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

43 - Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball January Status

The above photo...Tuscarawas County School Superintendent W.E. Laws.


DOVER - Tuscarawas County's Annual Class B High School Basketball Tournament will not include a Consolation Division bracket and as a result the County League which was suspended this year, will qualify but 2 teams for the Ohio Eastern Sectional Tournament to be held at Memorial Hall in March.

This was announced today by County School Superintendent W.E. Laws, who has been named Manager of the Tuscarawas County Class B High School Basketball Tournament.  The decision of the Mineral City Tigers High School officials not to organize a team to play in a minimun of 4 games leaves the League with but 10 members and ony 2 berths in Sectional play.

The winner and runner-up of the county meet will carry-on for the circuit in the Sectional competition.  The count meet will be held on February 19,20,26 and 27 with 3 games on each of the 1st two nights the semi-finals on the 3rd night and the finals on Saturday, February 27th.  Coaches of the 10 teams to participate will draw for positions in the meet at the offices of Mr. Laws in the court house on Monday at 7:30PM.  The coaches will decide whether to "seed" the strongest teams in the county.

Admission prices for the 4 tournament sessions will be the same as last year...30 cents for students and 40 cents for adults.


Tuesday, January 26, 1943
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Status

DOVER - Tuscarawas County's most uncertain basketball season...you never know from one day to the next who's playing who or whether they'll play...continues this week with 6 contests slated and with one of the county Class B combinations definitely dropping the sport and another still undecided.

The Mineral City Tigers has given up on the sport for this year because of lack of a coach and the Tuscarawas Broncos...which lost its Head Coach Charmis Davis who left to work in a defense plant, is the undecided school.  The plant Davis is to work in is not complete and as a result he is back for a few weeks.  If the school has a coach, it will play.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

Gnadenhutten Indians vs West Lafayette Generals
Dundee Bulldogs vs Strasburg Tigers
Gnadenhutten Indians vs Midvale Blue Devils
Dundee Bulldogs vs Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates
Port Washington Purple Riders vs Stone Creek Golden Panthers

Gas rationing has already taken a 1st rap at the sport when the Newcomerstown District Rationing Board rejected the application of Stone Creek for additional gas.  The board also has jurisdiction over Newcomerstown and Port Washington High Schools.


Tuesday, December 1, 1942
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

42 - Meet The 1943 Midvale Blue Devils

MIDVALE - First-Year Head Coach Walter J. Meade, Dean of Tuscarawas County Class B High School mentors, is directing the destinies of the Midvale Blue Devils this year as successor to Head Coach Clayton (Pete) Wolfe who resigned to enlist in the Navy.  Meade, opening his 19th year in the county circuit, moved to Midvale from Port Washington and Gnadenhutten high schools where he coached 7 years in each school.

Coach Meade had but one letterman returning from last year's quintet which won only 7 of 18 games played for a 7-11 record.  The lone veteran is 6-foot Sophomore Gene Hawkins (4 points), who won his spurs as a Freshman performer last winter.  The Midvale "skipper" was required to build an entire new team around Hawkins and from all indications the squad will be filled with underclassmen.  Seven members of the Varsity squad are Sophomores and 2 are Freshmen.

The "A" squad of 10 members includes Hawkins, who is being alternated at center and guard; William Hunter (2 points), a Sophomore, who is also being groomed for center and guard; Sam Booth, a Sophomore forward; Alden Hensel, a Junior guard and Bob Meese, a Senior playing both guard and forward as the occasion demands.  Carl Myers and Don Gray, both Seniors and Gilbert Bartels, Jim Phillips and Ray Bellentine, all Sophomores, complete the squad.  Leading the imposing array of Freshmen are Dave Stevenson and Leonard Fox.


Friday, November 13, 1942
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Meet The 1943 Bolivar Cardinals

BOLIVAR - Third-Year Head Coach John A. Major, head of the Red Birds, has 10 men returning from last season's squad.  Eight of them from the 10 he carried to the tournament and 3 of them from his starting five.  Coach Major lost Calvin Jones (49 points) and Joe Huffman (29 points), but has returning forward Warren Klink (136 points), center Russ Ross (41 points) and guard Bill Zutavern (14 points) of the 1st five and Gus Augsberger (2 points), Jim Augsberger (0 points), Fred Charton (0 points), Homer Class (9 points), Paul Lab (1 point), Keene Lebold, and Ralph Peden from his club of last season.  All but Lebold and Peden attended the tournament with the team.

Klink, Ross and Zutavern are expected to get starting nods along with Gus Augsberger at guard and Keene Lebold at the other forward.  The latter 2 are far; however, from having their positions clinched as Augsbergher's brother is making a strong bid for that post and Class may push Lebold off the starting berth.  Two others are being carried on the squad by Coach Major, Dick Knox, who attended Dover High School last season and Max Swonger, a Freshman guard.  Knox is expected to make a good enough bid for a guard position in the tournament.


Friday, November 13, 1942
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

43 - Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball League Suspends 1942-43 Season

The above photo shows Tuscarawas County School Superintendent W.E. Laws.


DOVER - Tuscarawas County's Class B High School Basketball League, organized more than a quarter of a century ago, will suspend operations this winter for the 1st time in history because of war-time restrictions on transportation of athletic teams.  This was announced today be County School Supt. W.E. Laws following a meeting of the heads of all schools in the 11-team circuit at the county board of education offices in New Philadelphia.

The federal government has issued an order forbidding the use of school buses to transport athletic teams, debating societies and musicians to contests in a move to conserve rubber and gasoline.  Suspension of the League will not result in the dropping of the sport; however, since most of the schools will place teams in the field again this winter.  Each school will make up its own schedule, booking teams which come from nearby communities.  The home teamwill supply preliminary attractions, thus eliminating Reserve games to the Varsity encounters as played in former years.

Special emphasis will be placed on physical education work in all of the schools to condition students for active training when and if 18 and 19 year old boys are drafted for the armed services.  The League has also had difficulty securing referees for the winter schedule.  Only 6 or 7 officials have expressed interest in working games and most of them could give no assurance that they will be able to fill their officiating engagements when gas rationing becomes effective.

In several instances, County League coaches have conducted investigations to learn if parents of school children will volunteer their cars to transport teams on at least one trip away from home.  No report has been made on the surveys.  The fate of the Annual County Class B Tournament scheduled for next spring at Dover Memorial Hall is still undecided.  No further plans for the meet will be made pending further developments in rationing, Mr. Laws said.


Wednesday, October 28, 1942
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio