Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1902 — Still Keeping Up The Record. [ARTICLE]

Still Keeping Up The Record.

It is marvelous how Rensselaer boys everywhere keep up the town’s reoord for superiorty in athletics The latest illustration is found in the success of Delos Coen and Rice Porter, at Highland Park Military Academy. Last year they took a great number of prizes and this year they repeated the performance if they did not improve upon it. Delos Ooen, who graduated this ypai, took Ist on pole vault, Ist on running high jump. What is more” he also took second place in scholarship; and probably would have taken Ist exoept that having taken first last year he was debarred by the rules from receiving the honor again this year. Rice Porter, who still has two years years at the academy, got the Ist prize, a fine gold medal, in the competitive drill; Ist in the mile ruD, 2nd in the quarter mile run; 2nd in the 220 yard run; 3rd in the 100 yard dash, and 2nd in

the running broad jump. His jump was 19 feet 5£ inches. The winner of Ist beat him by only half an inch. Rice would have done still better but for an injury he received about a week ago. The cadets were returning at night from a trip to Joliet, and while Rice was asleep in his seat one of his companions oalled to him to get off quick, as theyi were at Highland Park, and Rioe, before he was half awake, walked right off the car, while under considerable speed. He got a bad fall and was very much bruised up.