28 - Strasburg Wins 6th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament (2-25-28)

For the 2nd successive season, the Strasburg Tigers has carried off honors of the Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament.  They defeated the Dundee Bulldogs 22-6 to win the 1928 tourney on Saturday night.  Champion Strasburg members are:  Paul Sundheimer, Orval Deems, Paul Neidenthal, Clyde Denzer, Wilson Dreher, Cloyce Schumacher, Blaine Shivelly and Head Coach Simukka.  Bob Miller star forward for the Strasburg team who sent his team into final play with his dashing ability was not present when the picture was snapped.


NEW PHILADELPHIA - Winning against the Dundee Bulldogs (2-1) for the 3rd time this season of which two other victories having been chalked up against them in the course of the regular season, the Strasburg High School Tigers (3-0) copped the Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament Saturday night at New Philadelphia Junior High School gymnasium.  It was the 2nd successive time they have won the county title.  Strasburg defeated the Dundee squadron 22-6 in one of the worst games of the tourney.  The Franklin-Township cagers with Paul Neidenthal and Clyde Denzer holding down guards positions with the abililty of veterans allowed the Bulldogs only 1 field basket (scoring ace Lester Price) in the final encounter.  The Tigers managed to swish 10 action shots through the ring together with a pair of fouls that counted them 22 total points.  Dundee's other 4 points were made at the foul line.

To win the tournament, Strasburg had to win 4 games.  In the 1st round of the tournament they defeated the Baltic Eagles (0-1) by a score of 33-14, then followed in the 2nd round Saturday with a 22-6 victory over Port Washington (1-1).  In the semi-finals Saturday afternoon, the Bolivar Cardinals (1-1), conquerors of Sugarcreek-Shanesville (0-1), felt the sting of the Strasburg attack with a 12-7 defeat.  Strasburg defeated Dundee in the finals by the same count they defeated Port Washington in their 2nd game.  Dundee had to win only 2 games to reach the finals, but they had to play basketball in the seconds to keep the Gnadenhutten Indians(1-1) out of it.  In the initial game Dundee won 51-25 over the Midvale Blue Devils (0-1).  Then they took the 2nd game by a 19-14 count from Gnadenhutten.

Going into the final play of Saturday evening, the game was close for the opening few minutes and was featured by close guarding.  Neither team got many shots at the baskets in the opening period, but after not very many minutes Senior center Paul Sundheimer registered 1 from under his basket followed by another by Senior forward Orval Deems at midcourt then a 3rd from Sundheimer's hands.  The 1st quarter ended 6-0 in favor of Strasburg.  Dundee had 2 chances at the foul line, but missed both of them.  To open the 2nd quarter Senior center Lester Price dropped in a foul to give Dundee its 1st count.  Neidenthal dropped in a long one to make Strasburg 8, then Sundheimer swished in a fielder to give them 10.  Price was taken out of the game because of his inactivity.  He was slow and being played completely off his feet by the elongated Strasburg center, Sundheimer.  Dundee's guard Hauger, made a foul shot.  Neidenthal went into a corner and grabbed another fielder, then Price went back into the game.  He got the ball in the center of the floor,  heaved it and it rolled through after bouncing around on the rim of the basket.  The quarter ended 12-4.  Deems made a foul to open the 3rd period.  Miller pivoted away from Hauger to score a field then duplicated the same feat a moment later to give Strasburg 17.  Deems garnered an action shot from inside the foul line.  Wilds scored a foul to make Dundee 5.  Neidenthal added a foul as the quarter ended 20-5.  Deems scored a field and Wilds scored Dundee's 6th point in the 4th period.  Play was very listless and it was just a question in the 4th of how many points Strasburg would pile up.  Wilds and Hauger played the best game for Dundee, the former digging the ball out for his team nearly every time they got possession of it and Hauger doing excellent guarding to keep Miller, Strasburg's diminutive scorer from making more than 2 field baskets.

