaint. They were outplayed as the score of 50 to 22 plainly shows and their “holler” after reaching home seems to be a poor excuse for their defeat. The Herald, of that town, says they were easily 50 per cent better than Rensselaer. It looks like they were just twentytwo fiftieths as good.