The Strasburg Tigers are bosses of Tuscarawas County's Class B Basketball for 6 years. They won the League Title 5 consecutive times, built up a record of 39 consecutive vicories and Saturday night won there 3rd consecutive tournament championship. Team Photo: Head Coach Paul M. Roby, Student Manager William Krantz, Elwyn Reiger, George Denzer, John Studer, Bill Haas, Adrian Miller, Don Scherer, Mac Wardell, Jim Dreher, John Sparks and John Schenk.
A closeup photo of Senior forward John "Johnny" Studer, Tiger Captain, who leads the Class B League in scoring. He has become the 1st player to accumulate 1,000 career points. He now stands at 1,015 points thus far in his 4 years of play.
A closeup of Head Coach Paul M. Roby who has won the county tournament championship every one of the 4 years he has been at Strasburg. Prior to that he coached at Midvale and was runner-up twice with teams he turned out there.
DOVER - The Dundee Bulldogs (2-1) (9-12) went almost 2 full periods before it was able to score from action against the Strasburg Tigers (4-0) (29-5) in the championship game at Legion Hall on Saturday night. The Tigers blew out the Bulldogs with a 15-2 lead in the opening period and pushed it to 25-5 by halftime. J. Jones, Dundee center, slipped under the basket to score a sucker shot just before the end of the 2nd quarter to give his team its only action shot of the half.
With the proverbial machine-like precision the Tiger crew added to their count in the 3rd period and pushed the count to 38-7 before Head Coach Roby began pulling his starting lineup and sending the 2nd stringers into the game. The score at the end of the 3rd period was 49-11. Scoring honors of the game went to Junior forward Bill "Doddle" Haas of Strasburg who potted 5 field baskets and 2 free throws for 12 points. Senior forward John "Johnny" Studer, the League's high scorer, marked 3 buckets and 4 foul shots for a total of 10 points. He gave half a dozen easy buckets to teammates. Dundee's center, Russell. Jones, was high for his team with 6 points gathered on 3 field goals. All players on the floor made the scorebook.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 60
Bill Haas 5-2-12
John Studer 3-4-10
George Denzer 2-2-6
Bud Reiger 4-0-8
Adrian Miller 5-0-10
Jim Dreher 2-1-5
Don Scherer 1-0-2
John Schenk 2-0-4
DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 19
Paul Baker 2-0-4
Sam Fetters 0-1-1
R. Jones 3-0-6
Otto Haager 0-2-2
E. Rice 0-1-1
Jim Bradley 0-1-1
Richard Koble 1-0-2
J. Jones 1-0-2
Monday, February 26, 1934
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: By scoring 10 points in the Class B Tournament final Saturday night, John Studer, Strasburg scoring ace, brought his season's total to 245 points. Last year Studer rolled up a total of 338 points.
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