Vi.i.'Hr
1970
1 lAi
Tfiuri3ay, Xpril 2, 1970
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
I
S
ind
4
Gougar^ top draft choice
acquired from Miami. Calted
"Dollar biirby histammafes
TecauQe of lucmfii/e confraof.
/Hough
shoofer from
the side of
the ke^
Hes learninq a lot
about the elbow part
of pro bastetbal//
Page 3
Mounties Dedicate Park Friday
When Struttin’ Bud Shaney
Pitched, Everyone Knew It
By BOB TERRELL
In Tho AihevlUe Cltlton*Times
"‘Bkidie Cicotte, who was bann
ed from baseball for life for tak
ing part in the Black Sox scandal
in 1919, showed me how to shine
a ball. Jeff Tesrcau, the old Gi
ants pitcher, taught me the spit-
ter.
They called him Struttin’ Bud,
and when he pitched the whole
city know about it. Those who
weren’t at McCormick Field to
watch waited breathlessly for the
results. I "With my speed and strength.
Not often did Struttin’ Bud let’- * those were all the pitches I need-
em down. Mostly he won...yes,i ed besides the curve^ and I couldi
sir, MUCH more ^ften than not.; always throw the curve.”
Over the five seasons he pitched Bud had been in baseball five
for the Asheville Tourists, Strut- years before he came to Asheville.,
tin’ Bud Shaney won more than: He had risen to triple-A, to a
100 games. Those were great; berth with the Milwaukee Brew-! Bud said, and liis eyes;
in Philadelphia. And they were
star players in the majors.
"B<jbby Hipps (now pa
of Sams Linwln-Mercury
could have been a star
jors, but he never got the i
1 know 1 could’ve won in the ma
jors, but I never got u chance,,
either.” j
it was well that Struttin’}
Bud Shaney liked Asheville, and.
that Asheville liked him. I
“Boy, those were the good old
years, 1925 through 1929. The 1928 ors of the American A.ssociation,
Tourists ran aw’ay with the Sally Just one step away from the ma-
League pennant and many called’ jor leagues, and the future look-
them the greatest team ever pro- ed bright, indeed, when he con
duced here. j traded malaria and yellow juan-
Struttin’ Bud and Bill Harris dice in Florida in the spring of
1925.
"I lost from 185 pounds to 140,”
Bud said, "and Mr. Navin, the
business manager of the Milwau
kee ball club, had ht^rd of a
man with yellow juandice who
came to Asheville and was cured
in a year. He told me to pack my
bags, that I
Two Promising Rookies
Make It To Sportsman
Cole Is Named
Most Valuable
In All-Star Tilt
Bud and Bill Harris
roomed together^ and together
won 48 victories on the mound.
Bill won 25 and Bud notched 23.
With the 1970 ba.seball season
just around the corner, it is fit
ting to tell Struttin’ Bud’s story
to a new generation who may
never have heard of him, and to
the older generation who knew
him when.
Struttin’ Bud is 70 now, born
Jan. 9, 19(X) in New Albany. Ind.,
twinkled. "We didn’t have to pay i
no income tax, shoes cost $2..^0 j
to $3.50, you could buy a suit ofi
clothes for $15. t
"Meals cost a quarter, with d(*s-1
sert 35 cents. They allowed us'
a dollar a day meal money andj
we ate good. Hotel rooms vv(*re i
a dollar a day. 1
"We .smoked Sweet C'appetral'
and Old Mill cigarettes, hnm n i
jjaper cigarettes they wert*, a nic-'
kel a pack, and we chewed Ih»rst*i
Shoe, Star or Climax tobacco, nic-'
kel a plug. That’s what you paid
too,
was going to Ashe
ville. ! for a beer, too, a nickel.
"The season had started when! baseball was as tougii a
I arrived here by train,” he con-| "arno as a man could play. Kvery-
tinued. ‘There was a wire wait-'
ing for me, telling me to join the
Asheville club. 1 called Bob Hig- ■
; gins, the manager, and he told
me to come on out to the park.
