38 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Slams Mineral City 57-25 (2-18-38)

DOVER - The Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (1-0) (25-15) ran over the Mineral City Tigers (0-1) (8-19) by a resounding 57-25 score from the very start.  The Pirates shut-out the Tigers in the very 1st quarter 22-0 and increased their lead by 28 points as the scoreboard showed 36-8.  In the 3rd quarter, Sugarcreek-Shanesville picked up another 15 points to Mineral City's 4 points and going into the 4th quarter the score read 51-12.

Four of the Pirates tallied 10 or more points.  Guard Phil Hostetler led the charge with 14 points and picking up game honors.  Forward Marne Blick was right behind his with 15, forward Don Shepfer hit 11 and center Arden Miller finished off the double figure scoring with 10.  Guard Fred Fishley of the Mineral City led his team with 11 points.  A more than expected showing for the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates as 8th year Head Coach Earl Sundheimer was looking at a rebuilding year.

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 57

Don Shepfer 5-1-11
Marne Blick 6-1-13
Arden Miller 5-0-10
Phil Hostetler 5-4-14
Don Hershberger 1-1-3
Bob becker 0-2-2
Walter Zechiel 2-0-4
Jim Jones 0-0-0
Ken Zimmerman 0-0-0
Frank Berger 0-0-0

MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 25

Alex Lindsay 0-0-0
Bob Osborn 4-0-8
Jack Bozman 1-0-2
Fred Fishley 5-1-11
Wil Bailey 0-2-2
Dick Carpenter 0-0-0
Locker 0-0-0
Clyde McKinney 1-0-2
E. Hooper 0-0-0

Saturday, February 19, 1938
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Dover's Legion Hall Becomes Memorial Hall

Dover's Memorial Hall showing the new Reserved Seat Section.

Dover's Memorial Hall showing the new press box and entrance.


DOVER - First basketball practice by Dover's basketball team was held at Memorial Hall last night as WPA workmen completed half of the project for remodeling of Memorial Hall, formerly Legion Hall.  Pictured above is the new reserved seat section, constructed after the old wall was torn out and a new addition erected.  The 2nd photo is the new press box and entrance pictured along with a section of the playing floor.

The new section will seat 345, while other space in the gymnasium will increase the total capacity to 1,330, Safety-Service Director Homer Keppler announced.  Former seating capacity was little over 900, but 1,200 were frequently jammed into the gym.  Under the new arrangement it is estimated that well over 1,500 can be crowded into the gym if necessary.

New shower rooms are also complete and this morning workmen resumed activity for the completion of the downstairs dining hall and entrances to the building.  Painting of the gym will be started after Dover's opening game Friday night with Youngstown.

The project so far has cost WPA $16,803 for materials and $1,406.18 for personal service, while the city has spent $20,299.54, making a total of $36,598.54.


Thursday, December 9, 1937
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

TUSCARAWAS COUNTY CLASS B BASKETBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS (1937-38)

1.  Strasburg Tigers (Paul M. Roby 8th) 10-0 1.000 (7th Title)
2.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (Earl Sundheimer 8th) 8-2 .800
3.  Bolivar Cardinals (Harold Peterson 2nd) 7-3 .700
4.  Gnadenhutten Indians (Ed Sears 1st) 7-3 .700
5.  Midvale Blue Devils (M.R. Helwig 5th ?) 7-3 .700
6.  Tuscarawas Broncos (Charmis Davis 10th) 6-4 .600
7.  Baltic Eagles (L.P. Wartiainen 1st) 4-6 .400
8.  Stone Creek Panthers (James C. Wilson 3rd ?) 3-7 .300
9.  Dundee Bulldogs (Bob Lanzer 3rd) 2-8 .200
10. Mineral City Tigers (Alvin Wyse 1st) 1-9 .100
11. Port Washington Purple Riders (Walter Meade 2nd ?) 0-10 .000

16TH COUNTY CLASS B TOURNAMENT FRIDAY 2-18-38

Mineral City vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7PM
Port vs Strasburg 8PM
Dundee vs Gnaden 9PM
Midvale vs Baltic 10PM

38 - Meet Pre-Season Gnadenhutten Indians

The Gnadenhutten Indians may have been peering from the heights of the 59 points they scored last night against the Port Washington Purple Riders when they looked into The Reporter Photographer John Stratton's camera for this picture.  The unusual shot shows Warren Parrish - Senior Forward Ollie Kohl - Junior Guard Earl Crites - Head Coach Ed Sears - Senior Paul Bennett - Senior Center Ed Kohl - Guard George Gooding and Guard Bob Miller as they concluded a practice session.


