Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-03-02

of eight that will compete in the state
tournament in st. Paul late this
month.
They do not see any few teams that
stand clearly above other teams in
their regions, but find balanced
strength everywhere.
Measuring strength by regions the
dope runs something like this &C
cording to the close calculators: Re-
gions and in the upper half of
the tournament draw and region
in the lower half seem likely to send
contending teams with slightly bet
ter than normal chances to send their
representatives to the finals.
This is the way the tournament is
drawn: Region 6 VS.. region 3; re-
gion VS.. region S; region 2 VS.. re-
gion l; region VS.. region 8.
In this lineup region 8 is the cham
pionship region inasmuch as it sent
Thief River Falls through to the title
last year.
Thief River is strong again. If it
comes back to the tournament region
8 will be handsomely represented.
If another team beats Thief River
in the region tournament, it will
indicate even greater strength in that
sector
At the same time region made
up of st. Paul and neighboring teams
seems to be little below grade this
year so that the region 8 boys should
have easy going in the first round.
Just as a long guess it seems that
the winner of the VS.. 8 game in
the lower bracket and the VS..
game in the upper bracket may meet
in the finals.
But "guess" is the right word to
use. You really can't foretell this far
in advance where the real strength
will lie. More often than not the
pre-tournament favorite fails and the
winner is some team that was not
highly regarded.
A Real Fight.
There is more than usual likelihood
of a good fight when Bill Miske and
Bill Gillespie meet in the Minneapo-
lis auditorium March 6. Here are
two fine young men. They are con-
siderably above the average of their
profession in intelligence, ambition
and honesty.
Miske is the son of a grand old
fighting father who knew he was
dying of Bright's disease when he
signed to meet the killer, Jack Demp-
sey, but went through with the fight
in order to make stake for his fam
lily before he died There is much
of the father in his outstanding SON
really likeable, decent and courage
Gus kid.
Gillespie is a farm boy from north
ern Wisconsin with a bright smile, a
nimble mind, grand personality and
a magnificent fighting heart.
When they fought before Miske
seemed about to win by knockout
in the second round, but Gillespie's
great courage and stamina asserted
itself and he came back well enough
to take close decision. Opinion was
about evenly divided as to whether
the decision was correct or not.
Now these same two are going to
try to settle it in a 10-round fight.
They are not enemies. In fact each
boy likes the other very much.
But that doesn't mean it won't be
great fight. The best fights are al
ways those in which opponents start
without anger but with the deter
mination to settle down to the cold
blooded business of winning because
he knows if he doesn't win the other
fellow will.
There have been more highly
skilled fighters in Minneapolis-but
l doubt there has been a fight in
years that will be so vicious and close
and exciting as this one is going to be-