39 - Tusky's Big 4rd Quarter Corrals Port 43-27 (2-17-39)

Tuscarawas Broncos 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Bob McDonald - Earl Myers - Fred Blackstone - Bill Arthurs and Earl Johnson.  Back:  Manager Paul Johns - Les Johnson - Clarence Rolli - Lester Meese - John Basiletti - Ray Stull and Head Coach Charmis Davis. 

Port Washington Purple Riders 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Dale Glazer - Bill Ludwig - Virgil Allensworth - Henry Linard and Bob Woodard.  Back:  Paul Glazer - Lewis Gracik - Jim Goettge - Ron Goettge and Head Coach Walter J. Meade.  Dennis Craigo not present.


DOVER - Before a colorful crowd of over 1,500 fans which filled Memorial Hall to capacity, the 17th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B League Tournament got under way last night with a near upset by the Bolivar Caradinals and a terrific battle by the Port Washington Purple Riders featuring the show.

The Strasburg Tigers defeated Bolivar 29-24 from the free throw line; Tuscarawas finally put on a last period rally to drop Port Washington 43-27; The Gnadenhutten Indians clicked to take the Stone Creek Panthers 39-21 and the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates downed a stubborn Mineral City Tigers 40-24.

With 3 regulars not in uniform, but sitting on the bench beside Head Coach Charmis Davis who temporarily suspended them for "insubordination" the Tuscarawas Broncos (1-0) (11-18) had a very hard time defeating the Port Washington Purple Riders (0-1) (4-18).

Port, which did not win a single game the entire year in League play, stepped out in the 1st period to grab a 10-8 lead, stayed in front throughout the 2nd period, but fell behind 21-19 at the half and by 28-24 at the 3rd period.  Tusky clicked in the final period to score 15 points to Port's 3 to win the victory and a sigh of relief went up from the Broncos bench...where regulars Fred Blackstone, Les Johnson and Clarence Rolli got little thrill out of seeing their teammates pushed to the limit.

Senior forward Earl Johnson led the Broncos in scoring with 14 points and walked away with game honors; although, his teammates Senior center Bill Arthurs and Senior Bob McDonald were right behind him with 13 and 10 points, respectively.  Sophomore Jim Goettge was high for the Purple Riders with 5 classy field goals for 10 markers.

TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 43

Earl Johnson F 6-2-14
Earl Myers F 3-0-6
Bill Arthurs C 6-1-13
Lester Meese G 0-0-0
Bob McDonald G 3-4-10
John Basiletti G 0-0-0
Warren Crites G 0-0-0

PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 27

Lewis Gracik F 1-2-4
Jim Goettge F 5-0-10
Henry Linard C 2-2-6
Virgel Allensworth G 1-4-6
Dale Glazer G 0-1-1
Bill Ludwig G 0-0-0
Dennis Craigo G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 18, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

SATURDAY 3-18-39 SCHEDULE

Baltic vs Midvale 1PM
Dundee vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville 2PM
Bolivar vs Mineral City 3PM (C)
Strasburg vs Gnaden 7PM
Port vs Stone Creek 8PM (C)
LOSER Midvale-Baltic vs LOSER Dundee-Sugarcreek-Shanesville 9PM (C)

39 - Gnaden Runs Over Stone Creek 39-21 (2-17-39)

Gnadenhutten Indians 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  John Metzger - Warren Parrish - Dallas Crites - Earl Crites and Dean Mills.  Back:  Bob Kaiser - Bob Miller - Earl Johnson - Ray Kennedy and Head Coach Ed Sears.

Stone Creek Golden Panthers 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Glen Brown - Clarence Burrier - Dale Wherley and Junior Arbogast.  Back:  Ed Lorenz - Gilbert Mizer - Vaughn Lautenschlager - Wayne Kughler and Ivan Hawk.


DOVER - The Gnadenhutten Indians (1-0) (18-19) were very impressive and the Stone Creek Golden Panthers (0-1) (4-12) were very disappointing in their game which saw the Gnaden lads easily win by a 39-21 score.  The Indians were hot, scoring from all angles, while the Panthers were completely off form, unable to dent the net, fumbling passes and throwing the ball away time after time.

Gnadenhutten led 13-3 at the end of the 1st quarter and was leading 22-6 at the half.  Stone Creek more than doubled their 1st half total, but was still down in the 3rd stanza 28-13.  The Indians outscored the Panthers in the 4th quarter 11-8.  In his 1st tournament effort this year, Senior forward Ed Lorenz, Stone Creek scoring ace, was held to only 3 field goals and a free throw by the Indian defense.