GNADENHUTTEN - Most of the teams in the county's Class B Basketball League, which opened its season last night with a bevy of 5 games...2 of them considered in the League race...are willing right now to settle with the Gnadenhutten Indians for a share of the glory offered the winners of the race.  The offer's are made with tongues in cheeks, for about all the teams know Junior Forward Leland Goettge, Indian star of last season, is on the shelf for the 1st half of the season because of scolastic difficulties.  The other part of the tongue-in-cheek business is the fear all teams feel of Gnaden if Goettge makes the scolastic grade and rejoins his team for the 2nd semester and the annual tournaments.

His presence would make 1st-year Head Coach Ed Sears...varsity football, baseball and track man at Rice in 1933 and 1934...a total of 3 lettermen, all good basketball players.  Besides Goettge he would have Ed and Oliver Kohl, cousins.  In fact he has the Kohls right now.  They are the heart of the team he is building for League competition during the 1st half.  Ed's a center and Oliver a forward.  With the Kohls in Sears' 1st squad are Bob Miller - Paul Bennett - Earl Crites - Charles Kail - George Gooding - Gene Heck - Ray Kennedy and Warren Parrish.  Miller - Bennett and Crites have the inside track in the push for the 3 regular posts open, but which of those 5 might make way for Goettge the 2nd half is as yet unknown, according to Coach Sears.

The Gnaden team opened its campaign a week ago, downing the Scio Panthers.  Remaining games, including the wild Port Washington game last night, number 17 with 10 of them coming in the county League race.  Teams outside the League who appear on the slate are the West Lafayette Generals - Freeport and Unrichsville, the latter a Class A school.


Saturday, November 20, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:  Apparently no submissions were given to the paper by the following:  Dundee Bulldoges - Stone Creek Panthers and the Port Washington Purple Riders.

38 - Meet Pre-Season Mineral City Tigers

1st-Year Head Coach Alvin Wyse and his Mineral City Tigers basketball players who will use the Tiger system this season are pictured above.  Top:  Center Elmer Bell - Coach Alvin Wyse and Forward Bob Osborn, the one veteran from last year's squad.  Bottom:  Guard Fred Fishley - Guard Dick Carpenter and Forward Alex Lindsay.


MINERAL CITY - One of the smallest basketball squads in the Class B League...in point of numbers...will be the Mineral City Tigers which opened its season a week ago with a triumph over its Alumni and which tangles with the Stone Creek Panthers on the Creekers' floor tonight in the 2nd contest on its slate and its 1st League tussle.

However the Mineralites are showing a lot of spirit and the new coach there may have something to do with it.  He is Alvin Wyse of Manchester College.  Manchester College is located in Indiana and that state is famed more than any other for its basketball.  It may serve as a warning to Mineral City opponents.  Head Coach Wyse is starting almost from scratch with his 1st outfit in the county loop.  He has only 1 letterman back from last year's squad...Bob Osborn.

Osborn, 5 feet, 10 inches tall and husky, is a forward and will probably team with either Clyde McKinney - Alex Lindsay - Dick Carpenter or Fred Fishley at the offensive end of the floor.  Elmer Bell, 6-foot center, will be at the pivot position and a pair of those originally named will be the team's 1st line of defense, according to Coach Wyse's present plans.  In addition to that group, Coach Wyse has 6 others who will gain at least the ranks of the Reserve Team and the best of the 6 will be used as varsity replacements along with those of the 1st group who do not start.

