The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-08-03
Sport
Ways
PAGE SIX
BY Chuck Rattle

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New Coach, Title Defenders
High Price of Duck
Hunting Talk in the Air
City Champs Named
Big Night Tonight
Picnic, Band Concerts
Swimmers "On Their Own
WPA Leaders To Continue
Into the coaching shoes out of
which J. N. Toftness stepped in
the local basketball picture now
strides 27-year-old Ray Schwartz.
Schwartz comes here from Spring
Grove where he handled compre-
hensive sports program. =. Letter
man from jamestown North Da-
kota) College in football, basketball
and track, he coached in Bowman
and GAINESVILLE before his acces-
sion to the Spring Grove and most
recently to the Sank Centre men
torships. ). His teams won con-
ference titles in football and track
in 1888, and basketball in 1885. :.
Though his team at Spring Grove
didn't win conference titles, it was
en- straight games. His superin-
endent said of him, He gave us
winning teams" :.
Now though this is August and
warm, and seemingly removed from
the wintertime capers of basketball,
it is not too far away to know that
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acy in the Sank Centre position.
One that is liable to bite him in
the neck-or any other coach that
comes. Twice district title winner,
Sank Centre faced serious losses in
a really smooth squad by gradua-
ton. Her first title cop came after
thirteen years and there are plenty
just as soon see it leave our city
for another thirteen years. Which
is well and good and as it should
be. It's really too hot for me
to diagnose the problem to all it's
administrations today, but that
gives you a rough idea. But there
is this much to be reckoned with
comes to the coach trained far sup
erior than at any other time in the
history of the school. There are
a few boys back on the squad with
some experience. And there is a
gang of Junior high boys moving
up who have plenty on the ball in
my estimation. And the COM
basketball here at that. With
a new gym in which to battle for
Alma Mater the lads oughta turn
in a good show. But this is so
early. u.
Good heavens. Seems a long
way to hunting season, but If
you think it isn't in the air YOU
haven't been around. Be
sides a hunter is a guy who
taeks his gun out in the blind
five days of the year, takes it
out of his case $50. And
hunting talk, blow We winds hot
or blow We winds cold, never
dies. It's effervescent as a bub-
bling fountain. What we're
getting at is that already dozens
of lakes and duck passes are
posted against hunting. One
estimated that southwest of
here out of 10 lakes have
been leased and posted against
trespassers. This duck pass
leasing has gotten to be big
business.
The price of duck per pound of
ten approaches quite terrifying
proportions. One can scarcely
blame the farmer. His chances
for life and limb are something in
the hunting season. Every third
man you meet along the country
lanes is toting a fowling piece.
The chances for the farmer of get
ting the seat of his pants blasted
out are a very real force in his
autumn routine. The influx OF
hunters in the recent years has far
superseded the numbers of real
sportsmen. Any guy old enough
to carry gun goes hunting these
days. And so the day of leased
passes and sold out lakes has come
into play. And that it runs into
money is in the rumor that not SO
far away from here a party paid
175 cool smackers for the autumn
rights to certain lake. That'll
buy nice piece of duck flesh.
Down in the Park, where the