Senior forward Bob Miller led Gnadenhutten with 14 points picking up game scoring honors, while Lorenz, forward Gil Mizer and center Turner all scored 7 points each for Stone Creek.  Indian Senior center Earl Crites was also in double figures hitting 10 points.

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 39

Bob Miller F 6-2-14
Dean Mills F 1-0-2
Earl Crites C 4-2-10
Earl Johnson G 2-1-5
Charles Kail G 4-0-8
Warren Parrish G 0-0-0
John Metzger F 0-0-0

STONE CREEK PANTHERS - 21

Ed Lorenz F 3-1-7
Glen Brown F 0-0-0
Turner C 3-1-7
Ivan Hawk G 0-0-0
Wayne Kughler G 0-0-0
Gil Mizer F 3-1-7
Vaughn Lautenschlager C 0-0-0


Saturday, February 18, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Strasburg Squeaks By Bolivar 29-24 (2-17-39)

Strasburg High School Tigers 1939 Basketball Team.  Front:  Loren Miller - Maurice Bayer - Blake Roush - Lloyd "Mule" Haas - and Bob Dreher.  Back:  Head Coach Paul M. Roby - Bob Spidell - Bill Shroyer - Percy Tucker - Pete Welsch and Manager Pete Renner.

Bolivar High School Cardinals 1939 Basketball Team.  Front:  Ken Oberlin - Russ Eberly - Justin Huth and Jim Huffman.  Back:  Head Coach Sherwood Haueter - Stan Lebold - Paul Burris and Sam Notz.  Gene Steenrod absent.


DOVER - For basketball, the Strasburg Tigers (1-0) (43-9) and the Bolivar Cardinals (0-1) (21-17), in the 2nd game last night, easily topped the show and the Champion Tigers barely came through to take the nod from the Cardinals after a hard-fought contest 29-24.  Strasburg led 7-3 at the 1st period of play, 13-7 at the half and 19-16 at the end of the 3rd stanza.  Their lead was always in danger as the speedy Red Birds threatened at every turn.

Bolivar was ahead once early in the 3rd stanza by a 16-14 count, but Strasburg rallied to take the lead at the quarter's end.  Again as the final period started the Cardinals spurted, but the Burgers got "hot" and stemmed the rush.  The Cardinals couldn't seem to click regularly, but even so they outscored the Tigers from the field 11-10.  Strasburg; however, dumped in 9 of 15 free throws, while Bolivar counted only 2 of its 8 attempts. The Red Birds were assessed 12 personal fouls and Strasburg only 7.  Senior center Lloyd "Mule" Haas had been ejected in the final period.

Senior guard Bob Dreher of Strasburg led the scoring for both teams with a total of 9 points, while Senior forward Justin Huth was high for Bolivar with 8 markers.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 29

Maurice Bayer F 3-2-8
Loren Miller F 1-1-3
Lloyd "Mule" Haas C 1-3-5
Blake Roush G 1-0-2
Bob Dreher G 3-3-9
Bob Spidell G 0-0-0
Fred Yenny C 1-0-2

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 24

Paul Burris F 2-0-4
Justin Huth F 4-0-8
Bud Ross C 3-1-7
Stan Lebold G 0-1-1
Russ Eberly G 2-0-4
Gene Steenrod G 0-0-0


Saturday, February 18, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Trips-Up Mineral City In The 2nd Half 40-24 (2-17-39)

Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates High School 1939 Basketball Team.  Front Row:  Don Hershberger - Merle Smith - Bob Becker - Junior Jones and Earl Smith.  Back Row:  Head Coach Earl Sundheimer - Gene Labrach - Frank Berger and Ken Zimmerman.

Mineral City Tigers High School 1939 Basketball Team.  Front Row:  Wil Bailey - Bob Osborne - Alex Lindsey - Fred Fishley and Dick Carpenter.  Back Row:  Ed English - Charles Whitten - Head Coach Darwin Davis - Lee Hankinson and Bill Abel.  John Barton was not present.


DOVER - The 1st game of the 1939 Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament belonged to the Sugarcreek-Shanesvilles Pirates (1-0) (29-15) and the Mineral City Tigers (0-1) (9-21).  One forward, Bob Osborne of Mineral City, proved to be a big thorne in the side of Sugarcreek-Shanesville during the 1st half of their game, but the sharpshooter was bottled up in the final half and the Pirates went on to win 40-24.  Oborne, using an unusual one-hand hook shot from way out, scored 12 points in the 1st half as the Creekers had a hard time taking a 9-8 lead at the 1st period of play and then falling behind 16-14 at the half.