In the Reserve group are Fred Hoover - Jack Bozman - Edwin Markham - Carl Hoover - Wilbur Bailey and Buddy Jones.  As was said before, only one of those reporting for the practice earned a letter last season, but a number of the other members of the squad gained valuable experience playing with the Reserve combinations.

The Mineralites have a slate of 17 games drawn for their winter's work and 10 of the opponents are in the county League.  Others include East Sparta, Magnolia and Canton Township of Stark County.


Friday, November 19, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Tuscarawas Broncos

Tuscarawas Broncos lined up on a set of "property" steps to carry out the stage idea.  They plan to sing plenty of "blues" for other teams in the county's Tuscarawas County Class B League/Tournament this season.  Shown above are 10th-year Head Coach Charmis Davis' most likely players.  Up the left line, across the back and down the right line the Tusky Broncos here are:  Junior Forward Earl Johnson - Senior Guard Claude Crites - Junior Guard Clarence Rolli - Senior Forward Joe Bollini - Senior Ray Eichel - Coach Charmis Davis - Junior Forward Bill Arthurs - Senior Dario Cardani - Senior Center Chuck Cardani - Sophomore Forward Earl Meyers and Freshman Guard Lester Meese.  The insert is Senior Guard Alex Bonvechio, absent when the above picture was taken.


TUSCARAWAS - A team that combines fair size and speed with balance and experience and then tops the combination with ball handling that makes it look like a group of professionals will carry the challenge of Tuscarawas High School Broncos into the county's Class B League basketball race this season.  Charmis Davis, Rio Grande man who tutors the Tuskies, is banking on that ball handling...which lifts teamwork far above the ordinary...to carry the big load for the Broncos.

Three lettermen...one of them a regular...is what the Tuscarawas coach found when he called his 1st practice this fall.  But, he had about 9 other boys who gained experience as reserves last season and a likely crop of Freshmen.  At this stage of the game it's almost certain that his starting lineup will have Chuck Cardani, who tops 6 feet slightly, at center, Joe Bollini and Earl Johnson at forwards and Alex Bonvechio and Clarence Rolli at guards.  But still pushing those boys for regular berths are Earl Meyers, a forward and Claude Crites and Lester Meese, guards.  Cardani was a forward on last year's team, but has now been moved to center.  He and Rolli will furnish enough height to give the Tusky team an even break under the bucket.  Bollini and Bonvechio both played enough varsity ball last season to earn letters, but were never called regular starters.

Among former reserves pushing hard for a place in the sun are Dario Cardani - Fred Blackstone -  Bill Arthurs -  Bob McDonald - Ralph Van Lehn - Paul Johns - Bob Westhafer and Chuck Donahue.  Of this group, Meese - Cardani and McDonald will constitute the varsity's 1st line of replacements, but will also play on the 2nd string along with Jim Huff - Clarence Eckert - Ray Eichel and John Cox.  "The others will just have to work themselves in," Coach Davis said.

The Freshman crop includes Bob Knisely - Ray Stull - Leslie Johnson - Harmon Cochran - Oliver Myers and Warren Crites.

Of the 14 games now scheduled, 10 are with League opponents.  Negotiations are under way for at least one other game and possibly more, according to the coach.


Thursday, November 18, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates

The Sugarcreek-Shanesville High School Pirates can see nothing but an "off" year ahead during the Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball season which opens Friday night, but 8-year Head Coach Earl Sundheimer and his crew are looking up to tournament time.  Then, with a schedule of 19 games behind them, the Pirates and their mentor, shown above, figure the experience of the season will make them a tournament threat.  In the picture are Coach Earl Sundheimer, Forward Don Shepfer - Guard Bob Becker - Forward Marne Blick - Center Arden Miller - Guard Don Hershberger and Guard Phil Hostetler.

SUGARCREEK - The years when the dopesters of the county's Class B Basketball League leave the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates out of their prognostications are few and far between, but this happens to be one of them.  Head Coach Earl Sundheimer, meeting the issue squarely, has done the next best thing.  Without experienced talent and a not-very-big squad, the Pirate chieftain has arranged a schedule of 19 games and hopes that when the tournament rolls arond he will have developed a team which may go places.

