The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-02-15
S n 0 R rs
BY LONG
THE REDSKINS are in for a

HE nEDOhfNO are IN Tor q
brace of toughies this week.
end, invading Byesville for a
game with the Falcons on Fri
day night and playing host to
Glouster on Saturday. The
Tomcats, who drubbed Caldwell
72-4l in their first meeting,
have never been beaten de-
all season, losing to Phi
10 by only 50-48 and 52-51. Last
week they measured Roseville
9l-65. Byesville has picked up
a number of wins, mostly
against Guernsey county clubs,
but has not met the Redskins
previously this year.
LOCAL FANS are trying to
figure out what Coach Strang
has put into his players to pep
them up in recent games. They
are showing more spirit than
they have for some time as they
out-hustled their opponents in
their last four games, winning
three of these contests while
losing only to Dresden 55-45 af-
ter a struggle. The Redskins
have proven, at least in this lat
est combination of starters, that
they can play a pressing game
themselves as well as play
against it. This fact is especial
ly heartening to fans who have
been compelled in the past to
sit thru humiliating defeats at
the hands of such teams as New
Concord while the Redskins ap-
peared as helpless as babies.
CaldWell's season record stands
now at five wins against ten
losses, yet less than month
ago the Redskins were strug-
Cling along with two wins and
nine defeats.
AGAINST NEW CONCORD the
Redskins rolled up their high
est score of the year and at the
same time scored the greatest
number of points on New CDn-
cord of any of their opponents.
Philo scored the same on the
MuskieS early in the season
G5-40. Caldwell tied another
mark in the second quarter
when they netted 26 T1ints.
This feat was accomplished in
1876 in an 84-39 win over Glous-
ter, and was tied last year in
Crooksville TAG. This
ii tory over New Concord was
the first since 1914 when the
I.edskins took two close ones
45-44 and 43-41. That year Cald-
we'll won Is and lost six.
LEAGUE LEADERS fell hard
in the MVL and Noble county
circuits last week, Summerfield
bowling to Batesville 49-45 after
having drubbed the Beavers
69-49 earlier in the season. The
loss was Summerfield's first of
the season after 13 consecutive
wins. In the Muskingum Val
ley league, Philo was stopped
by New Lex 41-37 after winning
Is in a row. Earlier the Elec-
tries had defeated the Panthers
1888. Both leagues leaders
have only one remaining game.
JOHN DUNNETTE, Glouster's
one-man gang, who plays at
the center post, snapped a
league record last week when
he tailed 43 points against
Roseville in a 91-65 win for the
Tomcats. This mark replaces a
record set by Lloyd King of
Caldwell, who scored Al against
Glouster on Friday, Jan. 70,
1916.
HENRY X. SCHROTH, former
coach at Crooksville in the
MVL, has resigned as football
coach at Dayton Stivers high
school after three years. During
this time his teams won three
and lost six each season for a
total of nine victories and Ii
defeats. Hank" went to Day.
ton at the close of the 1947 sea-
son when his Crooksville Ger
amics steam-rolled other league
teams to hang up 10 straight
wins. Caldwell's margin of de-
feat that year was a mere 800.
ONE FAN WRITES, Present
day basketball stinks, Between
ridiculous Hotpoint scores and
footing. by afAcials, the.
game e~-lhagaEaeiasleped into a
farce. Why not conduct games
by telephone with each team
playing in its own gym and re-
porting the score to a central
commissioner? You'd get more
action and save more time. Won
der which team would be first
to score 1000 points in a game"
TEN YEARS AGO-McConnels-
vile clinched the MVL title
by blasting Caldwell 49-l8 as
Dick Stewart netted II points
while Dick Wehr led the fourth
place Redskins with nine /
Wehr was also high with nine
as Caldwell bowed to Philo
37-18 in another league tussle
Bill Hutcheson of the Noble
league-leading Dexter
City Tigers tailed % and "
points in wins over Batesville
1898 and Harriettsville 1921
Batesville dropped Sarahs-
vile ABA. Belle Valley was