41 - Stone Creek Evades Port 30-24 (2-27-41)

Stone Creek Panthers Forward Dale Wherley clipped the nets for 12 points (4 field goals and 4 free throws) and gaining game honors leading the Golden Panthers to a 6-point 30-24 win over the Port Washington Purple Riders.  Wherley has 24 points in tournament play and is averaging 8 points per game.


DOVER - The Midvale Blue Devils polishing off a threatening Gnadenhutten Indians tribe and the scrappy Bulldogs of Dundee turning in one of the greatest basketball victories in that school's history by dropping the Strasburg Tigers, the 19th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament hit it's climax before a capacity crowd at Memorial Hall last night.  Other positions remain to be settled tonight and tomorrow night to determine who will win the Consolation final and become the 3rd team to enter in the Class B Sectional Tournament here next week.

Midvale, after a slow 3rd period, breezed over the dark horse Gnaden team 37-21, while Head Coach Ken Gartrell's Dundee club pulled the rabbit-out-of-the-hat, and reversing Strasburg 33-29.

The Dundee triumph, one of the greatest this season for the Gartrellmen, places the Bulldogs in the county Championship contest for the 1st time since Glen Jones' quintet copped runner-up honors in 1934.  It also assures the Bulldogs of a place in the Sectional Tournament at Memorial Hall next week.

Midvale, Eastern Ohio District Champions last season, will be defending the county tournament Championship when it plays Dundee tomorrow night.  The other 2 games of the evening saw the Bolivar Cardinals finally hit their stride to eliminate the Baltic Eagles 38-24, while the Stone Creek Golden Panthers sent the Port Washington Purple Riders home 30-24.

The Port Washington Purple Riders (1-2) (6-23) got off to a 10-7 lead over the Stone Creek Golden Panthers (2-1) (7-16) in the 1st period of a Consolation Division game, but it was only a flash because the Golden Panthers piled up 10 points in the 2nd period, while their defense held the Purple Riders to a fingle field goal to cope a 5-point 17-12 lead at halftime.

Stone Creek was still leading 23-18 at the end of the 3rd quarter; although, Port Washington came within 1 point of knotting the count before the Golden Panthers started up again and put the game on ice with a 6-point margin 30-24.

Forward Dale Wherley led Stone Creek with a big 12 points, while his fellow cager, center Gil Mizer, grabbed another 9 markers.  Bob Woodard finally started hitting in the last half for Port Washington and piled up his 10 point effort.

STONE CREEK GOLDEN PANTHERS - 30

Dale Wherley F 4-4-12
Brown F 0-0-0
Gil Mizer C 4-1-9
Ed Arbogast G 1-0-2
Wayne Kugler G 0-1-1
Bill Ridenour F 2-2-6
Don Buehler F 0-0-0

PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 24

Jim Goettge F 2-0-4
Floyd Kinsey F 0-0-0
Bob Woodard C 5-0-10
Ron Goettge G 0-1-1
Bob Goettge G 2-1-5
Roy Steinbach G 2-0-4
Duane Smith F 0-0-0
Dale Huston C 0-0-0


Friday, February 28, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

41 - Midvale Tops Gnaden 37-21 (2-27-41)

Midvale Blue Devils Guard Jerry Young scored 15 points and gathered game honors leading the Blue Devils to a 37-21 triumph over the Gnadenhutten Indians.  Young has a total of 19 points in tournament play and is averaing 7.5 points per game.


DOVER - First-year Head Coach Pete Wolfe's Midvale Blue Devils (2-0) (32-14), favorite of the tournament and apparently getting better with every performance, were "on" again last night, brushing aside the Gnadenhutten Indians (1-1) (25-23) challenge after bogging down in the 3rd period.  The victory was the 2nd over Gnaden this year for Midvale, the Blue Devils edging the Indians 39-36 on February 17th and losing to them 46-24 on January 14th...the wide range in the scores indicating Midvale's improvement.

In the 1st quarter Midvale was ahead 14-6 and by halftime was still in front 19-13 by the end of the 3rd quarter, the Blue Devils had a 13-point lead 31-18.  In the final stanza, Gnaden went down to defeat accumulating only 3 more points.

