The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-06-30
s Sport
& Ways
BY Chuck Rattle

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i BY Chuck Rattle
What happens in a town like THU
when there's fight
The lads had hardly stopped bark
ing at me who's in for guvnor'
when the whole thing stopped a!
If they'd stuck cork in the bal
lot box. What's more import
ant, quoth one, who's going to wir
the Schmeling-Louis fight. +. Ant
my troubles were scarcely over thar
new ones had begun.
But that's the price we sport writ
rers have to pay. Some boyd is al
the time asking questions theJ
know I can't answer. So hum ane
haw around for not longer than 6
minute and a half, while the guy
stands there with knowing grin
and finally I bleat out something
sparkling, to show my great wit ant
originality, like, well, we never
know until afterward" Their
come to post mortems. I yelled ou
the window to see how's the figh
coming. And 1t came back q!
to how the fights all over. Yol
could have knocked me over with
fender. That's probably wha'
Schmeling thot hit him. Eel
,cryin, in a kerchief, I thunk, thu
fans got took again. -.
Spot Nathe piped up with,
|Well, Schmeling was winning
on points up to that time" -.
That was q rollicker. Then
came the boys with, "What'd va
think of the fight" Now
In the first place us newspaper
men are laborers of the first
water, and I was all tangled up
with newsprint and printers ink
about that time, and the radio
was farthest from my thoughts.
In the second place how
can q guy think about q fight
like that. I lasted longer
than that with the only fight I
ever fit. So you see I was
In hot water again, and once
again that great wit of mine
breezed into action with, well,
1t didn't last long did it?" -.
I'm getting like the women. -.
Answer a question with another
one.
It happened to Louis Lovik like
many others, I guess. -. About 8:1t
he called the O'Gara plant to FIND
out where in the deuce the fight
was coming from. II can't find
the thing" he said. And from the
other end Of the wire came back
Don't bother. It's all over"
Hmmm, If ever I 90 to one OF
them fights, will not even take my
eyes off the ring to see If there are
any blondes in the house. IF
do, I'll probably miss the whole she
bang. Well, in that two minutes
some Of the boys walked home with
some dough and some walked out
with their pockets as empty as next
winters swimming beach. Joe
Frank, who has strung with Niger
all these vars, pocketed some nice
sums as did Billy Benson. An.
other lost some over forty bucks
but would have been in the Mazuma
to the tune of Is If he'd clicked.
Mrs. Ella Christie went a-fish-
in the other Sunday. She
grabbed her license, just in case,
and found on the lake 1t was
the dog license she had taken.
.. You knew this was coming,
but maybe she was after dog
fish. 80.
Triple-Down Redwood Falls way
one of the local lads, who swings a
mean golf stick, walked off for the
third time with the Minnesota Riv-
er Valley tournament honors.
The boy is Spick Frank, wise
cracking nimble 'swinger Of the
links. Schooied on Sank Cen.
tres links, Spick went down to Red
wood about three years ago. /. He
sashayed to the Mankato tourna.
ment that first year and beat out
in a nine hole play-or match, the
towns favorite, Palmer Keise.
This seemingly irked the Redwood
boys no end. This bad habit OF
Spick's to wallop the local idol. .
For a time he was about as popu.
lar as kid running loose at Sun
day school picnic with the measles
Now he climbs to the pinnacle
with this third win. His only
comment to his brudder, Joe, here
was mot bad, huh? >.
Walt Benson toured out to
Birch Lake Sunday for the first
time i'm thuhty years. So
near and yet SO far, huh Walt.
=. The occasion was Jake Eb-
customers and Henry Browns
annual fishing trip. -.
Nifties-Shucks, right under our
nose we got one of the ace kitten.
ball clubs of the section and this
well-informed commentator didn't
know Of it until Sunday. Sun.
day the lads autoed to Long Prairie
and hung the fifth scalp in the row
to their belts. ;. Already they have
cleaned Melrose twice and Westpori
Il believe it was they took for the
same amount. At L. p. Sunday
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