The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-03-05
sAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, MINI.

e, MINI.
couple of pretty fair teams at the
first of the season, other teams be-
gan to regard them with awe and
as possible contenders for the dis
trict. Other schools since then
have taken the front ranks to Gust
Alexandria from the titular throne.
Glenwood, Long Prairie, and Sank
Centre have all advanced with
leaps and bounds since the seasons
outset. Swanville has a habit of let
ting down in the third period. In
both games in the sub-district they
showed only a minor in the ag-
gressive end.
Osakis dished out the main
surprises of the tourney with
their complete reversal Of
their seasons work. Taking
Clarissa easily and displaying
good brand of ball, they swung
around the next evening and
left a bewildered mob of Mel
rose players talking to them
selves. Melrose had defeated
them during the season twice,
and 1t surprised the MelrOse
contingent to take a beating Of
43 to 10 at the hands of Osakis.
Osakis showed q perceptible
Lack of basketball all during the
season, and q reversal of their
usual form showed they were
nd IA inst
good and only now finding 1t
out.
Leaving the high school basket
ball for a time we hasten to wind
up the Independent season. Friday,
March 18th does it in a big way
with the House of David furnishing
the opposition for the local boys.
They have an outfit of college
stars and know their way around
on the court. The Independents are
no slouches either in their own
way, and will give the House all
they have coming. Remember these
boys don't play for a living, they
do it voluntarily. And they play for
the fun of the game, Season tick
cts will not furnish admission for
this post-season attraction. Fans
will admit that the games they did
witness from the Independents
have been ample pay for the ticket
they held.
We read in the paper where
contingent of basketball en-
thusiasts travelling to a game
shOveled for hours and then
seeing the game finally saw the
home town crew take q good
drubbing. Now they were pro
baby no different than any
hackers and were disgruntled
over the plight Of their outfit,
but that they had enough intes-
final fortitude lin polite circles)
speaks well of what kind of
stuff they are made. Backers
in sports to the extent that
these hapless individuals We're
are usually hackers for any
worthwhile project.
Still the talk persists that the
game birds in the state are suffer
ing the plight of starvation. Sports
men are taking up the situation and
in Sank Centre a fund has been
started to feed the feathered
friends. A call to action has been
sent out from st. Cloud headquar-
tiers by John Virgins, Scout Execu-
tive, for Scouts to take the matter
under their wing as a good turn.
The matter is being presented to
local Scouts this week. 1t is report
ed that such suffering is not so
acute in this section as in southern
reaches of the state. Under the
NYA National Youth Administra-
tom a bird feeding project has
been started in the building of
hopper feeders. Placement of these
feeders will not be made until next
winter.
Champ, Wilfred Hetzel, comes
word of his gOings-On in the
good OF Sunny South. Wilfred
after swearing not to send us
line finally broke down and
sent us an account of his re-
cent exploits. So we both had
good cry and here is what he
says: II exhibited here Dur
rant, OklahOma) last night for
the game between the Ada and
Durant teachers and am start
ing north today bound for
Muskogee and Tulsa. 1 was as
far south as Dallas where 1
shot at the YMCA. At Sherman,
Texas, 1 performed at the Dan
lei Balxer-Austin game. I've
tried my bounce free shot on
five straight exhibitions and it
never has taken me more than
shots to make one. At Sher-
man it took me 2 and at Wit
chita 3. ran 48 at Durant, 81
at Sherman, 81 at Hutchinson
and X. c., 80 and 20 at Wichi-
tn, and SO at Lawrence"
White pellets-Yowsah, snow
balls. The kids are throwing them
now and while their aim may not
be the best, it is good enough for
this corner. With the warm days
this week the air is literally filled
with flying ovals catapulted by an
arm that evidently knows no firing.
It's a fine sport, but the suggestion
might be made lin fact we're max
ing it) that those who wish to carry
on such fights retire to some Sc
cluded spot, where ladies and older
persons will not be the object of
straying shots. It's heck of good
sound to listen to a window crash
under the direct fire of snow ball,
but gosh it's hard to pay for it!
This Is putting us in stitches! Or
is that too puny? ANYWAY knitting