43 - Bolivar Tames The Mighty Tigers 24-23 (2-26-43)

Bolivar Cardinals Senior Forward Warren Klink hit the hoops for 9 points sharing game honors with the Strasburg Tigers' Senior Center Carl Yackey who also dropped in 9 points, lead the Cardinals to a hair victory over the Tigers 24-23.  Klink now has 34 points in 2 games for a 17 point average in this year's tournament.


DOVER - Senior forward Warren Klink, a four-year star at the Cardinal School, iced the game for the Bolivar Cardinals (2-0) (33-23) by sinking a free throw in the last 15 seconds to break a 23-23 deadlock.  It looked like it would be all Strasburg as the 2 teams played through the 1st quarter and 2nd-Year Head Coach Clayton "Doc" Kessler's Tigers moved out front to an 11-4 edge.  But in the 2nd period the Cardinals hit the hoop with amazing accuracy and racked up 12 points, while holding Strasburg to 4 and surged to a 16-15 lead.

Bolivar upped its advantage to 19-15 early in the 3rd period before the Tigers found the hoop, but from there on the race was tighter than olives in a jar.  Third-Year Head Coach John Major's Cardinals clung to a 23-20 lead when the 4th period opened and the rivals went 4 full minutes before either scored and then Senior Carl Yackey, Strasburg center, cashed a free throw to bring his team within 2 points of Bolivar.

After the free throw; however, the scoring again lapsed and less than 50 seconds remained when Senior forward Bob Roush of Strasburg let fly with one from the middle of the floor.  It parted the nettings beautifully and knotted the count and the game took on the indication of going into overtime.  The clock had ground away all the remaining time, but 15 seconds when Roush fouled Klink and the latter stepped up to the free throw line.  The crowd roared and screamed a bedlam in his ears, but Klink, All-County player for 4 straight years and All-State at least once, calmly pitched the ball at the hoop.  It hit the side, bounced and then settled, falling squarely through.

The shot boosted Klink's scoring total to 9 points for the game and permitted him to share individual scoring honors with Strasburg's Yackey.  Each had 3 field goals and 3 free throws.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 24

Warren Klink F 3-3-9
Paul Lab F 0-0-0
Russ Ross C 2-1-5
Bill Zutavern G 1-0-2
Jim Augsberger G 0-0-0
Notz G 1-0-2
Keene Lebold F 3-0-6

STRASBURG TIGERS - 23

Gene Bayer F 0-0-0
Bob Roush F 3-0-6
Carl Yackey C 3-3-9
Don Neidenthal G 3-0-6
Shroyer G 0-2-2
Dallas Yackey G 0-0-0
Jack Haas G 0-0-0
Glen Stille G 0-0-0
Jack Reiger G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 27, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Gnaden Sinks The Pirates 44-37 (2-26-43)

Gnadenhutten Indians Senior Forward Bill Lockett knocks down 17 points while leading the Indians to a 44-37 triumph over the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates.  Lockett has a total of 27 points in two tournament games for a 13.6 average.


DOVER - Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (1-1) (35-24) (14-3) might well lay blame for their defeat on the fact that they were unable to find the basket with any degree of success.  While the Pirates bowed to a smooth-working, classy club, they could easily have reversed the decision had a fair percentage of their shots toppled down on the right side of the hoop.  They were plagued throughout the game by their ill luck and the Gnadenhutten Indians (2-0) (32-23) (16-4) lost no time in taking full advantage of the sitution.

The teams see-sawed through the 1st quarter, but Gnaden finally edged out with a 10-8 lead at the rest period.  Slender though the lead was, it seemed all the Redskins needed.  And only once after that did they fail to lead their opponents; although, the scoring was close right up to the final stanza.