"When I got there, I told him
I wasn’t too strong, but he .said'
body sharpened his .spikes, like
Ty Cobb, and most came sliding
into second with their spikes
flashing.”
The incident tliat Bud Shaney
remembers most \ividly was file
time Tom Farrell killed Pete Mann
I
mCKORY, N. C. — Two pro
mising rookies, well known to
area fans for their successes as
Hobby drivers, will be making
That big Jump to the Sportsman
ranks as Hickoi-y Speedway be
gins its 19th season of Saturday
night programs this week.
Morgan Shepherd of Conover
and Ab Schronce of Hickory will
be piloting identical 1957 Chev-
roJets, both of which are spon
sored by Everett Ohevi'olet of
IIickor>'.
One of the hottest Hobby driv-
rs in the country last year,
-’hepherd won 21 of the 26 races
he entered, captured the track
titJe at New Asheville Speedway
and ran a close second for the
state title. He won eveiy race
he entered at Hickory Speedway
in the ’69 season.
Stepping up to the Sportsman
ranks, ShepheKl is learning, is
a whole new ball game. In their
first start on March 15. the cars
of Shepherd and Sohronce brush
holy damage,
Schronce, who has the good
fortune of operating a used parts
business, picked up some Sports
man experience last year but
called it quits in mid-season aft
er a number of costly crashes.
What the Hickory driver is
looking for is another season
like 1968 when he won the track
I Hobby title in a walk-away. He
1 finished a rospoctablc 7th in his
I first start at Hickory last month.
] The top newcomer in the Ford
ranks is Hickory’s Jim Ward,
I who made a shambles of the
I Rookie division in 1968. HeTl be
I running as a Sportsman without
ever having tried his hand in the
intermediate division.
The track’s top sophomore
Sportsman has to i>e Blain
iBlack Jack) Hall of Bethlehem
Community. Known for a heavy
fool despite his slight build,
Hall’s Bollek Oil Special Chevy
took track honors last year for
the most spectacular crashes.
The gates open at 6, with time
but his muscles are still Hard as
nails and he could yet throw a
baseball through a barn door. He’s
a tough old codger who survived
three severe heart attacks one
cold January night in 1959, lying
unconscious 12 days and then
coming slowly round. he understood, and I took it easy - ^ baseball.
'He lieves on a farm in Mills for u few days. Then he j|aveme| ^^26 or ’27.” Bud
Kings Mountain’s Otis Cole wasj River, works as a bondsman fori an assignment against the Char- ^aid, "and we were on a road trip
named most valuable player aft- the Allied Bonding Company here,' lotte Hornets, who were Ashe- : Mac-on and Augusta. It was my
er leading the North squad to an j and talks baseball at the slight-1 ville’s arch enemies, and I beat i fnrn to pitch the last gamt^ in
88-76 victory over the South in est provocation. With anyone, j them. Next thing I knew Ashe-
the annual Marion Civitan Class-. Anywhere. Anytime. I ville had bought my contract
ic Saturday night in Marion. Bud's voic'e Is pitched about an! from Milwaukee.”
octave high and is of such quan-! Shaney and Asheville hit it off
C_oh. assuming the role of play- j^at it sounds weak. "I think
maker for the North after playing: permanent laryngitis," he
said. "I umpired five years and
used to let’em have it. When that
at forward for the Mountaineers,
scored 20 points, turned in sev
eral assists and steals, and play
ed a great defensive game in
leading the Northwest and South-
third strike came in. I let’em
know he took it. Ruined mj' voice,
but they knew old Bud when he
west Conference seniors to their walkedin the park,
second straight win in the char- That’s the way it was when Bud
was a pitcher, too. He toiled pro-
fesionally on the mound from
1920 when he got outo f the Army
until 1942.
