The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-03-09
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BY Chuck Rattle

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BY Chuck Rattle
Hysteric Rivalry
So Let's Makeup
A Team Is Born
Sweethearts Of Tourney
Idiots Delight
Pr0gnOsticatOr Pangburn-
It's Korf and Dempsey
So basketball Is a game in which
Melrose and Sank Centre have a
hysteric rivalry. =.
The Indians had a custom. It
was a ceremonious affair in which
not a word was uttered for long
intervals. In these intervals the
venerable heads of the tribe, sat
and smoked. They smoked a pipe.
After they had smoked the
pipe, it was time to talk. And
when they had talked they buried
their hatchets. Sometimes in
each others necks. But that's the
other side of the case. They
buried them in a log or the earth,
for it is highly logical reasoning
that a Ratchet buried can do little
little bodily harm.
So what? So simply that
MelrOse and Sank Centre
schools should smoke a pipe and
then bury the hatchet. Instead
of in the back of the neck; put
it in the ground. This week
the MelrOse Beacon's Mr.. Carl
son offered the significant state
ment that with competent
heads in both schools athletic
relations should be resumed.
He pointed out both schools
have such men. I'll swing
in personally with him and seek
to bring a truce.
After the game Thursday eve
ing, Melrose players Godfrey, Koe-
chler and Wagner-those I recog-
nized-came into the Sank Centre
dressing room and offered the glad
hand to the boys. Said Godfrey,
who is sweet little player, even
under the thumb of defensive
minded Kringen, you've got a
swell team, fellas. I hope you win
the district" I claim that takes
the well-known CUTS. 1t was fine
craftsmanship and genuinely done.
It reflects a feeling in the student
body; and an attitude on both
Main Streets.
Competition as tough as Mel
rose usually affords shouldn't
go wanting for games from
Sank Centre. This corner
is happy to second Mr.. CarlsOn's
motion.
Twelve years ago in Boyd, Min
nesota, substitute, by name Bal
saas, went into the final game of
the district meet. A third string
sub, he took the ball in mid court.
Only a few seconds to go, the score
tied, he searched for someone to
pass to. He looked at one boy
down the court; he was covered.
So he shot, and dumped a long one
to win the game. !. 1. Well, sir, now
he's coach at Upsala, is doing a
fine job. The boy he looked
for down the floor was Toftness
F.. Friday night the teams of these
men battled and lofty was the
winnah. Small world.
On the night of December 8,
1888 Sank Centre played Ben
son. Sank Centre lost the
game; but found it's team. 1t
was the most potent factor in
forming of the present club. :.
In the last four minutes of the
game, TOftness threw COnkey
into the ball game at the guard
post. Larson shifted to for
ward. So impressed was j. N.
that Conl1ey was guard timber
that he began to build his new
team around that lineup.
That was the birth; they're at
maturity now. -.
Few expected Sank Centres Gag.
ers to hold such hand over Mel
rose. But finely general led cam
paign reached the height of excel
lent coaching when the boys per.
formed just as it was planned. MOI
was it that Melrose was overrated
too much. They were dangerous
every bit of the way. In the sec
ond quarter when the lads forgot
to work on rebounds, they found
out the danger. :. But the locals
had them outclassed in every de
partment to turn in the finest per
Torrance of the year. All OF
which adds up to the fact that Saul
Centre is going to be presumed tc
the last in the district meet.
Sweethearts of the sub-dis-
trict were those Upsala boys.
Young, q bit underdevOlp-
ed, they won their way to the
district with a classy game
against Swanville, battled
against tremendous height odds.
won their way into the hearts
of the spectators. $. Each
tourney finds one like that. 1t
isn't sympathy or coincidence to
them; but their very nature
provOkes the old American
sportsmanship code of liking