Sundheimer was easily the star for Strasburg.  But, Deems and Miller played good floor games with Denzer and Neidenthal keeping the scoring of the Dundee team down.  An estimated crowd of 800 perons saw the final game of the tournament.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 22

Orval Deems 3-1-7
Bob Miller 2-0-4
Paul Sundheimer 3-0-6
Clyde Denzer 0-0-0
Paul Neidenthal 2-1-5

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 6

Glen Wilds 0-2-2
Olinger 0-0-0
Lester Price 1-1-3
Frey 0-0-0
Walters 0-0-0
Hauger 0-1-1


Monday, February 27, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Bolivar Falls To Strasburg 12-7 (2-25-28)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - Dundee and Strasburg high schools fought their way to the finals of the Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Cage Tournament at New Philadelphia Junior High School Saturday afternoon winning respectively from Gnadenhutten and Bolivar by scores of 19-14 and
12-7.  And fight they did.  Both teams had to battle hard to stay in the tourney and Dundee especially, who was forced to the brink in the last few minutes when Gnaden staged a rally that nearly carried them to the Saturday night play.

Senior Bob Miller, diminutive forward for the Strasburg Tigers (3-0), pulled the Tigers out of the fire and carried them to the finals by his clever shooting of 4 field goals to give the Bengals a 5 point victory over the Bolivar Cardinals (1-1), winners of the Sugarcreek-Shanesville game in the Saturday morning round.  Strasburg enjoyed their 3rd victory of the tournament.  The game started off in a listless manner and remained listless throughout the 1st half.  The Cardinals scored at the end of the 1st quarter 2-0 having scored on 2 foul shots.  Neither team scored a field goal.  Bolivar added 2 more points, a field goal in the 2nd half and at halftime, the Bolivarmen were leading 4-0.

Head Coach Simukka sent his men into the fray in the 3rd quarter; however, it was a different and altogether changed team.  The boys started breaking toward the basket better, instead of allowing Bolivar's defense to get set.  Strasburg would start their offensive drive as soon as they took possession of the ball.  The 3rd quarter was the turning point of the game.  In this period, the Tigers' center, Paul Sundheimer, started the ball rolling with a nice shot under his basket.  Forward Bob Miller of Strasburg, dribbled under the basket to tie the score 4-4, then the diminutive little flash challenged Bolivar as he tossed another through the nets from the corner.  The quarter ended just as Miller gave his team a 4 point lead, 8-4.

Guard Zutavern, the sole scorer for Bolivar against Strasburg and the leading point man on the Cardinal crew all day long, then made his team 6 with a nice action shot from near the foul line as the 4th quarter opened.  It revived spirit in the Birdmen for awhile and as Zutaven tossed a foul for Bolivar's 7th point of the game.  The crowd then went into an uproar.  Both Bolivar and Strasburg had an organized cheering section.  Miller hit another 2-pointer from the corner and Sundheimer finished off the Strasburg scoring by dribbling out of another corner for 2 more points.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 12

Orval Deems 0-0-0
Bob Miller 4-0-8
Wilson Dreher 0-0-0
Paul Sundheimer 2-0-4
Clyde Denzer 0-0-0
Paul Neidenthal 0-0-0

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 7

Haueter 0-0-0
Laughlin 0-0-0
Kienzie 0-0-0
Lash 0-0-0
Widder 0-0-0
Zutavern 2-3-7


Monday, February 27, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Dundee Hands Gnadenhutten 19-14 Loss (2-25-28)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - The Dundee Bulldogs (2-0) sent the Gnadenhutten Indians (1-1) back to the reservation with a 5 point victory in the New Philadelphia Junior High School gymnasium.  The game was close from the start, but the Bulldogs looked like the winner at all times with the exception of the last few minutes of play in the 4th quarter.  The initial period ended 4-2 in their favor and they increased it 8-4 by halftime.  The 3rd quarter ended 13-9 in favor of the Dundee squad.  The Indian's rally started immediately in the 4th quarter.  Soon the score was 14-13 with Gnadenhutten just 2 points shy of the lead.  Then soon after Gnaden's Clarence Uhrich was fouled by Dundee's Walters and tied the count on a free toss.  With the score 14-14, Price, the center, for the Bulldogs came to the rescue of his team; however, in the following and last few minutes of play, by dropping a long shot giving Dundee a 16-14 lead.  Dundee's Olinger came off the bench for a fielder and the guard,Hauger, hit a foul shot to finish the scoring and the game at 19-14.

