Final Action in Youth League Plonk-Vs -Optomist
BASEBALL * * *
BY PETE FRITCHIE
Sarasota, Fla.-Ralph
Houk, talented manager of
the once awesome New York
Yankees, greatest club in
baseball history, thinks the
1972 team has a chance to
win the flag. Many observers
think the Yanks are still
some distance away.
"I think four clubs have
a good chance this year,”
Houk told this reporter as
his team prepared to meet
the Chicago White Sox in
Payne Park recently (they
won). "There’s Baltimore
and Detroit and after them I
think Boston and our club
_ftre also in it.”
^h"When does Vida Blue*
Boport?” he was asked in
jest.
"I have absolutely no
comment," Houk smiled.
Bob Fishel, New York
public relations director,
thinks much depends on Rich
McKinney, obtained over the
winter from the White Sox
in exchange for starting
pitcher Stan Bahnson.
"McKinney, we found out.
has a bone chip in his arm
and it affects his throwing.
We didn’t know that when
we traded for him but he ap
parently had it then. The
Sox say they didn’t know it
either. But that’s one of our
worries.” Ron Blomberg is
one of the major hitting
hopes.
During the game McKinney
blasted a pitch over the dis
tant center field wall at
Payne Park. "It hasn’t af
fected his hitting.” Fishel
admitted. Blomberg got three
hits.
ONE MINUTE SPORTS OUlZ
1. Four heavyweight boxers
have been champions
since 1960. Name them.
2. What boxer preceded Pat
terson as champion?
3. In what year was the first
Louis-Walcott fight?
4. Bob Grove won over 20
games in which succes
sive 7 years?
5. Who is the manager of
the Pittsburg Pirates?
Answers to Sports Quiz
1. Floyd Patterson. Sonny
Liston, Muhammad Ali
and Joe Frazier.
2. Ingemar Johansson.
3. 1947, New York.
4. 1927-1933.
5. Bill Vlrdin.
Tlmk About It.
Mortgage Interest Rates
Could Be A Lot Higher.
Auto loans are.
Boat loans are.
Personal loans are.
Credit Card loans are.
Hospital loans are.
Vacation loans are.
Tax loans are.
Maternity loans are.
Wedding loans are.
TV set loans are.
Clothing loans are.
Loan consolidation loans are.
Travel loans are.
Most loans are.
Over the years, Savings and Loan
Associations have financed over half
the homes in the country. Offering
the homebuyer a reasonable mortgage
interest rate. And giving the saver,
whose money makes it all possible,
a good return on his savings.
Were doing a lot for America.
We want to do more.
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Kilgo On Sports
KIN(3S MOUNTAIN MIRROR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1972, PAGE 7
Now that basketball season is
drawing to a close, we can look
forward to baseball and forget
tbe court suits and the league-
jumping and the contracts that
don’t seem to be binding.
Baseball Is not only our na
tional pastime. It’s our Happy
Hour.
So what if Vida Blue and Cha
rley Finley can’t get together!
And maybe it is true that at
torney Marvin Miller says tbe
major league players are set
to strike. And Gussle Busch,
the owner of theSt. Louis Car
dinals and a stable cfBudwei-
ser Hosses, says; "Let ’em
strike. WedoD’tglveadam.”
You see, happy days are here
again. Padnuh, it’s time to
throw out that first ball.
Big Deal.
*•*
It’s nice that Jack Nicklaus
Is charitable enough not to
play In all of the golf tourna
ments. With tbe tour now In
Greensboro, It gives the other
players a chance to pick up a
little change.
Big Jack has never been a
true American hero. He Isn’t
exactly a Horatio Alger fig
ure. He grew up In Ohio play
ing tbe country clubs and by
the time he was 13 he could
beat the daylights out of any
one in town.
But while Nichlaus isn’t the
answer to tbe American myth,
he has to be the greatest golf
er of all time. When he comes
in second. It’s a huge upset.
He knocks tbe ball in the lake
off the tee and still makes par
look routine. Sentiment urges
me to pick Arnold Palmer in
this year’s Masters. But my
brain tells me It’ll be Big
Jack, all the way. Love him
or leave him, he^ the great
est.
**♦
Idon’t know why but Fla. State
coach Hugh Durha m reminds
me oftheFuller Brush man...
"How about comingjuttoLos
Angeles to play us a game of
basketball,” Mr. Wooden said
to young Al.
’’Certainly,” young Al said,
"and when will you bring your
team to Milwaukee for a re
turn engagement?”
“We’re not Interested in
playing at your place,” Mr.
Wooden said.
Said young Al; "You must
be crazy.”
***
This dude BUI Walton of
UCLA Is an amazing fellow.
At 6-11 be jumps like a 6-3
leaper. He Is mean but he
cries the entire game. He
might be tbe best big man ev
er. The only hope to wresUe
tbe NCAA crown away from
UCLA Is to get them slapped
on probation.
*»*
If looking ahead Is your game,
consider the stren^ of tbe
ACC next year; Maryland and
N. C. State wUl be tbe top dogs
in the league, unless UNC’s
Rober McAdoo says no to tbe
pros. Even without McAdoo,
North Carolina wUl be a pow
er. Virginia has Barry Park-
hUl back, Clemson had its best
freshman team ever, and Duke
also wUl have plenty of sopho
more talent. It appears that
Wake Forest wUl be the only
weak sister In the league. The
league champion might well
lose five or six games in the
conference.
Some of the 120 students at the Jane McClure School of Dance at the Community Center.
StricUy personal; It’s a
shame that North Carolina and
UCLA didn’t meet for the na
tional title. That would have
been a most interesting
match-up If the players
don’t strike. It ought to be Bal
timore and Pittsburg In tbe
World Series again. The sur
prise team to watch wUl be the
Houston Astros, who made
some great trades In the off
season And for profes
sional basketball, I like tbe
Los Angeles Lakers, with
Jerry West retiring after ac
cepting the championship tro
phy.
Rumors were rampant at the
ACC tournament that George
Raveling would be leaving the
Maryland basketball staff...
Maryland ran through the NIT
without really having a close
game, much the way North
Carolina did the trick a year
ago.
He is a good man whom for
tune makes better.
-Thomas Fuller.
Horse Show
April 8
The Kings Mountain Saddle
Club is sponsoring the Eighth
Annual Kings Mountain Horse
Show April 8. Show time will
be Saturday afternoon at 1:00
and again at 6;00 p.m. in tbe
evening.
Master of Ceremonies will
be H. Panther; Ribbon Marsh
all, Jim Everhart; Ring Mast
er, Dean Bridges. Judges
will be announced.
To get to the Show, go 3
miles out of Kings Mountain
on Waco Road near Patterson
Grove Church and follow the
signs.
George Meany, AFL-CIO
President, on Pay Board:
“It has been a device to
undermine and wreck collec
tive bargaining.”
Raymond P. Shafer, Chair
man, National Commission
on Marijuana and Drug
Abuse.
“Legalization would be
almost certain to promote
further use.”
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