But I did find this great sports cartoon (below) from the pen of Bob Smith. It depicts Elyria mascot Petey the Pioneer (on the left) with guns a-blazin’, and the Elyria High basketball coach (note the tiny fedora), on the way to the Class AA basketball tournament in Toledo. It appeared in the Journal on March 13, 1970.
The cartoon is great. It’s bursting with energy and wonderful ink work, and is as fresh today as when it was drawn.
Of course, showing smoking guns in such a comic today would probably be verboten.
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By the way, note that the Cavaliers were not listed in the NBA Standings box. They didn’t exist yet; the 1970-71 season would be the team’s first.
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There is a nice article in the January 10th 2020 Elyria Chronicle about the OTHER team mentioned on that page, The Firelands Falcons. Bill N... https://chroniclet.com/news/187131/blast-from-the-past-50-years-ago-firelands-boys-basketball-had-a-season-to-remember/
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