Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1899 — Bro. Healey Puts in His Paddle. [ARTICLE]

Bro. Healey Puts in His Paddle.

We think it in pretty bad taste, to say the least, for Bro. Healey, of the Brookston Gazette, to put in his little paddle in the Rensse-laer-Crown Point foot-ball controversy, and especially for him to take sides against his old home town. He takes as his text a little trouble which occurred outside the lines at a garde at Brookston two years ago. Inasmuch as Bro. Healey always claimed that the Rennsselaer rooters got licked on that occasion, and as* our chief champion in the affray, now Rensselaer’s P. M., never disputed Healey’s ruling as aforesaid, there is no good reason for Healey to harp about it now, and especially as he knows that our foot ball team had no share in or responsibility for the trouble. Instead of remembering that little occurrence, Bro. Healey would much better have kept in mind how the people and papers of Rensselaer have always befriended him, and how, at that very game at Brookston, a great big crowd was gathered up here and went to Brookston, as a special favor to him, as the promoter of that game, and who, by their attendance saved him from financial loss, and put him about SSO ahead, as toe are informed. And besides if the Rensselaers have been bad people from way-back, as Mr. Healey contends, how did it come that he marshalled his team and came up here for another game last season? And, at which game he was very easily but very fairly licked. And we are sorry to say it. but we guess that last sentence contains the principal reason for Bro. Healey’s hostility. Bro. Healey mentions a number of towns which he says don’t want any more foot ball truck with Rensselaer. But as it happens some of those places are trying to form teams good enough to play with Rensselaer, and want games when they do, and the others don’t want to play Rensselaer for the same reason that Bro. Healey don’t. They know they can’t.