Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — LOCAL BOYS LOSE HARD FOUGHT GAME. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL BOYS LOSE HARD FOUGHT GAME.

Before an overwhelming crowd, who were everyone basketball Wild, the local fast quintet fell to defeat in the “Brook pajamas factory,” for the first time this season. . All the “pumpkin buskers” for i miles around were there to the great fray and the big hall seemed unable to hold them all. Melvil Thornton and alii the “town bullies” were there and were supposed to be occupying the bottom row, but instead were up on their toes roasting Rensselaer and our official, John Morgan. John Piedmont Morgan refereed the second half of the game and called many fouls on Brook, which were illegal and overlooked by the Brook official the first hails. The big, unsportsman-like crowd, Who were followers of a team of the same calibre, one would judge were anything but civilized ‘“One fair village damsel” -extended to Morgan am invitation to lower his head and she would rid him of some of his brains. My! Possibly she might have been a sister of “the big Swede twins,” for every illegal move they made< she backed them up with some unladylike remark. * < The local boys, although small, and with their superior basketball knowledge, “can give the Newton county “Swedes” and “Lyons” a defeat of their life a week from next Friday in the local gym. All comie and do your bit for the local boys. Who can remember the days when ■our neighboring village didn’t have a “Lyon” on their teams?—Contributed. /;