i 66 lN e m hes. trap tion, ther • the an’s 1 age the peo- !fore. Its in For Tiany iness. large r the ; one ecker ■y go valler other s the ? like ’d or ward, )men. irld a out could ter. Thursday, July 21, 1966 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS, MOUNTAIN, N. C. Herald \ Sports Juniors Ruled Out In Meetipg At Salisbury By GARY STEWART Legion Baseball Program Unorganized From the chain of events in Area IV Legion baseball of the past week, I would say that Kings Mountain’s Little League baseball program is 10 times better organized than the Legion program. . Area IV and state officials have kept Kings Mountain, Hickory, and most of all, Belmont in a daze since last Sat urday’s disputed game here against KM and Hickory. Kings Mountain Coach Bob Hussey protested Hick ory’s use of Newton pitcher Bob Whisnant against the Mounties. Hussey said thatlt^was in violation of the play ing rules that Whisnant could play for Hickory after be ing a member of the Newton team until it dropped out of the league two weeks after the season began. Post 155 Athletic Director Carl Wilson was in Ra leigh last Monday meeting with State Commissioner Bob Cruz who said that Kings Mountain should advance against Belmont and that he (Cruz) would send Hickory officials a telegram Tuesday informing them of his ruling. Cruz sent Wilson a telegram Tuesday confirming his ruling and supposedly sent Hickory Coach Troy Washam a similar telegram. But Hickory showed up at Belmont Wednesday night, ready to play ball, and with a telegram from Area IV Commissioner Joe Phillips saying that Kings Mountain was out and Hickory was in. It looks like the “little man’’ up at Shelby has more say. so than the state commissioner because Cruz set up a meeting for Thursday afternoon in Shelby. At Thursday’s meeting the officials decided to call the Hickory - KM series even at 1-all and a playoff game was set up for Thursday night in Hickory. Both KM and Hickory officials were told that Thursday’s playoff game would decide wl^ich team would play Belmont and that would be the end of the big squabble. Kings Mountain defeated Hickory 8-5 and went to Belmont Friday and lost 14-1. A report in Friday’s Shelby Daily Star indicated that Hickory officials were going to get a court order to stop the KM-Belmont series but noth ing was done there. State Commander Bob Davis then stepped into the picture and set up a meeting for Saturday afternoon in Salisbury, with Kings Mountain not being represented Wonder why? Phillips said that Davis told him Friday to call both the Belmont and KM coaches and tell them not to play at Belmont Friday. Phillips said that he called the homes of both men, but they were not there, and he told their ^ wives. Now that can’t be right. He might have told Belmont Coach Neb Hollis’ wife but he didn’t talk to Coach Hj^- sey.'s wife. So, Saturday afternoon at 5:30 Kings Mountain of-] ficials were notified of the Salisbury meeting. The ruling was reported to have been 4-1 in Hickory’s favor and the two Hickory players were ruled eligible. Commander Davis, when confronted with the ques tion as to whether or not Belmont and Gastonia can pick up some new players, said absolutely not. Now, it all boils down to this. Davis is going to do what Davis wants to do and that calls for breaking the rules all to pieces. If Hickory can play Leatherman and Whisnant without the rules being changed it looks like Belmont and Gastonia can add players also. The state commander is not supposed to have any thing to do with settling a protest, that’s suppose te^ be left up to the area and state commissioner. And the state commissioner is supposed to have the final say-so. You Have To Give Hussey Much Credit Kings Mountain’s season ended in a dizzy but now let’s look back over the rest of the year. You have to give Coach Hussey much