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Area Four Junior Lineup Grows; Legion Moguls Meet Here Sunday Pat’s Peckings By NEALE PATRICK I Moguls To Plan Sports Seasons ‘ Notes and noted on the sports scene . . . Politicians aren't the only folks Who make plans in a smoke-filled room . . . The ones who run the athletic programs meet to organize, too, and three meetings which, in one way or an other, affect Kings Mountain are carded for the next few days. Little League coaches will huddle with Commissioner Bob Maner tonight (Thursday) to smoothe-out the final plans for the Little League season here . . . The little fel lows Will toss out the first pitch on the local season next Monday, and all that means a busy time around many households of the community . . . The young-men of the house will be late for supper several nights a week for the next couple of months. American Legion moguls Visit Kings Mountain Sun day afternoon (April 26) for the kick-off session to plan the junior baseball season for ‘59 ... And, praise be, Kings Mountain will be represented at the confab, thanks to the last minute efforts to field a team here this summer . . . It first apeared that our town would sit on the sidelines this summer, but some of the baseball-minded and public spirited citizens of the town wouldn’t accept that fact, and, so, Kings Mountain Legion officials will be in the middle of the discussions here Sunday . . . Meeting time is 2 o’ clock at the Otis D. Green Post home. Meeting number three on the agenda will be the an nual spring session of the WNCHSAA at Albemarle next Monday afternoon, with Supt. B. N. Barnes of Kings Moun tain presiding over the affair as president of the far-flung high school conference, of which the Mountaineers are a part, of course . . . Election of officers, planning the base ball playoffs and making a final check on next fall’s foot ball schedules will be among the matters for the principals and coadhes at the meeting. Withers' Second Term As Jr. Coach More about the "last of the ninth” rally, the Legion staged to field a team this year . . . For one thing, it took Charlie Carpenter off the hook, so to speak ... As com missioner of Area FOur, Charlie felt a little like a team without a home field before his hometown came through with plan's to sponsor a team, too. One of the major factors in convincing many persons that Kings Mountain needed a junior team was the new state rule which would limit the local posit’s selection of players if it returned to the program next year . . . The rule specifies that a team entering or reentering the pro gram can not pick up players who played with another team the previous year .. . That would have been the case with several local boys who would have played with either Shelby or Bessemer City this year, if Kings Mountain had not entered the race. The naming of Fred Withers as Legion coach marks the return to the post for the Mountaineer diamond mentor ... He was coach of the local Legion club in 1955 before be ing employed as the junior coach at Gastonia for a couple of seasons. Turning from the young to the old . . . Tonight’s the night the Oldtimers make their return to the diamond meeting the Mountaineers at City Stadium . . . The high school coaches, supplemented by some other local base ball vets, will crank-up their throwing arms for the game sponsored by the High School Key Club . . . Proceeds, you know, go toward paying for the new baseball uniforms . . . So, let’s turn out and help the Mountaineers he a well-suit ed team. Holt Sees New County Conference Coaoh Prestton Holt of Grover sees the possibility of the four “super” high schools in the planned Cleveland County consolidation forming their own athletic confer ence in future years. “I don’t know what will happen,” he admits, “But I am sure there will be some type of athletics in the schools, al though it may take a year of two to organize the program after the consolidation . . . The four schools, in fact, might form another county conference, and if four is not enough for a good league, they might get a couple of outside teams to round-out a larger conference.” The Grover mentor also takes note of the fact that the new schools will be about the same size as Kings Moun tain and other Southwest Conference members, but