If you wonder why competition in the county league is tough during the entire season as well as the tournament, take a look at the above picture, for here's the pay-off. The 4 boys pictured above, Bill Stevenson of the Midvale Blue Devils, Earl Crites of the Gnadenhutten Indians, Maurice Bayer of the Strasburg Tigers and Manager Paul Johns of the Tuscarawas Broncos received all the trophies and medals on the table Saturday night. Midvale won the runner-up trophy and medals, Gnaden won the Sportsmanship Trophy, Strasburg won the League and Tournament Championship trophies and medals and Tusky won the Consolation Trophy.
DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers won their 8th Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Championship and the Midvale Blue Devils and Tuscarawas Broncos qualified along with the Tigers for Sectional Tournament play this week as the 17th Annual County Basketball Tournament ended at Memorial Hall Saturday night. A crowd of over 1,500 fans packed the big hall to watch county League ball at its best...and it was far superior Saturday night to any other time in the tournament.
Strasburg, League Champion and loser of only one game during the current season, won a clean-cut victory over Midvale in the final game by a score of 45-33 and Tusky, coming from far behind, edged Gnaden 35-34 in a thrilling battle for Consolation Tournament honors. The double Championship for 9th-year Head Coach Paul M. Roby's team...Strasburg's 5th "double" under Roby since 1930...added 2 more trophies to the already overflowing display cases at Strasburg High School.
Presentations saw the Tigers take the Championship Trophy, given by The Daily Reporter and the regular League Trophy, donated by E. Fienberg and Company. In addition, the Strasburg Tigers all received medals furnished by Walter E. Lieser Inc. Midvale received the Runner-Up Trophy, given by Sanitary Milk and medals furnished by Godfrey Electric, while Tusky received the Consolation Trophy furnished by the S. Toomey Company.
A 5th award, the Sportsmanship Trophy awarded for regular season League play went to Gnaden, coached by Ed Sears in his 2nd year. The trophy, given by The Daily Times, was awarded on a merit system with school officials and referee judging. County Superintendent W.E. Laws made the presentations which were under direction of Tournament Manager A.C. Bahler of Sugarcreek.
Although Strasburg won the tournament title Saturday night in a seemingly easy manner after a close 1st half, the Burgers were hard-pressed several times during their other 3 games at the joust. The Tigers defeated the Bolivar Cardinals 29-24, Gnadenhutten 26-19 and edged the Dundee Bulldogs 28-26 to reach the finals, while Midvale beat the Baltic Eagles 54-32 and Tuscarawas 34-30 to reach the final game.
An unusual feature of the final game was the clean play of the 2 teams...only 11 personal fouls being called on each by Referees "Fizz" Miller and Vic Schreiner and still more unusual was the fact that not one personal foul was called in the 3rd period. The work of 2 Strasburg players, Senior forward Maurice Bayer and Senior guard Blake Roush and Senior center Big Bill Stevenson of Midvale was outstanding in the game, the 3 collecting a combined total of 44 of the 78 points scored.
Bayer handled his position to near-perfection, dumping in 8 field goals and 3 free throws for 19 points, while Roush, specializing on quick breaks and follow-in shots counted for 12 markers on 5 field goals and 2 free throws. Stevenson, well-bottled by the Strasburg crew and carrying much of his team's load, still was good enough to shoot and tip in 6 field goals and a foul toss for 13 points to lead tournament scoring. He scored 55 points in 3 games.
The Strasburg Tigers (4-0) (46-9) opened the scoring and led in the 1st period, but the Midvale Blue Devils (2-1) (26-14) matched and overcame the lead before the Tigers went to work again and the quarter ended in an 8-8 tie. The 2nd quarter saw both teams warm up and keep the net singing as they matched basket for basket in a thrilling display of speed, but the Tigers were ahead 21-19 at intermission.