He’s a World War I'veteran;
spent most of the war in Siberia
as a hospital corpsman. "We went
cd and Shephend’s machine dust-! tnals following at 7:45 and the
I’d off the homestretch wall,
causing considerable frame and
Ellis Is High
Scorer In Men's
Bowling League
High scores continue in the lo
cal bow’ling league at Mountain
Lanes Bowling Center
Monday night in the men’s
league, Mack Ellis had single
games of 148, 130 and 114 in
posting a 392 sot wn.ch led Ron
nie Culbertson’s team to three
wins over Plonk Oil Co.
In the same match, Ronnie
Culbertson had a 359, Aud Tig-
nor a 330 and John Dye a 331
for the winners while Bob Hem
,on tallied a 345 and Dwight
coves added a 337 for the los
ers.
Handy Blanton scored a 136
line and 389 sot in leading Vin-
d’nf's Sinclair to three wins oyer
Hichaixl Culbertson’s team. F^jr-
man Wilson had a 120 line and
351 si’rics for the losers.
.Mii’ill Ramsey h'ad a 12S line
and 363 set in leading Quality
Sandwich to a split with Dilling
Ih’ating. R'chard Bridges had a
13S line an:l 359 set for the Dill
ing team.
In ladies league action Tues
day night, Jenny Oates score<i a
124 line and 339 set in leading
Oates Shell to three wins over
(Jriffin Drug. Edna Bowen’s 107
line and 298 set topped the los
ers
Amer.can Legion won three
games off McGinnis Furniture
as Becky Barnett .sc-ored a 117
line and 296 set. Evelyn Early
had a US lino and 294 sol for
‘the losers.
Bett\ Kite scored a 109 line
and Pal I’anther added a 29S set
as Mounlainrer Pharmacy won
three games off Plonk Bi*others.
Haibari .Miller was high for the
losers with a 135 line and 339
set
Aererding to the VA, about 3,-
(KK) pavment.s not to exceed $1.-
I GOO each will be made In fiscal
‘ 1971 to veterans who. as a
of performance of military
duty. lost the use of an extremity
or wrre blinded.
first of seven events at 8:30
p.m.
Firemen Set
Member Drive
The members of the Oak
Grove Volunteer Fire Department
will begin tlunr annual member
ship drive Sunday. April 51 h
from 1:30 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Every fam.ly in the Oak Grove
district will be visited by a
member of the Fire D<‘'parlment
•a spokesman said.
"Please welcome these Fire
Department rnembers when they
call on you”, said the spokes
man.
ity event.
Although Shelby’s Forrest Toms
was the North’s leading scorer
with 23 points, it was Cole’s great
all-round play which sparked the
North from behind in the third
period.
With the South ahead 38-35 at
halftime, Cole furnished the floor
leadership and Shelby’s Cedric
Hogue dominated both backboards
as the North outscored the South
27-14 in the third quarter to put
the game out of reach.
Hogue, a 6-3 jumping jack, fin
ished with 18 rebounds, including
nine in the third quarter. He also
scored 11 points.
The North once led by 19 points i a ball player.
(71-52) late in the game, but a! He w'as of the old school, a man
South rally cut the difference to! who spat on the ball and threw
Augusta but Larry Gardner, our
manager, told me he’d work Tom
Farrell that day and rne the next
in Augusta.
"Pete Mann had a batting
stance like Heinie Groh. He faced
the pitcher square away and lield
thebat straiglit up in front of his
face. At the last instant he would
turn and swing at the hall.
"Farrell was a big. strong kid,
SHOR’TSTOP — Senior Philip
Francis, who started in the out
field ' last year as KMHS won
the SWe and ossociation titles,
has been moved to shortstop
this year and hos performed
well for Coach Bob Hussey's
Mountaineers. The Mounties
dedicate their new park Friday
ofternoon when East Ruther
ford comes to town.
from the start. He liked the city
and its people and they loved him
and his pitching.
