The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-02-22

THE REDSKINS will be at
Crooksville on Friday night
where they will close out their
season against the rapidly-im-
proving Ceramics. The two
teams should be about evenly
matched with Caldwell winning
the first meeting 1882 mainly
on Hugh Walters 81 points. This
team of sophomores and juniors
will be strong contenderS for
the league crown next year as
they don't lose a man by grad
uation and have been giving the
leaders a hard time. The Ger
amicS feature mainly two high
scorers in Jim Johnson and Ed
Moore.
CALDWELL PLAYERS may be
in for a shock" when they
play at Crooksville on Friday
night, because there is a ten
dency to generate static cleo
tricity when dribbling on this
new floor. Then touching an
other player often causes long
sparks to leap between them.
The old gym floor, set way
down below the spectators, got
wet so often from flood waters
that it was raised about five
feet and covered with plastic
material. Coach Al Clark says
it was installed by Permar Pro-
ducts of GAINESVILLE and is the
only one of it's kind in the coun-
try. 1t is a maroon color with
the lines set in plastic, is bit
springy, and doesn't get slick
when wet.
THE JUNIOR HIGH team will
be at Ashland this Saturday
night where they will meet the
eight grade Ashland team
known as the "Whiz Kids. The
game was arranged thru Mr..
Strang and will be played as a
preliminary to another contest.
THE JUNIOR HIGH team will
not be eligible to enter the
tourney at Marietta this year,
according to an announcement
by Mr.. Wood, who has been
coaching the boys. 1t is under
stood that junior high teams are
now under the jurisdiction of
the state athletic board with a
definite set of rules to be fol-
lowed in regard to number of
games, etc. One ruling prohibits
teams from entering tourna-
ments except those held in their
own county or where they have
operated as league during the
season. Since the Caldwell junior
high team did not play in a
league (although they played
most of Caldwells reserve
games) they would only have
been eligible for the county
Junior high tourney. And since
they are not invited by the
county teams to enter the an
nual grade school tourney, then
they must mark their season up
as valuable experience. A good
game might be suggested as a
match between Caldwell and
county grade tourney winner.
FANS WHO ATTENDED the
game last Saturday night be-
tween Caldwell and Glouster
saw the leagues leading scorer
in action, in the person of cen
ter John Dunnette. "Bingo" as
he is called by his mates tailed
26 points to boost his season S
total to 338 in l8 games for an
average of 1873 per game. In
the league, he has racked up
291 points to lead his nearest
rival Ted Border of Dresden
who has 237. Scoring more than
half of his teams so points,
Dunnette connected for IL out
of 20 attempts from the field
for an average of so percent.
TEN YEARS AGO - The Red
skins dumped Woodsfield So
26 as Dick Wehr tailed Is
points and Ed Mazgay II .
Dexter City romped over Forest
Grove 30-19, Sarahsville 66-33
and Summerfield 82-37 to re-
main undefeated in the league
Batesville won from the
Alumni 40-34 and Summerfield
Alba Harriettsville trimmed
Summerfield 1928, Forest Grove
edged Harriettsville 27-24, and
Sarahsville needed three over
times to win from the Elks 50-48
At the Marietta junior high
tourney, Caldwell bowed to
| Newport 27-10