The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-08-11
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81 Wags
BY Chuck Rattle

Lights and Shadows
Now at long last comes the long
projected, quasi-promised lighted
football field.
This week j0vial superinten-
dent Of schools, Yves A. (f0r
Arthur) Kohl tossed the first
tangible evidence that q lighted
football field would be q part Of
the schools athletic program
this year. He announced a
showing Of lighting equipment
for the new field to be given
this month. In the dark Of the
night on August 18th various
lighting concerns will bring
their equipment to this city,
flood the field with q host of
arrangements of flood bulbs,
stab the night scene with q
blaze Of white. And that
night members of the Board of
Education will cast their orbs
into the glare Of thousands Of
watts Of incandescent light
squirting, gaping, reading cal
culating, figuring angles. =.
Already the Board has purchas-
ed ten poles, 60 feet long, on
which will perch the light bat
Two years ago when the lighting
bug first hit this city host of
proposed sites for fields were toss
ed into the ring. Work was begun
on a plot near the lakeshore under
WPA, dirt was hauled, leveling was
done. Then the bubble burst. The
school never used the field, work
stopped. The school continued its
play on the Fair Grounds lot. (.
Other suggestions failed to get a
glimmer Of workable progress, the
Fair Grounds still held. .. Then
last year when extensive renova-
tons were made about the Fair
Grounds, the school found itself
without a field it could call its own.
had none definitely marked out
right up to the beginning Of the
season. AS it developed play was
held on field near the golf course
Ia field shot full Of holes. In
juries that may or may not have
their origin in that layout (but since
injuries were almost entirely con-
fined to feet and legs, it points in
that direction) made necessary re-
vamping the team several times. +.
Now a new field looms back at the
old stand-the Fair Grounds. =.
This year with q new growth
of turf rising on a newly land
scaped sector at the Fair
Grounds, a field, without holes,
impediments, will be the grid
iron for the local boys. Clarence
Dickson, now In charge Of the
turf-malxing (using q recipe Of
continuous watering and appli-
cations of fertilizer, with dash
Of moving each week. says the
tract Is coming along In fine
shape. There's q practical
angle in this fine field I'm that
coaches are pointing to 1t as
eliminating much Of the injury,
and (2) that the existence of q
field, neatly lighted. will prob
ably act as incentive TO boys
wanting to play the game. 49,.
In the interim of those years after
the lights were first discussed, 9TH
ers went out to work. Chatter flew
about with a super-athletic field in
mind with a combine unit compris-
ing spaces for football, baseball,
tennis and a flock of other lots. AS
it develops each sport following
must provide It's own. That's the
way it is. Perhaps it's the best way.
So first in the field with a
lighted athletic grounds is the ten
mis- group, a loosely knit association
of tennis players themselves. Three
years ago weeds, a dilapidated
backstop fence, courts deplete Of
clay faced out to Corners and the
Country Club. That first year the
gang got one court in shape. And
then in another year threw off all
vestiges of ruin and disorder, light
ed the court, built the second one,
threw up new, attractive backstops.
:. Now in three years time set
up worth many more dollars than
it ever cost and representing as
playable courts as this city has ever
seen, the setup is worrying those
who have the responsibility. !.
Now maintenance becomes a bur-
densome item, funds do not accum-
ulate quickly, always there are
those who play but don't want to
pay. Work has all been done graf
is on the courts, there has been no
WPA help. And let me say will
fully here and now that the fine set
up at the Country Club Courts is
due entirely to the work of one
man, himself interested in seeing a
setup like that go. To no one else
can orchids go for the fine courts,
the embellishments they flount.
While he isn't seeking publicity
from this corner, Tony Schoenhoff
has credit due him for his fine
work. And I'm going to give it to
him. 49,.
Right now those interested are
considering several methods of dis