The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-03-03
Field of Local Sport


played at Alexandria Saturday night.
Coach Morgan and his classy little
organization will leave Sank Centre on
the noon train Saturday and will ar
rive at Alexandria in time to permit
several hours of rest before the OPEN
ing of the game.
Fergus Falls fans will attend this
contest enmass, and have already ar
ranged for a special train service to
accommodate their needs.
Coach Morgan is especially anxious
that his team receive adequate sup
port at this, the opening game of the
series. He wants everybody in Sank
Centre to attend the game at Alexan-
dria and although no special train has
been arranged for here, he asks that
as many local fans as possible. drive
to Alexandria for the occasion.
Both the girls and boys teams will
| engage the Clarissa high school teams
at Clarissa this Thursday evening.
The Sank Rapids games, scheduled
| for Friday, have been ruled out by the
District Championship Committee.
Last evening basket ball teams rep
resenting the Congregational and
Methodist Sunday schools put up a
the Junior High school auditorium.
The players were all former high
school basket ball players or members
of the present high school team. The
game was fast and furious from the
start the Methodists leading at the
close of the, first half by a score of 10
to 6. The Congregationalists seemed
to- gather momentum in the SECOND
half and came out winner by a maj
score of Is to IT, A fair sized audi
ence witnessed the contest. The net
gate receipts will be divided between
the Sunday schools The teams lined
up as follows: z
Congregationalists- Hansen,
IF; Glen Bohall, If; Frederick Ward,
c; Clarence Vandesteeg. re-; Gordon
Clark, lg. SITE.
Observation-Disclosures Lembke, IF; Lo-
veil Irish, If; Russell Schultz, C; Har-
old Brown, rg; Ted Lewis, lg.
A telephone call from Willard at
6 o'clock last Friday evening, an
nouncing the cancelling of the Vii
lard Sank Centre games slated to
take place here at 8 o'clock that night
cast a gloom over the evenin's pro-
gram and disappointed large -ag-
gregation of fans who had gathered
at the school to witness this contest
No authentic reason was given fol
the action of the Willard team, but II
is assumed that something unusual
occurred to break the train of events
! Willard is a good clean sportsmanlike
town, and this action on the part OF
their high school team caused some
| thing of a surprise in local sport
| circles.
In consequence of the Willard at
fair the girls games between Sank
| Centre and Eagle Bend high schools
| was the principal event of the eve
| ming. The visitors were eveidently
entirely out of their class here, and
Sank Centre won the game by a
score of "A to 2. -
The Eagle Bend girls put up a
plucky fight but they were no match
| for the fast delegation of Sank Cen
tire damsels who. have been pulling
down everything along the line In
district high schools.
The evenings program was opened
with ten minute game between the
first and second midget" teams OF
the school. The Juniors" who are
showing excellent possibilities under
the careful of Coach Morgan. The
lads played a fast and clever exhl-
bition the seniors winning by score
of 9 to a.
Principal John Quinlivan of the
Sank Centre high school attended a
meeting of superintendent OF TINS
school district at st. Cloud last Sat
urday. The meeting was called to
decide upon the teams in the district
in line for the district basket ball
championship contest. Mr.. Quinlivan
represented Supt. West at this gath
ering. 1t is generally understood
that the championship games will be
played at Fergus Falls.
Paul Domke, Sank Centres heavy
weight wrestler, has accepted the
challenge of Jack Milo, hearlded as
the Worlds Greatest Undisputed
middleweight champion wrestler, to
meet Milo in Sank Centre on or
about March 18th.
Milo, who is professional, is maxi
ing a tour of the state taking on all
corners, and he drifted into Sank
Centre last Saturday looking for a
match.
Although the Greek now tips the
scale at 1853 pounds, he is willing to
wave the extra weight of the Sank
Centre man, who travels in the heavy
weight class and who on Monday
weighed in at 200 pounds.
Whe news of the challenge was
brought to Domke by The Herald,