Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1916 — Reynolds Triumphs Over Our, High School Quintet 19 to 15. [ARTICLE]

Reynolds Triumphs Over Our, High School Quintet 19 to 15.

The local high school lost to Reynolds high school Wednesday night in the poorest exhibition of basketball that has been given on the local court. Rensselaer was unable to display any team work and their shooting for baskets was miserable. The first half ended 10 to 5 in favor of Rensselaer and it was thought that the team would fairly walk away from Reynolds the second half, for it was only started when Rensselaer had four more points. The change came and Reynolds roiled up their score to 19 points while our boys added one point to their column. This game was the last one of the season. At first it was thought the team would be sent to Gary to take part in the district meet, but this has been abandoned because of he poor showing of the team. The team this year has won five games and lost four. However, we can not kick on the team too much, for they are unusually small, some of their best players have been out of the game because of sickness or because they were ineligible, and the support this year has been very poor. Few teams can win on support like that given at the last game. We hope that athletics are not losing out in Rensselaer although such seems to be the case.