Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1919 — WISHES CORRECTION IN REPORT OF BASE BALL GAME [ARTICLE]

WISHES CORRECTION IN REPORT OF BASE BALL GAME

A local base ball club, hastily formed, went to St. Joseph college May 11, where they defeated a team of that institution in a seven inning game by a score of 9 to 0, after which the members returned to Rensselaer and reported that they had defeated the representative nine of St. Joseph. The age miracles not being passed, a gullible reporter eagerly accepted the tale, and published the fact that St. Joseph’s best club had been defeated. .. . ... , (Father Seifert, director of athletics at St. Joseph, called the Republican today and informed us that his nine had been unjustly dealt with and that in reality the team defeated by Rensselaer was not the representative team of that institution, but the third tern, a team which had played but one grame prior to the Rensselaer game, and that three weeks before. Father Seifert stated that the club which represented St. Joseph had had practically no practice and that it was in no better condition than its opponents. j *■ The athletic director acknowledges defeat for his club and accepts it in a sportsman-like manner, but feels ‘that the mis-representation made by the Rensselaer players is an injustice to the members of his varsity team and that if similiar attitude is taken by the locals in the future that athletic relations will have to be severed between this city and St. Joseph. I The Republican is glad to make this correction that St. Joseph may receive the credit which is due it.