Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1914 — OFF FOR BLOOMINGTON IS BASKETBALL TEAM [ARTICLE]

OFF FOR BLOOMINGTON IS BASKETBALL TEAM

Squad of Eight Men, Accompanied by Principal Sharp and J. L. Babcock Left Today. Rensselaer’s basketball team, composed of a squad of eight men, accompanied by Principal C. M. Sharp and James L. Babcock, the latter of Parr, left today at 11:47 tor Bloomington, Ind., where at the gymnasium of the state university will take place the greatest basketball tourney ever held in Indiana. The late entries brought the total of teams up to 77. The games begin early Friday morning, but Rensselaer do(«_not play until 2 o’clock in the afternoon when it meets Brookville. The defeated teams are down and out, while the victors are rematched and the elimination takes place until finally one team stands supreme. The Rensselaer team consists of Captain. Groom, Eigelsbach, Healey, Miller, Hanley, Babcock, Swaim and McCarthy. Captan Groom is far from recovered from his injury of last Saturday night but he has lots of grit and expects to get into the game if he thinks his services will contribute to the success of his team. In his absence from the game Miller is slated to play forward. Mr. Sharp will telegraph the result of the first game to Rensselaer Friday evenings but it will not reach here in time for publication in The Republican of that afternoon.