Complex sentence: Elmer S. Knutson was born on the family farm in Torquay, Sask., he worked on road gangs, in lumber camps and mines until he won a baseball scholarship to a Lutheran college in North Dakota.
Split into simpler sentences: Elmer S. Knutson was born on the family farm in Torquay, Saskatchewan. He worked on road gangs, in lumber camps and mines until he won a baseball scholarship to a Lutheran college in North Dakota.