The defeat of the Strasburg Tigers and Gnadenhutten completes the elimination of the 5 seeded teams from the Championship Division.  TheTuscarawas Broncos and the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates were eliminated entirely, while the Bolivar Cardinals, the League Champions, still remains in the Consolation Division.

MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 37

Jerry Young F 6-3-15
Calvin "Tod" Hostetler F 2-0-4
Al Turrin C 3-1-7
Dale Ford G 0-2-2
Adrian Ford 4-1-9
Lloyd Swinderman C 0-0-0
Vic Paris G 0-0-0
Vic Cusano G 0-0-0
Glenn Booth F 0-0-0
John Downing F 0-0-0

GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 21

Dallas Crites F 1-1-3
Gene Huebner F 1-0-2
John Metzger C 4-2-10
Ken Kohl G 0-1-1
bill Schreiner G 2-1-5
Don Miller F 0-0-0
Ralph Long G 0-0-0
Al Gaibraith F 0-0-0
Bill Lockett F 0-0-0


Friday, February 28, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

41 - Bolivar Blasts Baltic 38-21 (2-27-41)

Bolivar Cardinals Sophomore Guard Warren Klink copped game honors hitting the nets for 14 points (6 field goals and 2 free throws) in leading the Bulldogs to a 38-21 drubbing of the Baltic Eagles.  Klink has a total of 21 points in 3 tournament games for an average of 7 points per game.


DOVER - The Bolivar Cardinals (2-1) (27-21), who played listless ball throughout their first 2 tournament engagements, went much the same for the first 3 quarters of their game "loose" with a 20-point splurge in the final stanza to hand the Baltic Eagles (1-2) (17-25) a 38-21 loss and a trip to the showers.

The Cardinals were behind 6-4 at the 1st period of play, taking a 12-10 lead at halftime and ending the 3rd stanza at 18-15.  With the game on the line Bolivar ripped the cords for 20 points in the last and final quarter, while their defense held the Eagles to just 6 markers.

Sophomore sensation at Baltic, guard Warren Klink, hit his stride to score 14 points, while teammate center Bud Ross came through with 8 more points.  Junior guard Bill Lint scored 9 points to lead Baltic.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 38

Russ Ross F 3-0-6
Calvin Jones F 3-0-6
Bud Ross C 2-4-8
Warren Klink G 6-2-14
Bill Lebold G 1-0-2
Don Lebold F 1-0-2
Paul Cushing F 0-0-0
Max Reed G 0-0-0
Joe Huffman G 0-0-0

BALTIC EAGLES - 21

John Young F 3-1-7
Paul Huff F 1-0-2
Glenn Regula C 2-3-7
Bill Lint G 2-1-5
Wallace Hahn G 0-0-0
George Christner C 0-0-0
Glenn Zimmerman G 0-0-0
Bob Regula G 0-0-0


Friday, February 28, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:  THE 1941 GRADUATION RATES LOOK LIKE THIS:

1.  Strasburg Tigers 47
2.  Midvale Blue Devils 41
3.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 35
4.  Gnadenhutten Indians 26
5.  Bolivar Cardinals 22
6.  Mineral City Tigers 20
7.  Baltic Eagles 19
8.  Tuscarawas Broncos 17
9.  Stone Creek Golden Panthers 12
10. Dundee Bulldogs 11
11. Port Washington Purple Riders 10

41 - Dundee Holds On To Whip Strasburg 33-29 (2-27-41)

Dundee Bulldogs Forward Milton Fruchey won game honors by ripping the nets for 15 points (6 field goals and 3 free throws) against the Mighty Strasburg Tigers in a narrow 33-29 victory.  Fruchey is averaging 11 points a game in the tournament.


DOVER - The Dundee Bulldogs (2-0) (15-24), defeated 12-11 in a freak game at Strasburg last December, started at full speed, sinking almost every shot which came their way and at the end of the 1st quarter were far ahead 13-3.  The 2nd period saw 2nd-year Head Coach Sam Andrews of Strasburg send in an entirely new team.  The Tigers defense gave up only 1 Bulldog point, while the Burgers began hitting the hoops picking up 14 points by the end of the stanza and the scoreboard showed 17-14...Strasburg.

