DOVER - The 3rd Annual Tuscarawas County Class B High School Basketball Tournament will begin at 7:30PM Friday night at the Community Hall in Sugarcreek. Four games are scheduled for tonight, the semi-finals to be played Saturday morning and the finals Saturday afternoon. The original plan for the tournament was to have it played off on the American Legion floor at Dover, but because of a misunderstanding about the rental of the building necessitated in shifting of scenes to the Sugarcreek gym against the protests of the league members in general and especially over the objections of the Sugarcreek school authorities.
Inasmuch as Sugarcreek has become accustomed to its own floor, as have every other county team become accustomed to its own floor, the boys were reluctant to take what seemed an unfair advantage in the tournament. To offset any such a possibility, the tournament managers have arranged to modify the floor rules to a certain extent and to put the regulation nets on the baskets instead of the leather hangings. Eight teams will compete for the county honors, Sugarcreek High really being in a class by itself, whether on the Sugarcreek floor or elsewhere, the Sugarcreek-Shanesville outfit has won 10 of its 11 games this season with the only loss being to Mineral City on the latter's floor. This was the opening contest of the season and was lost by one point.
LEAGUE STANDINGS FOR THE 1924-25 SEASON AS OF THIS DATE
1. Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 10-1
2. Mineral City Tigers 6-4
3. Tuscarawas Broncos 5-4
4. Bolivar Cardinals 5-5
5. Strasburg Tigers 5-5
6. Gnadenhutten Indians 2-6
7. Dundee Bulldogs 2-8
NOTE: Several of the teams have 1 or 2 more games left on the schedule to play.
The teams entered in the tournament are:
Bolivar Cardinals
Dundee Bulldogs
Gnadenhutten Indians
Mineral City Tigers
Strasburg Tigers
Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates
Tuscarawas Broncos
Winfield
NOTE: Winfield High School is not a member of the county league and is playing in the tournament on invitation, completing a card of 8 teams.
Tonight's program will be the playing off of the preliminaries. The 4 winners in tonight's contests will play again Saturday morning and the two winners in the 2nd frame will battle for the county supremacy Saturday afternoon.
Extensive preparations are being made at the Community Hall to take care of the greatest basketball crowd that has ever attended the sport in Sugarcreek. Last year the county backers filled the Legion Building at Dover and the Sugarcreek Auditorium is much smaller than the Dover Hall. Special arrangements are being made for each visiting delegation and organized rooting squads will be accommodated. The play will be in charge of Coach Curley Stiffler of New Philadelphia High School and coach Oxenrider of Millersburg High School.
The girls' teams do not play a tournament, but there will be a girls preliminary to the finals Saturday afternoon. The girls teams also have not finished their scheduled league games. The standings as of today:
1. Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7-2
2. Dundee 6-2
3. Tuscarawas 6-3
4. Gnadenhutten 4-4
5. Strasburg 2-7
6. Bolivar 0-7
NOTE: Bolivar and Tuscarawas played a tie game.
Friday, February 27, 1925
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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