Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1917 — ALL IS READY FOR BIG GAME [ARTICLE]

ALL IS READY FOR BIG GAME

SOLDIERS, BOY SCOUTS, BALL TEAMS, CAMP FIRE GIRLS WILL PARADE. All is in readiness for Friday’s ball game, to be played at Riverside Athletic park between the Foresters and the Militia for the benefit of the local Red Cross fund. S. P. Hilliard, of the- advertising committee, and Van Grant and Ed Lane as managers of the two ball clubs, have completed all arrangements and all that remains now is to await the call of play.

A parade will be formed at the court house square led by the Rensselaer band and>followed by the soldiers of Company M, the two ball teams, the Camp Fire Girls, the Boy Scouts and automobiles. The Camp Fire Girls will have charge of the concesssions during the afternoon. Donations have been received by them and it will be their exclusive privilege to sell refreshments, the proceedings also to go toward the Red Cross fund.

Captain Tuteur will put his squads through a drill before the game and the Boy Scouts will also go through their maneuvers, while the band is playing patriotic airs. Earle Reynolds, world’s greatest roller skater, probably will be seen at third base on one of the clubs. Earle has not played ball for several years but states that he is ready to stage a comeback. The two teams will line up as folows: Militia Foresters Elder LF Healy Eldridge SS Thomas Parks 2B Johnson Myers IB Blue Reynolds 3B Clark McCarthy RF West L. Wilcox CF Hammond Wilcox C Olson Clark P B. Eldridge Umpires: Hugh Kirk and “Pansy” Tuteur. Look them over, fans, and then prepare to attend the game tomorrow, drink pop and eat ice cream cones, watch the soldiers and listen to the band; it’s all for a worthy cause.