Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1913 — TWO ACCOUNTS OF BASKETBALL GAME [ARTICLE]

TWO ACCOUNTS OF BASKETBALL GAME

Delphi Herald and Monticello Journal Report Game at Former Place ip Different Light.

By the reports below it will be seen that the newspapers of the two towiis take very different views of the game of basketball that resulted in a victory for Monticello over Delphi Tuesday night by a score of 32 to 16. The game was played at Delphi, where a toy team has been posing on its record for beating all the nonpareil towns in two or three counties during the season. They had never played a real team until they came to Rensselaer and when they were played clear off their feet and beaten by a score of 50 to 22 they went home and put up a babyish holler. They have advertised Rensselaer for next Tuesday night, as a team “that can’t play basketball,” as they propose to demonstrate to all who will come out to see the game. The Monticello team is a dandy and their victory over Delphi is just what every person here who saw the two teams play expected. That the Monticello team was treated rough by the players and the crowd is just-what might be expected from the threats made by the manager of the Delphi team. Rensselaer will go to Delphi next Tuesday night and play a clean game and it asks the fairminded people of Delphi to come out arid pass judgment on it. Below is printed the reports from two papers in the two towns. “Monticello Co. Cfs basketball team defeated the Independents at. the local hall last night by a score* of 32-16. Delphi played hard, clear to their limit, but the team work and speed of the well-coached visitors was too much. They are a grand team and it is the universal opinion of all local fans who saw them in action last night that there is no team in the state who can take their measure. In Slinker they have a wonderful center, a dangerous man ever second of the game. The game was rough, both teams fought hard and there was intense rivalry among the spectators. However, Monticello’s victory was well earned and a defeat by them is no disgrace.”—Delphi Herald. basketball game at Delphi last night resulted in a victory for Monticello by a score of 32 to 16. Monticello had two subs on the team and Delphi only had one regular player, so the Journal is informed. All the rest had been imported for the occasion and with the express purpose of cleaning up on Monticello. The tactics of Delphi were decidedly off color and to cap the climax a bunch of grownups, hoodlums by instinct and cultivation, saw fit to egg the Monticello crowd as it started home. Four out of five autos carried the marks of the eggs this morning.”—Monticello Journal.