Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1905 — Our Boys Did Well, Anyhow. [ARTICLE]

Our Boys Did Well, Anyhow.

The more the circumstances are considered the* less reason do cur high school athletes have to be dissatisfied with their standing at Lafayettb last Saturday. (To stand even with Monticello is in itself always a very creditable result, and along with that town, to be third in snob a contest as that was is still more creditable, To get more than three fourths of as many points a Shortridge of Indianapolis, a school with over 1,200 pupils to pick atheltes from, and Hammond a place five times as large as Rensselaer is doing very well indeed. And so far as Ham. mond is concerned, except for their one star runner Blair, onr boys could skin her any day in the [week. Furthermore there were a lot of big high schools preresented which did make nearly as good standing as our boys. The next to it was Montpelier with 6 points and then follows Washingtsns|, Richmond 5, Whiting 5 Crown Point 5, Goshen 4, Frankfort 3. Fowler 6, Marion I|.