The Sauk Centre herald., 1938-12-29
Sport
81 Wags
BY Chuck Rattle

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BY Chuck Rattle
Fishing All Done
Foxhunt Is Cat Fight
Another Cleve Angie
Hetxel W0os and Wins
Alex Is Cute Kid
Country Style For Us
You boys had better get your
fishing all done this week cause
Governor Elmer Benson has with
q sweeping order closed all lakes
to taking game fishing from JAN
uary LIST to the spring opening of
the angling season. That gets
my okay. ). From the best sources
we can contact, winter fishing is
no boon to our lakes. In the first
place feed is more scarce, fish will
snap hungrily at anything that
bangles in the water. In the Sec
ond female fish do the running
in the winter, while the males idle
about deep. There's spawn in those
fish now. >. Crappies, too, are
favoritely taken by the winter fish
ermen. The depletion Of crappies
in Minnesota lakes is new Of prim-
ary concern in the game and fish
department. Witness sometime ago
plans to start crappie hatchery
in this locality. q. The net result
Of these fish is primarily; perch
60 on the ascendancy. Perch are
n. &. for a lake. So hang EN-
up boys. The thot comes, too, that
Birch Lake always closed to winter
fishing is still one of the best fish
ing lakes in these hyar parts. =.
Into town sometime ago swept
the authentic report that a wild
cat was harrassing animals
and humans In one Of the sur
rounding country districts. In
to the woods on the next Sun
day scurried the baying fox
hounds, leading a group Of
hunters and houndmaster Gus
Otto. To the chase they
went again. Taking up the
scent the hounds drove on thru
the fields and woods, far out
distancing the hunters.
Their baying halted, hunters
caught up. -. What the hounds
had chased down was a wild
cat, all right-a wild tom cat.
I got another angle on that Frank
Cleve, South mentor who brought
his basketball team here some time
ago. :. Toftness, you know, play
ed for Cleve at Concordia as did
the fellow who is now coach at
Staples-and who incidentally trim
med Cleve this year. -. lofty and
this Staples man-whoSe name I
forget-were battling for the same
position on the Cleve lineup. {.
The battle got bitter. lofty would
sally down to take shot, and his
competitor would push him right
through the swinging doors. And
then lofty would reverse the pro-
cess. That would go along until the
time when arms were nearly swing
ing. Then Cleve would get mad
and push the both of them off the
court. Said Toft, the other day,
did Cleve tell you how he used
to kick me off the court?" Nope,
but now I told the fans. -.
Last week in the year breez-
es around and your cOrrespOn-
dent has some notes it's been
impossible to use. So must get
at them. Here's some on Het-
eel, who came to his own again
when he performed on the local
court. It's been long time
since Hetzel graced local hard
woods. In fact Hetzel, 1t would
appear, has made his peace
with old S. C. Miffed no lit
tie last year when Sauk Centre
dawdled over buying a uniform,
Hetzel voiced his displeasure.
But the breach has nicely
healed, we suppose, for Sauk
Centre got the Hetzel a pretty
yellow uniform In which to do
his basketball counting.
Hetzel, who has pulled more lines
of copy than free throws, will go
west we hear. Chances are that
he may do a Pete Smith speciality
with his shots. And folks, now it
is Hetzel stunt shot expert. But
my contention is that he's still a