It was a great game and the fans responded with plenty of excitment.  Price, Dunee's scoring ace, gave a fine exhibition of hot foul shooting with 5 out of 5 attempts.  He also added 4 field goals to his list and continued to lead the tournament in scoring.  He had scored 27 points in the morning game against the Midvale Blue Devils earlier.  Harry Williams and Alvin Williams, brothers, both played well for the Gnaden team.

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 19

Wilds 1-1-3
Olinger 1-0-2
Price 4-5-13
Walters 0-0-0
Hauger 0-1-1
Frey 0-0-0

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 14

Francis Blickensder 0-1-1
Paul Cappel 0-0-0
Albert Blickensder 0-0-0
Jack Hearing 0-0-0
Harry Williams 3-0-6
Clarence Uhrich 1-1-3
Alvin Williams 2-0-4


Monday, February 27, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Strasburg With Easy Win Over Port 22-6 (2-25-28)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - In its 2nd game of the tournament the Strasburg Tigers (2-0) easily defeated the Port Washington Eagles (1-1) by 16 points.  The Rider outfit had beaten the Tuscarawas Broncos (0-1) on Friday night and the Tigers won its 1st game at the expense of the Baltic Eagles (0-1).  The feature of this encounter was the close guarding by the Strasburg five.  Clyde Denzer, Paul Neidenthal and Wilson Dreher held the loser's forwards to 3 points, all tallied by Port's Sophomore forward Earl Wheland.  The game started off rather slowly and the 1st quarter ended with Strasburg's Head Coach Simukka's crew holding an 8-3 advantage, due to excellent work by the 2 forwards Orval Deems and Bob Miller.  Strasburg contended itself with 4 points in the 2nd quarter, while the best that Port could do was 2, foul shots by Joe Evans with this making the scoreboard show 12-5 at halftime.

With substitutes in the 2nd half Strasburg held the Eagles to 1 lone foul shot, while they made 10 more points to run their total score to 22.  The end of the 3rd quarter found them leading at 22-6.  Sophomore Earl Wheland (3) and Senior Joe Evans (3) scored all of Port's points, while Seniors Orval Deems (8) and Paul Sundheimer (6) accounted for 14 of their outfit's total.  Bob Miller (4) also played well and was in the thick of the battle all the time he was playing.  The Tiger defense of course was also tight and proved to be one of the best ever witnessed in local county tournament play.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 22

Orval Deems 4-0-8
Blaine Shively 0-0-0
Bob Miller 2-0-4
Paul Sundheimer 2-2-6
Clyde Denzer 0-0-0
Paul Neidenthal 1-0-2
Wilson Dreher 0-0-0
Schumacher 1-0-2

PORT WASHINGTON EAGLES - 6

Earl Wheland 1-1-3
John Bond 0-0-0
Joe Evans 0-3-3
Haupert 0-0-0
Wil Johns 0-0-0
Ralph Rhoades 0-0-0


Monday, February 27, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Bolivar Handles Sugarcreek-Shanesville 29-19 (2-25-28)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - Head Coach Birk of Bolivar put Zutavern, his outstanding guard, on Moomaw, Sugarcreek-Shanesville's scoring machine and Zutavern held the Pirate forward to 1 basket and went out and collected 5 action shots for himself as the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (0-1) went down to defeat by 10 points.  The Bolivar Cardinals (1-0) were never in danger.  They led the Pirates the entire route.  The 1st quarter ended 10-7.  At halftime the score was 18-9.  And the Cardinals led at the 3rd quarter 25-16.

Bolivar's guard Zutavern, in addition to his effective defense, led all scorers with 5 field goals for 10 points.  Laughlin and Widder followed up with 4 field goals apiece for 8 points each.  Forward Haueter closed out the Bolivar scoring with a field goal and a foul shot for 3 points.  The Pirates' forward H. Gerber and guard Miller hit 6 points each.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville's star guard Moomaw was held to but 1 field goal and 1 foul shot for 3 points.  Closing out the Sugarcreek scoring was forward Myers and guard E. Gerber each hitting a field goal for 2 points each.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 29

Haueter 1-1-3
Laughlin 4-0-8
Lash 0-0-0
Widder 4-0-8
Zutavern 5-0-10

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 19

Moomaw 1-1-3
H. Gerber 3-0-6
Myers 1-0-2
Renner 0-0-0
Miller 3-0-6
E. Gerber 1-0-2
Wassem 0-0-0


Saturday, February 25, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Gnaden Gets By Mineral City 18-15 (2-25-28)

WILLIAMS IS GUARD - While Gnadenhutten hopes for its forwards to do the scoring, it relies on Alvin Williams, stellar defensive man, to hold down the scoring of opponents in coming Class B cage meet.

