Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1917 — Now Maybe Ed Thacker Will. Keep Still About Checkers. [ARTICLE]

Now Maybe Ed Thacker Will. Keep Still About Checkers.

For the past year Ed Thacker, editor of the Monticello Journal, has been harping about the cleverness and superiority of the Monticello checker club over that of Rensselaer’s. The time of Ed’s harping is past. Monday night ended the reign of the White county artists. The defeat administered by the locals left no doubt as to the superiority of the two teams. When the Monticello team boarded a train for home they had thirty points to their credit while the Rensselaer club was boasting of forty-two. Monticelo never had a look in for the honors and. were a much chagrined bunch. The score for the evening shows that Stevens led the locals with 9 points to his credit. Hill was second with. 7%. McCarland and. Thomas third with 7 points; Maloney fifth with 614 and Halleck sixth with 5, which made a total of 42 points. For Monticello Tam led with 6%, Sills and Sprague followed with 514 each; Sharader and McGough had five each, Pingery had 2% points for his evening’s work.