credit for turn ing out a winning team this year. He took mostly the same boys that posted a 4-10 record for Kings Mountain high school this spring and turned them into a winning team. The Juniors posted a 15-11 mark for the season §rtid finished in fifth place in the regular season standings. I would have to point out Nelson Connor and Roy Medlin as the outstanding players of the year with Mickey Adkins the spotlight of the pitching crew. Connor led the team in hitting with a .404 mark and Medlin’s six home runs set a record for a KM player and also led Area IV. Adkins worked a total of 63 innings, posted a 3-1 record, and was one of the top relief pitchers in the league. Connor hit safely in all but one game this year and his smooth fielding gained him respect from every coach in the league. Medlin’s ability to hit the long ball had every pitcher in the league pitching him carefully. Medlin set a total of eight records this year. He broke the all-time home run record with two grand slammers against Bessemer City. He went into that game with three round-trippers and tied for the lead in all-time homers with Jerry Morris. Medlin blasted a grand-slammer in the second inning of that game to break the record and came up later in the fifth and smacked another. Shelby Game Was^ost Exciting The most exciting game of the 1966 season, to me, was the 11-inning contest with Shelby which KM won, 2- 1. It took a ninth-inning homer by Medlin to tie the game and an 11th inning double by Roy to win it. Also exciting about that game was the pitcher’s duel between Steve Goforth and Shelby lefty Tommy Hayes. Hayes had just led the Crest high school team to the State Class A championship and was a sure bet to offer stiff competition to Area IV Legion teams. Hayes had just knocked Forest City from the unbeat en ranks the following Tuesday night and had KM batters stiffle,d until the ninth. Kings Mountain came to bat in the ninth with only two hits off Hayes. Medlin led off the inning with a homer but the southpaw got the next three in order. Connor and Tony Leighjed off the 11th with back-to- back singles and Medlin csuhe up with a double to win the game. a All But Two Players Back Next Year Kings Mountain will be in good shape again next year. Pitcher Steve Goforth and outfielder Ronnie Rhea are the only two players who terminate their eligibility. Goforth posted a 5-5 record for the Mounties this year while Rhea was second in hitting with a .269 aver age. Both will be missed next time around but Post 155 will have capable players taking their places. Rhea was a three-year starter for the locals and Go forth has seen much duty for the past three years. Before this year, however, Goforth has worked in relief. COPY OF TELEGRAM FROM NATIONAL BASE BALL COMMISSIONER GEORGE W. RULON TO KINGS MTN. POST 155 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR CARL WILSON To: Carl Wilson From: George W. Rulon Dept. Committee has apparent disregard for North Carolina's rule concerning players' participa tion with more than one team regrettable. Despite disagreement with Saturday's meeting action, must accept final decision reached under National Rule 7. Suggest that rule concerning players' participation with more than one team be adhered to in the future or deleted from your rulebook. Rule as presently written follows a true concept of program. Would ap preciate full discussion of matter at your earliest op portunity.. Teener All-Stars Beat Cherryville Kings Mountain’s Teener League All-Stars defeat^ Cher ryville two straight games on Monday and Tuesday to advance to the state playoffs which be gin Monday in Greenville, N. C. The Teeners will leave Kings Mountain Sunday. The locals beat the Cherries by a 7-2 count here Monday but squeezed by 3-2 Tuesday in Cherryville. Southpaw Rocky Goforth gain ed the pitching win Monday and right - hander Darrell Whetstine picked up the victory 'Tuesday. Both pitchers went the distance. In Monday’s game, Kings Mountain rallied for four runs in the second inning and added singletons in the third, fourth and sixth while Goforth checked the Cherries on only four hits. The locals collected only five hits off Cherryville pitchers Far- Kinga .Mountain’s American i Legion Juniors found themselves ruled out of Area IV competition Saturday after a meeting at Salisbury between statc'and area commissioners. State Commissioner Bob Cruz was over ruled by the other of ficials and the protest ruling I was reversed and the quarter- 1 finals series between Hickory 1 and Kings Mountain was award- i ed to Hickory. The big KM-Hickoiy squabble began last Saturday night at City Stadium when Post 1551 Coach Bob Hussey protested j Hickory’s use of former Newton i pitcher Bob VVliisnant. Kings Mountain Athletic Dir-1 ector Carl Wilson went to Ra-1 leigh last Monday to present tlie i protest. ta State __Cormnissionei | CruZv^ Wilson received" a 'tele-j gram ‘from Cruz Tuesday morn ing informing him that KM was | to play Belmont Wednesday night in Bolm'ont. Post 155 traveled to Belmont Wednesday night only to be greeted by Hickory. Wilson im mediately telephoned Cruz in Raleigh and Cruz told both Hick ory and KM not to play and that he would set up a meeting for 4:30 Thursday afternoon in Shel- by. . Hickory’s reason for showing up at Belmont Wedne.sday was, of course, to play but the Hick ory officials bad received a tele gram frcfm ATt?a IV^ commission er Joe Phillips of Shelby which said that Hickory was to ad vance against Belmont. At Thursd.ay’s meeting in Shelby officials clecidi-d to call the KM-Hickory series even at one game each and a final play- up for Thurs day night in Hickory. That game was won by Kings Mountain, 8-5, and the Mounties went to Belmont Friday night for a game which Belmont won 14-1. The two teams were to I ^ Teener League Boxscores MONDAY Kings Mountain AB R H BI Cornwell, cf 1 1 0 0 Carroll, rf 0 0 0 0 Putnam, ss 4 0 1 2 Smith, 2b 4 0 0 0 Perkins, If «2' 1 0 « Bla!tk,'lf > 1 0 0 -0 Mullinax, 3b 2 1 0 1 Howard, rf, cf 3 1 1 0 Ashe, c 3 1 2 1 Mitchem, lb 2 1 0 1 Goforth, p 3 1 1 2 25 7 5 7 Cherryville Bennett, cf 3 0 0 0 Randall, If 2 0 0 0 Fisher, 3b 3 0 0 0 Burgess, c 4 0 3 0 Patterson, p, 2b 4 1 0 0 Stroupe, rf 1 1 0 0 Crowder, 2b 1 0 0 0 Hefner, p 1 0 0 0 Beam, lb 2 0 0 0 Walls, 2b 3 0 1 2 24 2 4 2 WP — Goforth. LP — Patterson. TUESDAY Kings Mountain AB R H BI Cornwell, cf 4 110 Putnam, ss 4 0 10 Smith, 2b 3 12 1 Perkins, If 2 110 Carroll, If 10 0 0 Mullinax, 3b 3 0 0 0 Howard, rf 2 0 0 0 Ashe, c 2 0 0 0 Mitchem, lb 3 0 10 Whetstine, p 2 0 0 0 26 3 6 1 Cherryville Bennett, cf 3 0 0 0 Randall, rf 2 110 Fisher, 3b 3 0 10 Burgess, c 3 0 10 Patterson, ss 3 0 3 0 Stroupe, If 3 0 0 0 Walls, 2b 2 10 0 Beam, 2b 2 0 0 0 Lindsay, p 2 0 11 WP — Whetstine. LP—Lindsay. Etheridge Wins Tennis Tourney Richard Etheridge defeated Tony Ware Thursday for the championship in the City Singles Tennis Tournament. In semi-Jfin- als play Wednesday Etheridge beat Mike Ware and Tony Ware beat Robby Suber. The annual douible-elemination Doubles Tourney is now under way, with first round play be ginning Tuesday. In action Tuesday Mike and Tony Ware defeated Don Free man and Richard Etheridge 6-4, 4.6 and 6-4 and Robby Suber and Sandy Mauney beat Beattie Leonard and Robby Whisnant 6- 2 and 6-0. Second round actiop Wednes day had the Ware brothers play ing against the teaim of Suber and Mauney and today’s action pits Freeman and Etheridge a- gainst Leonard and Whisnant. The winners play Friday with the losers of today’s matches be ing eliminated. Suber and Mauney are the de fending doubles champions. Fell Patterson and Scott Hefner but took advantage of three Cherrie errors, four bases