In the 2nd quarter the Reds went on to a 14-13 lead, but the Pirates tied it up at 16 and then fell back 2 points at the half which ended with the Redskins leading 18-16.  At the start of the 3rd period of play Sugarcreek-Shanesville bunched 3 points and gained a 19-18 edge, but Gnadenhutten quickly nullified it and then gained the lead again.  This time they never lost it.  They led 29-23 at the end of the 3rd quarter and at one stage in the stretch drive led by 10 points, 37-27 and another time by 13 points, 43-30 before the Pirates rallied and sliced the margin.

Senior Captain Bill "Billy" Lockett, eagle-eyed Gnaden forward, walked off with scoring honors by rattling the boards with 17 points, 8 field goals and a free throw.  Center Junior Trachsel of Sugarcreek-Shanesville came out with runner-up honors with 11 markers and contributed a great floor game.  He had 3 baskets and 5 free throws.  Lockett's teammates, Senior center Ralph Long and Sophomore forward Bill Martin each had 9 points.  Trachsel's mates, Sophomore forward Bill Neff dropped in 9 points, while Junior forward Warren Craigo pushed through 8 points.

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 44

Bill Lockett F 8-1-17
Bill Martin F 4-1-9
Ralph Long C 3-3-9
George Schupp G 0-1-1
Ken Kohl G 1-2-4
Chuck Glauser C 2-0-4
Bill Kilchenman G 0-0-0
Walter Gutensohn C 0-0-0

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 37

Warren Craigo F 3-2-8
Bill Neff F 4-1-9
Junior Trachsel C 3-5-11
Dale Weiss C 1-2-4
Bill Mast G 1-1-3
George Stutzman G 1-0-2
Corliss Smith F 0-0-0
Junior Miller G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 27, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Draws Tough Opponent In Gnadenhutten

Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 1943 Basketball Team.  FRONT:  Gene Mast - Dale Weiss - Junior Trachsel - Jim Neff and Warren Craigo.  BACK:  Head Coach Sundheimer - Junior Miller - Ernie Raber - Bob Lanzer - George Stutzman and Corliss Smith.

Gnadenhutten Indians 1943 Basketball Team.  TOP ROW:  Bill Drumm - Bill Kilchenman and  Robert Long.  2ND ROW:  Head Coach Ken Gartrell - Manager Chuck Miller - Walter Gutensohn - Ray Huebner - Manager Bill Vansickle and Faculty Manager Mr. Johnson.  3RD ROW:  Co-Captain Ken Kohl - George Schupp - Chuck Glauser - Ralph Long - Bill Martin and Co-Captain Bill Lockett.


DOVER - Tenth-Year Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's Sugarcreek-Shanesville High School Pirates (12-2) will take on one of their toughest foes of the entire year tomorrow night at Memorial Hall here when they meet 2nd-Year Head Coach Ken "Blondie" Gartrell's Gnadenhutten High School Indians (15-4) in a county Class B tournament semi-final.  The Pirates and Indians have not met this season, but both bowled over almost every Class B foe they met.  The Pirates suffered a defeat at the hands of Strasburg and the Indians were upset by the Tuscarawas Broncos 35-16 at Gnaden.  The next time the Indians played Tuscarawas...Gnaden won 51-25 at Tusky.  Gnadenhutten's 3 other losses were to Newcomerstown (Class A) 40-29 after the Indians had beaten them earlier 36-20, and then lost twice to Sebring (Class A) 46-21 and 40-39.  Gnaden also beat Uhrichsville (Class A) twice 26-25 and 22-19.  The game is considered a toss-up.


Thursday, February 25, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - The Maker of Champions

Ten-Year Former Strasburg High School Head Coach Paul M. Roby


DOVER - Paul M. Roby, a product of New Philadelphia High School and Otterbein College, who became knows as "The Maker of Champions" during his 10-Year tenure as athletic coach at Strasburg High School, is still tops in his field.

Roby's current Twinsburg High School cage team has completed a 16-game schedule without a defeat and is now in the semi-finals round of the Summit County Class B Cage Tournament at Barberton after having eliminated Hudson High School 34-23 and Macedonia High School 46-9 in the opening rounds.  The Robymen made a "grand slam" in athletics for the year as Twinsburg's 6-man grid team completed a 6-game schedule without a defeat and claimed the State Title when their offer to meet other unconquered 6-man teams was turned down.

