After printing that Elmer Harris of Mineral City had scored 52 points against Midvale in 1928, we found a note on our desk to the effect that Johnny Studer, a steller basketball player at Strasburg in 1931-32-33 and 34, might have scored even more. We checked on the records available and found that Studer hadn't scored that many points in a single game in high school. The former Strasburg ace was his team's top scorer; however, and he was a star throughout his school career. While Coach Paul Roby and Studer were at Strasburg, the Bengals ran through 39 consecutive league games without a defeat. The 1932-33 Strasburg team went to the state tournament in Columbus and lost out to Lancaster St. Mary's by a 28-20 score in the first game of the meet.*
Studer's four-year total at Strasburg was 1,061. We still can't say for sure, but it looks as though Jim Lorenz's 1,539 in his four years with Stone Creek will be the top total. Smiley Gordon, operator of the Reporter Print Shop, tells us that Studer was the terror of the grade school league while he was in school at Wooster Highway. "I can't say how many he scored in any one game in high school," Smiley says, "but I do know that he scored 96 points against Bolivar when he played grade school ball for Wooster Highway. I was the scorer.
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Tuesday, February 2, 1954
Art Cicconetti
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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