Of the 1st 10 men in Pirate garb last year, Sundheimer has but one man on this season's squad.  He lost John Harmon - Cliff Moomaw - Paul Andrews - Don Ridle - Walter Drake - Harold Gonter - Quentin Burkey - Junior Miller and Alpeter.  The one man returned is Forward Don Shepfer.  And the next best he has in the way of experience are Guard Don Hershberger and Center Arden Miller, both of whom played some with the 2nd team a year ago.  So this year's Pirate crew will be built around those 3 unless unforseen developments drop a couple of "Horse Haggertys" into Sundheimer's lap.  Along with those 3 returning will be Guard Phil Hostetler - Forward Marne Blick - Forward Jim Jones - Guard Bob Becker - Gene Ladrach - Guard Ken Zimmerman - Lester Mizer - Guard Frank Berger and Forward Walter Zechiel.  And that just tells the tale of Sugarcreek-Shanesville for this season.

Coach Sundheimer's shortage of players is a natural thing, he says, in view of the fact that there has been very little material coming in with Freshman classes.  This year; however, there was a noticeable pickup and the Pirates are working out a very promising group of freshies.  Among them are the Smith twins, Merle and Earl, - Junior Moomaw - Gene Becker and Nolan Kaser.  The coach plans to use them freely in Reserve games this season and have them ready for next year's slate.

Ragersville is making its annual contribution to the Pirate squad in that 4 of the group Sundheimer plans to use on his 1st string come from that village.  They are:  Gene Ladrach - Ken Zimmerman - Lester Mizer and Frank Berger.  But with all that contribution, this appears very definitely one of the "down" years for Sugarcreek-Shanesville.  But, the Pirates always come back.  It may be next year and most certainly not later than 2 years from now.

Of the 19 games on the Pirate schedule, 10 are with League opponents and others are with Berlin, Newcomerstown and Walnut Creek outside the League and Strasburg and Bolivar in the League.


Wednesday, November 17, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Bolivar Cardinals

Bigger than ever and better than ever is the forecast for the Bolivar Cardinals (pictured above) who open their basketball season Friday night at Midvale.  The 3 big boys in the center of the picture are:  Wayne Wineman, who transfered to Bolivar from Bethesda - Glen Lebold and Jack Ross, 2 of last year's veterans.  At the left is 2-year Head Coach Harold Peterson and at the lower left is Jack Kline-Hildt, another veteran.  Centered at the bottom are:  Bud Ross - Justin Huth and Junior Ruof.  In the upper right corner is Warren Hutchinson, a veteran, while at the lower right is Wayne App one of last year's reserves.


BOLIVAR - It isn't hard to pick the Strasburg Tigers or the Midvale Blue Devils to take all opposition in the county's Class B Baseketball League this season in a running jump.  But, if you do, mark the Cardinals down as their No. 1 League enemy---the real "trail horse" of the circuit.  For Bolivar Head Coach Harold Peterson is preening these days and expects that his team will come off their perch as a real mean, troublesome outfit.  One that will tax the League's best to its utmost.

When it comes to size Coach Peterson's team has it all.  In experience they rank with the loop's best.  And as for replacements---they're about 3 deep and all carry out more or less, the size angle.  Peterson, former Ohio Stater now in his 2nd year at Bolivar, has 4 lettermen whose average size will run so near to 6 feet that it will take clippers to divide the difference.  And that word "near" doesn't necessarily mean "under."  The 4 are Jack Ross - Glen Lebold - Jack Kline-Hildt and Warren Hutchison.  Ross and Lebold range well over 6 feet and Kline-Hildt and Hutchison bump awful close to that mark.

They are what are left of the veterans from the team which tied Midvale for 2nd place in the League race last season and then lost to the Blue Devils in an overtime game in the tournament.  They're backed up by Junior Ruof - Wayne App - Bud Ross and Justin Huth from last year's Reserve Squad and Wayne Wineman---another 6 footer---who is a transfer from Bethesda.  The lettermen and the above group will form the nucleus of Peterson's varsity string.

