Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1920 — RENSSELAER DROPPED 26-22 [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER DROPPED 26-22

REYNOLDS STOPPED LOCAL BASKET BALL FIVE IN SEASON’S OPENER. Playing their first game of the season and against an opponent that was traveling at a mid-season clip, Rensselaer high school’s basket ball team was laid low before the flashy Reynolds five at_ the high school gym Friday evening in a tight finish, 26 to 22. Rensselaer’s defeat was due in a large measure to the superior condition of the. visiting five which had already taken the court thirteen times this season against hard opponents, being returned the winner twelve times. Rensselaer possessed the greater natural ability and with two or three hard games behind them would have edged out a winner. As it was the game was close throughout and at at no time did the downstate quintette have a safe lead. Reynolds assumed a twobasket lead early in the game and this was about the margin maintained from whistle to whistle. The visitors lead at half time, 13 to 9. Rensselaer displayed encouraging form to their followers despite their defeat and another week or so will Slace them in a condition that will t them to topple over many an opponent before the curtain falls on their 1920-21 activities. Larsh, Collins, Harmon, Arnott, and Lambert are going to be hard to stop once they become the smooth running, well-oiled machine of last year.