Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — Base Ball Tournament. [ARTICLE]

Base Ball Tournament.

FIIANCESVILtB, IND., Allgllst 9. At a meeting held this evening to organize'and arrange, for the base ball tournament to be held at this place during■ the fair, under —the auspices of the Vigus club, proceedings were lead as follows: Elected A. J. Loring president. Jno. T. Bledsoe vice president, -Jno. !■'. Yarnell secretary, 11. Leon Mattingly corresponding secretary, Jno. 11. At at loirAreas’n'iawYAJaptr C. L. Vigus field manager. Huies were adopted as follows: . 1; Tournament confined to the counties of Starke, Pulaski, White and Jasper. 2. Each club must be comprised of residents in the district named ■ in rule I', and every player a buna ’ //</<- member of the club with which he <.liters. 3. -Each (d<io entering shall pay to the treasurer of the tournament the sum often dollars ($10) which entitles the .club to season tickets during the fair at the reduced rate Of forty (40.) cents per member. 4. llalf of tile entraiwe fee .($5) should be paid iu by September 7 th jn order to complete ail details of the grille, and no entry can be made |u<i i than September T2th. 5- Each club will furnish the secretary of the tournament, on the iir. t day, w ith a list of 'their play-1 ■ ers. 6. One umpire will be furnished by the association to officiate ' Ahj&itglyyAe'w i th' prittilfegc to each club tsisilect a referee- • I 7. l&de of play : Third money sls to be contested fur on the forenoon of the third day of the fair; second money $25, contest ■aflernooii vs third day money S6O, fourth day alterin' .'ii: Form of playing for position first and second days of fair will be as follows: Clubs be pitted against each other in* pairs ascertained by lot, the victorious clubs furityug those of the first position, the defeated taking second position. Those of first position paired by luf, the victorious Clubs being contestants for firs-t The defeated go in|,o second position w hen they are paired, t-diu defeated clubs going to third positing, and successful clubs coh’testauts for second money. The clubs of the third position are then paired and coldest to chanipiousliip of a jingle club, earning third moucy. - A cordial invitation is\giv( !i each and all the'eiubs in the district,Ami pains will not be spared' to m ike i the meeting profitable, instructive and enjoyable. 11. L. Mattingly, Correspoiidiifg Secretary. . * 2 TtA iy< ci dLMuirk itetmeiimiud' ttamr “neat I)olt<m<K ihi!--s from Chicago. Apply oii wmk at Dolton to'Guurge (Jay, bUjjermCetidcnt. 40-3

“A Him ribbon club h.;s bdl'n organized. g /■r’ ■* 1 ' , ■j.. Senator \ o.orlie< ; s Ims a siiiiorous voice, but be will hardly risk cracking it in trying to ■ hov I down the boom i>( the wheat crop.—lndianapofii JournalA meeting of the board of direc : > tors of the Jasper County Agricpltural Society will be held in the couT’t house in Ilen«sehiur, on Mon-day-August 18th, 1870, to diwlermine if the Society will hold a Fair this season. Wt K. Pakkison, Pres ? t. Mrs. Samuel Rogers died this morning of pulhionary consuinp--jion. She was a native of England, about 2.T~ym*4*.f>ld,..•migrated to America five or sixyFw*uago coming direct to Ilenssdner, was married shortly af'.eifhcr arrival. A daughter isJ t'lie fruit of that union. Mrs. Rogers was a modest woman of retiring disposition of whom the public had little sight. Judge Gquld, Judge Daily, Dr. Richardson and Charles Harley of | Delphi,'logather with several gen- ' tiemen living along the southern .ex(em?iqn of the line; at Col. Yeoman’s a trip over the narrow gauge road from Pittsburg to Rensselaer and return last Friday. They were delighted with the smoothness of the road and the evidences of prosperity which arc to be seen on every hand in Rensselaer.