Ranking about on a par with Ruof, App, et al, are Stanley Lebold - James Huffman - Paul Burris, Gene Steenrod - Ken Oberlin - Sam Notz and Russell Eberly.  Most of this last group---all are Sophomores--- will likely do the work as the Reserve Team, but will always be available for 1st string work.  Oberlin is a transfer from Massillon where he had already won recognition as an athlete for his football prowess.

Coach Peterson is non too cheerful about his prospects, fearing the size may cut the speed, but other coaches in the loop refused to be fooled.  If he's none too cheerful, so are they---and not because they think size may lessen his chances.  All have a genuine respect for the Cardinals and expect plenty of trouble from them.

Bolivar's schedule at present has 16 games, 9 of them at home and 7 away.  Of the 4 open dates, Coach Peterson is seeking opponents for 3 of them; December 4th and January 8th and 15th.


Tuesday, November 16, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Midvale Blue Devils

Replacing the boy who wore those big shoes and that No. 5 jersey in the center of the above picture is quite a job, but Head Coach M.R. Helwig and his squad at Midvale High School are taking it on with one big swing.  The shoes and jersey were those of Frank Baumholtz, the Midvale Blue Devils' All-Ohio forward last year, shown in the center.  Grouped around are the Blue Devils who will carry on from where Baumholtz left off.  In the picture:  Forward John Hawkins - Harold Meese - Guard Bernard Turrin - Center Bill Stevenson - Head Coach M.R. Helwig (5th year ?) - Guard Don Spence - Center Dick Belknap - Forward Bob Swinderman - Walter Beahm and Fred Schumaker.


MIDVALE - When Frank Baumholtz, that handsome, smooth-working, point-getting basketball player and all-around athlete from the Midvale Blue Devils, matriculated at Ohio University in Athens this fall, about 90 percent of Tuscarawas County's cage fans---all of them familiar with the sparkplug of the Eastern Ohio District Champions---were of the opinion that he took Midvale's chances for cage fame this season with him.  Not so - as the coaches preparing to battle it out at some time or another during the winter with the Blue Devils will testify and as Coach Helwig, head-over-heels in work at the Devils' camp, will modestly admit.

Helwig, former Bolivar Cardinals High School star, piloted 12 boys through the District Tournament and to the semi-finals of the State Tournament at Columbus where Baumholtz won fame as an All-State forward.  And of those 12, exactly 8 are back again this year to defend the District Championship and make a new bid for county honors that so narrowly averted their clutches last season.  Three of the remaining 8 players are lettermen and all of the other 5 saw plenty of action last season for Coach Helwig and Midvale had the kind of a team that gave the substitutes plenty of work.

Along with Baumholtz, Helwig lost Francis Herron, center - Dick Taylor and Arthur Price, guards.  But he still has of his lettermen John Hawkins, Baumholtz's unsung running mate of last season - Bill Stevenson, perfectly capable guard and Dick Belknap, promising center who received plenty of polish last year.

On 1st draft, it appears that the 3 lettemen will get another "M" this season and that one of the Swinderman boys will pair with Hawkins at forward and that Bernard Turrin will get 1st call for the open guard position.  But, there's still plenty of competition and plenty of room for it, according to Helwig.  Two more experienced boys who will go out with the 1st Ten are Alva Hale and Harrold Meese.

The carrying of 10 men on his 1st string is Coach Helwig's answer to the change eliminating the center jump.  He doesn't plan to use the "race horse" style unless forced to, but he very well plans to be prepared for it.

The Midvale Reserve squad will come from a group of 20 working hard for positions.  This group includes:  Bob Baldwin - Frank Morrison of Roswell - Gerald Young - Rodney Truman - Willard Stafford - Millard Meese - Dale Paulus - Adrian Ford - Laird Walker and Ray Davis and that's only part of them.

