The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

Patient Is Seeker
Solution Perhaps
Mr.. Broom Graues Higher
Spectacular Finish No Co
Osalxis Game Cancelled
1t seems I cannot open my mouth
to predict or say anything without
getting a flock of old shoes cram
med in my opened oral cavity. If
not my own then somebody else's.
Last week / made the state
ment that 1 did not believe Sank
Centre and Melrose would meet in
the first round. :. You can see how
far missed it. And yet that may
not be the case. For first we must
play Grey Eagle. 49,.
-
Now It seems further that
some have resented my remarks
about the new ub-district set
up, and have construed them to
be opinions of the local school
heaas. Let me say here and
now this column Is not the
voice of the school, but my own
humble opinings. :. 1t may in
terest some to know that took
q slap at the sub-district setup
the very next week it was in
augurated after the meeting
last spring. And for some
reasons.
In the first place can't see that
it cures any of the ills of the pre-
ceding set. There were ills in the
fact that the four large schools
were assured automatic arrival at
the district meeting while other
smaller rivals had to sweat their
way through sub-district play. 4. :.
It's not at all unusual that the
smaller schools should rise up in
arms and crack down such a
monster.
But there are so many more evils,
just as discriminatory planned, in
this present setup that personally I
can't see any betterment. :. While
Sank Centre and Melrose happen
to have the best teams in this sub
district this year, both are not go
ing to the district meet. ;. That's
a little bit silly, isn't it. F.. On top
of that Sank Centre, with 8 games
won out of II district starts, must
first qualify for sub-district play by
meeting Grey Eagle. :. Essential
ly then Grey Eagle has been kick
ed down the coal shute, and not
actually granted place in the sub
district. i. It's been called a game
in the sub-meetings, but it amounts
to qualifying round because there
are five teams competing. :. I'm
der the present setup there could
be no other way. -.
80
There is this evil too. That
is II you want to look at this
from an entirely detached point
Of view, with an eye to. the dis
trict tournament as the ulti-
mate goal. Sank Centre and
MelrOse last year provided the
heat of the tourney. This year
they promise to do the same.
But before the district even
starts one of the classiest bat
ties is out of the way. Fur
thermOre q foremost contender
Is eliminated. Now mind you
Sank Centre and MelrOse aren't
always going to hold such spots
of Importance. But with ID
schools in the district. this other
does not appear to be an isOlat-
ed case. As indeed 1t is not,
for rumblings from other dis
tricts pour in that just about
parallel the local cases. -.
Now I've talked plenty against
this setup. I've a solution, too.
Simply this. Assuming that for
the best interests of the district,
it is imperative to have the best
eight teams represent since in reg
ional play district % should stack
high, we go ahead with this sugges-
ton. Make it necessary that
all teams play a certain number of
district games in the schedule. Let
the percentages of the season guide
the entrants to the district. So that
the top eight teams will enter the
district, and over the length of the
season, with it's ups and downs, 1t
seems a pretty fair barometer that
the best teams will enter. :. Well,
perhaps there are faults in that but
they seem less glazing than in
either of the two setups we've en-
joyed in recent years.
Now we'll leave that hot pO-
tato just lay right where 1t is.
But inside dope gives us the
conclusion that the lid is going
clear of the thing this year.
Protests, squabbles and the like
have paced the course of the
entire drawing slate and
frankly it isn't encouraging. -.
Only In this one point is there
light: that perhaps this year
will be the showdown on the
thing and achieve a really en-
couraging setup. -.
A thumbnail sketch of what takes
place in this sub-district is this. :. !
Sank Centre and Grey Eagle must
earn their place in the sub-district