Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1913 — At Short End of Score And Lost Two Front Teeth. [ARTICLE]

At Short End of Score And Lost Two Front Teeth.

Gilbert Bergslein, of Chicago, accompanied Hurley Beam here Friday evening and remained over t - day to look after some business matters. He is connected with the American Real Estate Co., of Chicago. Mr. Bergslein wears two falqe teeth right in the front of his upper jaw. Not knowing Mr. Bergslein this would not be of any particular interest, hut there is a local connection with the fact that he has these false teeth. He lost them at Riverside Athletic Park in the fall of 1899. He came to Rensselaer as a member of the Northwest Division high school football team and recalls that Rensselaer made 18 points and the Chicago team nothing and his two teeth thrown in for good measure. Since then he always looks over the newspapers after Thanksgiving to see how badly some Chicago team was beaten in Rensselaer and he wonders how many teeth were lost, the reports always failing to make any mention of that feature of the contests. Bergslein is making good in life and don’t mind having lost two ivories while acquiring a little nerve on the gridiron.