FORWARD AT GNADEN - Albert Blickensderfer, high scoring Gnadenhutten forward for this season, and upon whom Gnaden places confidence in cage tourney at New Philadelphia Friday and Saturday.


NEW PHILADELPHIA - In the 2nd Saturday morning game the Gnadenhutten Indians (1-0) and the Mineral City Tigers (0-1) had a bitter fight.  Gnaden copped the lead from the Mineralmen in the opening and held it throughout the game, but Mineral City proved a dangerous foe.  The 1st quarter ended 3-1 in favor of the Clay-Township cagers.  The half saw them still in front with a 10-7 score and at the end of the 3rd period they were leading 14-10.  Forward Albert Blickenderfer and Alvin Williams were the leading scorers for Gnaden with 5 points each, but every member of the Gnadenhutten team took part in the scoring.

Guard Calvin Birk led Mineral City with a quarter of points (4).  Like the Indians; however, every Mineral City man scored at least one point.  The feature of the game was a long shot by Guard Alvin Williams which clinched the victory for Gnaden near the end of the fracas.

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 18

Paul Cappel 1-1-3
Albert Blickensderfer 2-1-5
Harry Williams 1-1-3
Clarence Uhrich 0-2-2
Alvin Williams 2-1-5

MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 15

Elmer Harris 0-2-2
Markley 1-0-2
Ladham 1-1-3
Calvin Birk 2-0-4
Gordon 1-1-3
Oswald 0-1-1


Saturday, February 25, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Dundee Pounds Midvale 51-25 (2-25-28)

This crowd of 9 Dundee High School floormen finished up badly in the Class B League this season, but have hopes like all the rest of copping the county turney Saturday.  The 1928 team members are:  Price, Baker, Shite, Frey, Wilds, Olinger, Rice, Walters, Hauger and Head Coach Kohr.

The Dundee Bulldogs has a center in Price that can't be beaten very easily.  He can jump, shoot with accuracy and has been a great aid to his team this season.




NEW PHILADELPHIA - The initial game between the Dundee five (1-0) and the Midvale aggregation was very one-sided from beginning to end, but fans from all parts of the county in the gymnasium to watch their favorite team in action, were thrilled with the superb shooting ability of Price, clongated Dundee center.  Price was responsible for 27 of Dundee's points on 12 field baskets and 3 fouls.  He dropped the ball into the nets from most any angle on the court.

Dundee grabbed a lead of 14-6 with the end of the initial quarter and increased it to one of 22-10 at the end of the half.  When the 3rd period rolled around they were in front of a 34-19 score.  The 2 guards, Walters and Hauger picked up 10 and 7 points each.  Forward Wilds rounded out the Dundee scoring with 2 goals and 3 fouls for another 7 points.

Guard Smith of Midvale lead the Blue Devils with 5 field goals and a foul for 11 points.  Forwards Rennicker and Raymond followed with 6 and 4 points.  Morgan finished the Midvale scoring with a field goal for 2 more points.

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 51

Wilds 2-3-7
Frey 0-0-0
Olinger 0-0-0
Price 12-3-27
Walters 5-0-10
Hauger 3-1-7

MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 25

Rennicker 3-0-6
Raymond 2-0-4
Wolf 1-0-2
Smith 5-1-11
Morgan 1-0-2


Saturday, February 25, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Strasburg Roughs-Up Baltic 33-14 (2-24-28)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - The Strasburg Tigers (1-0) knocked the Baltic Eagles (0-1) out of the 1928 Class B Tournament when they defeated the Baltic outfit by 11 points in the initial round of games played on Friday night.  The Baltic loss was expected, but not by such a large score.  Lahm and Richardson, Baltic's star forwards could not locate the basket and tallied only 9 points between them.  Head Coach Simukka of Strasburg used 7 men in the win and pressed his proteges for harder games later in  the tournament.  When the Baltic outfit held their bigger opponents to a 12-4 count during the 1st quarter things began to look rosy; although, the team was missing many shots.

