Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1913 — COLLEGE ATHLETE BROKE RIGHT LEG [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE ATHLETE BROKE RIGHT LEG

Eugene Rooney Injured on Ball Field Thursday Morning and Taken to Home in Illinois. Eugene Rooney, a young student at St. Joseph’s college, suffered a bad fracture of his right leg’Thursday while playing a game of ball with a number of college mates. Rooney was catching behind the bat and as a player tried to score from third base he positioned himself to receive a thrown ball and his heel plate caught in some manner fit the plate and the runner bumped into him and the tibia and fibula bones of the right leg about half way between the ankle and the knee were broken. A local physician was called and reduced the fracture and the young man was taken to the train in the afternoon and sent to his home at Robinson, 111.