Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — ST. JOE FIVE BESTS Y. M. P. C. [ARTICLE]

ST. JOE FIVE BESTS Y. M. P. C.

COLLEGE QUINTET MAINTAINS RECORD • TO DATE. St. Joseph College basket ball team still has a 1000 per record on this season games, having won six and lost none. The following account is taken from the Lafayette Journal of the game played by the local college boys there Tuesday night: St. Joseph college basket [ball team defeated the Y. M. P. C. tossers last night at the St. Boniface hall by a score of 17 to 7. The St. Boniface men seemed bewildered throughout the game and could not get any teamwork of passing into the playing. The game was fast and of a rough and tumlble nature. Neither side was able to score during the first five minutes of play until Schaefer, of the visiting team, dropped in a field goal. O’Brien then made two field goals in rapid sue-, cession, making the score 6 to O in favor of the visiting team. Beile then shot Schaefer’s personal and missed. The ball rebounded into Pawlak’s hands and he made a ringer for the locals. O’Brien missed Beile’s foul and Beile missed Schaefer’s personal. He came back the next minute and dropped a two point 'tally in for St. Beile then converted O’Brien’s personal into a point and the half ended with the score standing 6 to 5 in favor of St. Joseph. At the start of the second half Wellman had a personal called on him and Beile made it count for a point. This made the tally stand 6 to 6. Belie then converted O’Brien’s personal into a count and this gave the locals the lead. O’Brien then made Kallmeyer’s personal count and the score wfis again tied, standing 7 to 7. O’Brien then made the personal called on Runyon. This gave the visitors the lead and they kept it throughout the rest of the game. Rose, .of St. Joe’s team, then dropped a field goal followed by Schaefer, who shot a two point tally. O’Brien then converted Runyon’s foul into a point and Schaefer shot the ‘final field goal. . . O’Brien was the star for the visiting aggregati on, showing-mutch fight and clever dribbling, while Biele copped the honors for the St. Boniface tossers.