The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
Thursday, February 16, 1889
Sport
Ways
BY Chuck Rattle

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District Jitterbug-
Boomerang Setup-
Oggiing COnley-
Skeleton Is Pressure
Fox I'm Fashion Parade
Tales Of Lament
Let's peek inside for just a nom
emit. Someone seems to have lef
the lid ajar on the dope bucket
(. Melrose is moving up as dis
trict contender faster than Utter
bug dancing to Benny Goodman
Glenwood Is q sinister shadow
On the district horizon. It's owl
floor coupled with an offensive clul
may see them through. Ale1
Ii best on defense, and is moving
up. Usual troubles harangu,
Long Prairie. Blake and Simon
SON have been dismissed from tn,
squad, I know not for what reason
nor for how long. Osakis place
can't be taken too seriously; theil
most shattering victories have beer
On their own floor. And Saul
Centre-well, the defenders are OF
he well known spot! =.
Well, there's subtle reasoning
behind the sub district ball for
everyone movement; but not too
subtle. Last spring the smaller
schools banded together against
the four Frankensteins of the
district, and cried unto them
selves, "LoOk here, we're getting
the short end Of this deal Let's
make them play, too" And
SO 1t came to pass. They rea-
sOned, I imagine. that should
the larger schools be embroil-
ed In a sub district scrap among
themselves; that would leave
the thing open for some of the
smaller ones. But it's q
boomerang. In the first
place you can see that with
MelrOse and Sank Centre In the
same sub, It is the only chance
for two of the bigger schools to
knock each other of. Glen
wood and Alex are nicely sep
arated and 50 is Long Prairie.
That virtually amounts to the
old ceding system; the utter
Tor conclusion being that con-
sistently these four or five will
knock Off the lesser rivals. ..
Else why separate them. Oh
yes, geographically. ..
If Sank Centre and Melrose NEE
n the first round Of the sub-dis
.rict; it will not only be a bloody
affair-but Sank Centre is just a.
likely to go home talking to them
selves. =. BUT I don't expect the
,wo to be paired in the first round
for reasons Of me own.
I'm afraid that what is going
to result from these sub-dis-
tricts that the smaller schools,
over q period of time, will lose
even the district honors. %.
Under the old setup the best Of
tho smaller schools reached the
district burt now with the lar
ger groups In the same COM
petition, how often will It hap
pen. Only in so far that num-
erically they need eight teams
for district meet.
Suppose, for instance, that Swan
lille has had good enough season
% rate her as a top team in 9
sort Of way. That is
hat she is able to handle Upsals
md others of that calibre. Hel
chances Of reaching the district
With both Sank Centre and Melrost
the ring ready to bump hel
,ff-are a bit more remote. She
stands to lose sub-district honors
md a chance to get into the dis
riot. Well, I don't care to pose
Is any Uncle Charley ready to bt
he paternal old man who lays g
hand on the shoulders
# these smaller schools, and says
Csk, tsk, boys, you've made a mis-
AXE of judgement. -.
But I do feel that the small
schools haven't found the "jus-
tice" they hoped to see In this
present setup. But time will
tell. Assume that some year
just as an outside chance but
remember it can happen-Glen-
wood, Alexandria, Long Prairie,
Sank Centre, should be dumped
from the district race before it
begins. Whatta you think
will happen? Well, for money
reasons this will never happen
SO rest easily. -.
Coaches are watching in this dis
riot the antics Of one-George
Jonkey, play director for Saul
Centres club and his partner al
he guard slot, Don Kringen. Fol
'bvious reasons. Conkey is going
O rate high as an outstanding
player Of the tourney this year
giving him too much build.
Up. Kringen defensively rates high
Pangburn will be watched fol
coring; Ethun for his drive; and
forwards in the Other
lot, Jackson, Deziel, Larson, are
,ecklers on the short shots in the
ar front floor play. All OF
which spells a nicely balanced bal
Tub. A balanced ball club can 60
But this oggling Of coaches