But in the 3rd period, Mineral City was held to a lone field goal by guard Fred Fishley and Sugarcreek-Shanesville gathered momentum to lead 24-18 at the end of the quarter and then went on to pile up 16 points in the final stanza, while the Tigers made only 6.

Oborne of the Tigers and center Bob Becker of the Pirates were tied for scoring honors with 13 points apiece.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville's guard Junior Jones hit double figures as well with 11 markers.  Guard Ed English of Mineral City was ejected on personal fouls.

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 40

Earl Smith F 2-0-4
Merle Smith F 3-2-8
Bob Becker C 5-3-13
Don Hershberger G 1-2-4
Junior Jones G 5-1-11

MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 24

Dick Carpenter F 0-0-0
Bob Osbourne F 5-3-13
Wil Bailey C 0-0-0
Alex Lindsey G 1-2-4
Fred Fishley G 3-1-7
Ed English G 0-0-0
John Barton G 0-0-0
Lee Hankinson G 0-0-0
Carl Hoover F 0-0-0


Saturday, February 18, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - 2nd Annual All-County Class B Basketball League All-Star Teams

DOVER - Seven of the 11 high school basketball teams in the Tuscarawas County Class B League are represented on The Daily Reporter's 2nd Annual All-County teams selected by the League's coaches and presented today.  Although the voting showed a scarcity of good guards in the League, it was brisk and close for most of the 5 positions on the 1st Team where 5 different schools won representation.  Two other schools won places on the 2nd Team, where again only a vote or 2 shunted some of the players from the team to Honorable Mention.

1ST TEAM

FORWARD - Ed Lorenz - Stone Creek Panthers
FORWARD - Maurice Bayer - Strasburg Tigers
CENTER - Bill Stevenson - Midvale Blue Devils
GUARD - Dick Machan - Dundee Bulldogs
GUARD - Bill Arthurs - Tuscarawas Broncos

2ND TEAM

FORWARD - Bob Miller - Gnadenhutten Indians
FORWARD - Earl Johnson - Tuscarawas Broncos
CENTER - Lloyd "Mule" Haas - Strasburg Tigers
GUARD - Blake Roush - Strasburg Tigers
GUARD - Justin Huth - Bolivar Cardinals

The 1st Team presents a pretty well-balanced combination with speed, size, shooting skill, ball handlers and floormen all having a place.  In Lorenz and Stevenson , the team has the highest scorers of the League; although, neither one of them received a unanimous vote of all the coaches which would be 10 because coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.

In fact, Dick Machan of Dundee, placed at guard, was the leading vote-getter.  Machan paced the stars with 9 of the 10 votes for 1st place and won the 10th vote for a 2nd Team berth.  Lorenz of Stone Creek ran him a close 2nd with 8 1st Team votes and the other 2 for 2nd Team honors.  Stevenson was 3rd in the balloting, winning 8 votes, Bayer next and Arthurs following close behind.

Gnadenhutten's Miller and Tusky's Earl Johnson ran the 1st stringers a hot race, but fell into the 2nd Team Division by a narrow margin.  The same was true of Bolivar's Huth.  Strasburg's Haas had little competition for the 2nd string center position.  Oddly...or not oddly...all 10 of the players winning positions were Seniors.  There were 25 boys nominated for the honors with Sugarcreek-Shanesville's Don Hershberger and Tusky's Charence Rolli setting the pace among those missing the team choices.

HONORABLE MENTION

Bolivar Cardinals - Bud Ross
Dundee Bulldogs - Victor Smith
Gnadenhutten Indians - Earl Crites
Midvale Blue Devils - Bob Baldwin and Frank Morrison
Stone Creek Panthers - Wayne Kugler and Ivan Hawk
Strasburg Tigers - Bob Dreher
Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates - Don Hershberger, Merle Smith, Bob Becker, Junior Jones and Earl Smith
Tuscarawas Broncos - Clarence Rolli and Lester Meese

Although Sugarcreek-Shanesville won the most nominations with 5, Strasburg...the League Champions...placed the most men on the teams with 3.  Tuscarawas was the only other team to win more than one place, copping one each on the 1st and 2nd fives.

Ballots voted by the coaches were counted and tabulated in the county school board offices under supervision of Superintendent W.E. Laws.

