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V KINSS MdUNt/iUN HERXLD^KlKlfeS>^'DNTAIM;'N.''C.' Thursday, ^ 11 I Thirsd Smith Leads Past Chase Herald Sports By GARY STEWART Eigblh'faiiing Tiiide‘Ihives In Wm^ Run Mounfies Mighi Just Be Big Threat been consid- Freshman second - baseman I Mike Smith hit a two-out triple ; to send home Bill Bridges with the winning run in Kings Motm- ; tain high school’s 4-2 W’in ovei i Chase Tuesday. ' The -game opened Southwest I Conference play for both teams, j Sfnith, since moving into a 1 starting role last week, is rapid- jly'making a name for himself on the. KM diamond scene. He was Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers haven’t * j the team’s leading hitter Tues cred as being a contender for the Southwest Conterence. collecting two hits in three title this season but with a few breaks this young ana, times at bat and scoring one run. inexperienced team might just turn out to be one of the He uow tod^thc team ^ loop toughies this time around. , . L Coadi Bill Bates’ diamondmen are not much for hit-j Semor righthander Steve Go- ting th^cover off the ball but the Mountaineers can offer forth went the distance for the one of — if not the toughest pitching staffs tn the confer- Dick Gold Elected Captain Of Florida State Freshmen his teammates. t i Gold, who wa.-; one of the top | Mountaineet^, picking up his first win of the season. Steve gave up ence. combination talked five and struck Bates undoubtedly has a good one-two i out nine. in brothers Steve and Tommy Goforth and so^omorej Mountaineers struck firet Darrell Whetstine will be one of the toughest i fourth with ; in the conference. . l sophomore catcher Pau} Gaffney i Darrell a righthander, has bettbr control than either. scoring. With two outs, Gaffney | Tommy or Steve and will probably see some starting as-: singled, stole second, went to . I third on a wild pitch and ca.me Slgnments as well as re • v, on Viam home after Chucky Gladden and Tommy, the younger brother, a junior, hp 1 Bridges walked and Smith reach- pered with sickne^ so far this year but after nuriing a error, one-hitter and fanning 12 at York Friday, seems to be we ohase tied the score in the bot enough. Steve is the only letterman of the three having w’ork- ed behind aces Seerley Lowery and Bill Mullinax last sea son. Tommy saw action in one game last year but Darrell s in his first year as a starter. Going into Tuesday’s game at Chase, the three _ only given up seven hits in two games. Only two runsj.j.ooy Leigh singled to lead off had been registered against them and both of those w’ere i the frame, was sacrificed to sec- unearned. oad by Nelson Connor and batted The three struck out 17 batters in the tw’O games in with a triple by Wayne Mulli- against York with Tommy getting 12, Darrell 3 and Steve 2 I Chase knotted thescore again tom of thefourth with shortstop Bobby Bridges scoring after the Mopnties committed two errors and Goforth tossed one wild pitch. The Mountaineers went ahead again in the fifth. Leftfielder Chase knotted in ^he bottom of the sixth with All Three Seem To Have Good Control {walked to lead off the frame, , ,. .. _ 1 w'eat to third on a single by Doug The good thing about the progress of KM s big three Hamrick and scored on a single is that all seem to have good control. In the two pre-sea-1 by ai Radford. son games, only five batters reached base against them! - u > ft, Y , lb ' Kmgs Mountain broke the game via W’aiKS. ^ ... .1 open in the eighth when Bridges The thing that the Mountaineers need to do now is j gQ^ by error after Gaffney to concentrate on hitting the ball. Should the boys start i farmed and Gladden grounded meeting the ball squarely they will probably finish high [ out. Bridges was batted in by in the standings. j Smith’s triple and Smith later Coach Bates now has two freshmen in the starting | on a wild pitch, lineup. Both boys show signs of being good ballplayers j Bridges singled to lead off the and good, sound infielders. I Chase eighth, Ha-nrick got on At Second base is Mike Smith, a smooth infielder and i ^dford went a consistant hitter. In-his first starting assignment at;,^P,„\'^|J?8mg.