Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — RENSSELAER DROPPED FOR COUNT IN HOT FRAY. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER DROPPED FOR COUNT IN HOT FRAY.

*The Rensselaer high school basket ball team dropped a fast and scrappy affray to the Brook tossers at Brook Friday evening, the final score being 23 to 18. Both teams played good ball throughout and Rensselaer showed a vast improvement over the form they exhibited at Valparaiso last week. The first period found the home lads in the lead by a count of 16 to 9. The lead obtained by Brook in the first half proved too great a handicap for the locals, who played the better brand of ball in the final period. Brown at forward was the leading light of the locals and caged the ball time and again from difficult angles. Larsh and Tilton did well. The locals’ first home game of the season will be played here next week when the Valparaiso quintette comes here to play a return game. Rensselaer was defeated by the upstate aggregation a week ago by a score of 48 to. 10 and the home team is planning to avengs itself for the one-sided defeat administered it.