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The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13
Field of Athletic Endeauor
Tony" Schoenhoff. Sport Editor

Resuming their schedule last
Friday at Long Prairie, in the
first game since the holidays. the
high school lost 81 to 13, in a
slow and uninteresting game.
The game didn't lack interest
because Sauk Centre lost, but be-
cause neither outfit was playing
very good basketball. Long Prai-
rie used fair bounce pass and
pivot style of offense but missed
many short chances at the hoop.
.Sauk Centre started passing nice
ly but couldn't penetrate the Todd
.sauad's defense. Their old fault,
not breaking for the basket, was
still very much in evidence. And
when Long Prairie got the ball
they were mt particularly hampered
by the Main Streeters' defense.
The first quarter found both
teams wary of each other, with
the result that the score was Long
Prairie 2, Sauk Centre 0. But IN
the second period Geer and Blunt
each got a basket and Strack two,
while Walden scored once from the
field for the locals. The half
ended II to 2. .
Peterson got the first point OF
the last half and Blunt got his
second goal to make it 13 to 3.
Blunt got two more and Strack
one, while lilies and Peterson each
connected once and the third quar-
ter ended 10 to 7. The final
stanza was all Peterson. Ed got
two baskets and his second foul
goal for five points to Long Pral-
rie's two, on Blunt's fifth basket
before the whistle.
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Totals 10 3 5 21
Referee, w. B. Morgan, Sauk
Centre Senior High.
In an interesting preliminary
game to the feature contest, the
Sauk Centre Boy Scout team de-
feated the Osakis Scouts to 2.
The score at the half was a to 1.
The Sauk Centre high school
cagers hit their stride in the last
half of the game at Osakis Tues
day night, and the Osakis crew
were lucky to win out 20 to II,
after leading 16 to 5 at half
time.
Osakis uncorked a fast passing
game right at the start and the
first quarter ended a to L. They
got the range Of the basket in the
next period and made their total
six field goals for the half.
Things changed in the last half.
The Main Streeters advanced the
ball at will, but had little hard
luck shooting. The third quarter
ended 18 to IL. Sauk Centre con-
tinued to outplay Osakis in the
final period, and had scored three
baskets to two for Osakis, be-
sides scoring six points from the
foul line, during the half.
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The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13
Will Heavy Auto Buying
Continue Mother Year
Probably, But Highway Depart
ment is Playing Safe in Plan
ming Construction

Will automobile registration,
which increased in Minnesota
from 574,500 in 1925 to $4,000
in 1926, continue to increase at
the same rate in 1927? If so, there
will be 100000 cars registered
before next Christmas, license
fees will go above $11, 100000
and the gasoline tax above $5,-
100000.
If there are any hard times in
Minnesota, it is not indicated by
the automobile figures. Buying
new cars continued through the
summer and fall, $4,000 cars,
mostly new, having been register
ed from July 1 to Dec. 81. Yet
one we'll known automobile manu-
facturer states that 10 per cent of
the-cars sold on installments in
the United States in 1926 have
been repossessed, as against 1 per
cent in previous years. This would
indicate that many people have
bought cars who could not pay for
them, and there is a possibility
that instead of an increase there
will be a standstill or an actual
decrease in registration. This
would also effect gasoline con-
sumption and the gas tax.
AT any rate the State Highway
department is playing safe, and
is not letting contracts for in
creased construction until it is
sure funds will be available. A
bulletin received by the Herald
states that the contracts let dur.
ing the fall for work to be COM
pleted in 1927 call for expendi-
lures about $5,000,000. This in
cludes SO miles of paving, 325
miles of grading, 148 miles of
gravel surfacing and 754 linear
feet of new bridges. Plans are
being prepared for about 140 miles
of additional grading, for which
it is expected that bids will be
asked in the spring or early sum.
mer. This will require an addi-
tional $1,500,000. Some of the
mileage being graded is slated for
paving in 1928, but all the other
grading which is completed in
time will be gravel surfaced in the
fall. This will take another mil
lion, making the total construction
program $7,500,000 as against So
100000 for 1926.
Should license and gas tax re-
ceipts increase, or should the leg.
islature provide additional funds,
the department may advertise ad
ditional paving, grading and
bridge projects in the summer, but
no definite plans will be made un-
til it is known that funds will be
available.
The paving under contract in
cludes the unfinished gaps on No.
1 between st. Paul and Duluth
and on No. 8 between Sauk Centre
and St. Cloud, to be completed
July 1. Paving to be completed
before fall includes II miles on
No. south from Steele Center
Sc miles between Newport and
Hastings and 1877 miles between
Winona and Lacrosse on No. i3 ;
20 miles from Moorhead to Haw-
ley on No. 2, and IL miles from
Litchfield to Atwater on No. 10.
The paving of 1873 miles of
road in 1926, upon which main
tenance costs had been excessive,
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13

