The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-09

has the necessary height, from
which scoring should naturally
accrue. But he just hasn't
come. =. His stages Of develop
ment have been easy-but not
icably progressive. I think
we can reasonably pat Harold
Rasmussen on the back and say
he had much to do with Jim's
arrival. A mean man-in-the-
hole player himself, Rasmus-
sen has been schooling him
while TOftness was working
with the guards and forward.
>. And between the two they
have q ball club.
In fact right now Sank Centre
is better team that it was when
it won the district tournament last
year. The lads have been miss
ing Walker all year; but the same
lads, Kringen, Pangburn and others
have been themselves developing so
that each is not the weak link he
was last tournament time. If
you follow me. think that in
jackson, Larson, Deziel, Brown,
Hildebrand, there is reserve
strength that tops last years quo
ia. And an addition in Denny
Ethun gives this ball club some
real drive.
I'd say the next three games
that is including Glenwood-
would tell the tale of their pro-
gress. You remember GlenwoOd
was added to victory and Alex
andria. In fact of nine dis
trict teams, Osalds stands alone
as having defeated the locals.
A nice record. II I wanted to
I could explain that away with
the old too small floor" adage.
>. But I'll do IL this way.
believe Toftness sacrificed the
boys ON the altar Of Osahis to
be more ready to meet Alex. -.
It's this way. Alex plays zone.
Sank Centre played zone against
Osakis for the first half on even
that small court. Abandoning it
they outplayed Osakis in the final
frames, but couldn't catch. But
when Alex came here with that
zone, they knew how to tear 1t
apart. And they did it in the last
half. :. Maybe that's going long
way around. -.
Hmm, I see where the scribes
played the seconds and lost
IL to 4 decision. My chums and
colleagues did not do SO well.
II seems I did not play.
I'll bet those guys think I'm too
old and might break of at the
knees. You know there is no
moro scribe-attended club in
this section of the state than
these Toftness cagers.
Freshmen and scribes fairly
fawn all over this Toftness per-
son. In fact it is whispered to
me that he has q scribe check
ing the number of times
Ethun's feet go up and down
as against Pangburn's. -. And
then another to figure out the
relative m. p. h. Now 1
don't believe such nonsense;
still it's q rumOr. -.
And tales of poetic justice. From
the Park Region Echo crystal gaz-
er, Darby Hicks, Jr, we get talk
of poetic justice. :. Perhaps I am
a bit dense. But does poetic justice
mean justice for some one else or
just whom? -. That has always
bothered me. But no matter.
Says Darby Hicks, Jr., who is real
ly none other than Wilfred Hetzel
when you remove the false whisk-
ers, that
Right now Sank Centre looks
best but.
Sank Centre looks best but-al-
ways but. And verify 1t may
be different a month from now.
Sank Centre, he pointed out, cop
ped district honors last year when
it was about seventh best in the
league. ut would be only poetic
justice II they had the best team
this year but didn't even reach the
district meet" All, get it.
Poetic justice is just the wishful
thinking Of the writer. ;. Because
listen to this. -.
He says, ''This Is far from
being an impossible occurrence
since the Main Streeters must
get by Melrose In the sub-dis-
trict." And right there Is
your but" And right there
you can tell Hetxel wrote 1t.
Yet he's right; for MelrOse Is
exactly the 'ff' that Toftness
himself doesn't like. Mel
rose Is the one stumbling block
from even reaching the district
race. And I hope you guys
won't forget IL. -.
Perhaps Hetzel sees the crystal
more clearly than does this way
ward one. He says there are only
four serious contenders in this dis