The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
ing basketball material for future
High School teams.
By Wilfred Hetzel
The DOno Rucket


By Wilfred Hetzel
The Dope Bucket
During the week just closed I
picked seven winners out of 10 cor
rectly and my percentage dropped
from $50 to TIA but in the next
week or so I will make desper-
ate effort to increase it to my form
er figure. The three games where
my predictions failed to pan out
were all decided by close scores. The
biggest upset of all was Long Prai-
rie's 20-17 conquest of Glenwood
and another one was Alexandria
2O-19 victory over the Minnewas-
kans in an overtime tilt. The third
game in which my judgment went
astray was Bertha's "a to 10 tri-
umph over Parkers Prairie.
Henning mauled New York Mills
"a to II as expected and Long Prai-
RE out-pointed Melrose II to 10 in
superb defensive duel which saw
the outcome in doubt until the last
four minutes. Osakis made good
my prophecy by vanquishing Sank
Centre % to IL. The Osakis sec.
, onds raised Osakis' conference rat
ing sinking Brandon 20 to IL. Park
ers nosed out Osakis 80 to 81 in
high scoring bee. Swanville ran
true to form by subjugating Upsala
by 20 to IL count. Henning
squeezed out 81 to 10 win from
Battle Lake and Deer Creek stun
ned district fans by subduing Park
ers Prairie 26 to 16. My record in
guessing winners now is 80 games
right out of AZ with many games
still remaining in this last month
of regular play.
This week is another active one
with six league skirmishes on the
program. On Tuesday Holdingford
was favored to repeat it's 20 to 8
victory over Melrose but not as de-
cisively. Glenwood was rendered
the edge to down Parkers Prairie
and thereby end its slump without
further delay. The latter sought 1e-
venge for % to Is defeat but I
doubt if their desire for retaliation
was appeased. Henning managed
to thwart Deer Creek II to in
their initial encounter but this time
I am inclined to give the latter the
shade the better of the argumnt.
Little Falls was scheduled to ca
wort on Swanville's midget court
( Tuesday and gave the visitors a
slight edge to follow up their 80
to 20 victory with another one. I
also conceded Albany a good chance
to repulse Upsala on the same eve
ming. Tomorrow several interesting
contests will be enacted with the
Aleck-Parkers scrap looming up as
the feature.
Though the latter won the first
battle % to 81 I am looking for
ward to an Alex win. Glenwood
meets Osakis for the second time
and while favor Glenwood by a
good margin I anticipate a much
closer struggle than their previous
"a to fray. Long Prairie will have
hard time trying to duplicate it's
81 to 16 victory over Sank Centre
but the locals must be ranked as
the underdogs. Bertha should cap
ture their setto with Battle Lake
without extending themselves. Cold
Spring is given the odds to repeat
it's % to 10 decision over Melrose.
Upsala should also down Motley but
only after tough melee. Melrose
is doped to trim Swanville next
Tuesday and gain revenge for an
IL to setback in overtime in De
cember but Sank Centre has moth
ing more than an outside chance
to out-score Glenwood. Royalton
should dispose of Upsala without
any material difficulty.
My probable score guesses last
week were unusually accurate. You
will recall that I picked Osakis to
Wallop Sank Centre % to IL and
they did % to IL. I selected Swan
vile to whip Upsala % to IL and
they did by 20 to IL score. I chose
Glenwood to trip Alex rs to 20 but
though the latter gathered 20 mark
ers, the former amassed only 49,
I forecast that Parkers would ac-
cumulate 81 points on Bertha but
they had less while Bertha as
simulated 6 more than the 1S ex-
pected them to ring up. Here are
my probable score guesses for to-
morrow and Tuesday.
Bertha-3O.
Long Prairie-27.
Glenwood-26.
Upsala-17.
Cold Spring-24.
Glenwood-28.
Royalton-29.
Alexandria-28.
Melrose-19.
Battle Lake-15.
Sank Centre-14.
Osakis-13.
Motley-12.
| Melrose-16.
Sank Centre-16.
Upsala-17.
| Parkers Prairie-19.