If Midvale is to keep pace with its last year's record, a man-sized job is already awaiting it.  After shooting through a season of 10 League games and winning 8 of them, the Blue Devils entered the tournaments; got to the District and through the back door offered by the Consolation Division of the county joust then marched to the semi-finals at Columbus.  In tournament play alone they worked 12 games losing only 2.  This season a schedule of 18 games awaits their opening bid at Bolivar Friday night.  Ten of the games are with other Class B League opponents and the other 8 outside the loop's jurisdiction.


Monday, November 15, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Baltic Eagles

The Baltic Eagles, with 5 veterans returning and plenty of up and coming players are pictured in the above layout and are all set to make a bid for the Tuscarawas County League/Tournament Championship again this year.  Pictured above in the top row:  Senior Forward Harry Regula, Senior Guard Ken Zimmerman, Senior Guard Bob Lint and Senior Center Dick Regula.  Standing at the bottom are Senior Guard Ken Burger, Senior Guard Don Huprich and Junior Guard Junior Steiner.  Burger and Huprich were on the last year's 1st Nine.  The insert at the lower left is Senior Forward Adrian Gerber another veteran.


BALTIC - When the wise men of the county's Class B Basketball League worked up their dope and then announced that the Baltic Eagles would be one of the ranking teams to be knocked off, if championship ambitions were to be realized, they did so advisedly.

Head Coach L.P. Wartiainen, in his 1st year as head of the Eagle cagemen, is sending out a team built with 5 lettermen who won at least a section of their wings during the hostilities backed up with 2 others a year ago.  The veterans are Bob Lint, and Ken Zimerman, guards - Dick Regula, center - Harry Regula and Adrian Gerber, forwards.  It might be mentioned that the new Baltic mentor is also planning on using Zimmerman at both ends of the floor.  All the lettermen are Seniors so very likely have a lot of exprience under their belts.  The 2 played part of last season, but not enough to earn letters are Ken Burger and Don Huprich, guards and both Seniors.

New faces to be noticed on the Baltic Roster this season will be Junior Steiner and Otto Hager, a pair of Juniors and guards and Marcus Domer and Ken Leavengood, guards.  Domer is a Junior, Leavengood a Senior.  Lost from last year's squad were Ward Lahm, the Eagles' sparkplug during the hefty part of its season and Wilson Eckert.  Eckert was a regular.  Both graduated.  As a whole the team appeared well balanced---enough size to compete without a sacrifice of speed and enough speed to stay with the best of them.

Coach Wortiainen, who succeeds Paul Scheetz as head of Baltic's athletic department, comes from Denison University where he was a varsity football man and then coached the Freshmen grid team for 2 years.  His 1st team in Tuscarawas County is scheduled to meet 17 opponents, 10 of them members of the League in which the new mentor is seeking to set his Eagles at the top as champions.


Saturday, November 13, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - Meet Pre-Season Strasburg Tigers

HOLD THAT LINE!  That's what the opponents of the Strasburg Tigers' new basketball team will have to do if they would pry the Tigers loose from the County Championship which they now hold.  And it's be a tough line to hold:  Senior Guard Bob Deibel - Junior Center Lloyd "Mule" Haas - Sophomore Forward Garver Wallick - Senior Guard Bob Raica - Senior Forward John Miller and Senior Guard Charles "Babe" Reiger winners of All-County honors last year.  Reiger was also All-District.  Above the charging Strasburg line is 8-year Head Coach Paul M. Roby who last year won his 6th County Championship in 7 years at Strasburg.  The inset at Roby's right is Senior Paul "Pete" Haswell, another veteran and an All-County forward, who was absent when the picture was taken.

Will Coach Roby and his Tigers add more trophies to the Strasburg collection of 21, a portion of which are shown in the school's trophy case?


STRASBURG - The Mineral City Tigers starts the ball a-rolling tonight with an Alumni game and from then on until the tail-end of February the county's 11 Class B high schools will be embroiled in their annual winter's work of trying to bring home the basketball bacon.  And, according to the best advance notices several of the coaches can give it's going to be an interestng imbroglio, one in which any one of something like 5 or 6 teams might slide out ahead of the field and capture the coveted championship.

