WALL-LESS TRACK— The old wall that protected the Darlington Raceway Pit area is gone.
It has been replaced with a new concrete barrier. four feet high, a foot wide and 1.764 feet
long. All of the new construction will be completed prior to the Dixie Cup 200, Saturday.
April 13 and the Transouth 500, Sunday. April 14.
NEW WALL GOES UP—The new concrete wall, between Darlington Raceway’s Grands-
tand and pit area on the frontstretch, starts to take shape. The new wall is 1.764 feet long and
will be completed prior to the running of the Transouth 500 April 14.
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Adams
Honorary
Captain
Kings Mountain’s George
Adams will serve as honorary
captain of the Gardner-Webb
College basketball team for
Thursday’s game with Mars Hill
at G-W’s Paul Porter Arena.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Adams, who is recreation
director for the City of Kings
Mountain, is Gardner-Webb’s
all-time leading scorer and re-
bounder and still holds nine of
the school’s 11 career records.
He still holds the single game
records for most points (57) and
most rebounds (26).
Adams was G-W’s first NAIA
All-American, making the team
in 1971 and 1972. He later
played for the San Diego Con-
quistadors of the American
Basketball Association.
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Thru Saturday, January 19th, 1985 - 10:00 A.M. To 6:00 P.M.
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A Closer Look AID
| _ Darlington Wall Gone
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DARLINGTON, SC-One o
~ stock car racing’s most enduring
Jandmarks is gone.
But it won’t be forgotten by
some of the sport’s top stars, in-
cluding Richard Petty and Hall
of Famer Fred Lorenzen...This
isn’t to suggest, however, that
it’ll be missed.
scape at Darlington Raceway,
the South’ oldest super speed-
way dating to 1950, is the inside
wall that protected the front-
stretch pit area.
The concrete barrier, which
extended 1,052 feet down the
home straightaway of the storied
8-10 Year-Old i
Basketball Schedule
The Kings Mountain Recrea-
vs. Jaycees, Custom Metal vs.
No longer a part of the land-
1.366-mile’ track, *has. been
replaced by an even longer wall
of 1,764 feet.
The new structure is part of
an ambitious program under-
taken by International Speed-
way Corporation officials to
upgrade the Darlington facility,
with emphasis on improved safe-
ty and competition.
Both Petty and Lorenzen ex-
perienced violent tangles with
the old wall, accidents which put
the two in the hospital and
which subsequently have been
rated the worst of their tremen-
dous NASCAR Winston Cup
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The schedule:
January 29 - (Armory), Plonk
vs. Jaycees, Kiwanis vs. Custom.
January 31 - (Armory),
careened across the track and hit
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The latter impact, so forceful
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January 22 - (Armory), C&C
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All young men between the
ages of 16 and 18 who are in-
terested in participating in a
basketball league sponsored by February 21 - (Armory), While Lorenzen did not get future.
the Kings Mountain Parks and = pjonk Oil vs. Optimist, Jaycees airborne, the force of the Sn BwdRipiis
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For ‘more information, con-
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February 7 - (Armory), Op-
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Kiwanis vs. Custom, Deacons
vs. C&C, Thombs vs. Optimist.
February 12 - (Armory), Op-
timist vs. Kiwanis, Plonk vs.
Deacons. :
February 14 - (Armory),
Jaycees vs. Thombs, Custom vs.
‘C&C.
February 18 - (Community
Center), C&C vs. Jaycees,
Custom vs. Optimist, Deacons
vs. Kiwanis, Thombs vs. Plonk.
February 19 - (Armory),
Custom vs. Deacons, C&C vs.
Thombs.
Thombs.
February 28 - (Armory),
Plonk vs. C&C, Deacons vs. Op-
timist.
freed and pulled from the car by
crewmen of two other teams,
buck Brigance and Francis
Florence hospital for treatment
of a broken shoulder.
Lorenzen, attempting a com-
eback after retiring from his
“Golden Boy” glory years that
produced 26 grand national vic-
tories, crashed in 1971.
Practicing in the Wood
Brothers Mercury, Lorenzen hit
the outside wall fronting the
fourth turn grandstands at
almost the same point struck by
Petty. His car, too, angled across
the track like a billiard ball,
hurtling into the inside wall.
essentially aborted his comeback
effort.
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