Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1915 — St. Joe Downs Rensselaer In Farce Game 16 to 8. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

St. Joe Downs Rensselaer In Farce Game 16 to 8.

St. Joe and Rensselaer high school staged what was supposed to be a ball game Wednesday afternoon at Riverside park, but it was one of the poorest excuses for a ball game that we ever saw. The score, oh yes, 16 to 8. St. Joe had the 16. A deluge of base hats, as many errors, much ragging with the umpires, all helped to prolong the game and the last was not retired until 6 o’clock. Healey was on the hill for Rensselaer and Schall on the slab for St. Joe. Each a severe pommeling at the hands of the greedy stickers. Renaselaer jumped into the lead in their half of the first by chasing a brace of markers across the rubber. St. Joe tied it up quickly. Rensselaer sent three more men over the platter in their four th and held the lead until the fifth, when ,St. Joe got in front with four runs. At the end of the sixth the score was tied at seven all. St. Joe clubbers got busy in the seventh and after the round was over had more runs to their credit. Healy weakened in the eighth and ninth and St Joe added 5 more to their total. Babcock scored for the home gang in the eighth, when he hit, stole second and third and came hcftne on an infield out.

In the future it would probably be better for a neutral umpire to officiate in the, games between St. Ooe and Rensselar and do away with the squabbling that the teams from these two schools generally engage t in when they meet

THE ORTON FAMILY, wire-walkers, with Sparks’ Show,