Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1905 — TWENTY MINUTES IN THE AIR. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY MINUTES IN THE AIR.

From a column long account of tte Rensselaer-Hammond basket ball game, in Monday’s Hammond Daily News, the following specially interesting paragraphs are ex. traded. It was an exciting game. Bat amid all the enthusiastic exoitement of a bevy of pretty High School lassies and their friends, two features stood cut in bold relief. These'were a speotaonlar slide for life by Referee Bauer, and the brilliant work of a young lady from Rensselaer named Josie Porter. Miss Porter was here, there and everywhere. When she wasn’t here she was there. She must have had an invisible pair of wings about her lithe form, for when she wasn’t at the bottom of a heap she was up in the air. The game lasted 30 minutes, and it is estimated that out of the half hour Miss Porter w.s in the air, throwing the ball, batting it ont of some Ham. mond girl’s hand or catchiDg it at least 20 minutes of the time. The score at the end of the match was 24 ti 8 in favor of Rensselaer, and of these points, Josie, as she was affeotionately called by her team mates, made 20. She was aided materially by her comrades. Another Josie, with the praenomen, Miller, also shone as a twin star. Her work at guard was a revelation. All the Rensselaer girls played well together. Their team work was superb, It was during the latter part of the game that Referee Bauer’s feel slid out from under him for about ten feet aud he was 'roundly applauded.