Strasburg climbed up to 25-22 at the end of the 3rd quarter, but Fruchey scored a bucket and a free throw early in the last quarter before leaving the game on personals with his team ahead 29-25.  The Tigers came up to 31-28 on 3 free throws by Junior guard Gene Hawk, but that was the end for in the last 2 minutes forward Junior Machan sank 2 free throws to give Dundee the victory.

Fruchey's 15 points was high for the Bulldogs, while Senior forward Earl Lengler and Hawk scored 8 points each to lead Strasburg.

DUNDEE BULLDOGS - 33

Milton Fruchey F 6-3-15
Junior "Buck" Machan F 2-3-7
Don Weber C 3-0-6
Vic Smith F 0-1-1
Paul Jones G 1-2-4
Ralph Ogg G 0-0-0

STRASBURG TIGERS - 29

Ken Houtz F 0-0-0
Gene Gordon F 0-0-0
Carl Yackey C 0-1-1
Dick Welsch F 0-0-0
Tom Miller G 1-0-2
Gene Hawk C 2-4-8
Bill Schenk F 3-1-7
Earl Lengler F 3-2-8
Bob Rousch G 0-1-1
Ed Weber G 1-0-2


Friday, February 28, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

41 - Strasburg Sends Stone Creek To Consolation 33-27 (2-22-41)

DOVER - With 10 games last weekend eliminating 3 teams, the 19th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament today was ready to go into its final sessions with the Midvale Blue Devils established as an overwhelming favorite and with the Strasburg Tigers assuming the role of dark-horse...an outside contender.  Semi-final matches Thursday see Midvale who dropped the Bolivar Cardinals 34-20 in the 2nd round, take on the Gnadenhutten Indians at 9PM and Strasburg plays the Dundee Bulldogs at 8PM.  Two Consolation games will be held and Saturday night the 2 finals are scheduled.

Midvale was impressive Thursday night in turning back the League Champions of Bolivar, while Gnaden was not in its 37-27 victory over Port Washington, but the Indians are slated to give the Blue Devils a tussle.  Strasburg, which played the only regular tournament game Saturday night and turned in a 33-27 victory over the Stone Creek Panthers, will have its hands full with the Dundee sharpshooters.  The Bulldogs are expected to be a dangerous opponent; however, it may be able to turn in an upset.

In other games Saturday night the Port Washington Purple Riders turned the heat on the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates to win 48-30, while Bolivar found Tusky easy picking 35-23 after a big last half rally.  Both Sugarcreek-Shanesville and the Tuscarawas Broncos, 2 of the seeded teams, are now eliminated entirely from the tournament with the Mineral City Tigers which lost its first 2 encounters on Thursday and Friday night.  Tusky also lost its only 2 games and are now gone.

Only 760 fans, most of them lured by the Strasburg-Stone Creek clash, witnessed the Saturday night games, but Tournament Manager Harold Everett of Tuscarawas reported the tourney attendance favorable compared with last year.  Last year 702 fans attended the Saturday night session.

The Strasburg Tigers (2-0) (50-10) accomplished it's victory over the Stone Creek Golden Panthers (1-1) (6-16) 33-27 in the last 4 minutes of the game and only after 2nd-year Head Coach Sam Andrews of the Tigers had jerked his 1st team and sent in the varsity substitutes in the final half.

The Tigers took a 10-7 lead in the 1st quarter and continued on through the 2nd period, winding up at the half with an 18-16 two-point edge.  The Golden Panthers rallied in the 3rd period and were within one point of tying the count, but the Burgers swept into a 26-22 lead going into the final period.  With 6 minutes remaining Stone Creek knotted the count at 27-all when center Gilbert Mizer's long shot, which he missed, counted because a Strasburg player struck the net and guard Ed Arbogast counted a free throw and forward Dale Wherley scored a field goal.

That wound up the Stone Creek scoring and in the final 4 minutes Junior guard Gene Hawks dropped in 6 points and Senior forward Earl Lengler a free throw to give Strasburg its victory.  Hawk's 9 points were high for the winners, while Wherley scored a like number for the losers.  Strasburg lost Sophomore Carl Yackey, it's big center, in the 3rd period and Stone Creek lost guard Don Buehler in the final period.