The Blue Devils, which was doing a good job of penetrating the Strasburg zone defense in the 1st half, found itself checked at every turn in the 3rd stanza and fell behind 31-25 at the quarter's end. Then in the final period, the Tigers turned on the heat, looking impressive for the 1st time during the tournament as they showered the basket with field goals from every angle and when it was over they had scored 14 points to 8 for Midvale.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 45
Maurice Bayer F 8-3-19
Loren Miller F 0-2-2
Lloyd "Mule" Haas C 2-0-4
Bob Dreher G 3-1-7
Blake Roush G 5-2-12
Fred Yenny G 0-1-1
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 33
Bob Swinderman F 3-2-8
Frank Morrison F 2-1-5
Bill Stevenson C 6-1-13
Bob Baldwin G 2-1-5
Jerry Young G 1-0-2
Monday, February 27, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
THE DAILY REPORTER ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMS
1ST TEAM
FORWARD - Maurice Bayer (Strasburg Tigers)
FORWARD - Dick Machan (Dundee Bulldogs)
CENTER - Bill Stevenson (Midvale Blue Devils)
GUARD - Blake Roush (Strasburg Tigers)
GUARD - Bill Arthurs (Tuscarawas Broncos)
2ND TEAM
FORWARD - Bob Miller (Gnadenhutten Indians)
FORWARD - Earl Johnson (Tuscarawas Broncos)
CENTER - Lloyd "Mule" Haas (Strasburg Tigers)
GUARD - Loyal Peterman (Dundee Bulldogs)
GUARD - Justin Huth (Bolivar Cardinals)
HONORABLE MENTION
Glenn Regula (Baltic Eagles)
Jim Huffman and Bud Ross (Bolivar Cardinals)
Earl Crites, Dean Mills and Warren Parrish (Gnadenhutten Indians)
Bob Baldwin and Bob Swinderman (Midvale Blue Devils)
Bob Osbourne (Mineral City Tigers)
Henry Linard (Port Washington Purple Riders)
Wayne Kughler and Ed Lorenz (Stone Creek Golden Panthers)
Bob Dreher and Loren Miller (Strasburg Tigers)
Bob Becker (Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates)
SECTIONAL THURSDAY NIGHT 3-2-39
Strasburg Tigers vs Millersburg 7PM
Midvale vs Sherrodsville 8PM
Tusky vs Holmesville 9PM
SECTIONAL FRIDAY NIGHT 3-3-39
Dennison vs Berlin 2pm
WINNER Strasburg-Millersburg vs WINNER Dover St. Joseph 8PM
SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT CLASS B RECORDS
Berlin Blue Jays 23-3
Dennison Railroaders 14-5
Dover St. Joseph Ramblers 6-13
Holmesville Goldenbears 10-5
Midvale Blue Devils 15-7
Millersburg Knights 9-8
Sherrodsville Rockets 19-3
Strasburg Tigers 20-1
Tuscarawas Broncos 17-4
NOTE: Attendance at the county's 17th Annual Class B Basketball League Tournament, which ended at Memorial Hall Saturday night broke all existing records, A.C. Bahler of Sugarcreek, Tournament Manager, revealed today. Semi-final games, played Friday night, put over the event Bahler revealed, drawing about 1,500 paid admissions, the biggest single session in the history of the event.
Saturday afternoon, 200 paid to see the Consolation semi-finals and Saturday night 1,230 paid to see the finals. Total unofficial figures for the 2 week-ends of play is 4,996 compared with 4, 977 in last year's record attendance.
NOTE 2: Frank Baumholtz of Midvale, Ohio University basketball star, showed clean heels to Toledo University's famous-Chuck Chuckovitz Saturday night when the two met for the 1st time this season in a scoring duel at Athens. Baumholtz hit the hoop with 9 field goals and 5 free throws for a total of 23 points and sparked the Bobcats to a 77-46 victory. Meanwhile, Chuckovitz, leading scorer in the nation on an average points basis, was stopped with 6 field goals and 5 free tosses for 17 points.
Jimmy Reiser of New Philadelphia tallied 3 points for Ohio Wesleyan as the Bishops wound up the season defeating Miami 23-19. The victory gave the Bishops a record of 16-9 for the season.
Big Bill Sattler of Mineral City, playing with Ohio State in a Big Ten game against Wisconsin, tallied 5 points as the Buckeyes won 46-38.
NOTE 3: Frank Baumholtz (The Midvale Marvel), sensational member of the Ohio University basketball team, pushed his season's scoring total of 298 points for 19 games last night when he collected 11 markers as the Bobcats were knocked out of the Ohio Conference race by the Dayton University Flyers, chalked up a 44-35 upset victory against Athens.
Baumholtz scored 4 field goals and 3 free throws to pace the Ohio attack. Ray Blickensderfer of Gnadenhutten, also a member of the Ohio University team, scored 4 points.
The Midvale star, leading scorer in the Conference, has tallied 92 points in League play, averaging over 13 points a game. (Wednesday March 1, 1939 - The Daily Reporter, Dover, Ohio)
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