ted a neat side shot and the john
nies were leading again. Blaha
looped his first one just before the
Legion took time out. There was
only five seconds left to play and
the quarter ended Sauk Centre 6,
st. John 5. Both teams couldn t
find the range on the long shots,
many heaves going over the back
board.
Starting the second period,
Schoenecker shooting was fouled
by Nicholson. He missed both
attempts. Blaha took pass from
Nicholson and scored his second
basket. Moynihan fouled Blaha,
and Blaha made it to 5 for the
All Stars. He missed the second
free throw. Moynihan executed a
perfect dribble-up shot and the Le-
gion's lead was cut to 9 and z.
Clifford fouled Blaha in the act
of shooting. Blaha missed both
tries. Dolson came through at this
point with his weekly basket and
widened the gap to four points.
Tourtillott continued the good
work with his second field goal
and the count was 13 to for the
Legion. On Tourtillott's foul Cliff
ford missed both free attempts.
Nicholson fouled Schoenecker,
who made it 13 and 8, and missed
the second free throw.
Schoenecker came through with
his first basket to make it 13 and
10. The Johnny captain was just
starting and he Gagged another, but
time was up and the basket didn t
count. The timers gun had re-
fused to function.
Second Half
In the third period st. Johns
won the game. Clifford opened
the hostilities with his first goal,
but Brown matched it. Blaha got
his third basket on dead run un-
der the strings, and Clifford match
ed that one. The score was now
II to ID. Schoenecker closed the
gap with his second ringer. Tour
tillott widened it with his third.
Schoenecker took pass from Mill
er and made the count 19 to 18.
1t was an overland shot. Sauk
Centre time out. Schoenecker net
ted his fourth basket after time
in. St. Johns was leading 20 to
10. Clifford's third field goal
made it % to 10, and both teams
showed the effects of the terrific
pace, easing up before the period
ended.
The final quarter began with the
first five minutes passing without
a point being made. It was the
only slow part of the game. Sauk
Centre took time out finally. TIL.
players were crashing to the floor
in heaps attempting to get the ball
and Nicholson brought the crowd
to it's feet with his only basket of
the game. The St. Johns lead was
only one point. Schoenecker got
clear of a mix up under the basket
and made his fifth and final goal
from the side. 1t made the score
"a to 21, and with a minute left
to play the Johnnies began their
stalling game.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13