^^for^ th^^^ York Friday, Mike was one-for-three at bat and scored the winning run, plus, did not make an error. At third base for the Mountaineers is Wayne Mulli- out James for out number two and Smith made an unassisted n^ who batted in the ^nd run of the day Friday, Wayne failed to get a hit but swings the stick real well. ! er. Coach Bates has switched junior Chucky Gladden j The Mountaineers collected sev from, third to first and switched^Melson Connor from ten hits off Chase pitcher Mike second to short. Both boys were one-for-three Friday and' Powell. Each team committed shouid be two of the top hitters on, the; team this year. |eniors. Nelson, a real smooth operator, is one of two letter-' BOXSCORE men on the team. He started in all but four^mes last year and went the entire season without making an error. He has committed one this year but it’s a good bet that he will not make a habit of it. Former Kings Mountain high school and Post 165 American Le gion baseball standout Richard Legion hitters ini.’thp ^tate last Gold was recentlyx elected cap- • year with a .479 battini| average, | tain of tlie Florida State Univer- is currently playing second base j sity Freshman team by a vote of instead of his old familiar short- j stop position. j Richard leads hi.s. team in runs | ; batted in with 10, has one home | j run and foiur doubles to his cre- I dit and is Currently hitting at a 1,2S0 clip. Dick also has seven (Stolen bases. I The FSU fi'osh~just returned ! fro.-n a road trip to Gulf Coast Kin-»s Mountain’s Mountaineers i Junior College at Panama City, lay out the vvolcome mat to Lin- Fla., where the two teams split Monnties Host Lines Friday, Cenbal Tuesday IN PITCHING WINS — Tommy and Seve Goforth posted pitch ing wins for the Kings Mountain high school Mountoineers dur ing the past week. Tommy (left), o Junior, tossed a one-hitter and struck out 12 against York Friday lor a 2-0 win and Steve, a senior, beat Chase 4-2 Tuesday with a five-hitter ond nine strikeouts. Goforth One-Hits York For 2-0 Win Leigh. If Connor, ss ..lulltnax, 3b Carroll, cf Gaffney, c Gladden, lb ■Bridges, rf Excluding pitchers. Bates has five juniors, one sopho more and two freshmen in the,§tarting lineup. ^he outfield is all-junior with Tony Leigh in left,' Charles Carroll in center and Bill Bridges in right. Thei sophPmore member of the starting team is catcher Pairij GaffRey- [chase 6oth L«igh and Carroll'are capable of becoming good | AB R H BI 5 1 2 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 2 X 2 0 0 0 <« 27 4 7 2 hittecs and Leigh has shown good speed- on the base^paths. * Leigh is without a doubt the best hustler of the three. Sinch the beginning of the ’66 season, he has learned to conquer the leftfield bank at City Stadium like it was ano^er park. Play Lincolnton Here Friday Afternoon The Mountaineers open their conference home slate here Friday afternoon against Lincolnton, the team which has been chosen as the one to beat in this year’s race. Coach Bates will most likely send Tommy Goforth D. Hamrick, If Radford, cf Mauney, 2b James, c K. Hamrick, lb Mason, rf Powell, p ^ 29 2 5 1 E—James 2, Mullinax 2, Mason, Dewberry, Gaffney, Gladden. SAC—Connor. SB—Goforth 2, Leigh, Gaffney, Gladden, Mason. to the mound and Linc<rfnton Coach Perry Brown Ts'ex- '"WT^-Pow- Virgil Cline, a sophomore or ace Harry | pitching • ip H R Eft bb so