The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-01-08
THE DISTRICT STANDINGS
BY Wilfred Hetzel

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pair of victories and Parkers has
chalked up but one victory. Sew
eral fives now resting in the Sec
ond division have too Isuch
strength to stay there long and
conversely, other teams now hold
ing high ranking positions are
slated for a descent as soon as the
competition becomes little sitter
and that time is in the near flu
ture. AS the good teams swing in
| to their true stride in the next
fortnight there are apt to be some
wholesale changes brought about
which will elevate these teams to re-
spectacle berths and which will
lower the weak representatives
somewhere in proximity of the
league basement.
In addition to the four unbeaten
squads, the first division is COM
posed of Swanville, Battle Lake,
Osakis and Long Prairie, in that
order. Alexandria rates as the
leading second division team with
HenniRg rounding out the first ten.
Melrose, Willard and Brandon have
failed to hang up a single Victory
with the latter resting in the cellar
by virtue of three straight set
backs; the other two quintettes
have absorbed two defeats each.
Willard has the unique distinction
of losing both of it's contests by
Is to Is scores with one of them
being an overtime affair with Grey
Eagle. Melrose, using new sys-
tenn of play this season after an
nexing the loop title in 1880, has
been unable to function effectively
and, as result, they have lost four
successive games, two of them to
league foes; however, the 1880 tit
lists are developing rapidly and
they will continue to show steady
Improvement as they boast of the
best two defense players in the dis
trict. Melrose suffered a severe
blow when it lost it's three high
powered offensive stars of last year.
One half of Melrose's defeats were
in games involving an extra period.
both games coming in succession.
Grey Eagle, which has partici-
pated in the greatest number of
games with 6, alsot leads in the
number of lickings received with 5.
Bertha sets the pace in victories.
with being closely followed by
Long Prairie, Swanville and Battle
Lake with a trio of wins apiece.
Though the teams have been in &C
ton slightly over a month, there
have been three overtime games
played inside the conference. Be-
sides the Willard Grey Eagle skir-
mish, Swanville nosed out Melrose
11-S after an extra period and
Osakis similarly eked out a 20-19
decision fgrom Alex. Battle Lake
amassed Tie highest score ny wal
Looping Brandon 1913 while Long
Prairie stifled Grey Eagle 41-6 in
another walk-away encounter. 9th
er runaway scores saw Sank Cen
ire pommeling Grey Eagle 1910 as
Swanville smacked them twice by
counts of 27-4 and 374. The Mel
rose-Swanville scrap was the low
est scoring game for both sides but
Deer Creek recorded the Lowest
single team total by succumbing to
Bertha 20-2. Osakis dropped 1914
engagement to their alumni while
Glenwood defeated the Glenwood
Alumni by this same score. Long
Prairie repealed the alumni of their
school in a 34-21 battle.
Battle Lake, chiefly because it
has met no strenuous opposition,
tops the league in annexing points
with a mark of Ill points; Long
Prairie ranks second with 100
though they have played in one
more game than the leaders. These
two teams are the only ones who
have found it possible to supass the
century mark in this department.
Melrose and Parkers Prairie have
scored the least points with 10 each
and the latter has allowed the few
est points with IA; however, Bertha
has a much better defensive re-
cord, having permitted only % tall
lies in quartette of trays. Grey
Eagle boasts of an unenviable re-
cord in that they have allowed the
most points with 174 through Bran
don has permitted an average of "a
points a game.
Twenty-third district teams have
not Jared so well in their non-con-
ference tussles. Glenwood has been
beaten twice by Starbuck by 14-12
and Bertha has lost pair to Wa
dena by margins of 1875 and 8-5. st.
Cloud drubbed Alex 20-11 and Sc
dan clouted Willard 1926. Parkers
Prairie received a 25-13 humping
from Wadena but managed to
squeeze out a 17-16 verdict over
Starbuck. Melrose lost to Foley 1919
and to Cold Spring % 10. Hewitt
fell easy prey to district quints,
their most one-sided trouncing be-
ing 56-6 loss to Henning.
The conference season had its in
ception Tuesday when Swanville
was favored to nose out Long
Prairie on the formers miniature
court. Two non league tussles
were scheduled for the same night.
The writer expects Holdingford to
have an easy time with Upsala
while he also foresees Glenwood's
downfall at the hands of Appleton,
1880 regional champs. Tonight
there are six league battles on the
program with two Of them loom
ing up as unusually important. One
Of these headliners finds Bertha
tackling Parkers Prairie in an eli