Ladies and gentlemen of the
basket ball audience, the Legion
All Stars and St. Johns University
dished up real game Monday
night.
Although St. Johns won, "a to
21, by a three point margin for
the second time, it wasn't because
they were a better team so much
as it was a matter of condition.
Ills is said advisedly since not a
single substitution was made by
either side. Much can be derived
from that. Although Coach Houie
had seven reserve men he DID
not dare to use them for fear of
destroying the effectiveness of the
starting conlb:r alton. The Legion
might have helped their cause by
the injection of fresh men, but
they also were not taking any
chances. Old Lady Luck also had
a hand, and everything considered
the result vas one of tie best
games ever llayed here.
What was probably the govern
ing factor in making the game of
real interest to the spectators, was
the fact that there was not much
defensive work on either side un-
til the ball was advanced near the
basket. Both teams, as soon as
they got the ball broke for the
basket like a flash, with the result
that the defense had no time to
get set.
Singing out a particular indi-
vidual for honors is difficult.
Schoenecker, Johnny captain and
utility man, was high scorer with
five baskets and a foul goal. With
a good basket eye, he is most dam
gerous when the going is tough.
He has an effective helper in
Durenberger, the tall center. Cliff
ford got going m tremendous
fashion the last half while Moy-
nihan appeared to be here, there
and everywhere. Miller at the
other forward did rot figure in
the scoring, but played good
floor game.
Honors were still more evenly
divided for the All Stars. The
name is no misnomer. In Blaha,
Tourtillott, Nicholson, Brown and
Dolson, Sank Centre has an out
fit worthy of the name. O'Gara
and MacDermond are of the same
calibre as the five who participated
in this scrap.
Special interest attached to the
game because Of tn. presence of
Walter Moynihan In the st.
john lineup. He proved TO every
cne's satisfaction that he can
more than hold his own in fast
company. 1t was also tae first
time that st. Johns team has
ever played at Sauk Centre.
The good sized or ,wi that at
tended will likewise ...stify that a
good job of officiating was done
by w. B. Morgan, who is vet
eran at that sort of thing. The,
game was rather difficult to ham
die ct times but no Complaint was
made by anyone at any time.
Play by play account follows:
FIRST f1alf
The game opened with the Le-
gion getting the tip-off and the
first shot. Tourtillott fouled Cliff
ford and Clifford made the first
point. Both teams were playing a
pretty floor game right from the
start. Durenberger tipped in the
first basket for st. Johns to give
his team 3 to O lead. Then
Nicholson passed to Tourtillott for
the Legion's first goal. It was a
nice backhand shot. Brown fouled
Miller who missed the free try.
Brown scored high tip-in out of
q scramble of players under the
basket and the Legion We're out
in front 4 and 8. Moynihan net
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13

will release these funds for use
elsewhere, but if traffic continues
increasing the maintenance divis-
ion will need more money in 1927
than the 100000 allotted to it
in 1926. The mileage to be treat
ed with oil, tar and calcium chlor-
ide will be increased, these bind
ers being used on unpaveds roads
where traffic is so heavy that unE
treated gravel cannot be satisfac-
torily maintained.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13
Butter Has Made Slight
Decline in the Past Week
Egg Receipts Are Increasing at
Chicago and Prices Drop
Poultry Demand Lively

Butter markets at both Chicago
and New York are in good shape.
Receipts of butter are increasing.
but considering the buying and
consuming demands, stocks of but
ter are moderate. Weather has
been moderate and indications
point toward some general in
crease in the production of butter
fat.
Foreign butter is being held off
the market, due to selling prices
working lower, and is not as much
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13

for nine points. Reonalda Clase-
man shot three field goals.
The girls were all decked out III
their new suits for the first time.
Strictly up to the minute and the
last word from Paris SO it seems.
No, they, aren't bloomers. Ano
instead of Sauk Centre the uni
forms are labeled Main Street.
Very nifty indeed.
This Friday night will find
Long Prairie playing a return
game with the high school. TIL.
gang have a good chance to win
on the strength of their Osakis
showing. A preliminary has al
so been scheduled between tn.
Long Prairie and Sauk Centre
Boy Scouts, to start at 7:3O.
Rumors given circulation in
Twin City papers to the effect that
Leonard Brown, high school ALL
District forward of 1925, and now
Legion star, would matriculate at
St. Johns University this semester
are without foundation. This is
from Leonard himself, who should
know. The story had it that
Johnny hopes for a conference tt
tie would be considerably aug
mented with his advent to the
team. They were rejoicing pre-
maturely, so it seems.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1927-01-13
Totals -. "A 8 5 6 II
Referee, Lynch, St. Cloud
Teachers College.