Roby visited Tuscarawas County yesterday with his mother, Mrs. Martha E. Roby, 78, widow of U.M. Roby, who is selling her home in New Philadelphia and will move to Twinsburg with her son and his family.  While at Strasburg, Coach Roby's teams won 5 County Tournament Championships, 2 County Consolation Division Championships and won District Titles in 1933 and 1938.  He went to Strasburg in 1930 and resigned in 1939 to go to Twinsburg.  His record in the Tuscarawas County League has never been equaled.


Tuesday, February 23, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Saturday Night's 3-Game Wrap-up

DOVER - The 10 teams that started out in Tuscarawas County's 21st Annual Class B Basektball Tournament Friday night were reduced to 4 and the joust advanced to the semi-final stage as the 2nd 3-game program was presented at Memorial Hall Saturday night with the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates, Bolivar Cardinals and Strasburg Tigers registering victories and joining the Gnadenhutten Indians in the advanced bracket.

Tenth-Year Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's Sugarcreek-Shanesville team turned back the Tuscarawas Broncos 58-22, Bolivar nipped a surprisingly strong Baltic Eagles squad 44-39 and Strasburg downed the Stone Creek Golden Panthers 38-30.  Attendance for the 2 nights of the tournament totaled nearly 1,500 with 825 added to the 600 or more who saw Friday night's opening games.

Senior forward Warren Klink, stellar Bolivar performer and an All-State Class B Star, copped individual scoring honors for Saturday night's show by dumping 25 points through the hoop with 9 field goals and 7 free throws in the Bolivar-Baltic game.  His total was 2 short of the 27 tallied Friday night by Stone Creek's forward Bill Ridenour.

Monday, February 22, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

FRIDAY 2-27-43

Gnaden vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7:30PM
Bolivar vs Strasburg 8:30PM

43 - Strasburg Defense Holds-Back Stone Creek 38-30 (2-20-43)

DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers (2-0) (55-14) tightened their defense and had a decided height advantage which in the end was too much for the Stone Creek Panthers (1-1) (10-20) in the evening finals coming up with an 8 point cat-fight decision 38-30.  The Tigers muffled forward Bill Ridenour, the Panther scoring ace, in the 1st half to hold him to but 3 points, but Ridenour came back in the last half to post 10 points and carry off honors with 13 markers.

The 2 teams battled on even terms in the 1st quarter as the losers took an 8-6 margin, but Strasburg pulled away half way through the 2nd quarter and gained a 20-12 edge at halftime.  The victors added 4 points to their margin in the 3rd stanza which ended 32-20 and the Golden Panthers outscored their foes 10 to 6 in the final round.

The Yackey brothers, Senior center Carl and Junior guard Dallas, led the Bengals with 10 and 9 points, but forward Bob Roush was close behind with 8.  Carl Yackey was banished on personal fouls early in the 4th period and guard Turner and forward E. Kilchenmann were banished in the final minutes for Stone Creek.  Frank Cox of Dover and H.W. Staley of Coshocton officiated.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 38

Bob Roush F 4-0-8
Glen Stille F 0-0-0
Carl Yackey C 3-3-9
Shroyer G 0-0-0
Dallas Yackey G 4-2-10
Gene Bayer G 2-2-6
Jack Haas F 2-0-4
Don Neidenthal G 0-1-1

STONE CREEK GOLDEN PANTHERS - 30

Bill Ridenhour F 3-7-13
R. Kugler F 1-0-2
K. Buehler C 3-1-7
Mizer G 0-0-0
Turner G 1-1-3
E. Kilchenmann F 2-1-5


Monday, February 22, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Bolivar Gets a Scare From Baltic 44-39 (2-20-43)

DOVER - A 20-point splurge by 1st-Year Head Coach John McCormick's Baltic Eagles (0-1) (18-28) in the 3rd quarter came near to providing the meet with its 1st upset and only the sterling performance of Senior forward Warren Klink saved the day for the favored Bolivar Cardinals (1-0) (32-23) in the Red Birds' 44-39 victory over the Eagles.

