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By GARY STEWART
Ninth Legion MVP To Be Nanhed Tonight
The ninth winner of the Post 155 American Legion
Most Valuable Player Award will be named tonight at the
annual steak dinner honoring members of the 1966 Legion
baseball team.
■' ' ■' -y .-Themost valuable play-
■ er award was originated in
1959 when it went to pitch-1
3r-outfielder Bobby Biddix j
who led the ’59 Juniors to.
the finals of the Area IV
playoffs.
Biddix posted a 10-6 rec
ord that year and his 101
wins as well as 144 strike-j
outs hold all-time records'
for a Post 155 pitcher. Bid-1
-dix was KM’s second lead
ing hitter that year with
^ a .300-plus batting aver-j
season would|
I I have to be termed the best'
4 11 ' ' ' - in Post 155 history. That
^ POSH team posted an overall 18-
i t. ^ ^ 11 record and took Mount
BOBBY BIDDIX Holly the distance in their
playoff series.
. A most varuable player trophy was not given in 1%0
but in 1961 the award went to York, S. C. s Ernest McCai-
ter, who also doubled as a pitcher-outfielder.
In '61 McCarter made Post 155 history by striking
out 23 batters in one game (against ft^therfordton in ve
fk’st game of a best-of-three playoff senes). In that same
game McCarter fanned the first 14 men to face him.
McCarter, like Biddix, was also one bf the team’s
best hitters. He also finished over the .300 mark m hitting
and was second in that department only to third baseman
Lawrence Bolin.
Infielders got into the picture in 1962 when the MVP
trophy went to first baseman Jim Leigh who ROW serves
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Locals Win First
Two, Lose Third
King.? Mountain's Teeneri Kings Mountain tied it 2-all in
League All-Stai-j were .scheduled the bottom oi the sixth with
to play Ga.stnriia for the state shortstop Gene Punam driving
IN STATE FINALS — Pictured above iS the Kings Mountain
Teener League all-star team virhich was scheduled to meet
Gastonia in the state championship gome today at 3:30 ot Guy
Smith Stadium in Greenville. Pictured above, front row, left to
right, are Johnny Reynolds, Joe Cornwell. Eddie Black, Glenn
Perkins ond Jack Bell. Second row. Warren Goforth (coach).
Lorry Carroll. Mike Smith, Creeper Howard. Rocky Goforth and
Corky Fulton. Third row, Mike Ware (coach), Darrell Whet-
Stine, Ken Mltchem, Wayne Mullinax, Clarence Ashe, dene Put
nam ond Coach Bob Moore. Y
was also one
Carl Wilson resigned his post
of Kings Mountain Legion Base
ball Athletic Officer last Thurs
day night His resignation will
become eflettive after tonight’s
post-season banquet at 4he Le-
Wilson Besigns
tis Post
Baseball Head
In. tendering
his resignation
Wilson .stated:
“I feel like 1
could do more
for (Legion
baseball as an
individ ua.l.
When you are
athletic officer
you have to
speak for the
post. If I’m not athletic o
can speak for myself.”
Wilson’s resignation pulls the
curtain down on probably tne
most disappointing season in
Post 155 history. Hie locate were
thrown out of the Area IV play
offs after a highly disputed
quarter-finals series with Hick-
ory^
Wilson took over as Post 155’s
Athletic Director in 1%2. A new
Athletic Officer will pra'-:ably
not be nai-Tied until next season.
as Post 155 "assistant coach. Leigh was the team’s leading gion Hail
bitter and his smeoth fielding earned ,him respect from
all opposing batters. „
Jim is now, and has been for the last three ye^s, a
member of the Appalachian State Teacher’s College base
ball team. Jim stilPplays first base and was very valuable
to that team’s success last season. -o „
The award was given**to outfielder Mickey Bell m
1963! Bell, in his first year as a member of the Post lo5
team, led the juniors in hitting in ’,63 as well as the follow:
ing year.
Goforth Hurled Only No-Hitter
Warren (Bo) Goforth, who is now in Greenville, N.
C., as coach of the Kings Mountain Teener League team,
won the most valuable player award in 1964, the year
lhat he made Post 155 with a no-hitter against Bessemer
City in the first game of a best-pf-three playoff senes.
. Goforth, whose brpthers Steve and Tommy played for
Post 155 this'past season, faced only 29 baHers en route
to his no-hit victory, a 5-0 blanking of the BC lads.
Bo also doubled as a pitcher-outfielder. He posted a
3-2 record on the hill and was one of the team s leading
Goforth is currently Leigh’s teanimate up at ^Appa
lachian where'Bo sees action only on the mound now.
This past season he posted a 3-3 record as a sophomore
and he figures largely in ASTC’s future plar^. ^ ^ ,
Last year the award went to shortstop Richard Gold
who led the team in hitting with a .479 batting average,
the Highest season batting mark ever posted by a regular
Post 155 player. , j
Gold, besides his high batting mark, set two records
during last season, that of most stolen bases (13) and
most consecutive games hitting streak, 17.
Richard hit safely in the first 17 games of the 65
season before being held to an O-for-3 performance against
Shelby in the next to the last game of the ^ason.
Dick is now a member of the Florida State baseball
team.. Last year he captained the FSU freshman team, be
ing switched from his familiar shortstop position to sec-
ond Ij3s0 *
For the FSU Frosh, Richard hit at a .255 clip and was
the team header in runs batted in. You can look for him in
the lineup for the FSU varsity this coming season.
■ You Can't Overlook The Other Stars
Above are just the Post 155 players who were fortu
nate enough to be recognized as the team s most valuable
players but you can't overlook some of the other stars
who have been in KM. ,
For instance, in 1959 when Post 15.? went all the way
to the finals of the Area IV playoffs we had stars such
as Jerry Morris, Don Horn, Sid Franklin, etc.
Morris, an all-state catcher, blasted three home runs 7:00.
for Post 155 in ’59 and led the team in hitnng with a .413 j the eomplete all-®tar
batting average. His three homers was a Post 155 record; for (both team.s:
until this year when Rov Medlin doubled that output. AMERICAN league
for Ao“t
f.se^so„"®2i“Kris"s1llfow\71See team recort
runs batted in for a season (42), most hits-in a season j pojjpg. Bfjiy’ wTietstine, Police;
and most triples in a season, 7. -Richard Stowe. Police; Jay keet-
Franklin, a second baseman, w’as also one or me top^^, police; Mike McDaniel, Res-
hitters in ’59. — ' eue .Squad; Kary Kiser Rescue
From ’60-’62 Po.st 1.55 had such stars as Morris, Barry gquad; Bo^bv B.vers, Kiwanis;
Gibson, Leigh, Beattie Leonard, etc., and then from ’63-’63 Dana Franklin, Kiwan's; Larry
names' such as Bell, Gold, Pat Murphy, Seerley Lowery,
Chris Faulkner and others came into the picture.
Faulkner, a big 200-pounder from Hickory Grove, S.
C., was one of the hardest hitting ballplayers to ever plav ^ ^
for Post 155. He didn’t get a home run during his one year ^V!lgon. Lionis; Chris Blairton,
career here but lashed out a total of 17 extra base hits,
including 14 doubles which set a team record.
This year’s most valuable player, just as the ones In
l^rover To Host
Slow-Pitch Tourney
Grover Resc.ue Squad will host
a 22-team Invitational Slow-
Pitch Softball Tournament be
ginning August 8 at Brice IJarfy,
Memorial Park in GrbVer.
- Several teams from the Kings
Mountain area are entered in
the tourney. The winning tearii
will receive a $100 ca^ prigp
with the runner-up getting $30.
Saxe of ,the area teaitis enter
ed are; Grover, Cash Grocery',
Bees, Margrace Bur-Mill and
Montgomery’s Gulf.
I Etheridge won the annual Sin-1 Mike Ware .to reach the finals
gles Tourney last week by bbat-[found with Tony after he (Tony)
ing Tony \Yare,'Ethepdge bpat-[defcatcd Subef.
championship' Worlnesday after
noon at LjCv Sniiili Stadium in
Ci'CenN illo. .\. c.
^ The locals boat host team
jrwnMlle 1-.') in an oi^jlit-inning
battle Monday morning and ^-de-
teatod Gastonia 7-l Tuesday aft-
?nu)on to rcacli. .Mv' champion-
sbLp -bracket k— - w-r-——^
However, Gastonia cam.e i ack
‘o beat the MrAmties -1-3 Wodnes-
lay morning' I'onhig tlie douhle-
eiii.rination touiney into -a final
mmo' \\ erlnes\'!av afternoon at
3:30.
Kmgs Mountain could have
.wrapped un i!ip 'tatp lii-lo with
a win W'l dnesday morning but
the 1 mnU' liojres laded in the
’op 01 the seventh when Ge.s-
lOnia scored two imearnocl runs
on errors by KM's Joe Cornwell
and Ken Mitcliem.
Gastonia look a 1-0 lead in the
tlni'fi inning o*" Wednesd ry’s
gamio when tliird ba'^eman Tony
.Murphy parked a pitch over the*
lettlield fenre for a home run.
The blast came ofr'lr'sin.g pitch
er Rocky Gofortli. who wont the
distance for the locals.
Wayne Mullinax tied it at 1-
I all in the fifth with a home run
'deep over tfR' left field fence but
Cornwell home with
single to ccnterficld.
a tw’o-out
Back-to-back errors by Corn-
y.Cll and Mitchem provided Gas
tonia with the winning runs in
the seventh. KM threatened in
the home half of the seventh
with Mullinax drawing a walk
•and scoring, all J^he .way. from__
fxst on a hit-and-run single by
pinch-hitter Eddie Black.
Black went to second when
the thi’ovv at home was behind
Mullinax however, pinch-runner
Jack Bell was nabbed at third
ase an out later when Mitchem
hit a grounder back to pitcher
Eddie Henderson.
Catcher Clarence Ashe ijflied
out just h'‘fore Mitchem came to
bat. Darrell U'fies+ineipinch-hit
ting for Goforth, flied oUt to
shallow loftfield to end the
game.
I In Monday’s game a.gainst
I Greenville. GofOrth tossed a four-
I hitter and fanned seven batters
I but did not get tlie pitching win
i as W.hetstine came in to pitch
I the final inning.
i TournarYent rules state that a
I pitcher, can pitch only seven in-
I nings a day.
I Goforth also led KM in hitting
Gastoni-a cam, hack in the ton of | Monday with a 2-for-2 perform-
the sixth to take a 2-1 lead on ; ance while Cornwell and Ashe
a'homer by Ji'ii-y Harris. . ! Continuecl^On Page 4 ..
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Little Leaguers
Play Friday
Kings Mountain’s Little
League all-starjf enter district
play Friday with the local Amer
lean League team playing here
at 8:00 while the National
League team plays in Shelby at
4:30.
The National (League team —
coached by Don Smith and
Charles Bolin-—will play a team
from the Big Five whUe the
American Leaguers host Dallas
In the second game here Friday
night.
Dove Season
Opens Sept. 7
RA'LEIGH — The North Caro
lina Wildlife Resources Commis
sion, following the rec'omi.menda-
tions of the U. S. Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, has
established September 7 as the
opening date for this year’s dove
hunting season in North Caro
lina.
The season this year, as in
past years, will be split to cdlow
a total of 70 half-days hunting
time for Tarheel sportsmen. The
first segment- of the season be
ginning on .Sptem'oer 7 will end
October 12. The second segment
of the split season will begin on
December 10 and continue
through January 12, 1967. Hunt
ing will be allowed from twelve
noon until sunset during both
parts of the split season. The
daily bag limit is twelve birds.
According to a Wildlife Re
sources Commission spokesman,
the opening day of this year’s
dove hunting season marks the
seventh anniversary of the Wild
life Commission’s public dove
hunt management area program.
Started in 1959 with ten dove
hrmting areas open to the public,
the program has grown to 21
dove areas for the current sea
son. In addition to holding a \'a-
lid state hunting license, hunters
who use these or other manage
ment areas are required to pur-,
chase a $3.00 permit.
Further infonmation relative
to these new management areas
Quota
and dove hunting in the state
,wni appear In the September is-
Should the Nationals beat the WILDLIFE IN NORTH
Big Five they will play the win
ner of the ^Bessemer City-Shelby
game Monday at 7:00 in Shelby.
Should the Americans win their
game Friday they will play the
winner of the Harold Mercer-
Hickory game Monday night at
CAROLINA, the official maga
zine of the North Carolina Wild
life ]^ources Commission.
A new guide to public game
lands and regulations i^overtling
hunting on these lands ha* been
prepared by the Commission and
is available on request from the
Division of Game, Wildlife Re
source* Commission, Box 2919,
Raleigh, North Carolina 27602.
Huffstickler. Rescue Squad.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
George Sellers Parkgrace; Ro
ger Potrfe, Parkgrace; Freddie
Parkgrace; Charlie Baker, (Bur-
Mill; Mark McDaniel. Bur'^Mill;
Grafton WHJitrs, Bur-Mill: Dav-
the past, will be selected by a
of the committeemen had
pl3y0i*s
This year’s team had three or four boys who would
qualify for the award but it-will go to only one. Who do
you'think it will be?
^ur-man committee. NoneM'^ Brown,
luuA ‘ .. 1 T*fTW tTiinffl»r T,lAno«TnVin.
contact with thi»i Lions; Tim Hunter, (Lions; John-
any direct contact with the Bridges; Bur-Mill; Jerry Val-
•ntine, Paritgraed; Keith Ram
sey, Bur-Mill; S'^^Rxmnie Biddix
Jayoees; Robby Moore, Park-
grace; Otis Fails, Bur-MilL
W$ie Team Witis
Mike and Tony Ware won the
19^ City Doubles Tennis Tourn
ament Monday by defeating de
fending champions Robby Suber
and Sandy Mauney.
The Ware brothers beat Suber
and Mauney for the first time
Wednesday afternoon and later
advanced to the finals.by beat-
ihg tWn FreefnRn ^itld Richard
Etheridge. Etheridge and FVee-
man reached the semi-finals by
beating Beattie Leonard end
Robby Whisnant.
The doul'.Je-elemination trturn-
ey got underway last Tuesday
with the Ware brothers beating
the team of Etheridge-Frieitian
while Mauney and Suber defeat
ed Idtmuri ood Wliienaat.
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