DOVER - Seven of the 11 high school basketball teams in the Tuscarawas County Class B League are represented on The Daily Reporter's 2nd Annual All-County teams selected by the League's coaches and presented today. Although the voting showed a scarcity of good guards in the League, it was brisk and close for most of the 5 positions on the 1st Team where 5 different schools won representation. Two other schools won places on the 2nd Team, where again only a vote or 2 shunted some of the players from the team to Honorable Mention.
1ST TEAM
FORWARD - Ed Lorenz - Stone Creek Panthers
FORWARD - Maurice Bayer - Strasburg Tigers
CENTER - Bill Stevenson - Midvale Blue Devils
GUARD - Dick Machan - Dundee Bulldogs
GUARD - Bill Arthurs - Tuscarawas Broncos
2ND TEAM
FORWARD - Bob Miller - Gnadenhutten Indians
FORWARD - Earl Johnson - Tuscarawas Broncos
CENTER - Lloyd "Mule" Haas - Strasburg Tigers
GUARD - Blake Roush - Strasburg Tigers
GUARD - Justin Huth - Bolivar Cardinals
The 1st Team presents a pretty well-balanced combination with speed, size, shooting skill, ball handlers and floormen all having a place. In Lorenz and Stevenson , the team has the highest scorers of the League; although, neither one of them received a unanimous vote of all the coaches which would be 10 because coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.
In fact, Dick Machan of Dundee, placed at guard, was the leading vote-getter. Machan paced the stars with 9 of the 10 votes for 1st place and won the 10th vote for a 2nd Team berth. Lorenz of Stone Creek ran him a close 2nd with 8 1st Team votes and the other 2 for 2nd Team honors. Stevenson was 3rd in the balloting, winning 8 votes, Bayer next and Arthurs following close behind.
Gnadenhutten's Miller and Tusky's Earl Johnson ran the 1st stringers a hot race, but fell into the 2nd Team Division by a narrow margin. The same was true of Bolivar's Huth. Strasburg's Haas had little competition for the 2nd string center position. Oddly...or not oddly...all 10 of the players winning positions were Seniors. There were 25 boys nominated for the honors with Sugarcreek-Shanesville's Don Hershberger and Tusky's Charence Rolli setting the pace among those missing the team choices.
HONORABLE MENTION
Bolivar Cardinals - Bud Ross
Dundee Bulldogs - Victor Smith
Gnadenhutten Indians - Earl Crites
Midvale Blue Devils - Bob Baldwin and Frank Morrison
Stone Creek Panthers - Wayne Kugler and Ivan Hawk
Strasburg Tigers - Bob Dreher
Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates - Don Hershberger, Merle Smith, Bob Becker, Junior Jones and Earl Smith
Tuscarawas Broncos - Clarence Rolli and Lester Meese
Although Sugarcreek-Shanesville won the most nominations with 5, Strasburg...the League Champions...placed the most men on the teams with 3. Tuscarawas was the only other team to win more than one place, copping one each on the 1st and 2nd fives.
Ballots voted by the coaches were counted and tabulated in the county school board offices under supervision of Superintendent W.E. Laws.
Baltic - L.P. Wortianinen
Bolivar - Sherwood Haueter
Dundee - Bob Lanzer
Gnadenhutten - Ed Sears
Midvale - M.R. Helwig
Mineral City - Darwin Davis
Port Washington - Walter J. Meade
Stone Creek - Jim C. Wilson
Strasburg - Paul M. Roby
Sugarcreek-Shanesville - Earl Sundheimer
Tuscarawas - Charmis Davis
Friday, February 17, 1939
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: Frank Baumholtz "The Midvale Marvel," member of the Ohio University Bobcat basketball team, sank 6 field goals for an even dozen points last night as his Bobcat team smothered Bliss College 62-34 at Athens. Snyder, Baumholtz's teammate, scored 22 points.
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