on balls and two hit batters. Goforth, with the exception of the fourth inning when the visi tors scored their two runs, was never in serious trouble. He struck out six batters and walk ed seven en route to the win. Catcher Clarence Ashe led the locals at bat with two hits in . three trips to the plate. Gene Putnam, Geeper Howard and Go forth collected KM's other hits. Kings Mountain’s defense did not commit an error. Clean-up batter Glenn Perkins led off the KM second with a, , .c, . j k,.. ot walk and went to second an out later when Howard singled to^^^ aatur ay rightfield. Ashe reached base on j Hussey a fielder’s choice and Perkins; scored the first run when Ken j Mitchem walked. ] Goforth then reached ba.se on an error to score Howard and Ashe and, after Joe Cornwell filed out, Putnam singled to send in Mitchem. Mike Smith Hied out to end the inningr Kings Mountain added its fifth run in the third inning with Ashe driving home Wayne Mul linax after Mullinax wa.lked and stole second. n, (Cherryville brought the gam6 closer at 5-2 in the fourth by scoring two runs on two hits. Catcher Mike Burgess, who got three of Cherryville’s four hits, led things off with a single but was forced at second when Pat terson hit a grounder to short. Goforth then issued walks to Tommy Stroupe and Norris Beam to load the bases and shortstop Ronnie Walls singled in the run ners from second and third. Goforth singled to lead-off the KM fourth, went to second when Cornwell was hit by a pitched ball, took third when Putnam reached base on an error and scored two outs later when Mul linax drew a base on balls. In the sixth, Cornwell was hit by a pitched ball, stole second and scored when Putnam reach ed base on an error. Tuesday at Cherryville Kings Mountain scored one run in the first inning and two in the fourth while Cherryville scored 'V <■- LEFT — NELSON CONNOR RIGHT — MICKEY ADKINS TOP — ROY MEDLIN Connor’s ,404 Batting Mark Leads Juniors For 66 Season afternnon, Coach received word that KM was out and Hickory was in. Hickory and Belmont played Saturday night in Belmont with Hickory losing by a 2-1 count. Saturday’s meeting in Salis bury was set up by .8tate Com mander Boh Davis, Five officials voted on the matti*r .and the out come was 4-1 in Hickory’s fa vor. The only Vote for KM was supposedly put . in by Cruz. Medlin’s Homei Lifts Juniois Past Hickory Kings Mountain’s Juniors rode the pitching arm of Mickey Ad kins and the hitting of Roy Med lin, Ronnie Rhea* and Tony Leigh past Hickory into the semi-finals of the Area IV play-offs Thurs day night. Past 1.55 had to travel to Hic kory Thursday to decide v.dtich team would advance again.st Belmont and when the final out was made. Kings Mountain had an 8-5 victory. Adkins went the distance for the locals, picking up his third I win of the season against only; one los.s. He .scattered eighl hits. I walked only two batters and j struck out 12. I I Medlin led the 12-hit Moiin- , taineer attack with a home run, and two singles in five times at, Shortsloi) Nelson Connor led ]' the Kings Mountain Juniors in i hitting tills .season with a .41)4 i batting average. Connor, wlio made all-conf(‘r- enco for KMHS this past .season while leading that team in hit ting, collected a total of .38 tiits in 94 times at bat. Nelson also led tiic team in doubles wit it five, wa.s second in runs scorc'ci with 20, had 12 runs batted in and tied for the lead in triples witli one. - ^ Connor was the only regular to hit over .300. Second on tlic liilting list wa.s Ronnie Rhea who played the out field, first base,.third base and! was a relief pitcher. Rltea wasi 25-for-93, good fob a .269 avef-j age. I Catcher Paul Gaffney was the only other regular to hit over; the .250 mark. Gaffney collected | 22 hits in 84 times at bat for a[ .262 average. Legion Individual Statistics Ronnie Burton, of Nel.son Connor, ss Ronnie Rhea, inf.-of l^aul Gaffney, c Roy Medlin, c-3b-of Phillip Cash, 2b Bruce Jones, of Tommy Goforth, p-lb-of Tony Leigh, of Chuck Ray, inf. Chucky Gladden, lb-3b Steve Goforth, p-of Mickey Adkins, p-inf.-of' Bill Bridges, of Stanley Laughter, lb David Norris, p , 1 0 1 94 20 38 93 17 25 84 12 22 98 17 22 96 12 21 P 2 1 70 10 13 98 21 17 13 1 2 86 7 13 23 ' 3 3 39 4 5 35 0 4 2 0 0 4 0 0 841 126 187 1.000 .404 .269 .262 .224 .219 .200 .186 .172 .154 .151 .130 .128 .114 .000 .000 PITCHING RECORDS Roy Medlin led the team in' slugging with 11 extra base hits.] Medlin clouted six home run.s,j one triple and four doubles, led! the team in runs batled in with! 30 and was third in runs scored with 17. Medlin collected a total of 22 hits in 98 times at bat for a .224 average. Post 1.55 had three pitchers to post a winning record with Mic key Adkin.s’ 3-1 tab tops for the club. Adkins had the be.st earned run average, 2.43 and gave up- least number of hits for a! star'er, 53. ' Mickey -Adkins 3 1 62% 24 63 Steve Goforth 5 5 72 62 88 Tommy Goforth 3 3 59% 27 48 David Norris 1 2 12% 9 14 Ronnie Rhea 0 0 6% 6 3 12 11 204 128 216 .222 2.43 2.50 4.20 5.25 6.00 3.21 HOME RUNS — Medlin 6. TRIPLES — Connor, Med lin, Rhea, Leigh, one each. DOUBLES — Connor 5, Medlin 4, Gaffney 3, Rhea 3, Cash 2, Leigh 2, Adkins 2, Bridges 1, T. Goforth 1. RBI — Medlin 30, Cash 14, ney 1, Cash 1, Medlin 1, T. Goforth 1. Goforth 1, Gladden 1, S. singletons in the first and fifth, i bat. Leigh had a triple and sin- _ „ , . , ,. ! gle in Hve times at bat and Cornwell scored for KM in the Sv, „ .. ... . 11 XI. r Rhea added a double and sinf,Me nrs , coming all- the way from, ] first base on a double by Smith. ghort.stop Nel.son Connor and Cherryville came nght back in I baseman Phil Cash also, the bottorn of the first to collect four hits but poor base running rightfielder Tom- held the hosts to only one run. r vTi/i * .u i niy Goforth got the team s other In the KM fourth, two errors, i,,; . ,, ... ’ , 'i hit. a single, two walks, a wild pitch and a single by Perkins produced two runs. Cherryville scored its final run on a walk, an error, a stolen base and a single by losing pitcher Allan Lindsay. Steve Goforth posted a 5-5 rec ord while leading the team in .'ilrikeouts with 88. Tommy Go forth was 3-3 on the season and ixisted a' 4.20 "'earned run aver age. Post 1.55 posted an overall rec ord of 15 wins and 11 losses, liowevor, three of those wins were by forfeit. reached base when' hit by a pitched ball, and took second on Hall, a single by Goforth. Hickory tallied its final two runs in the eighth, also. Catcher Mike Malian doubled to lead Most Valuable Player To Be Named At Legion Banquet Next Thursday The annual American Legion Baseball steak dinner will be lield for Po.si 155 players, their paianil.s and other guests Thurs day night, July 28 at the Legion Cherryville offered threat in the seventh shortstop Farrell Patterson led things off with a double. But Whetstine tightened down and struck out two batters and got another to fly out to end the game. - Kings Mountain collected six hits off -Lindsay with Smith’s 2-for-3 performance showing the way. Lindsay gave up only one earned run, walked four and struck out seven. Whetstine gave up seven hits, one earned run, walked two -and fanned four. Patterson’s 3 • for - 3 pwform- ance topped the home team’s hitting. Legion To Sponsor Trip To Atlanta American Le^on Post 155 will sponsor its third bus trip to At lanta, Ga., Sunday, July 31, for a baseball gai.