The Championship in 1937 is now held by the Strasburg Tigers in both its phases, the League Title and the tournament pennent.  When the Tigers left Legion Hall last spring with the county tournament prize under their collective belt, Paul M. Roby, their head coach, celebrated his 6th County Championship in 7 years.  But his job of keeping it looks as big as the job of getting it.  To defend the title---a job which most coaches say is harder than winning it---he must beat down such as the Midvale Blue Devils, which will be up with a veteran squad; the Bolivar Cardinals with a world of size and experience; the Baltic Eagles bouncing from the depths; the Tuscarawas Broncos with another of those teams that always rate and the Gnadenhutten Indians, another bouncer with plenty of experience to help it along.

That's the way the picture sizes up today.  Strasburg must get 1st call for coach Roby, an Otterbein product, is drilling a club that lists on its roster every member of last year's Championship Team but one.  The one man lost to Roby is Ramon Renner, center, who won All-County and All-District honors in his 2 tournaments last season.  Remaining are Paul "Pete" Haswell, All-County forward - Charles "Babe" Reiger, All-County and All-District guard, Lloyd "Mule" Haas, All-County guard - John Miller - Bob Deibel - Bob Raica and Garver Wallick, the latter the only member of the squad who did not win a letter last season.

Just about everything seems to be smiling on Roby this season as it will be the 1st time he can forget the mettlesome problem of finding a center when he has no above-the-line height.  In years past, it has always been his biggest problem.  This year there is no center jump except at the start of the game, the half and after double fouls.  So the team that last year won 20 of its 24 games including tournaent play, is well on its way.

While the 7 mentioned above will very likely constitute the "varsity" club, Wallick will be used regularly with the Reserve Team as will Morris Bayer and Loren Miller, holdovers from last year's Reserve squad.  Battling for the open position on the 1st Ten are a husky group of 9 boys:  Bob Dreher and his brother Bill, Bob Spidell, Bill Schroyer, Percy Tucker, Bill Shutt, Clyde Denzer, Earl Lengler and Pete Welsch.  Added up, this Tiger squad spells trouble with a capital "T" for all Strasburg foes this winter.

The Burgers face a 16-game schedule, 10 of them with regular League opponents and the others with the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates, Beach City Pirates, Dennison Railroaders, Newcomerstown Trojans and the Bolivar Cardinals.


Friday, November 12, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

38 - 16th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament (1938)

DOVER - Opening sessions of the Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament offering 10 games will begin on Friday and Saturday (18 -19 February 1938).  The tournament opens at Memorial (Legion) Hall here on Friday night with games at 7, 8, 9 and 10 PM and resumes on Saturday with games at 1,2,3,7,8 and 9PM.

The tournament draw saved the best until last on Friday night's program for spectators will have to wait until the 4th game before anything in the way of promise comes along---always of course, barring upsets.  That 4th game pits the Midvale Blue Devils and the Baltic Eagles and starts at 10PM.  In the opener, the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates meets the Mineral City Tigers at 7PM, while the Port Washington Purple Riders plays the Strasburg Tigers at 8PM and the Dundee Bulldogs hits the Gnadenhutten Indians at 9PM.

The 1st games on Saturday complete the 1st round of regular tournament games and opens the Consolation Division which qualifies the 3rd team for the Sectional Tournament jourst at the Hall on March 4-5.

Opening session of the tournament will be marked by the 1st appearance of the All-County Band organized by Harold Mohr, county music director.  The band will play at all tournament sessions.

Official for the tournaent wll be Russ Stevenson of Barnhill, Ben Schreiner of gnaden and Ken Glasgow of New Philadelphia all 3 regular B League referees during the regular season.


Tuesday, February 15, 1938
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1938 SCHEDULE

Mineral City vs Sugarcreek 7PM
Port vs Strasburg 8PM
Dundee vs Gnaden 9PM
Baltic vs Midvale 10PM

37 - All-State Class B Basketball Team

Midvale High School Blue Devils Senior Forward Frank Baumholtz (The Midvale Marvel).

