The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-04-24

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BY Chuck Rattle !
Baseball Another Blow
In Soldier Exodus
Bud SOltau Gives
Dad Pat on the Back
Track Blossoms With
Four Meets in Week
Junior High Has
Dual With Melrose-
Track Sent Stan Nelson
To State a Year Ago
Golf Makes Debut
Wurst-Mayer Head
League BOwlers-
Baseball in this sector has been
taking it quietly on the noggin for
10, these many years. 1t has al
ways been difficult to interest this
community in it for a number of
reasons we won't enumerate. E.
But from the younger player stand
point it has always had its cham
pions and for those who liked to
play, it was real sport. ). A year
ago it was ushered with some fin
atty out of the schools athletic
picture for reasons of impractic-
ability on account of weather.
It's breath of life has been
mainly the attempts of the
American Legion and more lat
terly the work of the summer
recreation program. These two
have worked virtually hand in
hand. The follow through
has always been slow. But up
to now the follow through has
been there. The boys have
moved out of the junior ranks
and played a more adult game
of ball.
The game locally probably got
its severest blow when Regimental
Headquarters Battery went to Cal
ifornia. It took Chips White and
Butch Iwinski, Johnny Dubois, AL
Blank, Johnny Claude, Stan Burt,
Willard Rasmussen, Denny Ethun,
Bud Soltau, probably some others.
. But there is the start of a
pretty fine team that we will have
to claim as our own albeit they
are in California. I don't pre-
tend to know what course will be
taken this summer in the Legion
or any other group. I do know
that any attempts at independent
ball, derived largely from Sank
Centre players, has been dealt an
almost decapitating blow.
There's a little incident in
this connection. In one of the
earlier games out there In the
West, Bud Soltau, as per usual,
twirled fine ball game. -. In
addition he did the unexpected
from the usual run Of pitchers
by getting more than his share
of hits and had q tremendous
hand in helping win his own
bali game. Johnny Dubois,
noting this departure, said kid
dinghy In substance: You aren't
supposed to hit. Where'd you
learn to play ball? To which
Bud replied with q wide grin,
That's the way my Dad teach
Is It," It's q fine filial
compliment to a dad. And it's
true, for Vern Soltau as
pitcher was also always one Of
the top sticlmen in the lineup.
Spring sports at school are al
ways a harried sort of business.
They flower late, but once in bios
som no one can say they don't do
things in big splash. Track
is the major event at school this
spring and the senior squad is to
dish into four meets, according to
present planning, three Of which
will pop within seven days Of the
first. A dual meet Is planned
with Melrose, date Of which will
DC dITlNtu dI lOudy. iACh VII
May Bird the lads will take in st.
Johns invitation meet; they'll head
out for the West Central Confer
ence on May 9Th and then on May
10th they'll bob for apples with
the district % boys.
In addition large junior
high squad is creating more
than a little interest and with
Melrose they have Saturday
booking in two dual meets for
competition in that age bracket.
Track is in many ways an odd
sport. . 1t requires great stam-
ina dished up in short spurty per-
iods. 1t takes good legs and good
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