The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-06-13
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i BY Chuck Rattle
Golf Gets Big Play
Journeys Bring ,Em Out
Niblick Gives Club
New Power Greens Mower
Niblick Stages Biggest Event
Cats Launch New Attack To
Beat Rotary Saturday
Bushey, Fishing Casualty
Golf this year in Sank Centre
is getting one of the biggest plays
in a long time the report is. :. :.
The weekend Of Memorial Day, as
was pointed out, three days Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday racked
up the biggest playing total Of the
year according to figures kept by
l. A. Walker. :. The deal is that
that's a bit unusual since Friday
and Saturday were both work days,
yet with Sunday brought the fig
ure Of local golfers on the course
to some over 125. :. Golfers, now
old hands on the course, are MOTTO
ing this interest pricked into new
life and are specializing about it.
Sunday, too, though rains
dampened things In the morn
ing found q crowd on the
course. It looks like a good
year. It started right of
with q bang with 30 golfers,
men and women, playing In
team tournament events that
will run for nine weeks. =.
It's interesting in glancing Ov-
er figures that records are kept
only for local players. Visiting
golfers are welcome and their
money is cheerfully taken, but
not their numbers. The
thing about this count is that
at the end of the year this
time they plan scanning Of
the records to show golfers
Just how much their golf is
costing them. T.. 1t may be us
ed basically for future revis-
ion I'm rates Of play.
Basic element this corner feels in
the rejuvenated interest this sea-
son is a long time pull over the
last few years when local tourna-
ment interest has been given a big
boost. This season particularly
the tournament angle started al
most before the season itself.
There's the weekly event for team
play. Then there are the scatter
ed short stop tickets; and finally
the new "tin can" tourney in which
the blind DOGGY gives everybody a
break.
There are some who like to
go deeper into underlying cars-
es for greater participation I'm
recreation and point to the war
and it's psychological effects.
It's pointed out that adj
vance indications point to a
greater tourist year in Mime
sofa than I'm q long time. >.
Fishing seems to draw more
enthusiasts. Recreation is in
no need of man power through
out the country. Some say
it's an escapist reaction. Get
away from the war; 60 out and
swat something. So golf
gets a bigger play.
Be that as it may and good rea-
soning it is too, golf is getting
some nice boosting from the per-
sonnell Of its club and those in the
direction of the events. !. :. Pat
Dubois, tournament chairman, an
nounces a tentative scheduling for
June Both for the second short stop
event and If q break in weather
comes it might be one Of the best
turnouts in a long time. The
first one, on a gloomy Sunday
brought out SO with a deficiency
in local talent. :. Doc Mark Fran
Ia pulled the first winner out OF
the Thursday evening blind DOGGY
event last week, and gets his name
engraved for posterity on the fam
Gus tin cup. The tournament
is being managed under Art Hud-
son. -.
It might be possible to boom
that "tin cup" trophy into
little wider angle by putting
one up for an open competition
threat. Tt takes years to
build up a reputation for golf
tournaments, but that's an an