In the preliminary game be.
tween the Sauk Centre and Osakis
girls, Sank Centre won Is to 5,
to keep their string of wins un.
broken. The first half ended A to
/.
Irene Moynihan was high scorer
with four baskets and a foul goal
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Sure Thing Sportsmeln

there was out and out double cross
ing:
On July %, 1925, Charley Rosen-
berg kayoed Eddie Shea at the New
York Velodrome in the fourth round.
Although Shea was considered a top
notcher in the bantam division, some
of the gamblers went so far as to
pick the fourth round as the one in
which Rosenberg would win.
Rosenberg Won.
Later, on February a, 1927, Rosen-
berg was slated to meet a tartar in
the. person of Bushy Graham. The
experts" figured that Rosenberg
would be greatly weakened by his
hectic efforts to make the weight.
But Rosenberg came in overweight,
forfeited a neat sum Of money and
his title and handily defeated Crab
am. The suckers, who had expected
him to come in as bantam, bet on
Graham. Rosenberg was suspended
for one year by the boxing commits
sion.
On September 81, 1925, Dave Shade
met Mickey Walker for the welter-
weight title, at the Yankee Stadium.
So clear was Shades superiority over
Walker that some bettors tried to
hedge in in the late rounds by offering
odds on Shade. Walker was given the
decision. His victory" over Tiger
Flowers was later the subject of
municipal investigation in Chicago.
The usual whitewashing was applied.
Going back to December II, 1922,
when Johnny Dundee received the de-
cision against Jack Bernstein, after
the latter had carried almost every
round, it should be noted that the
two judges who shared in this verdict
have not officiated in this state since
then.
Officials Suspended.
On September II, 1925, Phil Kap-
lin was a to favorite over Willie
Harmon. They were apparently
evenly matched. Harmon had wide
margin, but the decision WINS draw.
The two officials who voted that way
were suspended.
On November ., 1925, Charley
Rosen was given the decision in his
bout with Lucien Whey. The latter
was clearly the victor, and two Off
Gals who contributed to this lootinc
of suckers were suspended.
It's great game, as typ:cally
American as the Harding admiuistra-
ton, Chicago government and New
York dramatic art.
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My dear Mr.. Moley;


note with interest the report of meeting March
first which you presided held before Barnard stu
dents and addressed by several representing the
two main political parties and non-partsan" political
organization.
write you in the hope you will agree that no meeting
truly represents all sides politically which does not in
clude speaker from the Workers (Communist Party.
There must be- without doubt, fair percentage of stu
dents at Barnard who would find the Communist
sage of vital interest. Had Workers Party speaker
been invited, that these students would have
come away with the impression that Barnard is a live
institution, after all
However, the moment is past. But may not, never
heess bring to the attention of the Barnard students
the meeting be held March 9th the Central Opera
House in celebration of International Womens Day?
Perhaps you chairman of the March first meeting
will make up for the oversight by calling the students
attention to this international celebration Those stu
dents who from poor homes-whose working class
parents brothers and sisters have had to make untold
sacrifices to send them to colege-are perhaps still
making sacrifices to keep them there will find the meet
ing March Sth thrilling unforgettable experience.
There the speeches will inspire them to make sacrifices
in turn for the organization of millions of working
women for whom the "hgher education" is impossible
under capitalism There they will feel not the bourgeois
lure of personal political career but the call to take
part the political organization and enlightenment of
these millions. There, they may be invited to join the
Workers School-to vitalze their dead" knowledge
gained in the higher institutions of bourgeois education
They may be asked at the March 9Th meeting to click
stamps and send out letters But these letters would
not help them ultimately become advisers ITO the Gov
ernor at fat salaries The chances these letters
would be call to workers to fight Capitalism fight I'm
periasm-and so far from leading them to fat pay
veopes might ultimately lead them to long jail
Yet think of them would the call to lick
stamps and address envelopes" under these risky
conditions-because they proletaran at heart and
need but to hear and understand message respond
If you yourself of proletaran orign-if you your
self secretly chafe at your intellectual ensavemen
feel confident that you will do what you to help
rect the meeting Of March first by sending a strong
ing of March Sth-the womens day celebrations day
celebrated throughout the world by the Communist
Parties, sections of the Communist International
Thanking you for any service you may render the
worker students of Barnard believe me- prouder of in
dictments than of diplomas
(Signed) ROSE PASTOR STOKES.
1873 West 18th Street.
March 2, 1927.
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BY SPECTATOR.

