Tuesday, March 15, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
THE TOURNAMENT TRAIL has blazed a path through Memorial Hall and after 4 consecutive weeks of the annual basketball wars, it will seem rather quiet here. The excitement shifts elsewhere. We have seen a few tournaments set up and run in the past and we would like to add our voice to those school officials and referees who have said that the tournaments here were run off in outstanding fashion this year.
W.E. LAWS - Memorial Hall Tournament Manager.
W. E. Laws and all of his assistants are to be congratulated for their work in running the meet as efficiently as they did. There are many behind-the-scene actions necessary to make a tournament run smoothly. These the fans always take for granted.
HAROLD EVERETT, Tuscarawas School Superintendent who had charge of the press box, kept everything going along smoothly there and those covering the contest had all the tools they needed. We have seen other, more celebrated arenas and tourneys which do not offer half the services necessary. We once covered a District Tournament game while standing in the crowd underneath a basket because there was no room at the press table.
Another year, we were relegated to a seat in the corner of an area right in the midst of the crowd, while unauthorized persons flooded the press section. Then too, we go to many tournaments where the starting lineups are never furnished and one must hunt around until he can find someone with a list of who is who and what number he'll wear. The services offered the press here by Laws and his assistants are better than we've seen in 90 percent of bigger and better equipped arenas, even those which offer free hot dogs and the like. Personally we'd like something in the way of helping us with the coverage rather than free refreshment or soft chairs to relax in.
WE RECEIVED A LETTER this morning from Bill Jones, star athlete at Stone Creek High School for the past 4 years. We're sure that Bill won't mind our using the letter here. "Mr. Cicconetti...I wish to express my sincere appreciation to you for giving our team and me the nice write-ups you did. I hope everything you stated in the Daily Reporter about me was true." "I would like to say that it takes more than one man to make a good team. Everything I have ever done in my high school career has been made possible because of the fellows on the team."
"I would also like to express my thanks to the sports editors and the coaches of Tuscarawas County for selecting me for the "All-County Team" and "All Tournament Team." We would like to express our thanks to Bill, the Stone Creek Panthers and all of the county athletes for making our task much easier. With the type of sports played in this area, the writing is much easier.
The Strasburg Tigers Jerry "Goose" Von Kaenel of Strasburg High School.
NOTE: GOOSE ON 2ND TEAM ALL-OHIO SQUAD (Wednesday, March 16, 1955)
Jerry "Goose" Von Kaenel of the Strasburg Tigers was named to the 2nd team on the United Press All-Ohio Team which was released today. The veteran Tiger Center barely missed being nominated on the 1st Five by 3 votes. Dick Davis of the Tuscarawas Broncos, Bob Zontini of the Midvale Blue Devils and Jerry Haswell of the Strasburg Tigers were on the Honorable Mention list.
The UP's First 5 in the Class B ranks had:
Larry Huston - 6-6, of Savannah
Carter Howell - 6-5 of the Flushing Orioles
Rex Leach - 6-4 of the Vienna Mustangs
Virgil Thompson - 6-0 of Lockland Wayne
Ray Pryear - 6-7 of the Copley Indians
With Goose on the 2nd team were:
Clyde Evans of Rio Grande
Tom Boykin of the Xenia Woodrow Wilson Cadets
Harold Marx of Wyoming
Dave Barker of the Columbus St. Mary Rams
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