The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-03-04
SPORTIN SIGHT FOR
BASKET BALL FANS
SAUK CENTRE WILL PLAY GLEN
WOOD IN FIRST GAME FRI
DAY MORNING
EIGHT TEAMS IN TOURNEY
DISTRICT FINALS AND CONSO-
LATIONS GAMES SATURDAY
INTEREST GROWING
w. M. Morgan

which eliminates the basket ball in
this section of the state for this sea-
son, will be played in the local Audi
forum on Friday and Saturday of
this week. This annual athletic
classic is the feature school event in
the second semester's school work.
The tournament this year will be
the largest tournament ever held in
the district. Eight teams will partici-
pate, and it will take two-days to de-
termine the winner. The contesting
quints come from Alexandria, Eagle
Bend, Osakis, Willard, Glenwood,
Melrose, Long Prairie, and Sank Cen
tire. The drawings for places took
place at Alexandria on last Friday,
and the pairings are as follows:
Sank Centre VS. Glenwood at 800.
Alexandria VS. Willard at 1890.
Osakis VS. Melrose at 200.
Long Prairie VS. Eagle Bend at
800.
The winners of the morning ses-
sion will play that evening at 1880;
the winners of the afternoon session
will play at $3.50. The two teams los
ing on Friday evening will play a
consolation game as preliminary
match on Saturday at 1870. The
championship game will follow i'm
mediately after that.
Sank Centre got the short end OF
the drawings in getting Glenwood for
its opponent. The local boys have an
excellent chance to repeat their VIC
tory over Glenwood, but regardless
who the winner might be, they VIII
have hard battle on their hands
that night. Alexandria will defeat
Willard on Friday morning, and they
will not need to exert themselves,
which means much of their strength
will be conserved for the evening
contest. Osakis can defeat Meirose
for they have done so several times
this season. Melrose, however, will
be strengthened by the addition of
one of their forwards whose injuries
kept him out most of the season.
Long Prairie will have an easy time
in their afternoon game with Eagle
Bend.
The evening contest will in all prob
ability result in victories for Alexan-
dria and Long Prairie. If Sank Cen
tire defeats Glenwood in the morning
it will not be in any condition to
defeat Alex in the evening. However,
if Alex was playing Glenwood in the
morning and Sank Centre playing Viii
lard, Sank Centre would win the eve
ming game and play Long Prairie SAT-
urday night. AS the pairings now
stands Long Prairie has the best
chance to win the tournament. The
Todd county team is tournament
team, and can withstand the strain of
two days playing. The Long Prai-
RE team will make a splendid show
ing in the Region Tournament to be
played at Alexandria next week.
The Sank Centre team is going to
be there on Friday with everything
that it has and any team that
plays the locals will know it is up
against heady, fast squad. Tho
"Main Street" boys know as much
basket ball as any team in the dis
tsict, but they lack weight and height.
Coach Kaslow has done remarkably
well with the material at hand and
we all feel he has had very success
full season.
T. E5*
Long Prairie
There are several strong teams in
the district this season. Long Prai-,
RE seems to have the edge on all of
the other squads and according to
comparative scores and present indi-
cations should cop the district tro-
ply. The Todd county team is a
well balanced machine, made up of
players with several years or exper-
fence. Westphal, center, is the "main
stay" of the team and | really be-
lieve the best center in the district.
That position has been the weak
point in most teams during the past
several seasons and Westphal is un-
doubtedly the best circle player seen,
on this floor in recent years. Capt.
Weichner is a heavy, speedy, guard
and leads well. Geerl is another
luminary on the Long Prairie team
that will bid we'll for district hon
ors. Coach Anderson has some other
good players, among them are
Strock and Ross. candy" is an ex-
cellent coach and credit to the Long
Prairie schools. He advocates and
insists upon clean craftsmanship and
wholesome competition. Sank Centre
is glad to see candy" having such
wonderful success.
Glenwood
The second strongest team in this
district is Glanwoods This team is
lighter than the Long Prairie quint,
but has a faster offense. No team
around here has the speed and &C
curracy of offense that the Pope
county boys have. Ed Norgaard is
the coach of the Glenwood team, and
he is welcome friend of every play
er and coach in the district. ED"
deserves to win, and personally
would like to see the team matched
on our floor March 9th. Parker isl