THOSE who pull the strings in and
1 about the professional prize ring
are the big money men among the
country's professional g NIB lie S.
They are not gamblers in the literal
sense of the word, for they take no
chances. The term, fixers, might be
more aptly used.
The transition, carrying boxing
from its more or less romantic past
to its present eminence as a bust
ness, is in keeping with the develop
ment of other great American indus
tries. Corruption, greed, duplicity
and what have you mark it with the
stamp of Big Business. The pro-
fessional game is as edifying, as
wholesome as black lacking.
Suggestion of Rottenness.
A glance at a few fairly recent
bouts will indicate that there is more
than faint suggestion of rotten
ness, that, in fact, the sport" stinks.
1t will be observed that despite the
prediction Of sports writer's, shipping
clerks and other sports experts, the
real wise guys are the gamblers or
fixers.
On June 5, 1925, Tunney knocked
out Tom Gibbons in the twelfth round
Of their bout at the Polo Grounds.
Gibbons had stayed the limit with the
champion, Dempsey, and had never
been knocked out. He was generally
conceded to be a harder hitter and
cleverer than Tunney, but wise
money was placed on Tunney ard
Gene won. A somewhat similar stu
alton obtained in the present cham
pion's knockout of the iron-man,
BARLEY Madden, who had stayed the
limit with Harry Wills although bad
ly beaten in every one Of the fifteen
rounds. Tunney was being system
atically built up into a position as
the leading contender.
Made a Killing.
The present champions set-to with
Jack Dempsey involved an upset so
unexpected that it left a great audi
ence cold. But the wise money men
made a killing. Similarly, on Feb.
ruary Is, 1927, the Delaney-Maloney
fight at Madison Square Garden
ended with Maloney, on the short end
of 10 to 5 odds, the victor.
The above examples present Ger.
tain finesse, leaving a little room fol-
an "honest" difference of opinion
| Consider a few instances in which
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The Literary Guild: Guardian Angels
ut literature By SENDER GARLIN
By SENDER GARLIN

the Literary Guild. This is rather
cold consolation, we fear.
"The Best People,"
In an efofrt to impress the public
with the authority of the members
of the board of editors, the profess
sional interests and activities of the
individual members are cited. "What
they are" and Associations" are the
two items under which this is ac-
complished. Elinor Wylie, for ex-
ample, is described as novelist, es-
sayest, and poet. Her associations"
are listed as The New Republic. The
New Yorker, and the New York Her.
aid Tribune. And Hendrix William
Van Loon, after being described pro-
fessionally as historian, cartoonist
and journalist, his associations are
cited as Cornell University, Antioch
College, the Associated Press and the
Woman's Home Companion.
Middle-class Culture.
We are not here concerned primar-
lily with the question as to whether
the sponsors of the organization are
trying to make money or motor
even if the books which they dis
cover will be good and interesting
reading. This much, however, is un-
disputed: the bit of super-salesman-
ship called "Wings" clearly labels
the Literary Guild at best as a nice,
amiable, middle-class movement to
bring culture to the people" And
the kind of Culture" that will be
brought forth will unquestionably
be the kind that Glenn Frank, one of
the honored members of the Editorial
Board, is palming off each day in
his syndicated capsules of profess
sional optimism entitled "Life's
Worth Living" in the New York Eve
ming World.
No, Thanks!
The working class of America
must create its own literature. 1t
must develop its own teachers. The
"hand-me-down" culture of the lei
sure class is something that we must
look upon as positive menace. The
NASai -cCCAAlS AuSlubSIS VI LHB WORKING
class have repudiated the spurious
economic theory of John r. Com
mons, of the University of Wisconsin,
because it is clearly an apology for
the capitalist system. In the same
way must be repudiated the spurious
guardianship of Glenn Frank of the
University of Wisconsin and Elinor
Wylie washington society LADY, in
the field of literature.
1t is not sufficient to remove the
wall between the writer and reader,
even if the Literary Guild can do
that. What is more vital is to de-
stroy the wall between literature and
industry to make of writers not
members Of patronising, parasitic
class, but to increase the articulate-
ness of the workers of the world.
This cannot be done by aiding this
scheme of a group of benevolent
members Of the upper middle-class
in their efforts to critically brow
beat them in their choice of current
books.