The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-01-15
BaSkef Ball Happenings
Reported Of the Past Week

| Bdttle Lake ----.--S i 100 Ill 81
Long Prairie 49, 5 2 ia LA 10s
Swanville ------------ 4 2 .667 131 81
Alexandria $1,000. 2 I .667 rs "a
Osakis .-...-....,-. 2 2 500 SO &C
Henning ...-.... 2 1893 81 81
Deer Creek ...-.--- 2 1888 81 sc
Sank Centre $500 200 &c liz
Grey Eagle $1,000 5 .167 SO 174
Melrose ........---... O 3 900 "a 81
Willard -.........-. 0 3 900 SO 81
Brandon .....-.--.--- 0 3 900 26 102
The Dope Bucket
Local fans, a few of them at
least, are looking forward with
eagerness to the resumption of
hostilities between the hoopsters of
Melrose and Sank Centre which
occurs tomorrow night when these
two traditional enemies face each
other at the Recreation Hall where
some stirring struggles have taken
place in the four years of its use
as place to decide High School
floor battles. This will be the first
clash of the season between these
friendly foes and it promises to be
an interesting one. A few weeks
ago, local adherents dared not hope
of a win over the luckless Melrose
five which has received five success
sive setbacks and it will be increas-
ed to six straight if they failed to
thwart Holdings clever courtmen
Tuesday. The Main Street sup
porters are taking encouragement
from the fact of the fasteners
lack of success and many Of them
are entertaining fond hopes over a
major OPPONENT. Last season the
locals could not hang up single
major triumph and an important
win has been equally elusive this
season.
Before I begin summarizing the
locals chances of victory in this
melee I will give a brief review of
Melrose-Sauk Centre games in the
past four years. In that space of
time these two arch-rivals have
tangled nine times with the Rosies
emerging triumphant in seven of
these tits. The writer was present
at all of these scraps and can vivid
ly recall many Of them. Both of
Sank Centres wins were recorded
in 1929 when the locals were very
strong. Sank Centre is one of the
two teams which Melrose has al
ways managed to trim consistently;
the other is Long Prairie. Both OPP
ponents relish defeating Melrose
more than an yother rival because
it is such a rare occurrence when
it does happen.
The first of these nine meetings
found Melrose routing Sank Gen.
ire here rs to II; later in the same
season Melrose buried the locals %
to with the irrepressible Camp
bell in his prime; that was also Sank
Centre first appearance at the new
hall. This celebrated floor artist
will go down in Melrose history as
one of the greatest performers
on the court Melrose has ever
had. He was all-district forward
in 1927 and all-district guard in
1919. The scoring rampages he saw
fit to indulge in in those two re-
years and also in 1928
are now a matter of history. I new
err saw a more accurate long shot
star and he never had any partic-
ular angle to shoot from. Osakis
fans will recall his work in handing
Osakis those % to %, "a to 16 and
81 to 80 beatings in recent years
while Long Prairie rooters should
be able to remember him when Mel.
rose trampled even the northern
ers by scores of % to II, 10 to Is,
81 to Is and 81 to II.
The following season Melrose
again sank the Sank Centre ship
on both occasions; you probably
can recall that memorable overtime
struggle here which Melrose won
81 to IT after the winners were on
the lean end of a 16 to IL count
with less than minutes to play.
At Melrose the locals, hopeful of
revenge, found the home team vast
ly superior and was smothered Is
to 9 before a great throng. Those
were the days that Melrose drew
big crowds. The next year when
the locals won at Melrose, the fray
was witnessed by the largest crowd
that ever packed the hall for a
cage game. Last year Melrose con-
clusively demonstrated it's super
iority by administering to the home
five three drubbings, one of the
games being a challenge game on
this floor. The scores of that trio
of smashing victories by the 1880
champs were 26 to 16, 26 to Z and
SO to %. During this four-year
period Melrose never scored less
than Is points on Sank Centre and
the latter failed to surpass the %
mark and only twice exceeded the
20 total.
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