Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — Parry Says Ours Is Greatest Basket "Ball Team in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Parry Says Ours Is Greatest Basket "Ball Team in Indiana.

What Percy A. Parry thei very able and very versatile city editor of the Hammond News does not know about basket ball, no one else need try to find out. He was down here with the Hammond team last Friday night and from his report the following is extracted: Playing against the best high school girls’ basket ball team in the State of Indiana; against a team superior to themselves and on a floor slippery as a greased pig on a hot Fourth of July, the Hammond high school girls? basket ball team was defeated at the Armory in Rensselaer last Friday night by a score of 28 to 6. Rensselaer High School has a girls’ basket ball team that cannot be beaten by any Indiana team and few if Chicago teams. Their team work is superb, their covering magnificent and the goal shooting of their forwards, Misses Riddle and Beam superb. Hammond played a far superior game to the game it played against Rensselaer in its own Auditorium, but was simply over out-matched. Fine throwing by Marion Deming for Hammond saved several baskets during the first half. Only twice did Capt. Wall and Anna Iback have a chance at the basket The battle was at Rensselaer’s goal all the time and Misses Gretchen, Bauer and Laura Mather played until nearly worn out to keep the übiquitous Misses Beam and Riddle from scoring. When Capt. Wall threw two baskets from fouls near the end of the half the crowd cheered to the roof. In the second half Julia Wall scored a field basket in the first minute of play from a clever throw by Elsa Masepohl at center. During this half the rest of the scoring was done by Anna Ibach, who threw a field basket. Only two chances were given the Hammond girls at their goal in this half and both chances were accepted. The rest of th 3 game, the Misses Riddle and Beam amused themselves by alternately making field baskets just to show the crowd how easy it was. After the game the Rensselaer girls gave a little “hen fest” for the Hammond girls in the Armory. The hospitality shown by the good people of Rensselaer was as it always is—proverbial—and each of the Hammond girls report a splendid time.