DOVER - It's the Bolivar Cardinals against the Tuscarawas Broncos and the Gnadenhutten Indians against Big Prairie Panthers tonight at Memorial Hall and to the winners will go the right to compete in the Class B District Basketball Tournament at Dennison next week. Bolivar's Cardinals pulled the upset of upsets out of the bag last night when they ousted the touted Dennison Railroaders from the tourney with a resounding 37-27 defeat, while Tusky's Broncos had plenty of trouble eliminating Holmesville, Holmes County Champions, 39-31.
Gnaden, which dropped the Sherrodsville Wildcats 56-41 Thursday night, is highly favored to take Big Prairie, which edged the Millersburg Knights 42-41, but the meeting of Bolivar and Tusky is unpredictable. Bolivar, upset by Tusky 42-29 in the county meet, was more than impressive sending home the big Holmesville club. The Indians competed in the District finals last year, reaching the semi-final game.
Tournament Manager Dick Roberts said the doors will open at 6:45PM and a grudge game between the Zippers and Stage Crew of the high school intramural league will start at that time. Bill Reynolds will referee. Last night 701 paid admissions to see the 2 games as compared with 495 the 1st night, the tournament running a little ahead of last year's attendance.
With forward Calvin Jones supplying the spark, the Bolivar Cardinals (5-1) (13-6), badly off form last week, rose to great heights to defeat the Dennison Railroaders (15-5) which earlier in the season had handed the Red Birds a 56-33 setback on the Dennison floor. Jones, hotter than a firecracker, scored 19 points on 8 field goals and 3 free throws, while center Russ Ross, who was unimpressive in tournament play last week, turned in a sparkling game under the basket controlling the rebounds and scoring 8 points.
The 2 were Bolivar's standouts for the evening, but the Cardinals zone defense...so tight that Dennison got few set shots...spelled defeat for the Railroaders...their 1st by a Class B team this year. Dennison scored 4 points before the Cards started their surge which carried them to a 7-6 lead at the 1st quarter, an 18-13 margin at the half and a 26-18 advantage at the 3rd stanza.
Once in the final period Bolivar slumped and Dennison cut the lead to 5 points...29-24...but the Cardinals came right back to take command again and win going away. The game was bitterly contested and exciting throughout with Dennison counting on long shots, but the Bolivar defense held the Railroaders too far away from the bucket.
Center Bob Parks scored 10 points to lead the Dennison attack, while guard Arkie Williamson got 5 and guard John Morgan and forward Tod Hostetler each collected 4 markers.
Referees Phil Dienoff of Akron and Francis Dirodis of Ravenna assessed 12 personals on each team and 2 technicals against Junior Warren Klink, Cardinal star forward, for disputing a decision. The Red Birds sank 7 of 12 free throws and Dennison made only 7 of 17. The Railroaders lost Tod Hostetler and Bolivar lost guard Bill Zutavern on personal fouls.
BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 37
Calvin Jones F 8-3-19
Warren Klink F 3-0-6
Russ Ross C 3-2-8
Joe Huffman G 1-1-3
Bill Zutavern F 0-1-1
Class C 0-0-0
Lab F 0-0-0
DENNISON RAILROADERS - 27
Tod Hostetler F 2-0-4
Fair F 1-0-2
Bob Parks C 4-2-10
Arkie Williamson G 1-3-5
John Morgan G 2-0-4
Benedetto F 0-0-0
Trimmer F 0-0-0
Weber G 0-1-1
Van Fossen F 0-1-1
Saturday, March 7, 1942
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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