The game indicated that, although Coach Andrews' club does not have any particularly outstanding player, he has plenty of reserve strength, which is always needed in tournament play.

STRASBURG TIGERS - 33

Ken Houtz F 2-0-4
Gene Gordon F 2-0-4
Carl Yackey C 1-2-4
Dick Welsch G 0-1-1
Tom Miller G 2-1-5
Gene Hawk C 3-3-9
Bill Schenk F 0-0-0
Earl Lengler F 1-2-4
Ed Weber G 1-0-2
Bob Rousch G 0-0-0

STONE CREEK GOLDEN PANTHERS - 27

Brown F 0-0-0
Dale Wherley F 3-3-9
Gilbert Mizer C 2-2-6
Wayne Kugler G 1-1-3
Ed Arbogast G 0-1-1
Ralph Kilehenmann F 0-0-0
Bill Ridenour F 2-2-6
Don Buehler G 0-2-2


Monday, February 24, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:

STRASBURG - The Tigers, after finishing 5-5, far down in the League Standings with the Stone Creek Panthers (tied for 6th Place), Head Coach Sam Andrews was looking forward to the new season and tournaments.  This season the Strasbrugers had a long hard row to make it back among the League's top teams (again 6th place with a 6-4 record) as Coach Andrews lost his entire 1st team from last season and had only 1 letterman returning.  The latter is Bill Schenk, a Senior guard.

Among the group most likely to supply the year's varsity material, were Earl Lengler, Gene Gordon, Jim Welsch and Ed Weber, all of whom saw a lot of action last season and this season as well and figured to be on the front line on the courts.  In Ken Houtz and Dick Welsch, both Juniors, Coach Andrews had a pair of excellent forward prospects.  Both are good shots, but neither has had a great deal of experience.  Fred Deibel and Gene Hawk, aggressive ball hawks, were also high-bidding-prospects and probably in line for a lot of action.

Outstanding Sophomore candidate is Carl Yackey, 6-foot 2 Inch tosser with a well-balanced knowledge of the game both on offense and defense.  Other Sophomore candidates were Tom Miller, Bob Rousch, Don Hullett, Don Harding and Junior Wallick.

THE MIDVALE MARVEL - The 3-year scoring mark of Frank Baumholtz, ace Midvale cager at Ohio University, passed the 1,000 mark and touched 1,013 Saturday night as the star tallied 24 points against Ohio Wesleyan and set a scoring pace for 5 Tuscarawas County cagers with collegiate quintets.  Meanwhile, Bud Ebert and Don Everett of Dover were aiding Muskingum top Denison University 43-42 with Ebert contributing 8 points and Everett 6.  Earl Fisher of New Philadelphia scored 15 points for Wittenberg as the Lutherans trimmed Masrietta 49-28.

Playing with the "Midvale Marvel" and the Bobcats is Ray Blickensderfer of Gnadenhutten who scored one point.  Frank went on to score 29 points in his last game and his final total points wasw 1,042, a new record for the University of Ohio Bobcats.

41 - Port Slams Sugarcreek-Shanesville 48-30 (2-22-41)

Port Washington Purple Riders Senior Forward Jim Goettge caught fire and jammed the hoops for 19 Points (9 field goals and a free throw) claiming game honors while leading the Purple Riders to a blow-out of highly regarded Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 48-30.


DOVER - The Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (1-2) (32-21) were unable to stop Port's Senior forward Jim Goettge.  The Pirates went down to defeat 48-30 without threatening as he sent 19 points through the nets.

The Port Washington Purple Riders (1-1) (6-22), the largest number of points in the tournament so far, was ahead 17-11 at the end of the 1st quarter in a Consolation Division contest.  The Purple Riders scoring machine continued in the 2nd quarter dropping in another 13 points, while their defense held the Pirates to just 6 markers and commanded a 13 point lead at intermission 30-17.  The 2 cage teams played nearly even in the 3rd quarter with Port Washington picking up a point on Sugarcreek-Shanesville 7 to 6 and the score at the end of the stanza showing Port leading 38-24.  The Purple Riders remained hot in the last and final quarter scoring 10 points which iced the game, while again their defense held the Pirates to but 6 points as their season ended.

