Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1917 — St, Joseph's College Sustains First Defeat of Season. [ARTICLE]

St, Joseph's College Sustains First Defeat of Season.

The St. Joseph college baseball team went down in defeat for -he first time this season, when they fell before the attack of the Lafayette Foresters. The final score was 7 to 5. A band concert preceded the contest. The game was scoreless for the first three rounds, the Foresters chasing four men across the rubber when Brunswick faltered and the lead was maintained until the finish although the collegians staged several counter attacks. In the fourth frame St. Joe loaded the bases, but Otto Ricks, former St. Joe hurler, was equal to the occasion and retired the side without letting a runner scramble over the plate. Thoennes, of the Foresters, caught hoi d of the leather for a homer.