The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-08-18
Sport
Wags
BY Chuck Rattle

The Goose and the Golden Egg
Come this fall time and the goose,
old waddling football, will amble
his way through the crisp fall haze
all the way from the golf course
and finally come to roost, home at
last, at the Fair Grounds. He hasn't
been exactly happy lately. Roost-
ing In q strange chicken coop while
his own coy nest was under re-
pair didn't set well with him. He
contracted all sorts Of rare diseases
unheard Of in the annals Of foot
ball In this city. But now he's
coming along fine. While your
correspondent has used the male
gender In this cock-eyed fantasy,
it's no joke that he's the same goose
that is expected to lay the golden
egg. No foolin'-well, some kind of
an egg anyway. Perhaps we'll just
call 1t a nest egg. !. Now the field
at the Fair Grounds is ready to go,
and the field will be lighted for
the football season this year-we
nope.
The propagation we refer to
above has to do with funds. It's a
well-known fact that afternoon
football does not pay its own way.
Most cannot leave their work to see
the games, crowds have barely met
costs. I'm not sure they have on
reflection. Football playing and its
equipment is by necessity costly
sport. IF 1t does not pay its own
way, 1t is logical to assume that
either some other sport or some
other fund is meeting the obliga-
ton It shirks. :. It's not q prob
lem so much with the schoolboard
of continuing a money making
scheme out Of this football field as
it is yielding to trend that can't
be downtrodden. It had to come
that's all. The pressure is for light
ed football; and the pressure Is
bringing it about. Besides all this
mercenary chatter and the angle of
filthy lucre Ito think it should
break in football, tsk, tsk) there is
something about lighted fields that
gets you. There's glamour about
playing under the lights, in the crisp
air Of autumn, with the steam ris-
ing from the players in white
clouds. 49,.
A new turn of affairs in the
angle is that the school board
Thursday evening voted on the
wattage for the field. 10000
watts will glare down on you
huddled fans this fall I'm blaze
Of light. It's interesting to note
a set-up in the lighting equip
ment designed now. This year
Glenwood and Alexandria are
stepping their wattage, we're in
formed, from $4,000 to 10000.
One or two towns I'm the state
are blowing the works up to 10
and $4,000. All of which means
that the experts have agreed
that too little light Is not ade-
quately meeting the need -.
So let there be light. -.
Killed-Life and death Of WPA
project you might call this tale.
Some time ago on application the
school was granted WPA project
to erect some tennis courts. I
should say that unofficial approval
was given the plan. Ideas cropped
Ap as to where to put them. The
Fairgrounds and the park had the
ayes. If anyone wants this corners
suggestion, the Park is the place for
them. That could be made one Of
the finest recreational centers in
this part Of the state with the adj
dition off a few items. Tennis is
one of them. . Well, but why
blow it all up, now the notification
is: no WPA-you've got PWA. :.
And so how do you expect anyone
to keep things straight. -.
Was my face crim-scar-red-
Heavens, it was rilly, old thing,
all c0lOrs. There I stood with
my mouth gaping to my shirt
'front.', Wn1lc Sports IAN ucluAc
Mrs. A. F. Moynihan politely
inquired, Flows the fight?"
And what was this sports writ
er's" reply? It was. You guess
ed 1t. "What fight?" I limo
Gently asked. And the outlaws
were loud and long. From
this day forward I shall have
naught but sports items on the
tip of this tongue of mine. -.
Oh yes, the Lewis fight was
postponed, Mrs. Moynihan. =.
No notwithstanding to Con-
CHEESEMAN'S Harold Knutson's oracle,
up Wadena way, the Pioneer Journ-
al, Ed Shave, the headman with the
tourist bureau, is not too, too, pleas
ed with the nonresident population
in Minnesota this year. :. And &C
cording to the article he hints that
the 81 nonresident license is just