That’s how Struttin’ Bud Shan
ey came to be in Asheville the
summer of 1928, pitching for a
club that sentsix players to the
major leagues and ($)uld have! about 6-2 and 190 or 2(K) pounds
sent more, had there been a place | and he could throw hard. He was
for them. | property of tin* Detroit Tigers who
There w^as one w'ho made the wouldn’t have taken for
trip in reverse. He came from the| him.
New York Yankees to Asheville. “Farrell threw one inside to
Roy Lubbe was hLs name. He! Mann didn't get out of
wont to sleep on the Yankee' the way. The ball drilled him in
bench one day and Miller Hug-! the rib cage on the left side and
over,” he said, "to bring back the! gins, the peppery little manager, be went down like an ox. I was
27th and 31st Infantries, but they! saw him. the first man to him and cradled
weren’t ready to come back, .so] '‘Lubbe,” Huggins shouted, his head in my lap. A shudder
we stayed over there till the war ‘''that’s the score?” ran through hrm and he became
was over.” j Lubbe popped open his eyesj^^tUL A doctor came out of the
Besides that stretch in the Ai-iand stared desperately at the stands and examined him and hurlt*rs were bothered with
my, his recent years as a bonds- scoreboard. "Two to one.” he said.; -said, "Boys, he’s dead.” streaks Carrol] in the first
man, a spell as a U. S. Marshal in "Pack yer bags,” said Miller j "Well, they formed a panel ‘ Michaels score<i three
Alaska 20 years ago, and several Huggins. "Yer going to Asheville.” 1 right there in the park and e.xon- ‘ j j ^ ‘*1,,. rjf.u
That’s the last Roy Lubbe saw'crated Tom of any blame, and I the (lastonians <-01 their final
of the New York Yankees. 1 took him to the hotel, but had to
"In my opinion,’ said Struttin’• help holding him. He tried to
Bud Shaney, "no Asheville club jump out the window and all he Kim Bumgarner. Jimmy Fitts,
before or since could match the could say was "What will his and Butch Blalock supplied the
Central Defeats
St. Michaels
16-4 In Opener
Aft«‘r two rafn delays. Central
Junior High opened its 1970 hiiao-
ball .season Tui^sday with a 16-4
win o\er St. Michaels of Gastonia.
Da\ id C'arroll and Danny ('<>bh
pitclied the win for C’oach Barry
Gibson’s patriots, (’arroll pitched
hitle.ss hall for four innings and
Cobh allow«*d only liit over the
final thr(*e fram(*s.
years as iVsheville's special agent
in charge of keeping McCormick
Field playable, Struttin’ Bud was
six (74-68) with four minutes to
play.
That’s when Cole was at his
best. Before the South could score
again, Cole stole the ball three
straight times, scoring twice him
self and feeding to Hogue for a
layup to stretch the North’s lead
to 12.
Kings Mountain'# Charlie
Barnes started for the North and
scored four points, hitting on two
of three attempts from the floor.
Avery County’s 7-3 Tommy
Burleson withdrew from the game
in order to play in the Dapper
According to a VA information
sheet entitled "America’s Wars,”
559 widows and 490 children of
Civil War veterans were on VA’s
compensation and pension rolls as' with 19 points
of December 31, 1969. i (Continued On Page Five)
the juicer, who rubbed the ball
on his wool trousers until he
slicked one side and threw the
shiner. He was accused of doctor
ing the b^ll with every imagina
ble device, becau.se his pitches
wereso effective, but he denies
that.
“Bibby Hipps used to take base
balls that I’d pitched and saw
them in two and shake’em over a
newspaper to see if any phono
graph needles or anything else
came out,” Bud laughed. "But I
never used anything like that. I
didn’t need to. I could make the
Dan all-star game in Pittsburgh, | ball do things, and that was
Pa., thLs Saturday. enough. If I’d used emery paper,
High Scorer for Ihe South was' they could’ve seen the scars on
James Ijames of Davie County the ball, but I was never thrown
out of a game in my life for doc
toring a baseball.
