DOVER - The Green Arrows (18-3) cage team of Ottawa Hills, 1st opponents of the Gnadenhutten Indians (21-1) in the State Class B finals at Springfield on Thursday night, has qualified for the State finals with an overtime victory last Saturday night in the District Championship game. The Indians meet the Arrows at 10PM with the final game on the day's program of eight.
Ottawa Hills is a suburb of Toledo and the school is coached by Ray Deardoff, graduate of Manchester College in Illinois. Deardorff has his team built around 6-6 center Dave Thompson and one of 4 lettermen on the squad. Others are Bob Bogart and Ed Miller, guards and Dick Edelen, forward as well as Jack Zapf and Bob Landwehr who share the other starting postions.
The team is reported rangy with Edelen standing 6-1 and Landwehr an even 6 feet. The Arrows lost their games to Toledo Macomber, Maumee and Toledo Central, but won the Lucasco Class B Tournament and the Leipsie District Tournament.
Head Coach Ralph "Blondie" Gartrell's Indians will leave Gnadenhutten on Wednesday morning by bus for Springfield. If successful against Ottaw, Gnaden will play the winner of a Waynesburg-Latham contest at 9PM.
Tuesday, March 17, 1942
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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