The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-06
s. Sport
& Wags
BY Chuck Rattle
BY Chuck Rattle


BY Chuck Rattle
Object: Ducks
HeiferA Out Of Season
Kidnapped Dec0ys-
Gang Outsmarted Morris
A barrage that had the Czecl
border crossing backed of the mai
For honest-to-gosh musket firing
opened at Z q. m. Saturday morn
Ing as hundreds Of hunters poured
into every slough and pothole will
one object in mind: ducks. 49,. YEP
The season opened and the barrag'
the boys laid down as the SUI
peeked up and said, ~ o'clock
was q walloper. Saturday, say tn
boys, was a fair to middling da!
with some good shoots reported
But Sunday was too warm and tn,
ducks hung lazily in the middle o
the lake or sailed high over hea(
put Of gun range. Just underway
The season is already bringing in 1T
tales. And the boys are guffawini
over the antics of some. 49,.
But before we 60 into that.
Down at Billy Browns pasture
land bordering the Sank river,
q peculiar problem looms. Pc
culiar because of its proximity
to the hamlet, the land is q
swell retreat for ducks, readily
accessible to those in town. -.
Monday morning MIR. Brown
found heifer, dead, shot vital
Iy by q .22 rifle bullet. No duck
hunters these, he reasoned. Two
weeks ago another heifer was
found dead In the pasture, a
victim of the same type of dis
charge. Now that plot has
always been open to anyone.
It's never been posted to my
knowledge against trespassing.
But unless such depredations
are curbed Immediately, steps
will be taken to forever close it
to carrying q gun across the
plot. (. It's not a question of
not wanting guns or hunters on
the lands, but rather a question
of costing too much for some
one else's pleasure and careless
ness. :. Even now the Land is
being posted against trespass-
ing.
The tables not only were turned
In this tale, they were completed,
upset. Sometime before the season
Pete Michels decided to have some
fun with Harold Gray and walked
Off with his decoys. The two hat
been working together getting then
ready. Gray spotted the loss, sus
pected Michels, and told Erve Mel
son to watch for Michels. Nov
Mr.. Nelson, for your information
Is the Flatiron Kid and go-betweer
IN this decoy kidnapping. One day
while Michels was gone from his
home, Gray whisked over to his
house, not only retrieved his owr
iecoys, but just as a matter o,
course included Michels' in the haul
Pete foamed-he would get the
guy who stole those decoys. Mean
time, Mr.. Gray snickered slyly w
mis- sleeve. So they went out to posi-
their land one day, and Gray In
formed Michels he knew where
hey could buy some decoys. And
ne brought sample to exhibit the
Kind they could buy. The sam
pie" happened to be one or Michels
lecoys which he recognized. :. Ant
t was tag around the mulberry
bush with Michels in pursuit o.
Gray when he learned he had beer
,utfoxed. p. S.-The Herald
the Lindbergh kidnap
ping law will be waived, and ne
prosecution levied. . ;.
49,
To get to football These jun
Tor high lads plOw mean ball
game. Against Alex Saturday
afternoon, rated their toughest
rival, they played to a call
deadlock. It was Paul KEEL
dahl's plunging that was large
-ly responsible for the score, but
the lads have q nice little team
there, under the coaching of
Harold Rasmussen. And
Doug Kohl, who calls the plays,
Is acclaimed as q brainy gem
eral for q Junior high boy. 80
It was smart football that won
he game for Sank Centre. II
couldn't have been power-the boys
we're up against line that averag-
ID 165 pounds. It couldn't have
,een speed-two Morris halfbacks
yingie and Anderson, had anything
Sank Centre carried
No, it was headwork. +. It was
smart ball to move in quickly with
/ thrust that gave them to {
cad which they held for the first
,alf. That succession that general
ID from the spark set by Rasmus.
zen when he recovered tumble
vas run smartly with a forward
ateral combination that at once