39 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Drops Baltic 35-23 (2-18-28)

Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates Guard Junior Jones shared game honors with Sophomore Guard Glenn Regula of the Baltic Eagles with 10 points each.  Jones led his team to an easy 35-23 victory in the last game on Saturday night sending Baltic to the showers and a return home.


DOVER - Teams in the county's Class B Basketball Tournament reached the parting of the ways with 6 games Saturday, some going home, completely eliminated, others heading on along the trails that lead to tournament honors and qualification for the Section Tournament meeting on March 3-4.  A slender house of 900 were in Memorial Hall Saturday afternoon and evening as the Strasburg Tigers, Dundee Bulldogs and Midvale Blue Devils made their way to the semi-finals where the Tuscarawas Broncos awaited them for Friday night's games.  Three hundred attended the afternoon session and 600 in the evening.

Strasburg turned back a hard-fighting Gnadenhutten Indians team 26-19, the Dundee Bulldogs downed the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 27-25 and the Midvale Blue Devils coasted over the Baltic Eagles 54-32.  Teams defeated in the regular tournament headed for the Consolation Division where the Stone Creek Golden Panthers swamped the Port Washington Purple Riders 41-20, Sugarcreek-Shanesville ousted Baltic 35-23 and the Bolivar Cardinals trounced the Mineral City Tigers 34-20.  For Port, Baltic and Mineral City the defeats meant the end of the tournament and the end of their scholastic cage season.

Victorious teams return to the Hall next Friday and Saturday to continuous play and name a Tournament Champion which with the runner-up and the winner of the Consolation fight will be qualified to enter the Sectional Tournament which brings together all top Class B teams in Tuscasrawas, Carroll and Holmes counties.  Two of the teams will be qualified in the Sectional for the District Tournament at Dennison.

In Saturday night's last game in the Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament, guards Junior Jones with 10 points (5 field goals) and Don Hershberger with 9 points (3 field goals and 3 free throws) led the way for the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (2-1) (30-16) as they sent the Baltic Eagles (0-2) (14-21) home 35-23.  The Pirates led the entire route after the 1st period which Baltic led 7-6.  The Pirates then took the lead and ended the half 12-9.  The Creekers then extended their lead in the 3rd quarter to 22-15 looking forward to the 4th stanza.  In the final quarter, the Eagles managed 8 more points, but Sugarcreek-Shanesville continued their assault hitting the hoops for another 13 markers.

Jones of the Pirates hit double figures with 10 points, while the Eagles were led by Sophomore guard Glenn Regula who also hit double figures and the same about of points...10.

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 35

Earl Smith F 1-2-4
Merle Smith F 2-1-5
Bob Becker C 2-1-5
Junior Jones G 5-0-10
Don Hershberger G 3-3-9
Ken Zimmerman F 1-0-2

BALTIC EAGLES - 23

Otto Hager F 1-1-3
Harold Lahm F 3-1-7
Bill Lint C 1-0-2
Glenn Regula G 4-2-10
Ed Steiner G 0-0-0
Chester Sheetz G 0-0-0
Mark Domer G 0-1-1


Monday, February 20, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

SATURDAY RESULTS

Midvale 54 - Baltic 32
Dundee 27 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville 25
Bolivar 24 - Mineral City 20 (C)
Strasburg 26 - Gnaden 19
Stone Creek 41 - Port 20 (C)
Sugarcreek-Shanesville 35 - Baltic 29 (C)

NEXT FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE

Bolivar vs Stone Creek 7PM (C)
Tusky vs Midvale 8PM
Sugarcreek-Shanesville vs Gnaden 9PM (C)
Dundee vs Strasburg 10PM

39 - Stone Creek Blasts Port 41-20 (2-18-39)

Stone Creek Golden Panther Senior Forward Ed Lorenz, their ace scoring machine, clicked the nets for 18 points (7 field goals and 4 free throws) and picking up easily, game honors and led his team in trouncing the Port Washington Purple Riders 41-20.


