KENTUCKY STATE TOURNAMENT(S) 1937 Newport, Ky. "DAYTON MAN WINS STATE CROWN" George Moore is the new horseshoe pitching champion of Kentucky. The tournament was held at the Riverview Horseshoe Courts in Newport. The tournament closed Sunday, Sept. 19th. (Headline from unknown newspaper source) 1937 Championship/Newport George Moore 12-1 56.0% Charles Eha 12-1 52.8% Harry Henn 10-3 56.3% Edward Hull 9-4 52.9% Ray Wright 9-4 49.5% Harold McPhearson 9-4 44.8% Jake Morscher 6-6 37.8% Jake Nuhn 6-6 37.0% Harry Schaefer 4-9 36.3% Billy Henn 3-10 36.8% Kenneth Miller 3-10 30.6% Sep Morscher 3-10 28.0% Ossie Alford 2-9 31.4% Hubert Williams 2-11 32.3% Playoff Moore defeated Eha in a close game for the championship. Louisville, Ky. "VAN YOUNG RETAINS STATE SHOE TITLE" Van Young captured the Kentucky State Horseshoe pitching championship yesterday at Central Park for the third consecutive year, thereby gaining permanent possession of the Kentucky Horseshoe Pitcher's Association trophy. (Excerpt from the "Louisville Courier Journal", October 11, 1937.) 1937 Championship/Louisville (1st thru 4th) Van L. Young Unk. 65.1% Elmer McCoy Unk. 60+ William Nuttall Unk. 54.2% Henry Lucas Unk. 51.9% KENTUCKY STATE TOURNAMENT(S) 1938 "MOORE WINS SHOE CROWN" George Moore retained his title and lost only one game, that being to Ray Wright. The tournament was held Sunday, August 28th at the Riverview Social Club Courts. (Headline from unknown newspaper source) Newport, Ky. 1938 Championship/Newport George Moore 14-1 61% Ray Wright 13-2 50% Charles Eha 10-5 51% Harold McPhearson 10-5 50% Harry Henn 9-6 51% Edward Hull 9-6 48% L. McPhearson 8-7 47% Orville Goodwin 7-8 45% Jake Nuhn 7-8 42% Ossie Alford 7-8 42% Sep Morscher 6-9 41% I. Hampton 5-10 43% Harry Schaefer 5-10 41% Charles Boschert 4-11 36% Jake Morscher 4-11 41% M. Hutchinson 2-13 32% Louisville, Ky. "McCoy Wins Horseshoe Title Of State." Elmer McCoy, champion horseshoe pitcher of Louisville, Sunday won the State title at Shawnee park, playing Kentucky's top-ranking players without suffering a defeat. The victory gave McCoy the first leg on the new Stansanco three-year State trophy. He set a new high ringer average for State play, connecting on 67 in each hundred tosses. Henry Lucas, representing the Stansanco Club was runner-up, being defeated only by the new champion. One feature of the tournament was the remarkable playing of Henry Fox, 79, who lost only four games and had a ringer average of 47 percent. (Louisville Courier Journal- October 10th, 1938) 1938 Championship/Louisville (1st & 2nd) Elmer McCoy Unk. 67% Henry Lucas Unk. Unk. (Participated, place unknown) Henry Fox Unk. 47% McCoy had 0 losses, Lucas had 1 loss and Fox had 4 losses. Class B W.A. Brintlinger (winner) KENTUCKY STATE TOURNAMENT 1939 Louisville, Ky. "McCOY REPEATS AS SHOE CHAMP." Elmer McCoy repeated as Kentucky State horseshoe pitching champion by making a clean sweep of his ten games in the round robin state meet held on the Central Park lanes Sunday. Held on Sept. 24, 1939. (Excerpt from the Louisville Courier Journal) 1939 Championship/Louisville Elmer McCoy 9-0 62.0% Harry Henn 7-1 51.1% George Moore 7-1 48.0% William Nuttall 5-4 44.2% Henry Lucas 5-4 43.5% Robert Cartwright 4-5 42.0% Alvey Keene 3-6 28.7% A. Henry 2-7 28.0% Edward Hull 1-8 31.5% Joe Wilkerson 1-8 25.8%