The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-01-24
LOCAL SPORT FIELD
Sank Centre Defeats Osakis

The Sank Centre High School
basket ball team kept its slate clean
by deafeating the Osakis High School
team at Osakis, on Tuesday evening.
This is the third straight victory for
the local basketiers, and it puts them
away ahead of any team in this end
of the district for championship hon
ors. The score was 13 to II, but
the score does not indicate the rela-
tive strength of the two teams Osakis
got it's points by the free throw
route, and by the football tactics they
used.
Marx started the scoring for the
locals. Osakis then saw that he was
the "big gum" so they "got" him
twice in less than five minutes. How
Marx stood up under the battering
attack of those four Osakis men is
more than the writer of this article
can understand. Time after time he
was thrown head first into the wall,
and "time out" had to be taken in
order to recusitate him sufficiently
for him to continue playing. Brown
slipped in a neat basket towards the
close of the first quarter. Moynihan
then dribbled through the entire
Osakis team for the next counter,
Marx finished up the first half with
a clean field goal from the center of
the floor.
Between halves much thine was
spent in massaging the bruises re-
ceived during the first half.
The second half was much like the
first in that the Osakis "speed boys"
continued their rough play. They
seemed to be determined to win re-
CARELESS of the method used. Lembke
was sluggd in the face and "time
OUT had to be taken in order to al
low time for the blood to be wiped
up. Herbert then showed them some
real speed, and soon droppd in his
first basket of the game. Marx was
laid out again, this making Sank
Centres fourth time out, and each
time it was a case of injury. Brown
was disqualified and taken out of the
game. MacDermond replaced Brown,
and the game ended with the ball in
Sank Centres possession.
1t would be impossible to pick out
an individual star in the game. Olson
of Osakis was the only man on
Coach Oman's team that really played
ball. Grossberg's guarding; Moyni-
hans clever handling of the ball;
Browns floor work; Lembke's ac-
curate shooting; MacDermand's de-
tense, and Marks all around good
playing, these were the features of
the contest.
About so Sank Centre people ! &C
companied the team. There is no
question but what the appearance of
this large number of Sank Centre
students and citizens helped to make
the contest winner, for Coach Otis
team. The spirit shown by the local
enthusiasts should serve as valua-
BILE example, for the up-coHntry ath-
letes and boosters. 81.
Mr.. Otis is to be congratulated
upon the splendid showing his boys
made. If the Osakis Review thinks
it had "Speed Boys" in it's town, we
wonder what it thinks of them now
Athletics rightly considered means
much more than the winning of a
mere contest. The development of
character, the denial Of self, ODE
-dience to the law that says fair play
these things should grow up in every
player in every game he plays. With
out these qualities no contest is
real and genuine. We of Sank Centre.
are pleased to think our boys can
see more in game than the idea of
winnings, we believe in ;he old pro-.
verb: sIt matters not no played, or
where, or why, but HOW"
The following is the summary OF
the game:
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