The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-11-11
Thursday, November IL. 1887
s Sport
81 Wags

|% Wags
BY Chuck Rattle
It was way back In the days of
Rome when the gladiators fought a
losing battle in the arena, and the
thumbs turned down among the
Kisses Of the populace. That was
the beginning Of vox pop. There
were also certain of the boys in the
crowd who were not content in
going down to the corner drug
store, and toss off a noggin Of ale
(history says they had it, and beef
with the other boys about what
should have happened. Oh no, they
wanted to write about 1t. SO they
formulated their mental analyses Of
the athletic events. Follow me?
Sport columnists were born, so it's
an ancient and time honored pro-
fession. So do as the Romans do.
But 10 and behold IL devel-
ops that not all of these sports
writer's were basking In the IA
vOred eye Of the contestants.
Only favored few. Maybe you
can see through this very clev-
er subtety of mine. In fact
many Of them were called "Ted
Musings" (Minn. never wins
when he annOunces). II some
how I can draw order out of
this chaos of ideas, the point
will become clear. One of the
boys called me Ted Husing"
the other day. Now, don't
mind, remember that, for If
was that good I wouldn't be ex-
hausting my efforts in such
limited circles. So I stayed
away from the Alex game, and
they can't blame 1t onto me.
Now II you'll pahdOn NAH
southern accent I'll take the
Dixie flyer.
Wrong again-No man. except q
sports writer, can be wrong all the
time. But dad blast a hole right in
my new socks, If this corner does
not hit at least IS per cent wrong
guesses. To my chagrin the other
day was pelted with another let
ter from Wilfred Hetzel in which
he states the history Of the Melrose
struggles with Sank Centre, and 1t
paints darker blotch on the can
vas than this corner did: 1880: Mel
rose %, s. c. 0; 1891: Melrose 80, s.
s. O: 1882: s. c. 10, M. 6; 1888: Mel
rose 10, s. G.. Is; 1884: Melrose 8,
s. c. 0; 1895: Melrose 50-25, s. c.,
OF 1.-TWO games that year,; 1896: S.
c. IL, Melrose Z; 1887: Melrose 35,
s c 13
p. s. I knew it all the time. only
make mistakes to see If anybody
reads the corner.
49,
King football, so far as local con-
ference athletics is concerned, top
pied from his throne this week, but
before he goes and the morse gentle
reign of basketball sets in, let's
talk of few points in his admins
tration. It's been a tough year here.
Injuries, arrangements in the
squad have necessitated complete
reversal of tactics, and If you've
ever watched attacks develop you
can appreciate what that means.
Here are q buncn Of boys, many of
them with experience. Here, too, Is
a game calling for physical skill,
mental cunning, and above all ex-
perience. Around these lads with
experience a coach sets to work
mapping his plays, and the plays
develop. Then one of the key men
is injured. Who should take his
place? A reserve is tried, he is not
the one, So from another place on
the team a man is pulled and
groomed for the job. That takes
several weeks for his readjust-
ment. But the place vacated by him
must be filled, and for this re-
serve must be put into shape. What
I'm pointing at is the fact that four
or five such injuries have each
caused just that much trouble with
the local coaching plans. Believe
you me, it's tough rearranging.
&s*
It's little wonder, in the light
of those cOnditiOns-which in
cidentally left only three men
of the original early fall line,
that the team this year was un-
able to win more than 2 out of
8 starts. Yet with some wide
scores chalked up against them,
they weren't shut out by sin
gle team, scored at least twice
on most teams. Even against
the mighty men to the west,
Alex So our hats are Of TO