Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1909 — Rensselaer Beaten By Sass. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Beaten By Sass.

SaSs is the name of the principal of the Brookston schools and he handed it out to the Rensselaer basket ball team in great bunches Friday night Our boys went there under the chaperonage of Profs. Dean and Tillman, and Mr. Dean refereed the first half of the game and It went off without a „ hitch or a kick and clpsed with the score 7 to 6 in Rensselaer’s favor. In the second half Sass was the referee and three minutes after the half was begun he disqualified Floyd Myers because Floyd had called the Brookston center a pug-faced, pigeon-toed peuben. .Sass held that this heinous crime was sufficient for disbarring our star from the game and it was necessary to substitute Casey, who had never playei before in a match game. Sass informed Prof. Dean when the latter made objection to one of his decisions and was sustained in the objection by. the rules, that “they would beat us anyhow” and he proceeded to make good by handing it to Rensselaer in bunches. He exhibited the same tactics of a smart alec that he did when he refereed the Brookston-Rensselaer football game here last fall, and was not only unsportsmanlike but he entirely disregarded the ethics of the high school athletic association. The game was begun at 8:30 o’clock and was not finished until after 11 o’clock, being frequently interrupted because of the raw messes that Sass was handing out. The Brookston players and tie teachers that accompanied them seem convinced that there were too many letters “s” in Sass’s name and aU agreed that the first one should tG discarded; forming just as euphonious a name and a decidedly more appropriate one. Brookston is to play a return game here next Saturday night, Feb. 6th, but it was expressly understood that sAss was not to be one of the officials. The final score was 20 to 14 id Brookston’s favor.