Baltic - L.P. Wortianinen
Bolivar - Sherwood Haueter
Dundee - Bob Lanzer
Gnadenhutten - Ed Sears
Midvale - M.R. Helwig
Mineral City - Darwin Davis
Port Washington - Walter J. Meade
Stone Creek - Jim C. Wilson
Strasburg - Paul M. Roby
Sugarcreek-Shanesville - Earl Sundheimer
Tuscarawas - Charmis Davis

Friday, February 17, 1939
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:  Frank Baumholtz "The Midvale Marvel," member of the Ohio University Bobcat basketball team, sank 6 field goals for an even dozen points last night as his Bobcat team smothered Bliss College 62-34 at Athens.  Snyder, Baumholtz's teammate, scored 22 points.

39 - 17th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament (1939)

DOVER - Seven trophies, emblematic of leadership in some phase or other in the county's Class B Basketball League will be presented at the conclusion of the League's Annual Tournament at Menorial Hall.  The tournament, opening tomorrow night with a program of 4 games beginning at 7PM, concludes with the qualifying of 3 teams next weekend for the Sectional Tournament at the Hall March 3-4.

Trophies to be presented following the county tournament are for the tournament winner, runner-up, League Champion, Consolation winner, sportsmanship during the season and individual medals for tournament and League Championship winners.  Strasburg High School has already won the League Championship and will receive the E. Fienberg and Co. trophy and the individual medals awarded by the Godfrey Electric Co.

The Daily Reporter trophy goes to the winner of the tournament, the Sanitry Milk Co. trophy to the runner-up, the S. Toomey Co. trophy to the winner in the Consolation Division, The Daily Times trophy to the sportsmanship winner and the Walter E. Lieser Inc. individual medals to the members of the team winning the tournament.  The trophies will be on display at Ress Bros. cigar store on Tuscarawas Avenue before the tournament.

Thursday, February 16, 1939
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

CLASS B TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE FRIDAY 3-17-39

Mineral City vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7PM
Bolivar vs Strasburg 8PM
Stone Creek vs Gnaden 9PM
Port vs Tusky 10PM

TUSCARAWAS COUNTY CLASS B BASKETBALL LEAGUE (1938-39)

1.  Strasburg Tigers (Paul M. Roby-9) 10-0 1.000 (10th Title/3rd Straight)
2.  Tuscarawas Broncos (Charmis Davis-11) 8-2 .800
3.  Midvale Blue Devils (M.R. Helwig-6) 7-3 .700
4.  Gnadenhutten Indians (Ed Sears-2) 6-4 .600
5.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (Earl Sundheimer-9) 6-4 .600
6.  Dundee Bulldogs (Bob Lanzer-4) 5-5 .500
7.  Stone Creek Panthers (W.E. Adams-1) 5-5 .500
8.  Bolivar Cardinals (Sherwood Haueter-1) 4-6 .400
9.  Mineral City Tigers (Darwin Davis-1) 3-7 .300
10. Baltic Eagles (L.P. Wortiainen-2) 1-9 .100
11. Port Washington Purple Riders (Walter Meade-3) 0-10 .000

39 - Frank Baumholtz (The Midvale Marvel)

ATHENS - One of the brightest Sopohomore stars in Ohio cage circles is little Frank Baumholtz, former Midvale Blue Devils High School cager, whose sensational scoring sprees as a member of Ohio University's Sophomore Wonder Team have been the talk of cage critics throughout the midwest.

Last night at Marietta Baumholtz hit the hoops with 10 points to bring his record for 13 games to 209 points and with 7 contests left, the former Tuscarawas County star is expected by cage experts to go over the 300 mark as he averages over 16 points a game.  In the Buckeye Conference race Frank has a wide lead over the field and may break Beanie Berens' scoring record.

Frank has been the sparkplug of a remarkable Ohio University Bobcat Team which has taken its place with the great hoop teams of the country with its new "streamlined" offense which is the fastest and most novel thing in cage circles today.  The Bobcats, with Frank leading the way have averaged close to 50 points per game and at present are leading the Buckeye Conference race with a perfect record.

Although Frank has been a big scoring gun, he has the respect of his teammates and opponents as a perfect team man.  Time and again this season he has had an open shot, but has passed the ball to a teammate who was a bit closer to the hoop.  "Frankie" is a great ball player, says Head Coach Bill Truatwein "and he'll be one of the best in the country before he's through."


Friday, February 10, 1939
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio