The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01

OpOll ~
Wags- &
BY Chuck Rattle
Forgotten Men-NOt For Long
Curtains For Junior High Lads
OGara-Thielen, Motorwise-
The Morning Mail
Master Conner Turns Manager
Kleber To Turn Pro
Forgotten men in the school ath-
1etic world are the Junior high boys
the boys who are moving up into
the preferred positions. Therell be
compensation when they do move
up, but right now in that embryo
process they are left out of the ath-
letic picture, overshadowed by the
efforts of the older boys. Last
week some Of these lads played
their last bit of Junior high ath-
letics, under the tutelage of Harold
Rasmussen. He's done a grand job
with these kids; they'll eat out of
his hand. Now they're moving
into the competitive bracket of sem
ior athletics. And the problem of
Sank Centres status among the
schools of the section rest largely
with them in the next two or three
years. =.
Last week they wound up a
Eh - - 10 Han
a two game series with Alex
andria. Alex took the first
one 16 to IA and the locals
evened things up with a s to 2
victory only last week. In
that first game SlOcum, KEEL
dahl, Rosedahl and Veeder got
triples from the Alex pitcher.
Eberhart got a double. And the
batting averages of those lads
in that game reads like the day
dreams of q Yankee manager.
But probably most unique about
this team was its pint-sized bat
terry. There's Harry Rosedahl,
pitcher, and Don Mooney, catcher.
Pile one on top of the other and
you have a good-sized man. But
alone they do things that equal
what many bigger guys can't &C.
complish. :. . RosedahI, for a young
ster, has quite a dangerous portion
of control. He has an out curve,
a slight in. He gets caught only
one place. That's his speed offer
ing. If he gets the count on him
and has to lay it in the middle,
his speed isn't good enough.
Then take Mooney. Look at him,
you'd think the ball would throw
him to at least second base. But
against Alex last week he caught
two trying to steal second. His
whip is clean and straight, and far
enough too. -.
But baseball isn't the only
thing. In football they tied
with Alex 6 and 6. They lost
a heart breaker, that nearly
finished of Coach Red Rasmus-
sen, to Little Falls. In the last
twenty seconds, a pass, a pray
er, and the Falls boys had scor-
ed. Basketball too is their
meat. They played IL or Is
game schedule, and wallOped
each team they played at least
once. They broke better than
even, and started the develop
ment of some pretty hefty stars.
I give you all this because
these are the boys who will
move up to attempt for the
places vacated by those athletic
seniors this year. Right now
they seem to have the stuff. But
there's quite a stepup from Jun
Tor to Senior athletics, and the
question is: Can they make 1t?
Their coach believes SO; SO do
1. Their competitive skill is q
long factor in their being good
athletics. They know the rules
Of the sportsman.
If this piece has been laid on too
thick for them to take it and the
head begins to swell as result,
then-there is only this conclusion.
They aren't the competitors,
we thought. But I don't think
that will happen.
Just for fun I want to give you
the batting averages these boys
clicked off in that first game with
Alex. Cotton .667; Slocum .667;
Kohl 200; Rattle 900; Simmer 900
Zone inning); Mooney 900; Rose
dahl $50; Keldahl 400; Eberhart
1888; Veeder .667. And besides
that they got fourteen walks. .
There are others who played in
these baseball offerings including:
Kurrell, Konop, Rowland, Verlin
Dickson, Richard BotZ, Donald
Emblom, Odie Fish, and Anthony
Wiener. ;. And they're okay.
And then for comparison, those
from the last game, Bud Veeder
1000; Bob Rattle 1888; Doug Kohl
500; John Cotton 1888; Verlin Dicki-
son 900; Allan Eberhardt 500;
Danny Mooney $50, and Harry Rose
You can count on Frank (tire
Count O'Gara and Hank Thiel-
en- to bob up with a fishin'
story. The opening day, II we
may retrace, the two went out
with Hanks motor. They got
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