The Tigers hit the rim with greater accuracy during the 2nd period and tallied 13 points, while holding the Eagles scoreless.  With the opening of the 2nd half, things changed somewhat and Baltic presented a much improved team against the Strasburg outfit now composed of several substitutes in place of regulars.  Each side scored 2 points in this round and Strasburg managed to eke out a 1 point margin for the final period which saw the losers working hard, but to no avail.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 33

Orval Deems 3-0-6
Blaine Shively 0-1-1
Bob Miller 2-1-5
Paul Sundheimer 4-2-10
Clyde Denzer 1-0-2
Paul Neidenthal 2-3-7
Wilson Dreher 1-0-2

BALTIC EAGLES - 14

Lahm 3-1-7
H. Richardson 1-0-2
Sheetz 1-1-3
G. Harrison 0-0-0
Burkey 1-0-2


Saturday, February 25, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - Port Downs Tusky 29-25 (2-24-28)

The Tuscarawas High School Broncos team failed to win a single meeting this season and went down to defeat at the hands of the Port Washington Eagles in the 1st county league tilt.  Members of the Broncos' 1928 basketball team are:  FRONT:  Russ Espenschied -  Lloyd Moore - John Pretorus -
 -  Robert Zorn and Millard Nussdorfer.  BACK:  Dan Davies - Paul Meade - Van Adamson and Head Coach Harold C Everett.

MEADE AT FORWARD - Paul Meade has played a fine brand of basketball for Tuscarawas this season, but the team has still not won a game.



NEW PHILADELPHIA - The Port Washington Eagles (1-0) defeated the Tuscarawas Broncos (0-1) by just 4 points in the opening game of the Tuscarawas County Basketball Class B Tournament at the Junior High School gymnasium on Friday night.  The contest was one of 2 played in the initial round.  Six other teams drew a bye.  The Eagles team assumed the lead at the beginning of the game and was ahead every period except the first, though hard pressed at all times.  Only the excellent work of Senior Joe Evans at center and Sophomore Earl Wheland at forward kept the winners in the lead.

At the end of the 1st quarter Port was on the short end of a 6 to 4 count.  Things looked bad for them before they finally came to life and managed to lead the Tuscies by 2 points at the half.  The score was 15-13.  After the rest period, Port Washington put on a spurt and tallied 11, while the best Broncos could do was 5 points.  They put on a desperate rally in the final session; however, and almost managed to tie the score, falling short by 4 markers.  Senior forward Van Adamson was the shining light for the losers.

PORT WASHINGTON EAGLES - 29

Earl Wheland 4-1-9
John Bond 3-0-6
Joe Evans 5-1-11
Ralph Rhoades 0-0-0
Will Johns 1-1-3

TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 25

Paul Meade 3-1-7
Van Adamson 5-0-10
Bob Zorn 0-3-3
Lloyd Moore 2-0-4
Dan Davies 0-1-1


Saturday, February 25, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - On The Court - Strasburg Tigers

Fans in Strasburg are depending onthis crew of Orange andBlack tossers to bring  home  the County Class B Tournament bacan Saturday night.  They are:  Senior Paul Sundheimer (center), Senior Orval Deems (forward), Senior Paul Neidenthal (guard), Senior Clyde Denzer (guard), Sophomore Wilson Dreher (guard), Senior Cloyce Schumacher and Junior Blaine Shively (forward).  Head Coach is Simukka.

Head Coach Simukka of Strasburg relies heavily in this man Deems (The Demond of Strasburg), a forward and has every hope of bringing home the basketball title at the county Class B tourney which starts Friday night and continues through Saturday.


STRASBURG - Although they finished in a tie for 3rd place in the County Class B (cage) League this season with Gnadenhutten, the Strasburg High School quintet of cagers believe the reason they were not on top of the pile was due to the bad start of the year.  True, a defeat at the outset of any season in the sporting world doesn't help a team in the least.  Had Strasburg started the season with a victory over Gnaden instead of a defeat, the confidence endowed from that game might have carried the  Franklin-Township crew through the year in good shape.  But nevertheless, the county league court season is finished.  Strasburg now returns with 9 other Class B teams to the annual county tournament to be held Friday in the Junior High School Gymnasium at New Philadelphia.