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COLUMBUS - The Midvale Blue Devils' Frank Baumholtz was a unanimous selection for the All-State 1st Team, picked by International News Service, Associated Press and United Press.  The high scoring of Baumholtz was one of the highlights of the meeting and his feat of scoring 27 points against the Bluffton Pirates on Friday night fell just one point short of the record of 28 made in 1934 by Ron Peters of Lawrenceville.

CLASS B 1st TEAM

Graf, Upper Arlington - Forward
Frank Baumholtz, Midvale Blue Devils - Forward
Bolser, Lockland Panthers - Center
Lucas, Upper Arlington - Guard
Baker, Lockland Panthers - Guard

CLASS B 2nd TEAM

Wright, Union City - Forward
Hobbs, Canal Fulton - Forward
Kepley, Upper Arlington - Center
Anderson, Amsterdam Rams - Guard
Miller, Olmstead Falls - Guard


Monday, March 22, 1937
The Daly Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE 1 - Best I can tell Frank Baumholtz is 19 points short of the 1,000 point club, standing at 981 points for his 4 years at Midvale.

NOTE 2 - Allen Veigel former 1936 Tuscarawas Broncos star will leave next week to join the Moultere, GA club of the Georgia-Florida League, a Boston Red Sox farm club.  He has been signed as a pitcher. (Wednesday, March 21, 1937, The Daily Reporter, Dover, Ohio)

NOTE 3 - When Allen Veigel was called up to pitch for the big leagues, he played for the Boston Bees of the National League in 1939.

37 - Midvale FALLS to Lockland 37-25 (3-20-37)

Midvale High School Blue Devils Senior Forward Frank Baumholtz (The Midvale Marvel) had an off day as he sank 12 points (3 field goals and 6 free throws) in a losing cause against the Lockland Panthers 37-25 in the State Tournament at Columbus.


COLUMBUS - The Midvale Blue Devils (10-2) (26-4) fell short of their bid in the Class B Basketball State Tournament semi-finals when the Blue Devils were defeated by the Lockland Panthers 37-25.

Midvale's defeat was due almost completely to the Blue Devils being out-sized.  Big and rangy, the Lockland Panthers kept control of the ball too much of the time, taking it at the centr tip and from both bankboards.  Midvale; however, led the way, from the opening of the 2nd period until halfway through the third.  The Blue Devils tailed 9-4 at the close of the opening period and then led 15-11 at halftime.  They fell behind again in the 3rd which ended with Lockland sporting a 24-20 lead.

Another contributing factor to the defeat was the inability of Frank Baumholtz, the Blue Devils' ace scorer, to hit the hoop with regularity.  Although he tallied 12 points, Baumholtz had a poor percentage.  He was timely guarded, but got off many shots despite the check.

His work on Friday night; however, will lore for years.  His constant stream of shots at the hoop had the scorers in the press box dizzy and declaring they wouldn't count the next one if it hit the bankboard or the side of the ring.  He would go on to score 27 points.  It is expected that that job and the game against Lockland will earn Baumholtz his position on the All-State Team.

The 12 points he tallied against Lockland pushed Baumholtz's total scoring for the State Tournament to 57 markers.  He had 18 against South Amherst and 27 against Bluffton.

LOCKLAND PANTHERS - 37

Yockey 4-0-8
Drake 3-1-7
Bolser 8-1-17
Baker 0-1-1
Liebtenberg 2-0-4
Stillman 0-0-0
Bauer 0-0-0

MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 25

Frank Baumholtz 3-6-12
John Hawkins 3-2-8
Dick Belknap 0-0-0
Bill Stevenson 1-1-3
Dick Taylor 0-2-2
Francis Herron 0-0-0


Monday, March 22, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

LOCAL STATE TOURNAMENT SATURDAY RESULTS 3-20-37

Hamilton 46 - Dover 40 (Class A)
Upper Arlington 43 - Lockland 25 (State Class B Championship)