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ir ma IkeTags*OSS1 •irel*ointskeyn\ DAVE Dll !theCOLUMBUSlt;APi — “Howmany points did BUI Boss get?*’Tha* was the first thine PaulWalker, genial Middletown high School coach, said after he reached the dressing room followinghis. Middies’ 63-33 win for theelate Class A basketball championship.“How many points did Bill Ross get?” A reporter told him “5.““That did it,” said Walker, Theveteran mentor gave much creditfor the win to the first-quartersplurge by the Middletown quint.• • *DON BARNETTE. Middie co-captain and guard, who stuck withthe Steubinville star all evening, yelled ’Barnette 16. Bn** 3. Ain't that somethin'?”Walker, coach of “the team that won't be beat can’t be beat**Middies, personally congratulatedeach Steubenville player beforehe accepted the huge trophys emblematic of: championship.♦ * *\GAI\ Tilt HI was muc.i cnt-iclsm of holding the tournament in ’he Fairgrounds Coliseum.’ The championship game was interrupted frequently *0 tourney official 1 could wipe out rain water from the playing floor. Someone suggested leaving a towel on the 'floor -and letting the teams play[ around it .! ... It was the eighth time innine years a Butler County team has been In the Class A finals, and the tenth time in 11 years that a Miami Valley team has been represented. It was the fifth crowfor a Butler County teamate cage ,011© it a champion back in his own home today, There wtome town. . . The victory hiked Waiter’srecord at Middletown to 114 win* agamst 26 losses. Walker becamecoach there in 1947.# » #WIN OR LOSE .a th. n1 .no highr school basketball finals.paradesirishes possible forBoth Steubenville and Middle- the two squads, town are planning big celebra- The Middletown team will be tions when their teams arrive met at Franklin.some s;xi-g*..11oy y/illfrom Middletown, with an a van stretch mg the fullfirst cars will be indown before the last one*leave Franklin.Undoubtedly, both teams will be guested at a aeries of lunches anddinner* for the neat couple of weeThere are 231 Class A teOh!f’. so like en if you finish second,there still art249 behindyou.im:
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 23, 1952
Page 21
Full Page
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