East Rutherford
Here On Friday,
Belmont Tuesday
Kings Mniinlain's Mountain-
vvis, 2 1 in S<nithwcs(ern Con-
f(*rcni’<‘ j)kiy and 2-2 civimhII,
(Uxlicate tlnrir spanking n(*w
l>as4'i)all diamond here Friday
afleinoon wlicii East Kuthcr-
ford’s ('avalicrs tomi* to (own.
I Coach Ikihhy Ilnssiw’s Moun-
; laiiM'or.s. ihc dclending confer-
, (*IKH* and association champions,
I will he hlg.nning a two-game
home stami wliich they hope will
pill ihem iKMi'cr liu* lop of the
8\VC siiiiKlings.
'I'hc Mountaiin'cis ha.i their
' Tuesday gain<‘ wiili Crest pnst-
pon<'<! i)e(\iuse of lain. Tlie two
eliihs were re ■ sehed-uh'd for
I W’edtu'sday afternoon, but it was
|douhtlui Ihev would get the
iame in.
' Thus, tlie .\tountaine(MS hav<‘ a
pair or makeup gam<*s as they
had ali'cady h<*en raineil out with
Clierr.vville.
I'.a.';i Kulherford liasn t won in
league play this jear but the
( a\alfi<‘rs aii‘ alwa\s <lang(Tous
and Coach Husse\’ is rc'minding
bis hn\s ili.-ii tin. K;,st lads handl
'd tlieni ou«* of iheir two los.ses
'3 2i lasi \e.n’ when they went
j lil th(* w.iy. posting a 2i)-2 ix»c-
I Old.
' 'I'lie .Mouni.iinerr.'5 liaven'l play-
|••d since last 'Thursda\- wlien
|ihey nipped I{-S Central, 3-2. in
-lulling wealhei- at Hulherford-
i ton. Ik»hh\ Kihridge hurli'd a
on«’ li Her in jtosiing his .second
\ii-lory against one s,‘lhaek.
".\either tiMni pla\(‘d very
eiunmenied Ilt.ssey. •*'Thei-e
weie ;i lot of nii.sju Iged fl\- lialls
iM-cau.se i!ie wind was blowing
'O lerrihls. W'r had a fi w passed
halls and sonn* jjooj- pla\' in the
inlield, and wi-wane fortunaU* t»»
win it."
'Plu* Mountoine»n> were also
'lol I lo onlv one liir, a two-run
^ingle by Gi-allon Withers in
ihe^ fiisi inning on a pas.sed hall.
Special (h'di.atiim eciemonies,
handled hy .Suijer nlendeni Don
ald .lones ami Athletic Oireclor
Hill l^ates will prec<'ed Frida.v’s
aame with Hast Rulhenford.
Tuesdax’ a t ter noon, t li<* •
'aineers will host Souiii I^oint
'll H. inumt. 'Tile R<'d Haiders. 1-
M-l In conb*r<*nce play, own one
of llw‘ Slate’s top righlliand
pitchers in Itick Cherry and un
der nt‘w coach, Fh l Tate, the
H:u(U*r.s will he out for iev(‘ng(*
fop a i>air of setbacks lianilod
ihem hy the M<ninlaineers last
\<‘ar.
'Th(‘ Mounties_ behimi Rocky
iloforih and Kihridge. blanked
tlu‘ Haiders both limes tlu*y play
ed IlitMii last season, 7-0 h<*hind
Gofortli on a two hill<*r and .5-0
bchiml Ethri lg<* on a one-hitter.