Head Coach Simukka of the northenders has been drilling his floormen hard all week and instilling a number of offensive formations for the team by which he hopes to send them to the county crown.  With Orval Deems at forward and Paul Sundheimer at center being the keymen of the Simukka machine, it is Clyde Denzer and Paul Neidenthal who are relied on to do the defensive work.  If they can get to functioning properly in the initial game of the tournament against Baltic, Strasburg should have good going the balance of the way through.


Thursday, February 23, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - On The Court - Mineral City Tigers

This Mineral City 1928 cage five has had hard times this season, but will be ready for action in the tourney this Saturday.  Team members are:  Lathy, Maurer, Williams, Duerr, Wagner, Eyster, Mathey, Hothem, Gordon, Markley, Calvin Birk, Elmer Harris, Oswald, Ladham, Brick and Head Coach W.E. Laws.

THEY STAR FOR MINERAL CITY - Calvin Birk, guard and Elmer Harris forward, carry the brunt of the burden at Mineral City five this season.


MINERAL CITY - The Laws coached combine will have a hard time at the county tournament next Saturday...team won 2 games in 8 starts in county loop.  Although they won only 2 games in the county Class B League this season, Mineral City High School coached by W.E.Laws, former Mount Union athlete, has offered some stiff opposition to most of the teams in the Class B circuit and when the 10 county Class B aggregations gather at Junior High Gymnasium in New Philadelphia next Friday and Saturday for the Annual Class B Tournament, Mineral City will be found playing one of the toughest in the county in the opening round.

They were paired last Saturday with a Class B aggregation with the likes of Gnadenhutten High School who is likely to make things hot at tourney time for every team there.  Head Coach Laws has two stars in Elmer Harris, forward and Calvin Birk, guard, that he depends a lot on to bring home the Mineral City bacon.  Harris, a fast elusive forward is a good scorer and is a hard man to watch.  Birk plays a stelar defensive game and does his share of the Mineral City scoring.


Tuesday, February 21, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

28 - 6th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament

DOVER - Ten towns, 80 uniformed basketball players and scores of fans interested in county Class B schools, will take part in the Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Cage Tournament Friday night and Saturday all day at Junior High Gymnasium in New Philadelphia.  With all plans completed, the tourney is to get under way at the gymnasium Friday night with a bang promptly at 7:30 with 2 games in the initial round to be played off that night.  The 2nd round of the tourney gets under way Saturday morning promptly at 9AM with 4 games to be played off, then at 2PM that afternoon 2 more games will be played in the 3rd and semi-final round to see what teams will battle Saturday at 7:30PM for the county title.  W.O Young, of Canton, McKinley high school physical director and well known Stark County official, will have charge of the tournament officiating.  Official  scorers for  the tourney are J.H. Selzer, Baltic and Mr. Conradi, Tuscarawas.  Official times are J.T. Walker, Bolivar and Ralph Lohrman, Dover.

The following teams will participate:

Baltic Eagles
Bolivar Cardinals
Dundee Bulldogs
Gnadenhutten Indians
Midvale Blue Devils
Mineral City Tigers
Port Washington Eagles
Strasburg Tigers
Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates
Tuscarawas Broncos

In the 1st game to be played on Friday night, Port Washigton should win in the 1st round from  Tuscarawas.  Baltic will probably give Strasburg a battle in the 2nd round, but the Franklin Township boys are favorites to win in the 2nd game of the 1st round that same night.  On Saturday, Dundee probably will take Midvale into camp...Gnadenhutten should win from Mineral City.  Probably the most interesting game will follow the Gnadenhutten-Mineral City game when Bolivar takes on the Sugarcreek-Shanesville cagemen.

Bolivar and Sugarcreek in the county league series this season, tied for the topnotch position in the race.  Both won the same number of games and lost only 1 contest.  They meet not only to decide which team shall remain longer than one game in the county tourney, but also to decide which shall have rightful claim to the county league toga.  The result is a toss-up.


Wednesday, February 22, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio