The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-14

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merly seeded, are split into -four
sub-districts is in itself ADMIS-
SION that they are generally re-
garded as able to weather the
storm. Else why all the care to
place them automatically in separ-
ate brackets? Even back in the
days when the district was one unit
and a conglommerate scramble fer
the crown, Alex and Glenwood were
winners most often. To Offset these
four being eliminated by each 9TH
er, and thereby cutting down the
house attendance, the seeding is
sued was invoked. Now they have
changed little except to require
these teams tc, play an extra game
or two, but the split Of the four in
to separate brackets in which they
cannot eliminate each other admits
they are the drawing card. The on
ly new element thrown into the
thing is the fact there is now the
danger that the four may not reach
the district at all, but it Is rather
a remote possibility. 1t will not hap
pen in all four brackets. That is
almost certain. So in the end what
difference is there?
Now the same effect could have
been achieved so much more SIM
ply. All that would have been re-
ouired is for the towns to override
the seeding clause thereby compel
ling the four schools to play sub
district ball. BUT the possibility
that the four playing each other,
or the possibility that two would
meet in the same affair, would like
ly eliminate some Of them. That
is not good box office. Then, too,
several of these towns are building
new gyms and the home folks must
be shown they can pay their way.
So they have four sub-districts, IN
stead of two, so they can he passed
around farther. Which is good bus
mess, but a lot of red tape.
Under the new setup, q team
eliminated i'm the last round of
the sub-district, may go on TO
win the sub district. And that
happened this year when Farm
ingt0n went on to do that -Four
winners of the sub-districts will
go TO the district, and also the
four teams they defeated In the
final round. Now matching will
so be arranged that winner OF
No. 1, suppose, will not meet
the team it has just defeated In
No. 1. And so on. The whole
trouble is the system presuppos-
es too much; and the whole
thing Is interviewer with lot
Of fol de rol that doesn't amount
to a twitch in q bucket.
I am not openly defending the
seeding clause; that's not the issue
involved. The whole thing Is that
the new system does not correct
what the schools went out after,
nor does it simplify anything. Rath-
err it leaves things much as they
are, presupposes much more than
the other plan, and complexities
things no end.
What to do? Coach Toftness is
in a other ever his basketball team.
In an effort to taper them off and
get them sick and tired Of the
game, he dished them out three
weeks of tough practices following
the regional meet. So what hap
pened? This. The boys won't taper
off and they won't get stale. In the
last practice the gang rolled up Sc
points against the second team. To
roll up SO points against even no
competition-and the seconds dc
afford plenty-means that a team is
making buckets and they are driv-
ing in. That boy Conkey has turn
ed out to be a sweetheart and
thrives on hard work as does Pang-
burn. In two practices between the
two of them they rolled up 100
points. Which is a bit Of all right.
And ca IN he'd