With Klink notching 11 of his team's points, the Cardinals forged ahead 13-6 in the 1st period and continued to dominate the scene in the 2nd stanza when they romped to a 26-10 margin.  Senior John Young, diminutive Baltic forward, staged a one-man show in the 3rd quarter and potted 4 action shots and 3 free throws for 11 points of his own, to put his team back into the game as Baltic sliced the Bolivar margin to 4 points...34-30.

Bolivar's Klink opened the 4th quarter with a pair of free throws, but Senior center Bob Regula and Junior forward Bob Reidenbach hit free throws and Senior forward John Young potted a fielder from midcourt to bring the Eagle lads to within 2 points of tying the score as the crowd cheered lustily for the underdogs.  Baltic rallied later in the game and with 2 minutes to go again reduced their deficit to 41-39, but Klink saved the day with a shot from the pivot and guard Bill Zutavern hit a free throw in the closing seconds.  Young's quota of 7 fielders and 4 free tosses gave him runner-up honors with 18 points.

Baltic lost Sophomore center Max Regula on personal fouls at the end of the 3rd period and forward Pepper and Bob Regula in the final minutes, while the Eagles lost center Russ Ross in the early part of the fourth.  The teams broke even with 14 field goals, but the Cardinals tallied 16 of 25 free throws, while Baltic notched only 11 of 18.

Klink round up with 25 points picking up game honors, while forward Paul Lab collected 11 more points for Bolivar.  Baltic was led by John Young's 18 markers.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 44

Warren Klink F 9-7-25
Paul Lab F 5-1-11
Russ Ross C 2-4-8
Jim Augsberger G 0-0-0
Bill Zutavern G 0-4-4
Homer Class C 0-0-0
Keene Lebold G 0-0-0

BALTIC EAGLES - 39

Pepper F 3-1-7
John Young F 7-4-18
Max Regula C 2-0-4
Junior Ackerman G 1-1-3
Arthur Limbacher G 0-0-0
M. Schlarb G 0-0-0
Bob Reidenbach F 1-3-6
Bob Regula C 0-1-1
Eiler G 0-0-0


Monday, February 22, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Rocks Tuscarawas 58-22 (2-20-43)

DOVER - The Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (1-0) (35-23) (14-2) found easy picking in their contest with the Tuscarawas Broncos (0-1) (18-25) who entered the tournament without the services of 5 Varsity regulars who were suspended by 15-Year Head Coach Charmis Davis 10 days ago for training rule violations.

The Buccaneers scored 4 of their 1st five shots at the hoop and went on to lay down a withering barrage which left the Broncos helpless and held them to a single free throw, while the victors were amassing a 14-1 advantage in the opening 1st quarter round.  The losers battled back valiently to score evenly with their foes in the 2nd period as the half ended 23-19, but the Pirates had things their own way in the last half and led 39-15 at intermission.

Ten-Year Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's replacements were as effective as the Varsity, but scoring honors went to center Junior Trachsel, Sophomre forward Bill Neff and guard Bill Mast who contributed 35 of the team's points.

Neff and Trachsel tied for game honors with 12 points each, while Mast followed up with 11 markers for Sugarcreek-Shanesville.  Sophomore forward Dick Bonvechio led the Bronco scoring with 8 points.  Junior guard John Donahue of Tuscarawas was ejected on personal fouls in the middle of the last stanza.