-ne between the At lanta Braves and the San Fran cisco Giants. Fee is $12.50, and that includes round-trip bus fare plus a re served seat for the game. There will be two buses char tered for the- trip. Y.ou do > not have to be a Legion mcmlber to attend. -ir Kings Mountain tallied six of its runs in the sixth and seventh Innings, getting three in each frame. Leigh, Rhea and Cash ^ ,,, had singles to produce the runsi'hings off, Richard Dellinger in the sixth with a single by walked and both runners scored a tough 1 Connor, a triple by Leigh and' o” ^ two-out double by Ted inning as' Medlin’s towering homer turning Spencer, the trick in the seventh. Post 155 struck for a 1-0 lead Optimist Wins Out In Little League Optimist defeated Lions 5-3 Hiu:ii]igliting the program will night to put a perfect be tlu“ pii'scMitation of the Most' 1966 Little League Valuahl(> Player Award which | The will go to the boy who, in the minds ol a special committee, contribuied the most to the suc cess of the team this year. Last year Shortstop the award went to win over Lions gave Coach Max Bolin’s boys a per fect 14-0 record for regular sea son play. Dana Sarvis was the winning pitclier. Mark McDaniel led the in hitting with a in the driving double lull for Hickory and was tagged, ^ t^e semi- first inning with Rhea loss. Malian led the Connor home with a Hi(.kory hitting with two doubles to deep centerfield. But, jjyg times at bat. Hickory came back in the bot-j , tom of the first for two runs on BOXSCORE a single by Larry Sisk, a ba.se Kings Mountodn on balls, a hit batter, a .stolen ] Connor, ss base and a KM error gliding the , Leigh, If cause. i Medlin, 3b Hickory made it 34 in the; Rhea, cf third with second baseman CIc- j Cash, 2b ment Huffman scoring on an or-! Gaffney, c ,, ,, i I A *i I-•'Muii.-Mui* Richard Gold whose! team in hitting with a single Ron Hastings started on tlie! batting average led Post 155i double in three times at bat. Rescue Squad defeated Police 2-0 ^Thursday night to finish second in the eight-team stand ings. police and Lions tied for third place with identical .7-6 records. AB finals of the Area IV playoffs. No guest speaker has been named as of yet, however, .Coach Bob Hussc'y and Athletic Officer HiCi^-1 Wilson will deliver short 2j talks. Hu-ssey will present the 2 MVP Award. FINAL STANDINGS ror after reaching base on an error. Leigh led off the KM with a single, stole second and made it 3-2 an out later when Rhea singled. Cash then sent Rhea home with a single and scored hiimself later on a balk, making the score 4-3. Post 155 tallied three more runs in the seventh to make it 7-3 and pretty well Insure the Hoover, ph win. Connor led off with a sin-; Dellinger, lb gle, Leigh sent him home with a triple and Medlin then con nected for his sixth home run of the season, a towering drive which cleared a building over the centerfield fence. Gladden, lb T. Goforth, rf sixtfi" Adkins, p Hickory Huffman, 2b, Fisher, 3b Sisk, .ss Malian, c Berry, rf Team Optimist Rescue Squad Lions Police Kiwanis 2 The MVP .Award presentation 2 was originated in 1959 when 0 pitcher Bobby Biddix was the 0 recipient. Since that year, two 1 pitchers, two infielders and one 01 outfielder have been awarded _ the trophy. rarkgrace 38 8 12 All - Time Post 155 Most Valuable Players The Mountaineers scored their final run in the eighth with Chucky Gladden coming home on a single by Connor. Gladden Lail, If Spencer, cf ’ 4 0 1 Ha.stings, p 2 0 0^ Shofner, 2b 2 0 o! E —Gaffney, Adkin.s, Rhea. DP—: Hickory 1. LOB — KM 5, H 8.| 2B — Malian 2, Spencer, Rhea.i 3B — Leigh. HR — Medlin. HBPj —Gladden, Huffman. WP . — Hastings. BALK — Hastings. < 1959— Bobby Biddix, pitcher. 1960— Not Given. 1961— Ernest McCarter, pitcher. 1962— Jim Leigh, flret-bosepiaa. 1963— Mickey BeU, outfielder. 1964— Warren Goforth, pitcher. 1965— Richard Gold, shortstop.* AT MARKET Dick McGinnis represented McGinnis Furniture Company at the Southern Furniture Market in High Point July 11- i 15. I Jaycees Europeans eat twice potatoes as Americans, the amount is decreasing. 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