The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-02
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Sports at the school have
slipped into that period when
you don't know whether the
boys are sleeping or just watt
ing. Il. Spring football sched-
uled for this year will make it
appearance shortly when equip
ment arrives. Track is under
way, but perfectly abOminatab-
lie weather has chased some Of
the fun out of this sport.
With nothing new coming up,
two track meets are scheduled.
1t was announced this week that
the West Central Conference meet
to be held at Montevideo has bow
ed out on the Saturday, May 4th.
date. It's scheduled for next
Monday, May 9Th, now. 4. The
other meet is at Alexandria and
it's the district % competition on
May 18th. Track meets cut
little figure in high school sports.
Like high school baseball it runs
into the dictates of the weather
usually bad) and into the arms
of such a short season at such
busy time for students that it is
little more than recreation. SO
far as filling the bill as a minor
sport, it hardly qualities. >. 1t
gives outlet to some who, having
little in other sports, find their
haven in track. a.. Most often it's
the athletes from the other bracket
that compete, however. It's
good sport if Minnesota springs
would become what the poets like
to say about them. -.
This bowling business has
taken greater hold on the
American public in the last two
years than any other amateur
sport in the country, it appears.
Two years ago people in this
hamlet knew that bowling
ball was round; they had read
of ten pins in Rip Van Wrinkle.
=. But If they wanted to see
it they had to go either to Mel
rose or st. Cloud or farther be-
yond. Few of them cared
to. In the short span of
a single year the game has cap,
tivated more people than the
Spanish Armada ever did. =.
The growth has been mushroom
like. But proponents of the sport
and those who have watched sport
ing trends say it isn't another min
iature golf furry. :. Already it's
outlasted that faddish sport. :.
Bowling isn't faddish. 1t has a
particular lure to those who play
it that keeps them coming. There1l
finally come an end to the expan-
sion, but the game, they say, will
last. What's been done in this
section has been duplicated dozens
of times in other sports, we're told.
st. Cloud added $4,000 worth
of alleys to become the bowlers'
capital of this region. Alex is
lacking four more lanes to it's al
ready fine facilities. Rumors
that Osakis will get them come in.
Sank Centre bowed in with four
alleys, and all up and down the
line the swing is to bowling.
As in every other sport the
competitive angle asserts itself
and is promoting factor.
Formation of leagues have
stimulated play to waiting-in-
line capacity. Last week
the North American Ladies
team finished a league sched-
uled for this year will make its
in October! Two leagues, be-
gun late here, will finish up in
another week or two.
Other sports too have found that
individual play has it's day and
dies. Golf for instance. The
tournament play in golf has al
ways been the strong factor. Golf
is strong too because it can be
played single-handed. It's YER
satile then, and it seems those are
the sports that survice to the great
This year, faced
with the problem of gaining new
members and keeping the oldsters
at the game excited about it as
kids, the Country Club has an
nounced a program of tourney play
designed to meet the needs of every
whim. Reintroduction of the
old tin cup tourney so popular on
nights two years ago is
planned. Team tournaments, with
a cup in the offing, after ten weeks