The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-08
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BY Chuck Rattle
And Talk of Fishin'-
Otto Gets Fox
Jim Is Good Yearling-
Long Prairie Naggers-
Sauk Centre Lacks Poise-
District PotpOurri-
Indies Point to Tourney
Keldahl Can't Forget
Hunting Even For BB-
They've had small army each
day on the lakes angling through
the ice. The way those boys go for
it it must be like dessert at the
boarding house. ;. Earl Pangburn
was telling how he got interested
slightly in the sport in this north
land. i. He found himself fishing
one day and failed to discover
darkness setting in. When he
did look about and the hills were
all shrouded by the falling blanket
of night, he was down on his knees
squirting at the bobber!
While some fish, others hunt.
And the willy fox gets his SOON
er or later. Not long ago
Don Otto and Lawrence DOlsOn
were out. Don says they
saw three. He had shots at
two at the same time. And
he got one. Great sport for
the boys on these winter days.
While they're doing that
others have hit the tObOggan
trails with q list of casualties
that reads like an air raid
bombing. But they go back for
Jim Pangburn, the localad, who
made center not just spot for a
tall man but remade the position,
is going well at the North Dakota
State college, this corner learns. :.
On the freshman squad, Jim and
the yearlings are hanging up some
records that have drawn orchids
from Fargo papers. That's unus-
ual for yearling clubs. .. The
gang have won most Of their tits,
and have hung up the envious scor-
ing record of 81 average points per
game. That's scoring in any
language. And orchids to Jim! &.
Long Prairie's always a ques-
ton mark In anybOdy's league.
They play a cantankerOus brand
of basketball. They nag their
opponents from here to break
fast, and in the very unortho-
dox style of ball Of which they
are now famed exponents, lies
their real danger to other
would-be tourney winners. -.
They feature fast breaks, are
not at all beyond tossing court
length passes, will streak down
court like a page of Gone With
the Wind, and generally upset
things for their opponents. 80.
All this happens on smaller
courts, however.
The other night against better
Sank Centre club than in many
recent games, the tactics didn't
work. The bigger court, feel, got
them. It allowed Sauk Centres de-
fensive to counteract the nagging
spirit of play. /. /. It gave Long
Prairie such distances to travel
that they were out Of time on the
average Of their shots. You
can't help but think that in the
last two years Long Prairie went
down as the team that might have
knocked its way through the dis
trict. It's notable that their own
pace killed them. They're the on
ly team that came near cloutine
Sank Centre last year. But that
old story Of pace again. Long Prai.
rie's got fast bunch Of boys, but
it's questionable they can last in
tournament play on the larger
court this year. -.
While Sauk Centre looks
spottedly good, despite an un-
impressive record, it's biggest
trouble Is lack Of poise. De-
fensively they seem to be aces.
Extensively they've been just
about pacing their opponents.
.. But some place along the
line they do slip a cog, and the
pOise that brands them a good
ball club, falls apart. In
the Osalds game It happened in
the last two minutes. Osalis'
veterans played 1t smart to
throw them out of stride and 1t
happened. Against the return
game with Alex, they never hit
a stride, never commanded any
poise. They got dropped
hard in that game. -.
I want to tell you about Star
Nelson. 1t isn't our business to gc
about picking stars. But Star
does have ability and he's got 6
fair portion of what is vulgarly
known as-guts. E. As scoring ma
chinery he's been tops on the loca
club. You can figure him for a
least eight points as regularly al
Big Ben booms out the hour II
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