.SWC -S'TAXDIXG.S
1928 club. It was a groat club, not! mother say!”
just a good club. If that club wa.s “Finally. Larry Gardner got
in the American L<*ague or Na-j there and sentonc of the boys out
tional League today, with all of forabottleofwhisky.Larrypour-
its capabilities, it would be a first txl a water gla.ss half full and
division club. ! made Tom soak it down and he
"Bill Harris won 25 game.s andi calmned down a little after that,
lost nine. I won 23 and lost ll But that ruined him ithe inei-
Harry Smythe was 16-11, Marty'dent; not the whisky). He never
Baylin 14-7, Joe Heving 13-5 andi made it to the big loagui's.
hitting ])uneh. Bumgarner had
three hits while Kitts and Bla
lock added two each. Mike Gaff
ney an.i Daryl Van Dyk(» each
.scored four runs for the Patriots.
'Teams
.Shelby
Chase
Kl.XGS MOCNTAI.X
Chen yville
Crc'sr
South Point
Lineednton
Bill iis
H S t'entral
East Rutherford
Joe Marty 1-1.
"We had great hitters. The! “Larry told me that I didn’t
guys had a team batting average' have to pitch the next day in Au-
of .304. Ray Kennedy, our man-l
ager, hit .366, Dasty Cooke .362]
with 30 doubles. 30 triples, 13
homeis and 21 .stolen ba.sos. Ben
Chapman hit .331 with 31 doubles.
17 triples and 39 stolen bases.
Stanley Keyes batted .330 with
30 doubles, 19 triples and 15 hom
ers. A1 Green was a ^.310 hitter
with 31 doubles. Dubbe hit .290
with 20 doubles. That’s the kind
of hitters w-e had. Those follows
could swing a bat.'
Coach Gibson us(*d 17 i)layers
in the win, Central's ninth in its
past 11 games.
Tlie Patriots play
it South
943 000 0
300 010 0
.MORE & MORE & MORE & MORE Cleveland Thursda>'.
Linscoix's:
Central
gu.sta, that all I had to do was Mich
takecarc of Tom. So the next ^ . J.-
morning To mand I rode a meter
ed cab the 110-miles from Macon
to August. We walked iixto the
ball park, and I told our busine.ss
manager I had a cab outside. He
stiid he’d take care of it and
when he saw how much it was,
he almost fainted.
"Anj'way. our troubles weren’t
finished yet. Larry pitched a
school teacher that day, and. of
Jos<*ph Li'vinoff, a natirinally
known ballet master, is serving
as ballet master ond Itvturer-in-
.esidence with the Department
of Health, Physical E<iucation
E and Recreation at the Univers-
4 ity (»r X'lrili Carolina at Gix'ens-
6 horo.
Humphries Adds
With Victory At
Points
Harris
TTial team clouted 2*40 doubles 1'course, word of Tom Farrell’s
and 112 triples. Then^ was no! killing Pete Man had been print-
fence around McCormick Field at ^‘d all around the league and ov-
tho time and any ball hit into the erybody know about it.
HARRIS. X. C.
Humphries of .Shell)y
his winnin^" ways
.8 pet' d w a y Su n< 1 as
Preston
continued
at Harris
afi(*rnoon.
42
3S
9
t '
'J H vvON^r.
\
£4
i vi
I
Here's the Plonk OH Co. men's basketbaU team which successfully defended its regular season
and tournament titles in the local recreation league this year. Plonk defeated the Bessemer City
Blues for the tournament title after winning the regular season bunting by one game orec the
Blues and Gostonio.
, shrubbery bordering the outfield
was still in play.
From that team C'fxike and
^ Chapman went on to the Yankees
for long major league careers,
Heving went to Cleveland, Smytho
. to the Phillies. Marty to the
White Sox and Harris to the Pi-'
- rates.
“Making the major league's wa.s
a tough proposition back then,”
Struttin’ Bud said. "In fact it was
tough jast getting a job playing,
professional ba.seball. There were
only 13 Icagut's, including the
two major leagues, and it wasn’t
aything unusual to .see 20 men
in spring training fighting for
I one position.
"Well, early in the game this
school teacher hith an Augusta
player named Crouch in the head
with a pitch and knocked him
cold. The fans poured out of the
stands and came after us. We
beat it to the bus. got inside,
closed the door and lay down on
the floor and those fans broke out
every window and the windshield
of the has. When the driver g<it
up enough nerve to start the en
gine he asked where we wanted
to go and Larry said, ‘Asheville—
fast.’
