DOVER - The New Cumberland Trojans won their playoff with Winfield and Ragersville to be represented as the team at-large in the 12th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament. The tourney is the proving ground for teams aspiring to high court honors and opens play at Legion Hall here tonight at 7PM when the whistle of Referee Earl Gross officially announces the arrival of a new tournament season.
Twelve teams are entered and 4 games are scheduled for tonight's play, following each other at hourly intervals. The Bolivar Cardinals and Midvale Blue Devils meet in the 1st game. After it, the Gnadenhutten Indians plays the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates, the Port Washington Purple Riders plays the New Cumberland Trojans and the Strasburg Tigers take on the Tuscarawas Broncos in the order named. Tomorrows play starts at 1:30PM and continues through the afternoon and evening with the winners and losers of tonight's games playing in the regular and Consolation divisions of the schedule.
Referee Gross will work the regular tournament, while Kenny Mathias, an official of the Class B League, works the Consolation. The winner and runner-up of the regular meeting and the winner of the Consolation division will qualify for the Sectional Class B Tournament. Trophies for the winners and pictures of the teams competing in the County Class B League Tournament, which opens at Legion Hall tonight at 7PM, are on display in the show window of Ress Brothers Cigar Store on Factory Street.
Strasburg, 4 straight times winner of the County League Championship and the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates, prominent as a runner-up to the Tigers, are favored to be 2 of 3 successful teams. One of them; however, will be forced to reach the Sectional meeting through the Consolation end as a result of their meeting in the semi-finals in event neither is beaten until that time.
Friday, February 16, 1934
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
1934 FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS
1. Strasburg Tigers (Paul M. Roby) 10-0 1.000 (5th Straight Season - Last 4 Unbeaten)
2. Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (Earl Sundheimer) 9-1 .900
3. Mineral City Tigers (Bob Mackey) 8-2 .800
4. Port Washington Purple Riders (Harold Young) 6-4 .600
5. Midvale Blue Devils (M.R. Helwick) 5-5 .500
6. Tuscarawas Broncos (Charmis Davis) 5-5 .500
7. Bolivar Cardinals (Ludwick Birk) 4-6 .400
8. Dundee Bulldogs (Glen Jones) 4-6 .400
9. Gnadenhutten Indians (Walter Mead) 3-7 .300
10. Stone Creek Panthers (George Walker) 1-9 .100
11. Baltic Eagles (Edgar Shumaker, 1st Year) 0-10 .000
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