Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — Lost Interest in the Game. [ARTICLE]

Lost Interest in the Game.

The Monon base ball olub came over Friday and played the return game with the Comets of Rensselaer, in the afternoon. The game began promptly at two o'clock, and lasted about three hours. The Monons won the toss np and sent the Comets to the bat. The first inning was a boom for the Comets, they scored four runs and whitewashed their opponents. Then they lost their grip. Seven straight whitewashes weie inflicted upon the Rensselaer nine, while the opposing club scored sixteen tallies, six of them in the second inning. At the last inning the Comets plucked up hearts of grace and made four more Tuns, leaving the White county boys ahead with a score of sixteen to eight. Dr. Clayton, of Monon, acted as umpire of the game. He evinced a tolerably thorough understanding of the rules of the game, and, evidently, sought to be impartial in his judgements, although two or three decisions which favored the Monons, were unquestionably in error. The Comets naturally expected to meet essentially the same club they played with at Monon, but when they coma to play they found only four men in the club who played at Monon. The other five were different men, better players, and a part of them, at least, were from other places than Monon. One or two changes might have been made in the personnel of the Monon olub and nothing been thought of it, but when it comes to changing more than half the members of the club, it begins to look like “a setup job.” If, as seems probable, it was a scheme gotten up for the purpose of winning bets from Rensselaer gudgeons, it was a conspicuous failure; as our people “tumbled to the racket” and kept their cash in their pockets. Although the weather was uncomfortably hot, a rather largo crowd of spectators witnessed the game. The best of order prevailed among the spectators, and good feeling among the players. The applause was not very hearty, after the first inning. The Monons, as at present constituted, are unquestionably a strong club, and the Comets will have to get in some mighty good work to get away with the winning game. The Comets played well in the field, but for some reason, were bad at the bat clear through the game. In the evening the Rensselaer Comet Band, under the auspices of the Comets, went to the Makeever House and serenaded the visiting club and their friends. Mr. Sills, an attorney, and a member ot the club responded for the Monons with a very neat and appropriate little speech. Himself, and all his friends, were enthusiastic in their acknowledgments of the hospitable and courteous treatment they had received in Rensselaer.

Temporary Aberration. —Miss Mary Gorman, a reputable young lady of good connections, who has for a few weeks past been working in the family of F. B. Meyers, the druggist, on Friday morning of last week, while suffering from a fit of temporary aberration of mind, left town, without warning, and, as was subsequently ascertained, started on foot for Chicago. Her friends, who live near town, at one took measures for her recovery. With much trouble they succeeded in tracing her course to Chicago, but when they found her which was not until yesterday, she had recovered the use of her mental faculties and was at the L., NA. & C. depot waiting to take the train for Rensselaer. She has no clear reccoliection of the time she left this place nor of her subsequent adventures..