Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — Fourteen-Eleven. [ARTICLE]

Fourteen-Eleven.

Promptly at two p’clbck the band, dressed in the suits of the Bensselaer Colts and followed by the Col-legite-Clerk combination dressed in a uniform, neither the one or the other, paraded through the street on their way to the Riverside Athletic park. At five they came back playing a lively tune with the air of conquerors. You could tell they were winners from the w r ay they tooted their big horns and Louie beat the drum. It was the best game ever seen on the grounds. We ought to discharge the Colts and hire the band. They could then furnish the music and then win the game. The game opened like a professional one. Each side scoring one in the first inning and none in the second. In the fourth the fire works began and the college boys scored two to the band three, but as the collegites had scored in the second it left the score even at the end of the fourth; then by superior (?) playing and Louie’s extract of beef voice and Vernice’s roasting the Band finally won out after a ©lose drive, with the score 14 to 11 in favor of the blowers of horns

and the beaters of drums. The game clear through was very interesting and many good plays were made and a few poor ones, of course. Both teams showed the result of the active training they have been undergoing for the last month and they deserved a better crowd than they had. The proceeds went to the band and a large crowd should have witnessed the game.