Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1913 — DEFEATED LOWELL BY 25 TO 15 SCORE [ARTICLE]

DEFEATED LOWELL BY 25 TO 15 SCORE

High School Added Another Victory to Their Big String by Winning Game Friday Night. Bensselaer highschool basketball team went to Lowell Friday afternoon and defeated the Lowell high school by the score of 25 to 15. The game started out in quite rough fashion and one of the Lowell players slugged Sun Duvall, and the referee, who was from Hammond and very fair, promptly and properly put the offending player out of the game. After that the eontest was fast and hard fought but free from intentional fouls. Lowell had scored two field baskets before Bensselaer made a point and at the end of the first half the score was 10 to 10. In the second half Bensselaer played a much fast er game and held the Lowellites to 5 points while adding 15 to their own score, making the final 25 to 15 and making the sixth victory of the season for the Bensselaer boys, with only one defeat and that at the hands of Montieello. As the boys have another chance at Monticello, they believe they can wipe out that 8cor& The Lowell player who was pur out of the game would have been ineligible to play on the high school team, owing to the fact that he had played on an athletic team earlier in the year, having played against the militig aft Lowell.