Baltic Eagles 1941 Basketball Team. Front: Paul Huff - Wallace Hahn - Glen Regula - Bill Lint - George Christman and John Young. Back: Head Coach L.P. Wartiainen - Jim Friend - Glen Schlarb - Glen Zimmerman - Bob Regula - Tom Fox - Dick Baab and Manager Ray Young.
Mineral City Tigers 1941 Basketball Team. Front: Ray Houze - Carl Gsell - Bill Abel - Wilbur Bailey - John Bartos and Tom Smitley. Back: Manager John Weaver - Gene Bozman - Arnold Pittman - Jack Pingstock - Evron Jones - Don McKinney - Head Coach C.J. Hanner and Manager Bill Jones.
DOVER - Another upset was recorded at Memorial Hall last night as the Bulldogs of Dundee dropped the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates into the Consolation Division round of the 19th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament with a sweeping 30-27 victory.
Sugarcreek-Shanesville was the 3rd of 5 teams seeded to be dropped in the joust, while the Gnadenhutten Indians, a favored contender and another seeded team, had their hands full before finally eliminating a scrappy Port Washington Purple Riders Team 37-27 in the final period. Baltic won the 1st Consolation game, edging Mineral City 31-26. Gnaden and the Strasburg Tigers, which defeated Baltic Thursday night, are the only 2 teams of the 5 seeded quintets to remain in the regular tournament.
As the tournament goes on the Midvale Blue Devils are becoming more and more established as the favorite after its 34-20 upset of the Bolivar Cardinals Thursday night, while Strasburg is expected to come through in the lower bracket and meet the Blue Devils in the final next week.
Only 630 cash customers, 319 adults and 311 children, were present to witness the games last night, the attendance being higher than the 460 total of last year's Saturday afternoon session. Thursday night 1,403 paid to see the tournament, 30 less adults and 12 more children than did on the opening night of last year, according to Tournament Manager Harold Everett.
The Baltic Eagles (1-1) (17-24)-Mineral City Tigers (0-2) (9-26) Consolation Division game was exciting throughout, the Tigers losing out because they were held to but one point in the final period. Mineral City took a 15-5 lead at the 1st period, continued to stay ahead 20-14 at the half, but slowed up still more in the 3rd period, leading by only 25-21 going into the final which saw Baltic rally and score 10 points, while the Tigers were held to a single free throw.
Junior guard Bill Lint led the scoring for Baltic, dropping in 18 points to tie the mark set by Senior forward Dallas Crites of Gnaden this year, while forward Carl Gsell led Mineral City with 13 markers, all scored in the 1st half. The Diridos Brothers, Valley and Francis, were again on the floor last night, officiating at all games and tossing 3 Mineral City players to the showers in the final period on 4 personal fouls.
BALTIC EAGLES - 31
Paul Huff F 1-4-6
John Young F 0-0-0
Glenn Regula C 1-3-5
Bill Lint G 8-2-18
Wallace Hahn G 0-0-0
George Christner G 1-0-2
MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 26
Carl Gsell F 6-1-13
John Bartos F 0-2-2
Wilbur Bailey C 3-0-6
Bill Abel G 0-1-1
Tom Smitley G 2-0-4
Ray Houze F 0-0-0
Gene Bozman C 0-0-0
Don McKinney F 0-0-0
Saturday, February 22, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: BALTIC - Only 2 veterans from the team of a year ago had been available for 4th-year Head Coach L.P. Wartiainen. The Eagles lost 5 regulars from last year's team through graduation last spring and has only Glenn Regula, a center and Bill Lint, a forward, returning. Those lost were Myron Ott and Harold Lahm, forwards, Don Huff, Harold Snyder and Chester Froelich, all guards.
A group of 3 Juniors and 2 Sophomores have won themselves 1st crack at the remaining varsity positions, but must vie with another group, in which are 2 Freshmen and 3 Sophomores, for the work on the 1st team. The 1st group consists of George Christner, a guard or center, Wallace Hahn, John Young and Glenn Schlarb, forwards and Paul Huff, who works at either forward or guard. Huff and Young are Sophomores and the others Juniors.
The 5 doubtlessly will be shuttled between the Reserve team and the varsity combination are Glenn Zimmerman and Tom Fox, Freshmen and Bob Regula, Jim Friend and Vic Baab all Sophomores. Zimmerman and Fox lineup at guards, Regula at center and Friend and Baab at forwards. On the reserve squad are Arthur Limbacher, Bob Reidenbach, Junior Ackerman and Ken Levengood, but despite a seeming supply of material. Coach Wartiainen faces a big job loss of 5 regulars and doesn't leave very bright prospects.
MINERAL CITY - Veteran performers 1st-year Head Coach C.J. Hanner had this season were: Wilbur Bailey, Tom Smitley, Ray Houze, Carl Gsell and John Bartos. Bailey, Smitley and Houze were all regular starters on the Mineral City team of last season and the other 2 the 1st line replacements, thus gaining a lot of experience which puts them on the inside track for varsity jobs.
Other squad members, all showing promise, are Ken Rainsberger, Dean Douglass, Bill and Evon Jones, Don McKinney, Walter Carling, Bill Abel, Jack Pingstock, Gene Bowman and Tom Emery. Rainsberger and Douglass, both showing enough stuff to be probable starters, will be off the squad for several weeks. Rainsberger, a Freshman, is suffering from tonsilities and Douglass, a Sophomore, from a hernia for which he may undergo an operation.
Coach Hanner is a graduate of Indiana State College and succeeds Darwin Davis as the Mineral City Athletic Director. The new coach is unmarried and a former cage star at Marshall Indiana High School and a former Indiana State track ace.
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