Senior center Bob Woodard also scored 10 points and Sophomore forward Dwaine Smith picked up 9 markers for Port Washington as guard Earl Smith dropped in 12 points for Sugarcreek-Shanesville.

PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 48

Jim Goettge F 9-1-19
Roy Steinbach F 0-0-0
Bob Woodard C 3-4-10
Bob Goettge G 2-2-6
Ron Goettge G 1-1-3
Floyd Kinsey F 0-1-1
Dwaine Smith F 3-3-9
Dale Huston C 0-0-0
Lester West G 0-0-0

SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 30

Nolan Kaser F 2-1-5
Dale Weiss F 0-1-1
Junior Trachsel C 1-2-4
Earl Smith G 5-2-12
Merle Smith G 1-0-2
John Sundheimer G 0-0-0
Bob Immel G 1-0-2
Roy Blick G 2-0-4
Bill Mast F 0-0-0
Howard Moomaw G 0-0-0


Monday, February 24, 1941
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

41 - Bolivar Takes-Out Tuscarawas 35-23 (2-22-41)

Bolivar Cardinals Center Bud Ross swished the nets for 19 points (8 field goals and 3 free throws) and game honors while leading the Cardinals to a 35-23 win and sending the Tuscarawas Broncos to the showers...ending the Tusky season.


DOVER - In the 2nd Consolation Division game, center Bud Ross, scoring 19 points, brought his tourney total for 2 games to 32 markers, highest so far.  The Bolivar Cardinals (1-1) (26-21) jumped to a 7-5 lead over the Tuscarawas Broncos (0-2) (15-23) in the 1st quarter of play.  The Cardinals defense held the Broncos to just 2 points, while adding another 5 points to their total when the half effectively ended at 12-7.  In the 3rd stanza, Tusky came up with 11 points, but Bolivar continued the onslaught picking up 13 markers to end the quarter with a 7-point lead...25-18.  The Cardinals ended the final quarter with 10 points putting the game on ice, while holding the Broncos to just 5 markers.

Ross lead Bolivar with a whopping 19 points with support from his brother and teammate forward Russ Ross and Sophomore guard Warren Klink adding 5 markers each.  Forward Charles Eckhardt pushed in 9 points, while guard Dick Schumacher collected 5 markers for Tuscarawas.  Valley and Francis Dirodis, the Ravenna brothers, officiated all games.

BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 35

Calvin Jones F 1-0-2
Russ Ross F 2-1-5
Bud Ross C 8-3-19
Warren Klink G 2-1-5
Bill Zutavern G 1-0-2
Paul Cushing F 1-0-2

TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 23

Lester Meese F 0-1-1
Charles Eckhardt F 4-1-9
Charles Ramel C 0-0-0
Angelo Cerqui G 1-1-3
Howard Myers G 1-1-3
Dick Schumacher C 2-1-5
Phil Meese G 1-0-2
Warren Crites G 0-0-0


Monday, February 24, 1941
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

NOTE:

Former Head Coach George Wrentmore of the 1940-41 Bolivar Cardinals Basketball Team.

Head Coach George Wrentmore of the Bolivar Cardinals has enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and left his position at the high school on Tuesday, December 10th it was announced by Superintendent Karl Muster.  Coach Wrentmore, in his 2nd year at Bolivar, had already had basic training in aeronautics and was taking steps to obtain an officer's commission.  He reported to Cleveland and was expected to be sent to Kansas, according to the coach.

Wrentmore's Cardinal cage team last season tied with the Midvale Blue Devils and the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates at 8-2 for the Class B League Championship and this season had been a heavy favorite to grab the bunting single-handedly.  Supt. Karl Muster, himself a former coach, took over during the absence of Wrentmore temporarily, and was expected to find a successor to Wrentmore by the time the holiday vacation period was completed.  Muster coached for 8 years at Coventry, near Akron.  Eventurally, John Major was hired as Head Coach in January.

Coach Wrentmore's home is at Warren and he is a graduate of Kent State University.