Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — KENTLAND KNOCDED OFF IN A FAST FINISH [ARTICLE]

KENTLAND KNOCDED OFF IN A FAST FINISH

Using a short, snappy pass and displaying perfect teamwork throughout the game, the Rensselaer basketball machine smashed their way to victory against Kentland high school on the Kentland court Tuesday eveiring. Curtains found the visiting five leading 25 to 22. This was the nightcap game for both Kentland and Rensselaer, and now both teams will confine themselves to preparing for the tournament at Gary which opens Friday. From start to finish the teams .practically battled on even terms and at no time during the contest was either team able to secure a commanding lead. The first period closed with the “Kentland five on top 14 to 12. Rensselaer rallied in the second stanza, overcame the lead of the Newton county lads and stepped to the fore and then had to 'battle all the way to the wire to maintain their slender margin. Every member of the local five was on his toes and each and every one played a brilliant game, they worked in perfect unison and did not attempt to gain individual honors; they * aipiply composed a well oiled. smooth running machine —a machine that may surprise the wiseacres when the curtain lifts on the sectional activities Friday. ■Lambert and Fhegley were demons at guard, and Babcock and the Collins brothers were all over the floor working the ball down Rensselaer’s way and then slipping it through the points that closed the season in a victory.