won ders if the new schools will attempt to poin the SWC . . . He also sees the possibility of a fine junior high athletic program in the newr plans. One of the mysteries of the current SWC baseball campaign is Belmont’s faltering pitching staff . . . The Raiders were expected to have one of the strongest mound corps in the league, headed by triple-no-hit ace Bill San ders ... But the batters have found Belmont pitching more to their liking this spring, includiner Kine-s Mmmtnin'o to their liking this spring, including Kings Mountain’s re taliation for the two-no-hitters last year. And right here, we owe any apology to the Mountain eers, and to our readers ... We have noted in the last cou ple of weeks that Kings Mountain lost the two hitless games to the Raiders, and that’s true ... But we were wrong on the identity of the pitchers . . . Smokey Joe Wood hurled the no-hitter here, instead of Roger Helton ais we said earlier... Beg pardon. ’ Ivey, Sikes Post Top Rifle Scores Cpl. Bill Ivey of the National Guard and Frank Sikes of the Universal Gun Club tied for high individaul honors as the Gun Club defeated the guardsmen in a 22 cal. rifle 50-foot indoor mat ch last week. The fop scorers posted marks of 99x each. T. W. Bryant of Kings Mountain and the Club was second high for his team with a 98x score. Fain Hambright shot a 98, S. T. Greene a 97 and C. D. Coats a 96. The Gun Club’s team score was 488, an average of 97 3/5. Cpl. Bill Carrigan was second high for the Guard with a 97x score, followed by Sgt. Bob Carri gan with a 97, Cpl. Jerry Tucker 95x and Cpl. Harold Blanton 85. The guard shot a team score of 473 an average of 94 3/5. Bobby Biddix Blanks Grover On One Hit Bethware’s Bobby Biddix hurl <*d his third straight victory of the season, blanking Grover, 2-0, on one hit last Friday afternoon in a Cleveland County Conference game. Wendall White obtained Gro ver’s lone blow against the ace right-hander of the defending county champions. The Buccaneers reached David Hughes for four hits in the vic tory, a double by Don Horn be ing the only extra-base blow. Qrover has lost one of its top players for probably the rest of the season in the person of Dean Green who has a pulled muscle in his hip and has been ordered to rest for several weeks. At least 15 .teams wil partici pate in the Area Four American Legion junior baseball program lor the 1959 season. That number already has filed entry Into the race and a 16th team will be added to the fold on Sunday when Kings ML car ries-throuigh with its plan to field a team. The Otis D. Green Post here earlier announced that it would withdraw from the jun ior baseball program this sum mer, but efforts are underway this week to sponsor a team. All indication point toward Kings Mountain joining the Area Four race when officials of the sponsoring posts meet here Sun day to plan the summer season. (Area Four Commissioner Char lie Carpenter has called the ses sion for 2 o’clock at the Legion post building here, with athletic officers and coaches of the parti cipating teams on hand. The Area Four lineup is due to be larger than last year, regard less of Kings Mountain’s final decision. The 15 teams already in .the field is an increase of one ov er last year. When Kings Mit. definitely enters, Area Four will list the same 14 teams which participa ted last summer ... in addition to another team from Charlotte and a second entry from Ruther ford County, based at Forest City. The returning teams are: Shel. by, Gastonia, Belmont, Charlotte, Mt. Holly-Paw Creek, Bessemer City, Lincolnton, Cherryville, Hic kory, Newton, Morganton, Ruth erfordton, Granite Falls, and Kings Mountain. The new Charlotte team is sponsored by Post 262, whereas the old team is sponsored by Post No. 9. Two of the entries in the Area Four race are being co-sponsored by two or more Legion posts. Mt. Hlly and Paw Creek join hands to jointly field a team again, and the other co-sponsorship is be tween Granite Falls-Hudson-and Lenoir posts. The state Legion junior pro gram also shows a larger entry list this year, with 44 teams (45 if Kings ML enters) in the Ole when Kings Mt. enters) in the Ole North State, compared to 38 last year. Area Four remains the largest in number of teams, 15 or 16. A rea three has 13, Area One has nine, and Area