Graham. Goforth (w) ^8 5 2 1 5 9 The Mountaineers will be at home again Tuesday **°'^*^^ 8 7 4 1 7 6 against R-S Central, another team picked as a contender. The Mounties then travfel Jo Shelby Wednesday and come back home again nextTriday against East Rutherford. Clyde Culbertson, Bffl MnlBimv i Leid BowUng fifendoy IRgbli Clyde Culbertson rolled a 151 j line and a 394 set to lead his team to e 3-1 win over aty Paint Store Monday night and to in crease, his team’s lead to five ganiei over Dillii^ Heating in the rtei’s bowling league race. Pltw Oil Co. won four'.games off Dping Heating to move .with in oni gome of second place.;in the match Monday, Griffin Dni^lo. defeated Morrison Loan Co. dfese gaimes to one. Cwl^son g-ot/a'^le assistance hasn-lAe Norvlile and Hsurold BarbW- Norville chippod .in 235 Ujm and » 355 set and &«rl»er Team lead Plonk OH to a 44) win over Dilling Heating. All five ■ mem bers of the Plonk Oil team post ed 300-plus sets. Richard Culbert son led the losers in scoring with a 138 Hne<and n-OfO set. Bob Herndon registered a IgS line ntuLa 350 set to lead Griffin Drug Co. to a 3-1 win over Mor rison Loan. Furman Wilson add ed a 344 set for the winners and Tommy Gamble had a 131 line and a 346 set for the losers. , Plonk Oil Co. copped team set honors with a 1768 total. 2fP«NDINGS giMM a SSI set. High man for thd loam and ranoexhttp-tD C«lh tor night scprlog taonot* BUhton with V 14d St. : coitibined lines of i.Xor^48i .aet.tq, Clyde Culbertson 39 DiUing MWiiffg ■ 44 PioiyccaSxo. 93 Griffin oftg ^co. -31 Chy PaiaUilofe ^ Morris^Uan^eib. K Btcreolion Leoguc BonqtMt Sfiturday The firat annual City Recre. atlon Basketball League Ban quet will be held at the Amer lean Legion Building Saturday night at 7:00. The banquet is being given ity the Hecreation Department honoring members and coach es of teams entered in the. 1965 - 66 Recreation 'League. Teams participating were Belk’s, Lithium, All-Stars, Jay- cees, MountAineers and ARP Church. Recreation Director EHmer ‘Mag” Roes and Department President Roy Pearson are In ■charge of the program. ROTAKT PBOGUitM By GARY STEWART Tommy Goforth fired a one- hitter and struck out 12 batter.’j to pitch Kings Mountain’s Moun taineers to their first baseball win of the season Friday at York, 2-0. The junior righthander struck out at least one batter in eaph inning and walked only one en route to his first high school vic tory. Goforth was engaged in a pitching duel with KM Legion hurler Mickey Adkins through out the game. Adkins, who is now 1-2 on the season, sent 13 oatters backi to the bench via the strikeout route. He walked one batter, also. Kings Mountain collected only four hits off Adkins but took ad vantage of some good breaks in the fifth inning to bring two runs across. Freshman second - baseman Mike Smith singled to lead off the inning a^nd went to second one out latef on a wild pitch. He then went to third on another wild pitch. Adkins then issued a walk to Tony 'Leigh who immediately stole second base. Smith scored the winning run on a wild pitch with Leigh mov ing to third on the same play. Leigh scored an out later when the York shortstop booted a jfrounder off the bat of Wayne Mullinax. Mullinax swiped sec opd base but was stranded there w^en Charles Carroll fanned. Kipgs Mountain had jrunners jn aooring position in each of the first three frames but went down In order in the fourth, sixth and seventh. Leigh reached third base in the first inning after getting on by errors. Paul Gaffney reach ed third in the second and Tom my Goforth and Nelson Connor earii reached scoring position in the third. Only three York playerS reach ed base off Goforth. First-base- man David Norris got on by er ror in the second, Melvin Mulli? singled in the fourth and Riobert Bolin