Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — K. O. K. A. Team Beats the Monon Topsel Tops Friday. [ARTICLE]

K. O. K. A. Team Beats the Monon Topsel Tops Friday.

Quite a spirited ball game occurred at Riverside ' Athletic Park Friday. The rival teams were the K. 0. K. A. club of this city and the Topsel Tops of Monon. The visitors were larger than the home boys but not so well trained, and they fell an easy victim to the prowess of the future ball, tossers of Rensselaer. Herbert Hammond, who got his first ideas of the national game while at Hammond, played center field for the Kakas and was the real sensation of the game. While the other lads were playing good steady ball Knight Herbert was pulling off some circus catches in the center garden that gave him a professional appearance, and the small crowd of rooters cheered him lustily. Howard Clark at 3d, Ernie Moore at 2d and Cope Hanley at Ist, also put up great games, Tom Padgitt was at the receiving end and handled the shoots of Virgil Robinson and Harold Clark without difficulty. Fred Hamilton, Billy Babcock and George Healey completed the team and a very good game was played and the Kokas were delighted at winning their first struggle with an out of tpwn team so handily, the final score being, Kokas 17, Topsel T6ps 7.