Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1916 — What Do We Mean? What Do You Think We Mean? [ARTICLE]

What Do We Mean? What Do You Think We Mean?

The Monticello checker club field a banquet at the Forbis hotel last evening. At the conclusion of the banquet a checker tournament was held in the parlors of the hotel. The Journal says the club is composed of a bunch of good scouts. Rensselaer admits they are and wonders if they have learned anylßJfrg about checkers during the past year.—'Rensselaer Republisan.

If by that, last sentence it is implied that our Monticello checker players have something to learn about the game, we beg to inform Bro. Healey that they are all postgraduates, and if there is any talent in Rensselaer to dispute it we will guarantee to deliver any challenge that may be forthcoming.—'Monticello Journal. Surely our meaning was not clothed in any dark and uncertain language. The Journal writer has guessed that Rensselaer checker players after spending a part of the past winter in practice are chafing under the inactivity of the broadening days of a new year. (Bit of fluffy stuff.) Now that we seem to understand each other the next th'Hg that seems essential is to ararnge the preliminaries, ask for bids from athletic clubs for the match, put up the forfeit money and sell the moving picture privileges, in sporting circles it would be impossible to get together without a we don’t want to do anything that is unsportmanlike, so wish to convey the remark made by one of the Rensselaer checker players to the effect that the Monticello team is. really a Class B team and should not be recognized until it has made a reputation for itself, but neighborl yconsiderations have caused a waver of this difference and the laitchstring is Hanging outside here and official challenge to the secretary of the Rensselaer Checker Club will result in a meeting for a- team of five or two teams of five to play in classes. Big question mark for Monticello consideration.