DOVER - The Golden Panther's Senior forward Ed Lorenz came back into his scoring form against the Port Washington Purple Riders (0-2) (4-19) hitting the nets for 18 points as the Stone Creek Panthers (1-1) (5-12) came home on the chin strap after running down the Purple Riders 41-20.  First- year Head Coach W.E. Adams pulled Lorenz out of the game early in the final quarter.

The Panthers leaped to a 6-4 advantage at the end of the 1st quarter.  Stone Creek's defense blanked Port Washington in the 2nd quarter, while the Panthers team scored another 13 points and the scoredboard read 19-4...Stone Creek, at intermission.  As the Riders picked up the pace with 6 points in the 3rd quarter, The Panthers continued to run-up the score with another 13 points and at the end of the quarter led 32-10.  In the 4th stanza, Port increased their output with 10 points, but it was against a different Panther team by then.

Lorenz led Stone Creek with 18 points and no other player hit double figures.  Port Washington was led by their Junior center, Henry Linard with 9 points (2 field goals and 5 free throws).

STONE CREEK PANTHERS - 41

Ed Lorenz F 7-4-18
Gil Mizer F 2-1-5
Turner C 3-1-7
Ivan Hawk G 2-2-6
Wayne Kugler G 2-1-5
Glen Brown F 0-0-0
Lauten G 0-0-0
Clarence Burrier C 0-0-0
Dale Wherley F 0-0-0

PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 20

Lewis Gracik F 2-0-4
Jim Goettge F 1-0-2
Henry Linard C 2-5-9
Virgel Allensworth G 0-2-2
Dale Glazer G 0-1-1
Bill Ludwig G 0-0-0
Bob Woodard F 0-0-0
Dennis Craigo F 1-0-2
Ron Goettge G 0-0-0
Paul Glazer F 0-0-0


Monday, February 20, 1939
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Strasburg Out-Lasts Gnaden 26-19 (2-18-39)

DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers (2-0) (44-9) defending District Champions, moved to their victory over the Gnadenhutten Indians (1-1) (18-20) in the 2nd and 4th periods piling up their lead there.  The Indians slipped into the lead in the opening stanza with a 4-1 advantage, but the Tigers reversed the situation by outscoring the Reds 7-2 to command a 10-6 lead by halftime.

Gnaden matched Strasburg point-for-point in the 3rd period, where each team collected 7, but lost out in the final when the Tigers put on its stretch drive.  Strasburg led the Indians once by 9 points, 24-15, in the final period before a belated Gnadenhutten rally netted 4 points.

Senior forward Loren Miller of Strasburg paced his team to victory, but Gnaden's Senior center Earl Crites was nudging him for individual honors with 11 points.  Miller had 10 markers scored on 4 field goals and 2 free throws.  Crites hit the nets with 3 field goals and 5 free throws.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 26

Maurice Bayer F 4-1-9
Loren Miller F 4-2-10
Lloyd "Mule" Haas C 0-0-0
Bob Dreher G 1-0-2
Blake Roush G 2-1-5
Fred Yenny C 0-0-0

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 19

Bob Miller F 0-0-0
Dean Mills F 0-0-0
Earl Crites C 3-5-11
Earl Johnson G 2-0-4
Charles Kail F 0-0-0
John Metzger C 0-0-0
Warren Parrish F 1-2-4


Monday, February 20, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Bolivar Tames Mineral City Tigers 34-20 (2-18-39)

DOVER - In the 1st Consolation game of 1939, the Bolivar Cardinals (1-1) (22-17) had no trouble downing the Mineral City Tigers (0-2) (9-22) 34-20 in the Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament.

Forwards Senior Justin Huth and Paul Burris paced the Cardinals as they put the clamps on the Tigers of Mineral City in the 2nd and 4th periods to win going-away.  Bolivar led Mineral City in the 1st quarter by a mere 2 points...5-3, and would lead the entire game.  By intermission the Red Birds of Bolivar had extended their lead and led 16-5.  Both teams scored just 6 points apiece in the 3rd stanza with a Cardinal lead of 21-11.  The Tigers began hitting the hoops and collected 9 markers in the 4th quarter; however, the Cardinals never let up canning another 13 points to wrap up the game.