walked in the fifth. Mullis was the only York runner to reach second base. York threatened in the seventh when freshman Rocky Goforth issued three walks to load the bases. With one out, Coach Bill Bates brought Tommy back in. AB R H BOXSCORE Kings Mountain Leigh, If N. Connpr, ss Mullinax, 3b Carroll, cf Gaffney, c Gladden, lb Bridges, rf R. Goforth, p b—D. Connor, rf Smith, 2b T. Goforth, p, rf York Lawton, Mullis, 3b Adkins, p Norris, lb Green, c Roy, If 3olm, ss Brazzell, cf a—McIntosh, ph | Jackson, rf * a—pinched hit 5th and 7th. b—in for R. Goforth in* 7th. E—Bolin 2, Mullis, Gaffney, Connor. 2B — T. Goforth. SB — colnton Friday in the second Southwest Conference game of the season. Both tears won loop openers (Tuesday, the Mountaineers whip I ping Cliase, 4-2, in eight innings I and Lincolnton beating R-.S Cen tral 5-1. In other games Tuesday, Shelby whitewashed Cherryville I 15--0 behind a one-hitter by Mitch- 1 ell Self and East Rutherford de feated Belmont, 8-5. Other games Friday pit Shel by against (Belmont, Chase a- gainst R-S Central and Cherry ville against East Rutherford. Junior righthander Tommy Go forth is scheduled to pitch for the Mountaineers against either Vir gil Cline or Harry Graham of the Wolves. Cline is a sophomore southpaw and Graham, the Line ace, is a senior. Goforth is fresh from a one-hit 2-0 shutout over York last week ahd is expected to be in top form against the Wolves. Tom'.ry struck out 12 York Lattci-s Fri day and had good control as he walked only one. Mountaineer Coach Bill Bates might make some changes for Friday’s game but it’s a sure bet that the infield will be the same. At first base will be Chucky Gladden, at second fresliman and leading hitter Mike Smith, at third will be freshman Wajme Mullinax, at short will be Nelson Connor and behind the plate, Paul Gaffney. i Tony Leigh, a junior, will open i in leftfield with centerfield and I rightfield being up for grabs, j Bates will most likely change his batting order, moving Smith fur ther up the line. S.mith has been hitting in the number eight slot, however, his consistant hitting in the last two games will undcc tedly win him a higher spot on the batting or der. The Mountaineers are at home: against R-S Central Tuesday at 0 4:00 and then travel to Shelby 1' for a game Wednesday afternoon 0 i Sophomore Darrell Whetstine 0 I will probably receive the start ing call for Tuesday’s game and either Tommy or Steve Goforth will go against Shelby. a doubleheador, FSU winning the opener 7-0 and Gulf Coast win ning the second, 4-3. j Florida Sta'?fcp*s Freshmen are' 9-9 for the season (through Sat urday,A^Iarch 26). Richard re ports that five of tho^ nine loss es were by one or two runs. FSU has 11 games remaining on its schedule. While at KMHS, Gold won 10 monograms and was named all conference fiye times, twice in base;aU and basketball and once in football. He was all-conferencc in all three sports his senior year Dick was also all-state in foot , ball, was the Most Valuable Play- j er in football as well as MVP on the Legion baseball team. One of i his many records at KMIIS is that of the all-time basketball scoring title. In his three years as a KMHS yager, Dick tallied -826 points for a career 14.2 scoring average. CAPTAIN — Former Kings Mountain high school and Post 155 American Legion baseball standout. Richard Gold, was recently elected cap tain of the Florida Slate fresh- naan team by a vote of his teammates. Richard, now a second - baseman, is ctureni- ly hitting .280 and leads the team in runs batted in with 10. Davidson Seniors Banquet Speakers Gault, Oates Post Top Bowling Scores Golieis Downed By Chase, R-S 3‘0 2 0 1 0 1 0 Y 3*0 for Brazzell Lib Gault and 4enny Oates posted top scores oX the night in ladies’ bowling league