Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1902 — Echoes of Field Day. [ARTICLE]

Echoes of Field Day.

• Rensselaer's great victory at j Monticello Friday was celebrated I Saturday evening by bon-firss and a general jubillation. Miss Hilda Palmer, of Monticello, who won first in oratory, is only 14 years old and a freshman. She is a most brilliant girl, and no one her begrudges her the prize she won, thinks the judges must have found it hard to decide between her and Rensselaer’s able champion, Glenn Wishard, who took second. She is Judge T. F. Palmer’s only daughter.

The unmanly and unmannerly treatment of Fred Brown Friday and Friday evening is kept up in the Monticello Journal, although it has to admit that he was entitled to compete by the rules of the association. It refers to him as “Brown of Englewood.” Also intimates that he must have been "a little expensive” and asserts further that Rensselaer could not have won without him. Any intimation that there was any hiring or unfairness of any kind in Brown’s connection with the Rensselaer team is wholly false. He lived with a sister at Englewood for some time, and then, for purely person al and family reasons took up his residence with another sister here. He is only 18 years old, and no doubt the beet allarohnd athlete of bisage in Indiana. The statement by the Journal that Rensselaer could not have won without him is not borne out by the score card Rensselaer won without him a year ago and would have done it again, this time In three running events in which he was first, Rensselaer won the seconds also, and had Brown been out Rensselaer would have still been first in those events.

The same statement also applies to the running broad jump, when Rensselaer was both first and second. In the shot put we would have lost first but gained secondIn the discus throw, where Brown was second, Rensselaer was third and without Brown would still have been second. The relay race would also still have been ours. Assuming, which is fair, that the new men in third places were as many from Rensselaer as Monticello, the battle would still have been ours by a lead of several points, without Brown' And by a good many points had not one of our men lost a race that was clearly his, by a fall, and another of our best runners been laid out by an accident. Rensselaer “Did them Brown,” with Brown, and would have “Done them Brown” without Brown. 4 The yells and songs of the Rensselaer rooters were a great feature. They had six different yells, all useful in expressing their varying degrees of exultation. The one our rooters enjoyed the most and Monticello the least was this: Monto! Monto! Monticello! Can’t run a little bit, No! No!! No!! The “old reliable” yell of the school was also much in evidence. It is as follows. Hala baloo! Hurrah! Hurrah! Rensselaer, Rensselaer, Wabj Whoo! Wah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Ki! Yi! Yi! Boomalaka, Boomalaka, pi, pi, pi, Zip, boom ha! Hurrah! Hooray! Rensselaer High School, O! M! A! They had also two school songs. Dos sung to the tune of “A Hot Time” is as follows: ‘Cheer, boys. Cheer! You know we’ve got them all; Urrah! Rah I Our honor will not fall When we meet their team • They’ll have no team at all, There'll be a hot time in Monto tonight, My baby, etc.” The other song is too long to repeat her. It went to ths tune of “John Brown’s Body,” and was

Sung with great effect in the opera house, in the evening while the judges were preparing their report- The first verse and chorus was: Rensselaer’s winners cornea marching into town ' Rensselaer’s winners come a marching into town Rensselaer’s winners come a marching into town Bearing high the red and black. Glory! glory! hallelujah! Glory! glory! hallelujah! Gloryl glory! hallelujah! We’ve come to take those cups. The second verse began: “Fred Brown, Parkison and the Yeomans are in town.” The 3rd, 4th, slh and 7th verses, respectively Ross Dean, Hammerton and Thornton are in town — Ruf Knox, Hemphill, and Wishard are in town— Merle Gwin, Hiatt, and Neher are in town, etc. Our orator, musicians and rooters are in town Each line being sung three times ending with the same last line, and the chorus. Barce, of Fowler, who won 2nd in running high jump, is a son of Lyman Barce, now living north of Rensselaer. He will graduate at Fowler this year. The Monticello Journal errs in giving this place to Kirtley of Fowler.

Rev, C. D, Royse was Rensselaer’s most enthusiastic rooter. At the close of the exciting relay race, he found himself far up in the air sitting astride of a beam of the grand-stand. How be attained or retained that position without fracturing a ministerial neck neither himself nor anyone else can explain.