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
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