Two has seven. The lineup for the other areas in the state Legion race this sum. mer: AREA I (Northwest) — Ra | leigh, Durham, Morehead City, Rocky Mount, Graham, Siler City, Jacksonville, Ahoskie, and Wen I dell. AREA II (Southeast) — Wil mington, St. Pauls, Fayetteville, Red Springs, Lumberton, Castle Hayne, and Laurinburg. AREA III (Piedmont) — Lex ington, Salisbury, Monroe, Tho rn asville, Asheboro, Hamlet, Con. cord, Greensboro, Statesville, Al. bemarle, Kannapolis, Mocksville, and Spencer. League play in the areas will get underway about the first of June, and the Area champion imust be determined by July 22. State Smei-finals between Area champions start on July 25, and the state championship series on August 5. The state champion must be named by August 14. K. M. By NEALE PATRICK Kings Mountain American Le gion junior baseball staged a “last of the ninth rally” and will participate in the Area Four pro. gram this summer. Through the efforts of local Le gionnaires and other interested persons here who have promised their support in conducting the summer diamond program for Kings Mountain youths, the Otis D. Green Post will take part in the 1959 campaign after first be ing dounted out for the season. Charlie Carpenter, Jr., commis sioner of (Legion baseball in Area Four, and Commander Ray Cline JOHN GAMBLE business manager George Wilson Joins Rochester In International George Wilson makes another stop in a high minor league in his travels along baseball’s high way ithas season. The Kings Mountain resident joined the Rochester Red Wings of the International League this week after being sold to that tri ple-A club by he Denver Bears of the American Association. Wilson could not come to terms with the Denver team for which he play ed for the past two summers and spent the spring training season at home while the Bear manage ment tried to peddle his contract. Rochester bought the contract late last week and Wilson left by plane Sunday for Rochester to join the International League team. He .turned right-around up on his arrival in Rochester, fly ing with his new team to Hava na, Cuba, for his first series. This marks Wilson’s first sea son in the International League, one of the top three minor cir cuits in Organized Baseball. He has played six seasons in other the AAA league, American Association, including ithe last two with Denver. He also played a couple of years with Minn eapolis and Louisville of the As sociation. Wilson also has made four stops in the major leagues, with the Bed Sox, White Sox, Giants, and Yankees. Rochester is a farm club of the St. Louis Cardinals and, thus, the fifth major league organization in which Wilson has played. “He was tickled to get a chan ce to play in the International League”, said his wife here this week, “He has always wanted a chance in the International Lea gue and believes he will hit well in that circuit." Wilson’s old friend, Cot Deal, is manager of Rochester. Minette Softball Champs Open Season Vs. Champion Y Tonight Minette Mills, defending; state champion softball team will open its 1959 season tonight (Thurs day) at 7:30, meeting the strong Champion Y of Canton at the Brice Harry Memorial Park in Grover. The game is the opener in a new seven-team South Atlantic Softball league of which Min ette is a member. The contest ori ginally was carded for last Sat urday night.but was rained out and rescheduled for Thursday night. Minette also will play ait home on Saturday night, meeting the Tri-City Barber College team of Knoxville, Tenn. A 12-game schedule has been arranged for the first half of the South Atlantic Softball League season which continues through June 20. The second half card will be drafted after that date, and the champions of both hal ves will meet in a post-season playoff. Other teams in the league will be Charlotte, Parks Cigarette of Smyrna, Ga., McLean Whitney of Winston Salem, and Brock’s Ice Cream Bar of Hendersonville. The teams will meet each other on a home and home basis during the first half. Zero Hastings will manage the defending state champion Min ette team this year and he has most of the /stars on last sum mer’s title team returning. Wade Vaughn and Lefty Orbin Taylor, the one-two pitching pun ch last season, return, and will have mound help from Jack Pat terson, who pitched for Minette two years ago, and a high school youngster, Phil' Roark.' The lat ter hails from the Holly Hills section of South Carolina is ra ted a fine softball hurling pros pect. Harold Sheppard again will be behind the plate, with the Min ette infield reading: Ken Ham rick at first, Roy Moss at second, Tippy Francis on shortstop, and John Gold at third base. The outfield will list, left to right, Loy Paige, Wayne Appling and Gene Turner. Outfielder Don Ellis, now In the army is the lone loss from last year’s title team. Minette’s league schedule. HOME GAMES April 23 — Champion Y April 25 — Tri-City Barber Col lege. May 2 — Brock’s Ice Cream. May 15 — McLean Whitney. May 16 — Parks Cigarettes. May 23 — Charlotte, GAMES AWAY May 9 — at Charlotte. May 30 — Parks Cigarette at Smyrna. Ga. June 5 — Campion Y at Can ton. June 6 — TrfjClty Barber Col lege at Knoxville, Tenn. June 13 — McLean Whitney, at Winston-Salem. June 20 — Brock’s Ice Cream Bar, at Hendersonville. Will Sponsor of th« local Post are two of the persons mainly responsible for breathing new life into junior baseball here. Cline has accepted the position of athletic officer for Post No. 155 and will be general chairman of the group operating junior baseball for the summer. Three members of the Kings Mountain High School coaching staff have been employed to coa ch and direct the program on the field. Mountaineer baseball coach Fred Withers will be the head coach of the juniors, and his high school asistant, Bill Bates, also wil aid him with the Legion club. Football coach John Gamble will serve as business manager for the team. The high school coaches were employed in an effort to operate the junior baseball program on the same basis as the Mountain eer athletic department. Full accounting will be made of all receipts and expenses in the program, with city clerk Jcc McDaniel serving as treasurer of junior baseball. Several other Legion members and interested fans have agreed to aid the program and the group FRED WITHERS ... named Legion Junior coach Fisher Goes Route In F.C. Win; K. M. Rally Falls Short At Shelby McCurdy's And Jenny Oates Win Bowling Titles McCurdy’s Cleaners in the Sportsman League and the Jenny Oates team in the Ladies League wear the championship bowling crowns for this season. They won championship roll offs in matches this weeK at the Mountain Lane Center. The second-half champion Mc Curdy’s outfit defeated the first half winner Champions three ga mes to two in the roll off for the Sportsman title. McCurdy’s won the first game, 518-476. The Champions copped the next two by scores of 528-522 and 484-479. But McCurdy’s ral lied to win the final two games. 495-485 and by 492-448 in the fi nal game. Jim Guyton s 120 line was tops for McCurdy’s in the roll-off, with R. Van Dyke hitting a 123 for Champions. The second half champion Jen. ny Oates team defeated the first half winners, Lib Bolin club, on a total pintail basis, 1334~to-1234 in the rolloff. Jenny Oates rolled the high line of 106 and tied with Diana Gamble with 284 sets each to lead the champions. Lib Bolin had high line for her club, 92, and Francis Franklin the high set, 257. K. M. Golfers, Nett ers Lose Kings Mountain High’s golf and tennis teams lost a double header to Shelby in matches played here Monday afternoon. Graeme Reeves, exchange stu dent from New Zealand, won the lone match for the Mountaineer netters who lost by a 6-1 score in matches played-on the Deal Street Recreation Center courts. The local golfers lost by a 13% . % score in the round played over the Kings Mountain Coun try Club course. Monday's losses were the third straight of the season for both local clubs, who play host to R. S. Central here next Monday af ternoon. in their next matches. Summaries in tennis: Graeme Reeves (KM) beat Joe Ponder, 6-1, 6-1. Jack Hamrick (S) beat Jimmy Plonk, 6-2, 6-4. Jerry Trammell (S) beat Har old Huffstetler, 6-2, 6-0. Julian Wray (S) beat Bill Ramseur, 6-0, 7-5. Jimmy Macomson (S) beat Jimmy White, 8-6, 6-2. Trammell and Ponder (S) beat Reeves and Plonk, 7-5, 6-0. Hamrick and Stokes (S) beat Huffstetler and Houston, 6-3, 2-6, 64. Franklin Dean turned in the best medal score for the Moun taineer golfers, an 87, and Turk Falls shot a 92. Tony Hammock of Shelby was the links medalist with a 75 score. The Mountaineers parlayed a pair of big innings into a victory and a loss in Southwest Confer ence diamond games last week. Kings Mountain was the victim of a quick start at Shelby last Wednesday night, as the league, leading Lions scored three runs in ithe first fraime, and then held on against a battling Mountain eer club to win, 5-3. Two afternoons later, the Mountaineers- had a biig opening inning of their own, scoring four runs in their first turn and e nough to score a 4-2 triumph ov er Forest City. Friday’s win was the Moun taineers’ second this season over Cool Springs as the local lads opened the second half of their slate. The Mountaineers put together three hits, a couple of walks and an error to mark-up the import ant four runs in the first frame at Forest City. Punch Parker, Ken Smith and Larry Pearson punch ed out the blows in the early up rising, with Smith's one bagger sending two mates across the plate. Don Tignor started the outburst with a walk and Don Fisher also Grew a pass against Lefty Haw kins who retired during the rally. Gene Medford came on to halt the big Inning, and allowed only two hits the remainder of the game, but the damage had been done. Fisher, meanwhile, pitched his second complete game of the sea son — the only Mountaineer pit cher, incidentally, who has gone the route — in stopping Cool Springs. It was his third win without a loss on the season. He allowed only four hits and only one figured in Forest City scoring. Two infield errors help ed the losers cause in the pair of tallies in the fifth fraime. The Mountaineers gave the de. fending champion and pace-set ting Shelby club one of its rough est tussles of the season in last Wednesday night's encounter. Jerry Wright turned in a spark ling relief pitching job against the Lions, putting out the fire after three runs had scored in the first inning, and then allowing only three hits and two runs the remainder of the way. Shelby picked up its three early runs against Perry Cham pion, with Hayward Hull and Ronnie O’Shields contributing doubles to the cause. The same two sluggers put together two hits, a triple by Hull and single by O’ShSelds, for what proved to be the winning run in the third. Kings Mountain kept pecking away at Robert Camp, scoring two in the second on Punch Park er’s life on an error, Ronnie Pear, son’s walk, and Fisher’s triple. A walk to Parker and single by Mike Ware produced another run ir. the sixth. Ken Smith opened the seventh with a single and Wright drew a walk, and that signaled the ap. pear»Twv» of Johnny Kouri who stopped the threat by retiring tne final three batters. (Box Scores on Page 3) j Junior Team further solicits the support of all i baseball fans in keeping alive the diamond setup for 15-17 year old boys In the community. Post officials and the athletic com mittee insist that the success of the season, and of future sea sons, depends on the support of the fans .this summer. The group, in fact, indicated that the reason behind the last minute sponsorship of the pro gram is the belief that the peo ple of Kings Mountain want and deserve junior baseball. Additional support for the pro gram is sought and urged from local fans. Persons interested in the baseball team and willing to help can indicate such desire by filling in a blank found else where in today’s Herald. The Kings Mountain Legion team will draw its players from Central High here and from Beth ware and Grover High Schools. Majority of the Mountaineers are eligible for the Juniors, in cluding pitchers Jerry Wright knd Perry Champion, also Mike Ware, Punch Parker, James Robbs, Ron nie Pearson, Jerry Adams, and others. Three players from Beth ware on last summer’s Legion team also return, Jerry Morris, Bobby Biddix and Don Horn. BILL BATES . . . assistant coach Rain Halts Tilt With lincolnton In Third Flame .Rain washed out the Moun taineers lone Southwest Confer ence game scheduled for this week on Tuesday afternoon and the contest has been tentatively re-scheduled for next Thursday (April 30) afternoon here. The rains came in the bottom half of the third inning of the contest here Tuesday afternoon, with the visiting Wolves holding a 1-0 edge. Umpires waited 15 minutes and declared the game off. It was the Mountaineers' first rained-out game of the sea son. Coach Fred Withers of Kings Mt. and A. M. Troiano of Lin colnton set the game to be made up Thursday of next week. Lincolnton picked up the lone tally in the washed out affair in the second inning, as result of a pair of infield errors and a wild pitch by pitcher Jerry Wright of the Mountaineers. The Wolves managed only one hit, a single by Worth Roberts in the first in ning, off the Kings Mountain right-hander. iviiKe ware ana lommy rnomas cracked singles for ithe Mountain eers in the last of the second, but could not turn the knocks In to runs. Larry Seagle fanned four and Wright three in the brief en counter. Neither pitcher walked a batter. The Mountaineers’ only other game this week is the tussle with the faculty Thursday night Coach Fred Withers’ club re turns to conference action next Tuesday night ait R S. Central. The Hilltoppers defeated the Mountaineers, 6-1, in the meet ing of the two clubs here a few weeks ago. Duckpin Bowl Loops Plan 1960 Season Initial plans for thr- men’s duckpin bowling leagues in the 1959-60 season will be made to night (Thursday) in a meeting to be held at the Mountain Lane Centex. Indications point toward the formation of one fast six-team men’s duckpin league, instead of the current four-team leagues. (Any teams desiring to enter the bowling leagues for next year are invited to attend to night’s meeting, manager C. H. Houser said. The leagues will start about Sept. 1. Varsity-Faculty Teams Cross Bats Tonight At 7:30 The Mountaineer varsity and faculty will throw curve balls at each other tonight. Occasion will be the student faculty baseball game In City Stadium at 7:30 with proceeds from the exhibition going toward the purchase of a set of new uni forms for the Mountaineer dia mond team. The high school Key Club, a student affiliate of the Kiwanis Club, is sponsoring the game and members of the club are selling tickets and will handle (the tic ket-selling and taking at the game.tonight The Key Club has undertaken the project of raising $240 to pay for the new uniforms which the Mountaineers already have begun wearing. Members of the club urge that fans buy a ticket to the game re gardless of whether they can at tend, and aid the project. The student-faculty game ori ginally was scheduled a few weeks ago, but was postponed because it conflicted with sev eral pre-Easter programs in local churches. Friday night is an open date on the Mountaineers’ Southwest Conference card and the benefit game was slated for Thursday night of this week. The regular Mountaineer line up will start the game, with air of the hurlers due to see some ac tion in the contest. Principal Lawson Brown and1 basketball coach Don Parker, both former professional pitchers, will share pitching duties for the faculty. One of the few1 non-faculty re cruits for the game, Jake Early, will be behind the plate for the Oldtimers. The faculty infield probably will show John Gamble at first base, Fred Withers at second, Bill Bates at third, and Blaine Frone berger at shortstop. The outfield will be picked from Ray Cleere, John Lutz, John Kennedy, Bill George, Charles Balance, Ben Goforth, Buddy Miller, and other members of the faculty. K. M. Tigers Field Team For 10th Year / The Kings Mountain Tigers, like the Legion juniors, have made a “comeback”. The Tigers will field a base ball team here this summer, af ter first announcing that lack of funds would force the team to sit-out the campaign. But friends of the club have stepped forward to lend the Tigers aid, and will sponsor a team for the tenth straight season. William Orr again will serve as manager and has been hold ing workouts at the Davidson Park here. Several new faces are among the candidates, including Detroit Jones, and catcher Miles Brown. The Tigers will play a 32-game schedule, opening with the Spar tanburg Red Sox and go to Bel mont to play the Blues in the second game within the next few weeks. A practice game is carded for the Davidson Park Saturday af ternoon at 3 o'clock. THANKS. TO McCurdy'S We the members of the McCur dy's Semitone Cleaners Bowling team appreciate very much Mc Curdy's sponsorship in this year's bowling league at Moun tain Lane Bowling Center. Steve Rathbone Bob Rosberg Gene Layton Norman Lowery lim Guyton
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