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
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