Huth and Burris of Bolivar shared game honors hitting double figures with 11 points each with both downing 5 field goals and a free throw.  Mineral City, in a team effort, collected 4 points each by forward Dick Carpenter, center Wil Bailey and guards Fred Fishley and Alex Lindsey.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 34

Justing Huth F 5-1-11
Paul Burris F 5-1-11
Bud Ross C 1-0-2
Russ Eberly G 1-3-5
Gene Steenrod G 0-0-0
Jim Huffman F 1-0-2
Ken Oberlin C 1-0-2
Stan Lebold G 0-0-0
D. Lebold F 0-0-0
Sam Notz F 1-0-2

MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 20

Bob Osbourne F 1-0-2
Dick Carpenter F 2-0-4
Wil Bailey C 0-4-4
Fred Fishley G 2-0-4
Ed English G 1-0-2
Alex Lindsey G 2-0-4


Monday, February 20, 1939
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Dundee Surprises Sugarcreek-Shanesville 27-25 (2-18-39)

Dundee Bulldogs 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Denver Smith - Loyal Peterman - Dick Machan - Vic Smith and Don Weber.  Back:  Ed Smith - Junior Machan - Milton Fruchey - Carl Laubsche and John Zaugg.


DOVER - The victory of Head Coach Bob Lanzer's Dundee Bulldogs (1-0) (13-20) over the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (1-1) (29-16), Tournament Champions of last year, was the high spot of the 2nd game on Saturday when the Bulldogs upset the Pirates 27-25.  A truly half-pint Dundee substitute turned the trick with a basket caged from mid-court in the last minute of play.

The field goal was tossed by forward Milton Fruchey, so small that the Pirates refused to believe he could hit the backboard from the center of the court and who was in the game because Coach Lanzer had no substitutes eligible to enter the game again.  As he pitched the basket he put his team into the lead 26-25 and just before the game ended Dick Machan scored a free throw for the final point.

The Pirates hopped to a slender 6-5 lead in the 1st period and maintained their 1-point advantage as the half arrived 16-15.  Dundee fell behind in the 3rd quarter which ended 23-20, but quickly caught up in the final stanza and succeeded in tying the score 24-all, but Bulldog center Denver Smith fouled guard Bob Becker who sank the free throw to give the Pirates a 25-24 edge just before Fruchey heaved the pay-off shot.  To many, Dundee's triumph seemed an upset, but officials refused to accept it as such, pointing out the fact that the Lanzermen had beaten the Pirates during the regular season.

Dundee's Senior guard Dick Machan, All-County in the pick of the coaches, led the scoring with 11 points.  Becker was high for the Pirates with 8 markers.

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 27

Loyal Peterman F 1-0-2
V. Fruchey F 0-0-0
Denver Smith C 4-1-9
Bronco Jones G 1-1-3
Carl Laubscher F 0-0-0
Vic Smith F 0-0-0
Milton Fruchey F 1-0-2

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 25

Earl Smith F 2-1-5
Merle Smith F 2-1-5
Bob Becker C 2-4-8
Junior Jones G 2-0-4
Don Hershberger G 0-1-1
Ken Zimmerman F 1-0-2
Frank Berger C 0-0-0
Mizer G 0-0-0


Monday, February 20, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

39 - Midvale Slams Baltic 54-32 (2-18-39)

Midvale Blue Devils 1939 High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Glen Booth - Frank Morrison - Jerry Young - Ray Davis - Walter Beahm and Rod Truman.  Back:  Head Coach M.R. Ludwig - Bob Swinderman - Bill Stevenson - Bob Baldwin - Dan Johnson and Warren Leggett.

Baltic Eagles High School Basketball Team.  Front:  Otto Hager - Chester Scheetz - Bill Lint - Marcus Domer - Ed Steiner.  Back:  Harold Lahm - Chester Froelich - Head Coach L.P. Wortiainen - Bill Domer and Harold Snyder.


DOVER - The Midvale Blue Devils (1-0) (25-13) and the Baltic Eagles (0-1) (14-20) in the 1st game on Saturday and conducted personally by Big Bill Stevenson of Midvale, who rattled 9 action shots and 3 free throws through the hoop for 21 points, claimed an easy victory over Baltic by the tune of 54-32.