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 58

Warren Craigo F 3-0-6
Bill Neff F 6-0-12
Junior Trachsel C 5-2-12
Bill Mast G 3-5-11
Dale Weiss G 1-0-2
Corliss Smith G 0-0-0
George Stutzman G 2-0-4
Junior Miller F 3-0-6
Bob Lanzer C 1-1-3
Ernie Raber G 1-0-2

TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 22

Dick Bonvechio F 4-0-8
Ellsworth Cox F 2-1-5
Chuck Lorenz C 1-1-3
Minnich G 0-1-1
John Donahue G 0-1-1
Gene Dessecker F 1-0-2
John Kopp F 1-0-2
Jay Herning F 0-0-0


Monday, February 22, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Friday Night's 3-Game Wrap-up

DOVER - Without a single upset to jostle the move, the 21st Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament eased into the groove at Memorial Hall last night with some 600 fans watching the 3 games that saw the Strasburg Tigers, Stone Creek Golden Panthers and Gnadenhutten Indians emerge victorious and remain in the running.  Stone Creek took out the Dundee Bulldogs 59-22, Strasburg defeated the Port Washington Purple Riders 47-21 and Gnaden, defending Eastern Ohio District Champion, eliminated the Midvale Blue Devils 48-21.

The victories scored by the Creekers and Head Coach Clayton "Doc" Kessler's Strasburg Tigers moved them only to the 2nd round of play, whereas the Gnadenhutten victory moved the Indians into the semi-final bracket where they next week will meet the winner of the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates tussle with the Tuscarawas Broncos.

While it would be fairly easy to pick Sugarcreek-Shanesville and the Bolivar Cardinals to win their games tonight, it would be quite a task to hand the nod to either Strasburg or Stone Creek on the basis of their games last night.  Both had easy times, but both showed traces of excellent basketball that promises to furnish the 1st fireworks of the joust.  Strasburg will hold an edge on height and last night used that height to great advantage over Port Washington, a smooth-working fast-passing combine that for a time threatened to make a close race of it.

SATURDAY 9-20-43 GAMES

Sugarcreek-Shanesville vs Tusky 7PM
Baltic vs Bolivar 8PM
Stone Creek vs Strasburg 9PM

FRIDAY 9-19-43 RESULTS

Stone Creek 59 - Dundee 22
Strasburg 47 - Port 21
Gnaden 48 - Midvale 21


Saturday, February 20, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Gnaden Mauls Midvale 48-21 (2-19-43)

Gnadenhutten Indians 1943 Basketball Cheerleaders...Jane Miller - Donna Rice and Jean Kohl.

Gnadenhutten Indians Senior Center Ralph Long won game honors by scoring 14 points (6 field goals and 2 free throws) while leading the Indians to a 27 point victory over the Midvale Blue Devils 48-21.


DOVER - In the 3rd Friday night contest, the Midvale Blue Devils (0-1) (33-17), winners of several county and Eastern Ohio District Championships and the home of the inimitable Frank Baumholtz, went through the entire 1st half and almost half way through the 3rd period before scoring a field goal against the slick Gnadenhutten Indians (1-0) (30-23) (15-4) while losing to Gnaden 48-21.

Almost reeking with class, the Redskins of 2nd-Year Head Coach Ralph W. (Blondie) Gartrell, worked smoothly from the start and in the face of a Blue Devils team that fought every step of the way.  Gnadenhutten gained a 13-4 lead in the 1st quarter and expanded it to 21-6 before intermission.  Renicker, a forward, snagged Midvale's 1st action shot midway in the 3rd period and with it touched off a mild rally that enabled the Blue Devils to outscore their foes 8 to 7 in the chukker.  But, Gnaden struck back with a vengeance in the final stanza and rolled 20 points through the hoops, while Midvale was colledcting but 7 markers.

Senior center Ralph Long led the individual scorers with 12 points and his teammate, Senior forward Bill Lockett copped runner-up honors with 10 markers.  Senior forward Carl Myers was high for the Blue Devils with 9 points (2 field goals and 5 free throws.

Frank Cox of Dover and H.W. Staley of Coshocton refereed all Friday night games.

