The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-07
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BY Chuck Rattle
14-Year-Old Boy
Gets Pike of the Year
Country Club Course
Record Tied Ways
Rydholm Wins 4th
At Bemidji BirchmOnt-
Buck Hollis Won't
Be Here For the Fair
Recalls Local Racing
Days Of Jack Crawford
It took a fourteen-year-old In
diana boy from down Indianapoli:
way to yank literally out Of the
water the fish of the season.
The lad is Bill Roberts, grandnep
hew of Mrs. Gene Richards.
He opened the month of August
on the first day, with a catch o.
a 80 inch walleye that weighed Il
pounds. 1t came out of Birch
Lake. But that isn't all. He fol
lowed that up a day or two later
with six FOUNDER. . f. And
brother, that's a lot of pike In
anybody's kettle of fish. =.
Fishermen have been singu-
larly amazed from time to time
to find that Little Birch Lake,
unsung as a pike haunt, dis
gorge a fairly nice pike every
now and then. Mainly the
Birch diet Is bass and pickerel
and the pike fishing comes
hard. L remember I caught a
pike out of Birch that tickled
the appetite of a Texan friend
of Bob Vandesteeg's SO that we
had to cease fishing Immediate
ly and go fry the catch. >.
Pike fishing, that is for the
big ones, is nearly always like
that, slow and hard work. -.
But the long shot Of getting
the granddaddy of them all Is
what keeps real pike fisher
men reeling-but fast. >.
For a number of years nov
they've been waiting for someone
to tie the course record at thu
Country Club. Held first by
Walt Moynihan and then Joined
later by Spick Frank, the record
Of 33 strokes around the nine hole:
has stood with those two for some
time. Last week Pat DuBoi:
added his name to make trio o.
course record holders. In fact
not satisfied with doing it once
Pat had to prove it to himself tina
he did accomplish it-by repeating
the performance. {. What's more
the repeat came not three days fol
lowing the first. He was fiv'
under on one round and had slim
glimmer of hope of beating thu
record, but he missed. -.
BY the way Walt Is here
now on vacation. He may
take I'm the Resorters at Alex
andria that opens this week.
Pat and Dave Caughren
and some others may hit this
top notch event too. Pat
is expecting Neil Croonquist,
Minneapolis, state amateur op-
en- champ, to come through
here for the Alex go. -.
Up at Bemidji last weekend {
quartet of local golfers augmented
with the semi-local, DR.. T. e
Walsh, of st. Louis, who is a.
much at home golfingly speaking
here as any place in the States
hauled into the Bemidji Birchmon
International. Golfer Of the
event from the local gang wa!
Bob Rydholm who busted off thu
fourth flight to trot back the only
win for the Sank Centreites.
Vic Sieben got into the third; Rus!
Shulze in the seventh; Walsh II
the first; and Pat wound up il
the championship flight at which
point he met and bowed before thi!
same croonquist. I. Upset of thu
day was Fuzz Johnson's win ovel
Croonquist which incidentally cos
one lady in the Calcutta coo
two hundred and thirty-five smack
ers.
About ten of the boys car
ried on their public relations
with adjacent town Of Little
Falls last week when they
packed up their golf bags and
hiked over there. The event
was an inter-club match, re-
turn affair, with Little Falls
golfers. Strangely enough
none of the local boys seem to
know how the thing finally
wound up. But it was darn
ed good public relations. -.
This has only a slim thread t,
Join it to sports. Buck Hollis
real name Gerald B.-had driver
bus through this town for perhap.
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