The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-04-10
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| BY Chuck Rattle ]
Sports Twilight Hour
District Track
Meet Set For May 10
Track Seems Most
Suitable Spring Event
Bud SOltau Pitches
For Camp Ham Team
HarOld's Lament
This is the twilight hour in
sports. . . In these more northern
towns the winter ends, the spring
comes, but summer dawdles and
with it the new sports program.
Last shouts of basketball have
died. Track comes into some
importance for a fleeing season.
Summer baseball has no weather
vet. There's not even any fishing.
Tennis and golf are yet fam
full dreams. 1t makes it diff
ficult season for sports scribblers,
but it's one that coaches in organ
lied sports can like. For their
spring fever gets chance at air
ing.
A meeting of the district
men at Osakis the other night
mapped out the spring program
for district 90. Biggest item
of the evening was scheduling
the district track meet for May
10th at Alexandria. The
bows talked over basketball Of
ficials for the tournament OF
next year. And the rest of the
district set up its baseball
schedules.
Spring sports in these schools
have long been a battling factor.
Actually, you know, it's May be-
fore anything outdoors in the line
of sports is pleasant. Then you
have bumped into the busiest
month in the whole school calen-
dar. One by one spring at
tempts here have been shuffled off
the list. First went baseball.
It's the hardest to play in the
spring. The schedule is so short;
the season for outdoor workouts
usually narrows down to a week
or two. Often before a game the
team has hardly been out in the
field. On young arms that's con-
sidered no go. >. They tried spring
football, but in the spring it's pref
ty hard to whip up interest for a
fall game. g.. The fact that there
are never any games to detract
from the humdrum grind Of drill
has more or less outmoded that.
All Of which leaves track
that Is much more mobile a
sport. The boys can get in
shape indoors which after all
is the big factor i'm track. :.
A boy has to stretch his mus
cles, without strain, to get in
there for track. He can do
that indoors where tempera-
lures are less conductive to
making stiff muscles. Then
when he can get outdoors he's
set to take up the other aspects.
Track Is primarily spring
sport, an outdoor one. requires
not so long preparation.
The only drawback Is that
there Is insufficient time to
schedule enough meets. Which
Is the basic trouble with all
spring sports.
Understand that Bud Soltau, out
at Camp Ham, Is doing quite job
for the local battery's baseball
team. The boys clouted the
Crookston crowd out there not
long ago. :. Bud is on the mound.
Next to hunters, fishermen
are the most persistent takers
about their particular sport.
-. You can't have the begin
ming of spring without some
body coming out with talk
about fishing, and how many
days until the season opens.
What's no fishing season
ever started without this col
umn getting, innocently enough,
embrOiled in a little feud be-
tween Pete Michels and Har-
old Gray. So we will be
able to touch another one of,
to wit. Harold Is very fond of
trout fishing. Pete Is too, but
Harold Is fonder than anybody
else we have happened to have
run across. Pete thinks
SO too. So we got a poem.
didn't write 1t. 1t was given
me.