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 48

Bill Lockett F 4-2-10
Bill Martin F 4-1-9
Ralph Long C 6-2-14
George Schupp G 0-3-3
Ken Kohl G 2-5-9
Chuck Glauser F 0-1-1
Bill Kilchenman F 1-0-2

MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 21

Carl Myers F 2-5-9
Renicker 1-1-3
Gene Hawkins C 0-2-2
Chuck Fox G 1-2-4
Leonard Fox G 0-0-0
Sam Booth G 0-1-1
Ray Bellentine C 1-0-2


Saturday, February 20, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Strasburg Slams Port 47-21 (2-19-43)

DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers (1-0) (54-14) led the entire 1st quarter; although, by narrow margins.  Then the Port Washington Purple Riders (0-1) (6-26) eased into a 9-8 advantage after the 1st quarter ended 8-6.  The Tigers; however, regained the lead early in the 2nd period and were never again headed or threatened.  Strasburg led 18-11 at the half and 30-14 at the end of the 3rd stanza and 2nd-Year Head Coach Clayton Kessler used a full string of substitutes for the 26 point win...41-21.

Junior center Blaine Gilmore of Port Washington snared individual honors with 11 points, but the Tigers' guards, Shroyer and Sophomore Dan Neidenthal as well as Sophomore forward Gene Bayer  each tallied 8 points and Senior Bob Roush picked off 7 more markers.  Strasburg was particularly stout under the Purple Riders basket and controlled the rebounds without difficulty, but the fight of the Port Washington crew on defense gave them an even break under the Tigers hoop.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 47

Bob Roush F 3-1-7
Glen Stille F 1-0-2
Carl Yackey C 1-3-5
Dallas Yackey G 1-2-4
Shroyer G 3-2-8
Jack Haas G 1-0-2
Gene Bayer F 4-0-8
Don Neidenthal G 3-2-8
Jack Reiger G 1-1-3
Jack Welsch F 0-0-0

PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 21

Ray Ludwig F 0-1-1
Duane Smith F 1-1-3
Blaine Gilmore 3-5-11
Frank Rhoads G 1-0-2
Duane Gilmore G 0-4-4
Clarence Linard G 0-0-0
Bob Goettge G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 20, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

MISSING HERO PRAISED - Above is a picture of Colonel Frank Goettge, native of Port Washington, who was reported missing in action in the early Marine battle in the Solomons on Gualacanal last August 14th, 1941.  General Alexander Archer Vandergrift writes in glowing terms of his ability as an officer and his fine comradeship in his diary, part of which was published in the illustrated magazine LIFE last week.

The above photograph was obtained from Mrs. Victor Kuhn, 325 E. 13th Street...a cousin.

Col Goettge was born at Port Washington, a son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Goettge, who with a daughter, Helen, now reside at Kent, Ohio where Col Goettge graduated from high school after starring on the football team.  He enlisted in the Marines in the 1st World War and served with the 5th Marines in the Argonne.

He was fullback on a celebrated team that represented the 2nd Division of the A.E.F. playing with stars from Yale, Princeton and other colleges in a game with the 4th Division at Coblenz, Germany, in 1919.  He later served as an aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps and as an aide at the White House during the Hoover Administration.

43 - Stone Creek Shell-Shocks Dundee 59-22 (2-19-43)

DOVER - Second-Year Head Coach M.R. Helwick's Stone Creek Golden Panthers (1-0) (10-19) trailed the Dundee Bulldogs (0-1) (16-28) through the 1st quarter, but grabbed the bit and flew into a long lead in the 2nd quarter when they stopped Head Coach Emmett Riley's Bulldogs with a single free throw.  Dundee finished the game with only 4 players on the floor when personal fouls sent 3 of Riley's 7 squad members to the showers in the 1st officially sanctioned game of 1943 in the 21st Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament here last night when Stone Creek blasted Dundee by 37 points...59-22.

The Golden Panthers, paced by forward Bill Ridenour who took a big jump on other contenders for the tournament's solo honors, hopped to a 4-0 lead, but then Dundee tied it up and went on to hold an 11-7 edge at the end of the 1st period of play.  But the Bulldogs couldn't stand the pace and fell behind 23-12 in the 3rd chukker.  The Creekers led 39-20 at the start of the stretch drive.