Senior center Bill Stevenson, the League's leading scorer and the lad who broke a record set by the redoubtable Frank Baumholtz at Midvale, tallied 6 of his field goals beginning in the 1st period as the Blue Devils took a 29-12 lead over the Baltic Eagles by halftime.  Midvale led 17-5 at the 1st quarter's end.  Baltic drummed up a bid in the early part of the 3rd stanza, scoring 6 points before the Blue Devils could dent the net with a single one, but then Midvale blanked the Eagles, while collecting 8 themselves.  The period ended with the Blue Devils leading 37-18.

Stevenson's 21 points gained him game honors and his teammates, forwards Frank Morrison and Bob Swinderman, had 12 and 10 markers, respectively.  Junior forward Harold Lahm paced Baltic's attack with 10 points.

MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 54

Bob Swinderman F 5-0-10
Frank Morrison F 3-6-12
Bill Stevenson C 9-3-21
Stafford G 0-0-0
Bob Baldwin G 0-0-0
Jerry Young F 2-0-4
Walter Beahm G 2-1-5
Warren Leggett F 1-0-2
Dan Johnson G 0-0-0

BALTIC EAGLES - 32

Otto Hager F 2-2-6
Harold Lahm F 4-2-10
Bill Lint C 0-1-1
Glenn Regula G 3-2-8
Harold Snyder G 1-0-2
Ed Steiner G 0-0-0
Chester Sheetz C 1-3-5
Mark Domer F 0-0-0


Monday, February 20, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:  Mineral City's Big Bill Stattler tallied 2 points Saturday night for Ohio State as the Buckeyes downed Iowa 53-40 in a Big Ten game at Columbus.

39 - Tusky Benches 3 Team Members Against Port Washington

DOVER - Romance made its entrance into the Tuscarawas County Class B League Basketball Tournament at Memorial Hall last night and 3 of the Tuscarawas Broncos fidgeted on the bench like young men meeting their best girl's father for the 1st time.  Head Coach Charmis Davis called it "insubordination" and suspended the players for last night's game with the Port Washington Purple Riders, but unofficial dope was a little different.

The story goes that Davis warned the lads not to go "a courtin" before the tournament game and the ban proves that they did...so he cracked down on them.  If girls were there you might imagine their anguish as they saw their heroes sitting on the bench, not even in suits, as Port threatened to win.

"Why don't you ask someone else?," one of the suspended players said when asked why he and his 2 teammates were "sitting this one out."  The boys kept pretty mum, squirmed around a little, but they served notice they'll be back next week ready to make up for the mistake they made.

Which just reminds us.  If the boys under-estimated Coach Davis, they weren't the 1st ones to do that very thing.  How he does it we don't know, but when tournament time comes you can always figure Tusky in there with enough basketball to bid for the Championship. 

The All-County band again proved a big attraction at the tournament, keeping the spirit of the crowd up and lending a festive air to the games.  Last night's director were H.E. Mohr, George Polce and Harold Pixler, all connected with the county muisc set-up.

Here's a tip for Referees Vic Schreiner, Russ Stevenson and Fizz Miller who refereed all games.  From where we were sitting in the press box it seemed their whistles merely "chirped" and did not have the usual piercing blast which stops all play.

Cheerleaders, boys and girls in their bright silky jackets, jerseys, trousers and skirts were an eye-catching spectacle.  They went through all the movements of the jitterbug rage as fans lustily yelled for their favorate teams.  Most unusually dressed was the Tusky Cheerleaders, 2 boys and a girl, dressed as cowboys with hats, chaparajos and all.

A.C. Bahler of Sugarcreek, Tournament Manager, was well pleased with the big crowd which filled every seat and crowded the sidelines at the hall.  Over 1,100 were paid customers, 300 more getting in on passes, but the opening night was bigger than last year's 1st night, he said.

Delay between games last night caused a total loss of about 45 minutes.  The 1st game started on the dot at 7PM, but when the 4th game started it was 45 minutes late, starting at about 10:45PM.  The Hall was not cleared until after midnight as fans slowly treked out.


Saturday, February 18, 1939
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio