Newspapers / The Kings Mountain Herald … / March 25, 1965, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
s of fourth in a uired. a B plus I y- Bduca- other to see nand- prep- minis- [Is on- , the e. n that years Mas- Jeftree time, [ihove. ind so Pewer iflistry les (or Lnistry [e sal- How- liience inninK tor is id olh- don’t • youth minU- many. cation. ? work hours : your t the y, of a )u ean B busi- /acant long, ranges s be- hat to ;n into trative aymen at the •an see Chris worthy essen- of a worth teemed ifession ningful c true ied for called tld con ic chal- i. What SmM 5t rsday, f^areti 2S, THE KIN6S MOUNlAlHNaiALO. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Page 3 LL AT Mountameers Tip Off BasebaD Season Here Friday era I d arts BY GARY STEWART TrackTeamOpens Season Thursday ^LD ill Soph Jinx Kill S+ot+lemyre? It is hard to figure out how the New York Yankees 1 the American league pennant last season, uniess it Id be because of rookie pitcher Mel Stottlemyre. Stottlemyre started the '64 season with the Richmond .ernational) club. He recorded 10 straight wins, includ- six shutout.s, before joining the faltering Bronx Bomb- in mid-August. He hurled nine victories against three defeats for the ikees and posted a tow 2.06 earned run average.^ The ithander made 12 desperately-needed starts and his 9-3 )r(i was a remarkable percentage. Mel beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-3 in the .second ie of the World Series but ran into .some bad luck in « xt two starts. Is the fifth game he yielded only one I run in seven innings but was iifted for a pinch hit- The Yankees lost, 5-2, in 10 innings. He came back in seventh game with only two days rest and was hit d for three runs in the fourth inning and was tagged 1 that loss. Stottlemyre joined the Yankee farm system in 1961. ^hers In Same Category Mel Stottlemyre is not the only major leaguer who a first year sensation. The Yankees also presented Pete Mikkelsen, a low- pitcher who started strong but began to slip at the end he season. But he still racked up a 7-4 record in<relief. The biggest rookie in the American League last sea- was Tony Oliva of the Minnesota Twins. He became first rookie to lead the league in hitting with a .323 ;ing average. He added 32 homers and was tapped for kie-of-the-Year honors. Wally Bunker of the Baltimore Orioles won 19 games season and led the Birds to a third-place finish only games behind the league-leading Yankees. He finished first major-league season with a 19-5 record and was of the reasons that the Orioles led the league for the jer part of the season, but what if the sophomore jinx ! Bunker? The Orioles may be hurting. The National League The Cincinnati Reds finished the ’64 season in second ;e but two rookie pitchers, Sam Ellis and Billy McCool, v^ed 16 wins again.st only eight defeats to help the se. That record could be switched around. Then the s may not finish that high again. Richie Allen, third-baseman of the Philadelphia Phil , broke in as a rookie last season and socke(l 29 home s and was the fifth-ranking batsman in the NL with a ^kg average of .318. What would the Phils do to make his many home runs and extra base blows? They Id -jail on their new slugger Dick Stuart but he can’t f third base. The San FVancisco Giants struck it rich with rookies season and ended the season in fourth place only three les back of the Cardinals. Their newly discovered third ?man Jim Hart hit at a .286 pace and knocked 31 home 5. Rookie second-baseman Hal Lanier was one of the . glove men in the league and he ended the season hit- .274. Righthander Ron Herbel pitched 161 innings and ed a 9-9 won-loss record. The Milwaukee Braves finished the season in fifth e only five games out. But they came up with outfield- lico Carty who broke into the big leagues with a .330 ■age, second highest in the league, and knocked 22 lers. A second year’s performance like that could see the ves give some .stiff competition for the flag but a sop- lore jinx could see them fall deeper into the standings Very few rookies who break into the majors with it pevrformances like these continue to be as great. Many break in gently and gradually progress — year .^ear — if they make it. The eye catchers are those like Oliva, Bunker, Stottle- e, and Allen. Can they be that good? Some few are, most aren’t but no one can tell what that sophomore ion will bring. nkees Could Be Hurting If stottlemyre continues to be the great pitcher he last season the Yankees will probably have no prob- 8 winning the pennant, but !*■ his second season is not successful, the Yankees will have to struggle once •e to win. ^^he Yankees have begun a dynasty, so to speak, ^^ear after year the Bombers manage to win the pen- Tand have won more pennants, 29, than any other club he major leagues. The Yankees have twice put together five straight nants, from 1949-’53 and from 1960-’64. Had it not been the Cleveland Indians winning in ’54 and the Chicago ite Sox in ’.59, the Yankees would have a string of 1? light pennants going for them. The big question as far as the Yankees are concerned these. Will Ford’s arm hold out?, will injuries again aper Mantle?, and will Johnny Keane be able to begin own dynasty and keep the Yankees winning? No one doubts that Keane is a good manager: )Oth, aware handler of men with two decades of experi- e in the baseball trade. No one really doubts the wealth alent on the Yankee roster. With these two combined, Yankees should have no trouble winning their sixth light pennant. IF MANTLE AND FORD SURVIVE — Some people wondering if Ford can pitch after his operation. He ; been hit hard in spring exhibition games and is un- ibtediy going to have to make a comeback. Many people a.e wondering if Mantle should go ahead 1 retire from baseball now. Hardly a season has gone by that the great slugger in’t been sidelined with ieg injuries. He had a great sea- , despite the tire of his legs towaixi the end of the sea- , last year and placed second in the Most Valuable yer balloting. But those legs still present the biggest iblem as far as Mantle and the Yankees are concerned. Outfielders Tom Tresh and Roger Maris were under ■ last season and are due for a comeback in ’65. The ikees have one of the best, if not the best, infields in majors with Joe Pepitone at first, Bobby Richardson ^^ond, Tony Kubcck at shortstop, and Clete Boyer at ^Catcher Pston Howard,, who placed thlcd- IR MVP loting in ’64, is getting on in years and it is a known Eight Retmiiuig Letteimen Head 48-Maii Sqnad The Kings Mountain high school track team travels to Cherryville today (Thursday) to participate with the remaining seven teams in the Southwest CJonference in the first meet of the ’65 season for the local team. Chase. Cherryville, and East Rutherford began their season last Thursday at Ea.st Ruther ford. Eight returning lettermen head the ’65 squad of 48 boys: Buzz Shuford, Jimmy Wright. Pat Hord, Butch Blackburn, Mike Go forth, Tommy Burns, Lyn Che shire, and Ben Grimes. Seniors Jimmy Cloninger, Pete Putnam, and Steve Grigg will be counted upon heavily by coaches Bill Cashion and Bob Hussey to carry much of the heavy load this sea son. 'We’ll probably have a lot of trouble in our first meet,” said lenny Oates Holds 2-Gome Mixed Lead With two more weeks of bowl ing remaining in the Mixed Ouckpin League, the standings still shenv Jenny Oates in first place by two games over first- half winner City Paint Store. In action last Thursday Oates took a 3-1 decision from fourth- place Betty Fite. Jenny Oates rolled a 121 line and a 319 set for the winners and Randy .Blanton paced the losers with a 106 line and a 299 set. John Dllling and Lib Gault rolled identical 126 lines and 340 sets to lead second place City Paint Store to a three-game win over Dot ’ngnor. Clyde Chilbert- son was high for the losers with a 130 line and a 324 set. Bdb Herndon copped night scoring honors with a 140 line and a 365 set to lead bottom- place Janet Parker to a three game win over City Ive & Coal. Boyer Murray added a 291 set for the winners and Albert Brackett rolled twogames of 149 and 141 for a 290 set and Allen head Coach Bill Cashion, “but!,, .. , . u , before time for the big meets we adde da 303 high set score. think we will have a good team. The weather hasn’t permitted us to get in too much practice on the outside and the boys have been mastly getting into shape,” he added. Five meets are scheduled for Kings Mountain before the con-, ference meet at Shelby on April i Tignor 30. 'The bi-conference meet will | Janet Parker be at Morganton on May 7 anil the association meet will be held at North Rowan on May 15. City Paint Store copped team set honors with a 1322. STANDIMIS Team Jenny Oates City Paint Store City Ice & Coal Betty Fite 196SKMHS TBACK ROSTER *Butch Blackburn Bobby Bolin ‘Tommy Burns Ronald Burton Joe Champion •Lyn Cheshire Pat Cheshire Jimmy Cloninger Scott Cloninger Chip Crisp Gary Devenney Tommy Dover Tommy Duncan Brent Goforth •Mike Goforth Carson Gore Ricky Grahl Steve Grigg •Ben Grimes Jimmy Hall Larry Hardin Bill Herndon •Pat Hord Mike Hoyle Stan Laughter Philip Lawson David Leftwich Doug Mercier Bob Moss Gary Myers Larry Patrick Robert Phifer Kenny Plonk Darrell Putnam Creighton Given 2-Year Contract With Checkers CHARLOTTE — In an unprece dented move, the Charlotte Checkers’ board of directors March 16 tendered Fl-ed Creigh ton a two-year contract as man- ^ aging coach. I The announcement of Creigh ton’s reappointment was made by club President A1 Manch. “Fred did an outstanding job for us in his first season as play er-coach,” said Manch. “We are ' liappy to announce his new con- ’ tract.” I Under the new terms, Creigh- [ton will serve as non-playing ; coach except in case of emergen- jcy. His duties entail assembling i Continued On Page 5 Three Pitchers To See Action; Mnllinax Starts The baseball game between the Kings Mountain Mountain eers and York, South Carolina, regularly .scheduled for Tuesday, March 23, was cancelled because of bad weather. ’The Mountain eers will begin sea.son play Fri day against York at Kings Moun tain’s City Stadium. Gametime is 4:00. Righthiuider Bill MulUnax, a senior, will receive the starting call Friday but assistant Coach Bob Hussey reports that three pitchers, Mullinax, Seerley Low- cry, and junior Steve Goforth, will definitely .see action in the game. Mullinax is .scheduled to pitch the opening three frames with Lowery and Goforth seeing ac tion in two innings each. Sophomore Roy Medlin will be •behind the plate with Hubert Mc Ginnis at first base, Mlctcey Bell at .second, Richard Gold at short stop, and Pat Murphy at third. In the outfield Ronnie Rhea is scheduled to start ait left, Claud* “Bubbles” Pearson at crenter and either Tommy Black or Chip Mc Ginnis at right. As many as possible will see action in the opening game, which is non-contcrence. Capable substitutes include in- fielders Nelson Connor, Philip Bunch, Chucky Gladden, and Larry Morgan with Philip Russ and Roger Ross likely to see ac tion in the outfield. Sophomore Paul Gaffney is ready for sub duty behind the plate. All-conference third - baseman Pat Murphy is scheduled to be the Icadoff hitter with Bell, Gold, H. McGinnis, Medlin, Rhea, Pear son, C. McGinnis or Black, and Mullinax following in that order. The Mounties travel to East Rutherford Tuesday, March 30 for the opening game of the Southwest Conference schedule. East Rutherford ho.sts a num ber of returning lettermen and will definitely be tough compe- Mountie Golfers Down Lincolnton 8-1 Monday Rallaid Low Man WUh Nine-Hole Total 01 37 Coach Don Parker's Kings Mountain high school golf team got off on the right foot Monday afternoon at the Kings Mountain Country Club by defeating Lin colnton 8-1. Mike Ballard, Kings Moun tain's number one man, defeated Lincolnton’s York Rudisill 8-up in nine holes of play and gained the day’s scoring honors with a one over par 37. Rudisill lopped Lincolnton with a nine-hole total of 49. Kings Mountain’s No. 2 man, George Plonk, po.sted a nine-hole round total of 41 and defeated Carpenter of Lincolnton 4-3. Fred Wright and Jay Powell posted identical 43 rounds to defeat their opponents 5-up and 3-up, and Tommy Dean took a 3-up decision from Lincolnton’s Good- son. "Bo” King of Lincolnton de feated Kings .Mountain's John Van Dyke 1-up. The Mountaineers are schedul ed to play host to Shelby at the Country Club today (Thursday) at 4:00 and will play host to Cherryville Monday. MONDAY'S RESULTS Plonk (KM) defeated Carpen ter (L) 6-up; Ballard (KM) de feated Rudisill (L) 8-up: Wright (KM) defeated Hunter (L) 5-up: King (L) defeated Van Dvke (KM) 1-up: Dean (KM) defeated Goodson (L) 3-up. tition for the )iometown boys. The Mountaineers will return home next Friday to play host to Cherr>'ville. Gametime for both games will be 4:00. Pete Putnam Philip Putnam Charles Ram-sey •Buzz Shuford Dennis Smith Bobby Stroupo Charle.s Webb Carl Weisener Richard White Philip Whitley J. C. Wright •Jimmy Wright Philip Wright Wayne Wright •Denotes lettermen sPECim Rottom-Place Teams Becoid Wns h Men's BowUng Action Monday Only three weeks remain • in the Kings Mountain men’s duck- pin bowling league and the standings show the first place team atop the standings by five games, and the bottom place teams only seven games out. In action Monday night the first place Clyde Culbertson team split a four-game match with fourth place Tignor & Rus sell Garage and Dilling Heating and Griffin Drug recorded three- game wins over Bob Herndon and Plonk Oil, the two teams that are tied for second place. Albert Brackett rolled a 139 line and a 327 set to lead Tignor & Russell to a comeback and split 2-2 with the league leaders. Harold Barber added a 322 set for the winners and Lee Norville rolled a 124 line and team cap tain Clyde Culbertson added a 313 set for the leaders. Combined games of 110, 130, and 107 saw Randy Blanton score a 347 set to lead Griffin Drug to a three game win over Plonk Oil Company. Allen M>ws added a 322 set for the winners and Clarence Plonk rolled a 112 line with Richard Bridges scor ing a 305 set for the losers. Furman Wilson (x>pped scor ing honors for Dilling Heating with a 111 line and a 325 set to lead the Heaters to a three- game win over Bob Herndon. Dilling added a 301 set for the winners and Richard Cufbertson was high for the losers with a 137 line and a 346 set. Tignor & Russell copped team scoring honors with a 1533. STANDINGS Team Clyde Culbertson Bob Herndon Plonk OH Tignor & Russell Dilling Heating Griffin Drug Pet. .583 .500 .300 .483 .467 .467 fact that the Yankees are going to have to find another catchta- before long. Even if his efficiency dropped last season, he was still the best catcher in the league. SOUTHWELL FORD Has The Sharpest Pencil In TownI Pharmacy Team Has Three>Game Lead Medical Pharmacy upped its league lead to three games if ruosday night in ladies’ bowling I* action by taking four games ' from Plonk’s Department Store. Belk’s Department Store moved into second i>lace in tlio stand ings by taking a 4 t) decision from bottom place McGinnis f’urniture and Oates - Henderson Shell took solo possession of fourth place with a 4 (1 win over Phillips 66. Ora Mae Bennett led the Medi-' cal Pharmacy win with a 118 line and a .334 .set. Team captain Janet Parker added a .30(1 set for the winners and Lib Gault top-1 ped Plonk’s scoring with a 123- line and a 339 set. Mary Ruth Barrett and Dot Tignor combined talents to lead Belk’s to their four-game win. Barrett copped liigh line iioiiors with a 116 and I'ignnr added Hie loam's highest .set. .302. Charity Goforth led McGinnis Furniture's scoring with a 110 line and a ,305 set. I Jenny Oates rolled a 103 line and a 307 set to lead Oate.-^ Hen derson Shell to a 4-0 decision oyer Phillip.s 66, E'hel Tignor was high for the losers with a llO' line and a 296 .set. STANDINGS Team \v l Pet. Medical Pharmacy .34 14 ,709 Belk’s Dept. Store 31 IV Plonk’s Dept. Store 2,S 20 ..583 Oates.Henderson 22 26 45R Phillips 66 18 30 ;3'75 -McGinnis Furniture 11 37 o-xi MOUNTAINEER MENTOR — Pictured above is Kings Motin- tain high school baseball Cooch Bill Bates. Bates begins his second season as the Moun taineer mentor Friday after noon when the locals ploy host to York, S. C. Bates currently holds a 9-7 record in baseball. History .shows that Albania has been conquered manv times, but „ \ , 3 V. for some reason victors never' The Leach’s Petrel, only slight- seemed to bec-ome familiar with ' •>' smaller than a purple martin, native.s. makes oceanic crossings. the LIMITED TIME (MLY 4(E.ffie. 92-00 NOW 1.2s 8 OZ. REG. $3.50 NOW >2.00 !20Z. REG. $5.00 NOW >3.00 KEEPS YOU YOUNG-LOOKING ALL OVER B^tod^r to ORperfenoe the Josfous delight of a betfi treetad with Sibon Dry Skin Bath 08 now spedally sale priced. Just sit back and relax... steeped in skin soothing luxury ... while dry ness. hakiness and that too tight* feeling seem to ebb away. Emerge from your bath to the real ization of a softer, smoother, deliciously love- Rwyou. Make BaUi Tiiitt SiBoo Timei; ' MPM)dw$lto SprfT Coiosm $1.50 09 aWi M OH Capsuht 91.00 Rftw Bath Tile $150 , Dry Skin So«p (9 edWI) $2.00 Free Delivery Service Monday - Saturday 9 ajn. to 9 p.m. KINGS MOUNTAIN DRUG COMPANY TI ye Kings Mountain. N. C. Open Daily 9 a.ni. 'til 5:30 p.ni. Saturdays 'til 6 p.ni. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 25, 1965, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75