Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1916 — ATHLETICS SCHEDULE TO BE CANCELLED [ARTICLE]

ATHLETICS SCHEDULE TO BE CANCELLED

Owing to Absence of Elder, Eldridge and Fredericks Local Team Will Not Play for Time at Least. The' Athletic management has decided to call off the games now on their schedule for a time at least until the present conditions have passed. With the calling of the militia company to Indianapolis the Athletics were deprived of the seryices of three of their best men in Elder, Eldridge and Fredericks. The team has been greatly weakened and it is too expensive to hire competent men to take their places with the salaries that are already paid to four men. The money remaining that was subscribed by the business men will be used whenever the management deems it advisable to start playing again.