The Sauk Centre herald., 1930-12-04
Fast Bertha Quint Defeated Locals
in Seasons Opener---Was Good Game

and a couple of visiting athletes
really proved to be adopts at re-
ceiving passes and shooting in awk-
ward positions though a little more
accuracy on their set-up shots
would have made the game a one
sided affair. .... g..
The Sauk Centre players display
ed traces of nervousness which
failed to disappear as the game
wore on and this accounts in part
for lot of the fumbling which thu
losers were guilty of. Bertha had
many more shots than their vic
tins. The reason for this is OBJ
vious; Bertha had less trouble in
sitting through their opponents de-
fense. and, naturally they took
more shots; the other reason is
that Bertha shot from longer dis
'tances than Sauk Centre :
+ In ability to make up their minds
whether to pass or. shoot was an
other fault which cost the Main
Streeters some baskets as, in their
hesitancy, the Bertha guards
pounced on the ball and generally
retrieved its possession on the jump
even though they did not have a
noticeable advantage in height.
Sauk Centre showed a fatal weak
ness when on more than few oc-
casions they permitted opposing
forwards to slip near the basket un-
noticed and where it was a COM
paratively simple task for the lat
ter to accept long passes and shoot
the goals.
The first few minutes of the
fray failed to produce single
score; Rehmanns was .~fouled by
Benson and missed his shot but soon
after Benson broke the ssescoreless
deadlock by connecting from the
free throw line after being fotIled
by Elkjer. This gave the home
team one of the two leads enjoyed
during the course of the struggle.
A minute or so later L. Seaver, who
was a thorn in the side of the los
ers all evening, looped a basket
from the side to send his team in
to the van by 2-1. Shortly after
the start of the second period, Ben
son drew out the Bertha guard with
/ a dribble after which he passed the
| ball to the unguarded Borgmann
who scored on a jump shot to put
Sauk Centre into the lead for the
| last time. Dick then lost an op
portunity to increase the lead with
a free shot upon being fouled BY
Elkjer. D. Seaver then tossed in
shot from past mid-foor anG
again the lead had changed hands
At this point L. Seaver fouled Twin
ski who converted his attempt al
! the foul line to tie the score at A
Iwinski, in turn, fouled L. Seavel
who also made good his effort al
the free throw mark. DAVIS Seavel
ended the scoring for the first hall
by sinking an under the basket
shot.
Of the % points chalked up by
both quints, II Of them were scor
ed in each half; in the third cantc
close-in shots by Elkjer and Cornell
were the only scores, raising the
Bertha total to II. Bergman miss
ed free throw in his quarter after
! being fouled by L. Seaver. Eek
berg opened the last episode by
arching goal from the center OF
the court for the final counter fol
the losers. Cornell retaliated with
his successful try from scrim'
mage under the basket and D
Seaver added another basket or
an over-handed attempt at close
range. The last score was provid.
ed by the same player when he Gag
ed foul toss. Eckberg missed q
foul shot in this session while L
Seaver and Cline. of Bertha, each
missed pair of gift goals.