DOVER (Dover Canal) - With weaker teams paired to meet the stronger in opening rounds indicating that semi-final and final play will be replete with thrills, expectations are that the Tuscarawas County Class B cage tourney to be held Friday and Saturday at Legion auditorium will be the best ever. Initial play in the tournament will begin Friday at 1PM when the Strasburg Tigers and Port Washington Purple Riders clash. Following that game at 2PM, the Gnadenhutten Indians will collide with the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates. At 3PM the game of Friday afternoon will be played between the Dundee Bulldogs and the Bolivar Cardinals. Doors for the afternoon session will open at 12 noon.
On Friday evening at 7PM the Tuscarawas Broncos and Baltic Eagles will clash. Midvale Blue Devils will be pitted against the Mineral City Tigers' undefeated team in the Friday night tourney final which begins at 8PM. Doors for the evening session open at 6PM. Semi-finals will be started on Saturday afternoon with the winner of the Dundee-Bolivar fracas meeting the winner of the Tuscarawas-Baltic contest. The game will start at 1PM. Following that at 2PM the winner of the Midvale-Mineral City game will take on the winner of the 4 who battled in the 2 opening brackets which perhaps will be Gnadenhutten. However, it could be Strasburg, Sugarcreek or Port Washington.
The finals will be played at 8PM on Saturday and the 2 teams who battle in the final game will be eligible for competition in the District tournaments at the Legion Hall on March 2nd. Each team in the tourney has certified a list of 14 eligible players to the tournament head, Ralph Lohrman, Principal of Strasburg High School. Because only 10 players can be used in the tourney; however, 4 of that list will have to be checked off before the meet starts.
According to an announcement from H.R. Townsend, of Columbus, Commissioner of Ohio High School Athletics, schools whose enrollment is under 70 may use 2 grade pupils on their teams provided the pupils are 15 years of age and are either in the 7th or 8th grade. Teams entered in the tourney will not be permitted on the Legion court in uniform until 15 minutes before the game in which they participate is to start. Teams may use the floor; however, between halves of other games, providing they are next in order of play.
At the close of the tournament, The Daily Reporter silver cup will be presented to the tourney winner and at the same time a trophy by the Daily Times, of New Philadelphia, will be presented to the Mineral City Tigers, winner of the Class B League, whos season has just closed.
Wednesday, February 20, 1929
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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