Ridenour, rangy and well-built, spear-headed his team's offense and finally came up with 27 points... 11 field goals and 5 free throws.  Smith, a Dundee guard, snagged 11, seven of them in the 2nd half.  First-Year Head Coach Emmett Riley lost Monte, a forward, Frankhauser, a center and Klein, a guard, on personal fouls and finished with a lineup consisting of forwards Philabaum and Frutig and guards Smith and Miller.  Miller and Frutig are a pair of quite small boys who had little or no chance against the taller Golden Panthers combination.

Ridenour of Stone Creek led all scorers with 27 points (just 3 points from the record of 30 points held by the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates' Harland Sliffe in 1927), while his teammate K. Buehler connected with 15 markers.  Smith of Dundee, led his team with 11 points.

STONE CREEK GOLDEN PANTHERS - 59

R. Kugler F 2-0-4
Bill Ridenour F 11-5-27
K. Buehler C 7-1-15
Mizer G 3-1-7
Turner G 1-0-2
E. Kilchenmann F 2-0-4
B. Kugler F 0-0-0
Bihart C 0-0-0
Reifenschneider C 0-0-0
Blind G 0-0-0

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 22

Monte F 0-1-1
Philabaum F 0-0-0
Frankhauser C 2-2-6
Klein G 2-0-4
Smith G 3-5-11
Miller F 0-0-0
Frutig G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 20, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

*Stone Creek came within 2 points of setting a team record set by the
Bolivar Cardinals in 1937 with 61 points and the Sugarcreek-
Shanesville Pirates who hit 61 twice (1927 and 1933).

43 - 21st Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament (1943)

DOVER - Drawings for the Tuscarawas County Annual Class B Basketball Tournament, which will qualify 2 teams for the Eastern Ohio Sectional Tournament, were held last night, dropping the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates and Strasburg Tigers, the county's 2 leading combinations, into separate brackets and pitting the Stone Creek Golden Panthers and Dundee Bulldogs against each other in the opening games on February 19th.  The tournament will be held at Memorial Hall here and runs February 19, 20, 26 and 27 with the 2 winning teams returning the following week for the Sectional competition which will inturn qualify 2 teams for the Eastern Ohio District finals.

The Gnadenhutten Indians, Sugarcreek-Shanesville, Strasburg, Bolivar Cardinals and Stone Creek were all seeded in the brackets before the drawing with coaches of the various combinations voting on the seeding arrangement which heretofore had been determined by the position of the teams in the County League race...which had been canceled for this year.

FRIDAY 2-19-43

Stone Creek vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7PM
Port Washington Purple Riders vs Strasburg 8PM
Gnaden vs Midvale Blue Devils 9PM

County School Superintendent W.E. Laws is Manager of the tournament and presided at last night's drawings.  Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates are the ranking No. 1 team in the county.  Sundheimer is back for his 10th year after a 3 year absence where he was Head Coach in Sugarcreek for 9 years. The League was suspended for this year; however, the teams did play games when they could schedule teams that were nearby.  The standings were:

1.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (Earl Sunheimer-10) 13-1 .929 (Lost to Strasburg)
2.  Gnadenhutten Indians (Ralph W. Gartrell-2) 12-1 .923
3.  Stone Creek Golden Panthers (M.R. Helwick-1) 7-3 .700
4.  Strasburg Tigers (Clayton Kessler-2) 7-3 .700
5.  Tuscarawas Broncos (Charmis Davis-15) 4-2 .667
6.  Bolivar Cardinals (John A. Major-3) 7-7 .500
7.  Port Washington Purple Riders (Unknown) 3-3 .500
8.  Baltic Eagles (John McCormick-1) 1-3 .250
9.  Midvale Blue Devils (Ralph W. Gartrell-2) 1-9 .100
10. Dundee Bulldogs (Emmett Riley-1) 0-7 .000


Tuesday, February 2, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio