MIDVALE - Chances of the Midvale Blue Devils' basketball team in the State finals at Columbus Thursday, Friday and Saturday suffered a setback today when it was revealed by Head Coach Peter Wolfe that 3 members of his squad...2 of them regulars...may be out of the running. The 3 are Center Al Turrin, Forward Dale Ford and Reserve Forward Lloyd Swinderman.
Turrin is suffering from an attack of tonsilities, Ford has an infected leg and Swinderman has been hit by an attack of the flu. "I believe they will all be ready to make the trip with us tomorrow," Coach Wolfe said today." All three were sent home from school and Turrin was put to bed by Coach Wolfe and immediately given "shots" for his illness.
The Blue Devils are paired off with Head Coach Masgellan Hairstron's Waterloo Wonders to play at 8PM Thursday night in the headline attraction of the 1st day's Class B games in the tournament. Hairston, whose Wonders won the State Championship in 1934 and 1935, has piloted this year's combination to 26 victories and 2 defeats, but failed to list the scores for tournament officials.
"We don't pay much attention to the score," Hairston said. "We just go out and win'em and once a game is over we forget abouit it and concentrate on the next one." Reports are current that Hairston has another "wonder" team, playing unorthodox basketball and depending on amazing floor formations and "fancy-dan" ball-handling and passing, hallmarks of his Champions in 1934-35.
Plans for a celebration for Midvale's triumph in the Eastern Ohio District Tournament at Dennison in an assembly at the high school today were postponed until tomorrow and will be combined with a "sendoff" for the squad. Coach Wolfe and his team will leave Dennison by train at 11:18AM for Columbus and will practice on the Ohio State University gymnasium floor, scene of their Thursday night encounter with Waterloo, tomorrow afternoon and at the State Fairgrands Coliseum Thursday morning.
Present plans call for the team to stay in Westerville, home of Otterbein College, Coach Wolfe's alma mater. The squad will be taken from Midvale to Dennison in a school bus. The "sendoff" tomorrow morning will include a snake dance, pep rally and the presentation of individual medals to members of the team and presentation of trophies to the school by Coach Wolfe.
Tuesday, March 18, 1941
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE:
The headline tilt in the Class B Division for the 1st day is the classic matching of the 1941 edition of the famed Waterloo Wonders, again coached by Magellan E. Hairston, whose team grabbed the State Championship in 1934 and 1935 and then romped through a long schedule this year with a record of 26-2.
Midvale, on the other hand, had trouble getting underway, but closed out the season with a great 13-game winning streak. The Midvale team brings a record of 19-5 into the State meet. Incidentally, the Tuscarawas quintet is making its 3rd trip to the State Tournament in 5 years.
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