Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1913 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

On Washington’s birthday, the first free day of the second term, an elaborate literary entertainment was given by the C. L. S. The busy acrobats are making great strides in perfecting their various tricks and stunts. Their performance will be staged about the middle of next month. Last Friday the entire Varsity basketball squad journeyed to Lowell to put a sore kink' in the championship aspirations of the Young Men’s Club of that place To spare the regulars for the game at home on Sunday, a great number of tubs appeared in the St. Joe lineup. They gave a splendid account of themselves as the 23 to 12 score would indicate The game was fast and dea«r being remarkably -free from roughness considering the size of the floor. At that, the game was well balanced, each team making just half their points in the first period. The senior class accompanied the team, and all returned well pleased and satisfied with the hospitable treatment received from the Lowell citizens. What proved to be a poor game, though it had held out much promise, was played with St. Michael’s, of Chicago in the college gym Sunday afternoon. The visitors were by no means in a class with St. Joe, the latter scoring at will until they had caged 58 clear points to their opponents 14. The game for this week and the one for next week having been called off, leaves the Varsity with but one more battle on its schedule, that with Notre Dame on March sth.