The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-01-25
Sank Centre
Heart
Melrose Won Tuesday
Evening By Score
Of 81 to 20
ALEX HERE NEXT
Were Taken At
Long Prairie By
Score of % to 81
Melrose 81; Sank Centre 20

Melrose 81; Sank Centre 20
They sang a swan song TO the
old Junior high gymnasium-tha
had run it's course for more than
twenty years-before SRO house
that rocked the rafters Tuesday
evening as Sank Centre failed in
it's fifth attempt to grab off a dis
trict % game. And the song to
Sank Centre fans was bittersweet.
It was a fitting end of bas-
ketban years to the old gym
with a crowd that topped the
record Osahs house and rep
resented some 4O0-odd madly
clamoring spectators from both
Sank Centre and Melrose. It
was fitting in every depart
ment for home folks except
MelrOse won the marginal con-
test FL to 20.
Now Sank Centre, set to a clean
slate, expects to open the new gym
next Tuesday against Alexandria.
In that game they hope to reap
their first district ball game in a
season that hasn't had a dull NOM
ent but the Sank Centre drouth of
wins is a mounting column.
It was Melrose' guard Wagner,
a veteran, who was the steadying
cog in that smooth machine. He
engineered play after play to send
his fleet forwards into scoring posi-
ton Just outside the foul line. He
himself grabbed off one long shot.
a swisher that tumbled in neatly,
and he drove for the only Melrose
bucket right under the nose Of
Sank Centres Stan Nelson.
Melrose timed its whole style
around a deliberate type of play
that reached a smashing drive at
the point when one of the forwards
would stop just outside the foul
line and skim one in. Sieben lead
all the rest with high Of eight
points, but every man on the Mel
rose team collected at least one
bucket.
In that ball game Melrose held
the whip hand all the way. Sym
led in scoring effort by a Sank
Centre defensive that was nearly
waterproof, Melrose got in for
enough shots in the early quarter
to put the locals in a hole.
When usual scoring ace Stan Mel
son failed to get in for his usual
tickets tothe bucket, it was Cap
tain Hildebrand who paved the way
to keep Sank Centre in the race.
With more drive than a hammer
blow, Jack scooted in under that
basket for high total of 10 points.
In the second frame it was his
driving punches at the scoring ma
chine that put Sank Centre back
in the running after Melrase had
run to a II to lead. BY half time
he had scored enough in three buc-
kets to tie.
But Stan Nelson wasn't out Of
the scoring frame. Out so far as
his usual precedence is concerned,
Stan dumped four buckets in the
game to take eight points.
One Of the cleanest ball games
for it's pace in recent years, these
old rivals, in the counterpart OF a
39-year-old series, took the count
for a total of only seven called
fouls. It's interesting that only
two were called on Melrose from
which guard Jim Arneson reaped
two points-the only free throws
Sank Centre took out of the game.
Melrose, in an attempt to dis
rupt the Sank Centre defensive,
started a barrage of long shots
from the short positions on the
sides with Sieben, Godfrey and Cal
lagher notable examples Of Mel
rose eye for that type Of shooting.
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