The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-28
Thursday, September %, 1889
Sport
Ways
BY Chuck Rattle

Tournament Comes Back
Kleber-G Conner Beaconlights-
s. G. Hits Cycle
Harvey Plays All Angles
Prospects In Defeat
Dry, Ducks Duck Out
For years Sank Centre had beer
the accepted seat of the district 2.
basketball tournament. She haG
the largest gym, the most adequate
ly located. For years it amply
with some rearranging each season
housed the tournament crowds
Then suddenly basketball became
a bigger drawing card than evel
and the biggest gym in the district
had difficulty holding the crowds
who came. +. Then in 1880 AleXan
dria started construction of a new
gymnasium with hundreds more
seats, eyed the tournament.
In 1881 the affair, now gone up
town in a big way that marked
it one of the sections foremost en-
tertainment events, was given tt
AlSAdlluIld'
In 1880 Sank Centre had 1t;
quietly in 1881 she didn't. Now
you see it, now you don't.
And that business started some
thing. 1t started campaign
among schools for bigger and
better gymnasiums. 1t wasn't
Alex necessarily who started
the ball rolling. Every district
in the state felt the pressing
need as the tournament in
March became a real venture.
-. For nine years now schools
have continuously Wed for the
tournament seat. A few years
ago GlenwOod joined in the hap
Ply thrOng and an alternating
policy was pursued in this dis
trict between rivals GlenwOOd
and Alexandria. This year Mel
rose and Sank Centre jumped
into the swim. While larger
schools, with more expensive
budgets, expanded to take over
district affairs; smaller places
like Swanville capitalized by
getting gyms adequate to hold
sub-district preliminaries.
And so everybody joins in the
fun; everybody builds gymnas-
Oddly this year in the thing i.
not so much that Sank Centre wa!
awarded the March tournament a.
a meeting last Thursday, which w
to now I have adroitly failed tt
mention. But rather it i:
strangely historical, I believe, tina
Sank Centre gets the tournament
before-its gym is even built.
Yves Kohl becomes the distric
chairman of the schoolmen and the
tournament after nine years comes
back to it's old roosting place.
Odd too is the fact that Sank Cen
ire while she had it here was win
ner only once-in 1925. And thi:
year, with a Homecoming for tn,
tourney, is defending champs-ant
in a sweet spot.
k*&
Athletically MelrOse, who
tracing back to 1880 incidentally
won that last district tOurna-
ment here, and Sank Centre
have been able to cook UP a
pretty keen rivalry over the
years. But this year things
are ganging UP to bring the
two communities closer tOgeth-
er than ever. And leading as
emissaries of goodwill, is a
blonde young gladiator, by
name of Kleber; and his 10
year-Old manager, who answers
to Darwin Conner. Now
Kleber is MelrOse' contribution,
and he is a boy who likes the
going best when the thumbs are
turned down. And Sank
Centres addition to the duo is
Of course Conner, who at 10
stacks at present as the young
est boxing manager In the Twin
Cities. And the Lad has head
on him too. Kleber, the
Blonde Thunderbolt," who
may not be exactly a white
hope, turned pro this year and
is at the very least a very hard
hitting young gentleman. He
recently won two fights on the
west COast bv Oue-rOyInd knock