The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-12-12


cancers, in a scorching scoring
bombination, set up a new stand
ard for total basketball war"
In their first game Of the sea-
son, taking q 60 to 80 victory
over the Morris Aggies, the
Buccaneers set up a standard
for scoring drive that will have
the fans asking for gang plank
walking from here on In.
Aggressive from beginning to
end, these Buccaneers faxed out
Morris forwards, plowed through
their defensive stands, whacked off
their offensive drives, and totally
pressed Morris so that she was able
to get only a minimum of play in
this ball game.
Stan Nelson was the most elusive
piece of basketball material on the
floor in that game Friday night
the fans had seen in a long time.
He cracked Is field goals for 30
points, faxed, ducked, passed and
shot until Morris defensive at
tempts were shot full Of holes.
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right under the basket, ringed by
two and three defensive men, took
one elusive fake to the right or left.
Then of a sudden you saw him
bounding up in the air in the gen.
eral direction of the basket-and all
by himself. OF the first 10 shots he
took at the basket z of them made
perfect contact.
Behind him was an attack that
for first night basketball was a bit
of all right. There was George
Conkey, smooth, poised, elusive and
coordinated to a point where it's
noticeable, directing much Of the
play. He grabbed ii points him.
self on breaking plays. Deziel and
Jackson playing fine games at for
ward posts got and z points re-
spectfully.
What Coach Harold Rasmussen
wheeled out on the floor Fridoy
night was a team with some mica
balance, with 8 good men. In John
Butler he had a defensive giant
that night. In Orie Hosmer, Will
liam Merkle, and Curtiss Buck,
able reserves to sprinkle through
out the ball game.
In nearly all of these lads plenty
of height. Conkey, Butler, Jack
son gave plenty of punishment I'M
der defensive baskets. Stan Mel
son added his height under often
sive buckets.
In first quarter that started
with Jackson's free throw Nelson
was away for three baskets hand
running and with Conkey and Dez-
iel had run up a 10 to 2 lead. Only
big center Symonds for Morris had
scored. An attack that spanked
real fireworks stymied Morris var
led attempts to set up defense.
They couldn't stop the passing
game behind Nelson's tossing, nor
Nelson's superior work under the
basket.
Guard Bull, ablest man Of the
Morris squad, attempted to poke
holes in the Sank Centre defense
by opening up a feeble long siege
guns barrage. It netted him a field
goal. For a few minutes as Skrien
scored on a sleeper play the game
went into a comedy routine with
Johnny Butler buster than a bee
in the flower season. At once he
was guarding three men, breaking
down fast, making a swipe at this
one and that, dancing between the
men coming down, adding "hiya"
to his physical efforts.
BY halftime with Nelson scoring
under the bucket and one half
court length passes from the astute
Conkey, the BUGS had moved to
20 to Is lead. Bull had scored on
some long range shots. Skrien had
converted under the basket. John
ny Butler, whose job 1t was to
spread the defensive from bunch
ing on the necks Of Nelson, Jack
son, Deziel or Conkey under the |
basket, converted long shot.
1t was a third quarter drive, In
which Morris showed no signs of an
offensive, was pressed totally to set |
UP any kind of defense that the
BUGS went to town. Conkey start |
ed 1t and then changing off with |
Jackson, Nelson and Deziel, the
boys had quite an inning. An in
ming worth exactly 26 points, of
which II were Nelson's. Only |
Shrien scored for Morris.
Morris tired pressing in the 4th,
rolled out its best attack to stop
the Sank Centre onslaught. With
Kerr, Bull and Skrien and brewer
points they moved 10 ahead
to their ultimate tally of 80 points.
With Buck, Merkle and Hosmer
Butler, Nelson and Dez-
lei, Sank Centre settled down to
run its lead points higher.
Such winning can often be mis-
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