action Tuesday. Gault, captain of the Elsie’s Beauty Shop team, was high scorer with a 149 line and a 376 set, however, her team lost three games to the Outcasts, i Oates, captain of the Oates- ■ Flenderson Shell teaiT,, which is I now in fourth place, rolled a 140 : line and a 373 set to lead her i team to a 3-1 win over Kings Mountain Drug. ' Pat Panther was high scorer for the Druggers with a 113 line and a 308 set and Ethel Tignor was high scorer for the Outcasts with a 107 line and a 300 set. Plonk Brothers moved into sec ond place in the loop standings with a 3-1 win over McGinn's Furnit.qre with Louise Dover's 112 line and 298 set leading the way. Pat Herndon chipped in a 296 set for the winners and Betty Fite was high for the losers with a 117 line and a 307 set. Oates-Henderson Shell claimed April 7 Kiwanis Club Banquet Honoring Cagers Kings Mounlaih high school’s golfers suffered two losses dur ing the past week, losing to Chase 8-4 on Thursday and (get ting "skunked” by R-S Central ^^William°McSwain Tnd -LesUeltP^"^ VVP' Leigh, Connor, Mullinax, Adkins, 3. PB — Green. PITCHING IP H R ER Pitching IP H R ER BiB SO T. Goforth w 6% R. Goforth Va Adkins L 7 10 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 Track Team Fifth At Cherryville lion Program”, at 'Thursday’s Rotary club meeting at 12:15 at the Country club. Mayor MOSS U a Rbtarian. Rev. How. ard Jordan is program chair- fnan. The Kings Mountain high school track team finished fifth in. a six-team meet at Cherryville Wednesday afternoon. Shelby won the event with a total of 53 point-s. Following the Lions were R-S Central with Points, Cherryville with 28 East Rutherford with 15>/2, Kings Mountain with 15, and Chase with 10‘^. Kings Mountain’s 880-relay team was the only Mountaineer unit to get a first place. The re lay team—Mike Goforth. Rocky- Brown, Dennis STith and Bobby Stpcojpe—won the event In a mkiute, 40 seconds. Joy were the only KM lads to win a match Thursday. Three other KM linksmen, John Van Dyke, Fred Wright and Stan Yar- bro halved their matches Thurs day. Wright and Van Dyke, along with Chester Melton of Chase, who was Wright’s opponent, shared medalist honors with 40’s. Joy carded a 48 to win his match over Alan Lane, 4-2, and Yarbro ca.T.e in with a 47 adn a tie with James Robbins who had a 45. The Mountaineers registered some good scores at Rutherford- ton Monday, however, five of Central’s eight men brake 40 STANDINGS Team W Elsie’s^eauty Shop 31 Plonk Brothers 28 Kings Mtn. Drug 27 Oates-Henderson 23 Outcasts 19 McGinnis Furniture 16 Pet. .646 .583 .563 .479 .333 in "Hickory TSff On Tap Sunday HICKORY - - Stock car racing’s touring professionals will roar off Sunday at. Hickory Speedway , in the annual “Hickory 250,” Jay Powell, KM’s lead-off man,; with hard^iriving David Pearson Mayor John H. Moss will speak on “Kings Mountain’s Need for An Effective Recrea-.JAie «$trpck out the last two bat ters on six pitches. Goforth was also KM’s leading hitter with a double In three times at bat. Chucky Gladden, Nelsm Connor and Mike Smith collected one hit eadh. The saTe boys—making up the 440-relay team placed second be hind R-S Central. Mike Goforth took second in the 220-yard dash and fourth in the low hurdles and Robert Phifer placed fourth in the 440-yard dash and third in the pole vault to complete KM’s scoring. R’S Coach Btob Hussey’s cindermen | Oates 39 are scheduled to participate In a Smith 37 six-team meet at Shelby today at | Love 41 I Walker 42 was low for the Mountaineers with a 39. Medalist was Steve Smith of R-S Central with a 37. Coach Don Parker’s boys play two home matches this week, hosting East Rutherford Thurs day and Shel':y Monday. THURS. RF.SULTS SINGLES Tate (C) def. Powell (K) 3-2; Melton (O’ and 'Wright (K) halved; Harris (C) and Van Dike (K) halved; Pace (O def. Cheehire (K) 2-1; MeSwain (K) def. Webb (C) 3-2; Yarbro (K) and Robbins (C) halved; Joy (K) def. Lane (C) 4-2; King (C) def. Finger (K) 1-up. DOUBLES Tate-Melton (C) def. Wright- Powell (K) 3-1; Harris-Pace (C) def. Van Dyke Cheshire (K) 2-1; MeSwain-Yarbro <K) and Webb* Robbins (C) halved; Lane-King (C) def. Joy-Finger (K) 1-up. MONDAY’S SCORES KM Powell 39 Wright 41 trying tp expand his lead in the national point standings. A field of 20 to 25 cars and a The first annual Kiwanis Club High School Basketball Banquet will be held at 6:09 Thursda.y,,. April 6, at the Woman’s Club. The banquet, honoring mem bers of both Kings Mountain high school varsity squads and their coaches, will be highlighted'7^5' Davidson All - Axcrican Dick Snyder and senior teammates Phil Squier and Ronnie Stone. . All three Davidson stars will (Speak briefly to the members of the KMHS squads. Snyder, All- Southern Conference for two sea sons, was named All-American on every major team. He was instru mental in leading Davidson to its best season in history and to the Southern Conference Champion ship and Southern Conference Tournament Championship. Snyder, a^^ forward, set an all-tirre regular season scoring record at Davidson this past sea son. The North Canton, Ohio, senior was also named the South ern Conference “Player of the Year” as well as the Southern Conference Tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Squier.va .o-ll, 165-pounder, was the team’s playmaker and an out standing ballhandler. Stone, the only one of the three from North Carolina, was Coach Lefty Drie- sell’s top reserve. All three bo^^’S’ were lettermen last year. Most Valuable Player trophies will be presented to the outstand ing boy and girl players Thurs day. The boys’ trophy will be named in honor of the late Dr. W. P. Gerberding and the girls’ award will '' e given by Captain Meek Ormand. J. "A. Neisler, Jr., is in charge of the program. winner, and from Curtis Turner . _ — who may make the fii-st rac- crowd of 10,(Xy)^ i start for Ford’s intermediate- fiize Fairlane model car. Davis 42 MeSwain 46 pected to be on hand for the 2:30 p.m. start of the NASCAR Grand National event. Qualifying tim^ trials are scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday. ’ The race will bo the main at traction of a program that also includes a 50-lap race for the NASCAR late model sportsman <»rs which compete in weekly races here. Pearfon, in a Dodge prepared by Cotton Owens of Spartanburg. S. C- was the first driver to file an entry from the Chrysler camp. Among his opposltioln will be a Ford contingent headed I’ y Ned Jarrett and Bobby Isaac, two vet- Isaac is rated as one of the top favorites for two reasons. In acli- dition to the “track savvy" he has as a result of starting his career in weekly events here, he ! will be driving a car preparetJ by Hickory Speedway master Junior Johnson. ' ing at Hickory Speedway ■iVaek manwg*r Grafton I5ur-, gess said Ihat entries wore ex- peotod from Plvrouth - driving Richard Petty, the “Daytona 500" Ji^nson, who retired from the driving end of the sport last year, has won eight Grand Na tional races at Hickory—a NAS CAR record for victories at one track. Heis regarded as the best in the business in setting up a car for the power-sliding' tech- . „„„ nique required on thtrfour-tenths erans who got m rac,|^ ^ cFay track. Montieth 39 Hodge 38 Miller 44 Don Tilley of Statesvile and Ken Houston of Conover, both in Fords, will be trying for repeat wins in the late model sportsman race on the same progra(7i. Tilley won the March 13 season opener here, and Houston was the rictor Joy 42 Cheshire 42 Finger 46 in a 50-lap feature last Sunday. m
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