Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — SPORTSMAN IS DEFEATED [ARTICLE]

SPORTSMAN IS DEFEATED

Wheatfield Sports Import Racer Tnat Defeats Colored Man and Captures Rensselaer Coin. Z Sportsman mmL hie Rensselaer backers got badly bumped at Wheatfield on Monday afternoon* The man that beat Sportsman was an imported stranger, and is said to have beaten him about 3 or 4 feeL . . . . ■.F Any where from $250 to $350 was lost by the Rensselaer sports.