Werode all tlie way home in
that drafty bus in our ba.soball
uniforms and the club had to
.send a truck to Augusta to bring
adding more points to push his
Xo. 6.”\ a .5.5 Ch(*\n»le1. further
into tlu' point lead the
.8l)()rtsman class.
“You didn’t just play a couple our clothes and things from our
of years in the minor leagues rooms.”
, and then get a chance in the ma
jors. Lefty Grove and George
Earnshaw, two of the greatest
pitchers Connie Mack ever had
on his Philadelphia Athletics, and
Max Bishop and Joe Boley, the
sec*ond short combination at Phil-
Shaney was sold by the Ashe
ville club lo William.s|)orT, Pa., of
the Eastern League for the 19.30
season. With his new club. .Strut-
tin’ Bud won his first 15 starts.
In th(* 16th he was leading by a
run and needed only one
a delphia, all played seven or out to win when a gcxxl hitter
j eight years at Baltimore before nairied Cobb (not Tyt came up.
Connie had room enough for them (Continued On Pago Five)
Rookie driver Laerv Roily of
flaffney, S. ('. and Hobby driver
Ix’sl.e .McKinney \kiyo. eon
tinned on their winning journey
.Sunday, al.so.
Xext week <'n<l, the .iclion will
return lo Hariis Speedway at 2
p.m., hut i v«*n gr<‘aier things ar<*
in store as Clyde Dedmon, Hob
bs Raeiiig Association president
an<l proUHJier of raring at si'
tracks in this \ieinily, gels his
i-nih<’ circuit into lull swing.
'Tlie ('lay tracks on tlie circuit
get iiit<» action Friday night as
Rutlicifoi’d County .8jK*edway.
located hiMween For<*st (Jily and
.Spindak, opens mder tlu* co.
sponsorship of th<* Foiest ('ity
.Tasxees and Di'Imon. The S p.m.
event will open with a full caixl
as Rookies draw for starting
positions and run <\ 20 Iap main
more ev(*nt; and the HobbU*s and Late
-MoLk'ls run in lai) ht'ats and 25
.ind 30 lap main e\cnis resp^et
ively. Tlie Lancaster Sp<*e(lway
at Lanixisler. .S. C., also runs at
S p.m., Friday.
Saturday nigiU. the HUA cir
cuit ojx'Us its Saturday season at
tin* Shelhv .SjKH*ilw.iy locale.) at
t li o ('le\<dand County Fair-
giouiKls. The 8 p.m. program
will h(‘ identi(\ii lo tlie one put
oil at RullHuford County Friday.
In addiii<m lo the Slielby pro
gram .Salur<la\. Dedmon and as-
sfK-iates will open the Starlil<'
SptH'dway at .Moiirm*. 'The sixtli
track in liu' HHA will Ix' idle
until lat(‘ .May the .S|xn‘ianl)urg
Piedmont Initu’slate Fair i*ound
track.
Ail the clay tracks on the cir-
ciiil are uiie-half mile ovals
Ihe Harris Spt‘ed\vay, a 3 10-
mih‘ paved Hack is the only as
phalt oval on lit,, loop.
Devlmon said .Sund.iy that
everything is all set at tlu’s<'
tracks. He t*.\pl<iir.e(i th.it liis
track cr<’ws ha\(’ tu-cn working
out lh<‘ track suifac4-s an<l ap
pear to ha\<» llu* mall in lip lop
shape. Jk' indieatvd that the
crews have ix'-cI.inihI surfaivs
needing i)u‘ work, and huv<*gone
to ..’real lengths to piv'paix* tlie
suila(t*s for the ht*si ^f racing
action. The likafile De.innui saul
he liads tiie 'Tit season i^ gtring lo
lx* the i)csi in HHA history.