The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-12-16
Redskins Hit Stride With Two League Game Victories
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THE REDSKINS wind up their
Le pre- holiday activities with
N, couple Of home games, one with
, McConnelsville on Friday night,
athe other with Summerfield on
ie Tuesday. The Big Reds, Winless
ocfand in the throes of one of their
oalworst seasons, may come to life
lie against the Redskins as stern re-
, ltribution for the stunning upset
Ia handed them in the gridiron
de finale. With the Muskingum Val
Srley League race SO tight, no team
Mican be considered a sure thing,
XII just as Glouster handed Caldwell
Ide first half scare last week. The
ldt Redskins possess a scoring punch,
but so far it has been more or
less dormant, especially in the
ad New Lex and Philo games when
CT little luck on shooting would
IN have meant the difference be
CT tween win and a few points
~ loss.
THE GOLDEN GOPHERS of
'le Summerfield come to town on
sc Tuesday night with an unbIem-
al ished record sitting atop the
a county league standing. The out
e come will\be a definite indica-
> ton of how the county team
e. stacks up along side the Red
6 skins. There will be two games,
t the first beginning at ZOO O'clock
lt Last year Summerfield finished
l! the season undefeated, but eff
S forts to bring the two teams to-
, gether were of no avail. This sea-
sons Gopher team seems to be
J just a shade under the county
: champs of last year, but the new
coach, Lawrence Brewster, has
nodded a smooth-Working com
bine around tall center Eugene
Cutler. At any rate the question
of county supremacy will be
settled after Tuesday night.
PHILO'S ELECTRICS were the
toast of valley cage circles last
weekend following their 36-32
win over previously undefeated
New Concord. This would rate
Philo pretty high except for their
decisive loss to FraZeysburg, a
team which later bowed to DreS-
den to further complicate the sit
uation. Remember Dresden en-
ters the league in basketball next
year, This leaves the New Lex
Panthers as the only undcfeatcd
team in the league. The Muskies
opened their season by defeating
class A Cambridge 52-42, and the
Bobcats made the win all the
more impressive by knocking off
East Liverpool, New Philadelphia
and Newark in quick succession.
But Philo's fast ball handling and
stiff defense combined to give
the MuskieS their first setback
All of which makes CaldWelI'S
five-point loss to Philo and two
point loss to New Lex seem not
SO bad.
BILL WOLLENBERG, New Lex
star. who copied the football
scoring title, is off to 4 flying
start in quest of the basketball
title as well. Averaging % points
per game Q1 against CaldWclD
he has racked up totals of % and
81 so far in single games. Lloyd
King, former Redskins star, holds
the league record of Al points in
one game against GIOustcr, and
on another occasion scored "a
against New Lex.
THE CAMBRIDGE paper re-
called last week, under news of
20 years ago, where Cambridge
utilized the old statue of liberty
play to beat Caldwell 10 at
LaKeVleW flelQ. FOr 1urthCr dc
tails you might ask Fred McDon-
aid, Don Hamilton, Merle Ball,
Ward Murrey, John Risk, Dean
Jennings, etc.
A LOCAL FAN, seeing numerous
all-star squads picked in prac-
tically every paper, handed us his
selections as a gag. Some of the
choices must be pronounced ra-
pidly to get the joke.
AIl-Americans? Z?
LIE ----------------L Locke, Yale
LII -------------- Sinktha, Navy
LG ----------- Grevinp. Temple
c -------- Kreemuf, Kentucky
RG ------------ Hale, Columbia