Semi-Pro Baseball
3 Local Teams To
Compete In State Meet
Three Triple County Semi
Pro Baseball League teams
will compete in the 1977 North
Carolina Semi-Pro Baseball
Invitational Tournament at
Walker Stadium in Lenoir,
beginning Thursday, July 14.
The Morris Field Rangers
and Town And Country Ford
share the pre-tournament fa
vorite role with Lenoir Shur
Pakkers, who won the event a
year ago. The Charlotte
Hawks will be the third club.
According to Ken Sipes, op
erations manager, the two
teams placing highest in the
tournament will join Lenoir in
hosting the first annual Na
tional Furniture City Invita
tional Tournament August 5-13
in Lenoir.
Twelve teams have entered
the double-elimination affair
which gets underway at 6
o'clock Thursday, July 14,
with Mooresville Moors facing
South Buncombe. The Char
lotte Hawks will take on Boone
House of Upholstery at 8.
Friday night’s schedule will
have the Charlotte A's encoun
Morris Field
/
Rangers Lash
Charlotte Tigers
The Morris Field Rangers,
who will take a leave of
absence from their regular
Triple County Semi-Pro Base
ball League committments
this weekend to compete in the
North Carolina Semi-Pro
Baseball Invitational Tourna
ment in Lenoir, warmed up for
the important occasion with a
19-0 decision over the Char
lotte Tigers here Sunday after
noon.
Fauch Davis went the dis
tance, allowing only two base
hits for his third victory and
his first complete game of the
year. Davis struck out eight,
walked four and hit one batter.
The Rangers, who are now
19-2 for the season, received
brilliant support from seven of
their hitters. Elijah Haynes
and Londell McClary led the
cannonading with three sin
gles each and Bill Davis,
Renwick Hall, Bobby Rey
nolds, Billy Whitmire and Tim
Morris added two hits apiece.
Hall's production included a
home run which drove in two
runs.
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Poet Two Victories
The Charlotte Mets continue
to manufacture runs on mass
production basis. Henry
“Lunchmeat” Wallace’s hard
hitting crew routed Kings
Mountain, 30-10 on Saturday
before demolishing the Char
lotte Hawks, 20-9, Sunday af
ternoon.
According to Wallace, his
team has scored 65 runs in its
last three contests.
tering East Asheville Sports
World at 6 and Cleveland
Steele Furniture meeting
Town And Country Ford at 8.
Lenoir Shur-Pak will meet
the winner of the Hawks
Boone game in game five at 8
p.m Saturday night, July 16,
and Morris Field Rangers will
battle the winner of the Moo
res ville-South Buncombe con
test at 6 p.m.
Second round will conclude
Sunday with Old Fort facing
the winner of the Cleveland
Town and Country tilt at 5 and
Granite Falls will play the
winner of the Charlotte A’s
East Asheville contest at 7.
Semi-Finals will be held
Saturday and Sunday, July
23-24 and the championship
finals will be played Friday
night, July 29.
Walter Cuthbertson says he
will pitch Tommie Godwin
against Boone Friday night,
with Willie Rorie behind the
plate.
Manager Herman Thomas
has taken a move to streng
then his pitching staff with the
addition of Melvin Latta of the
Charlotte Bombers and Willie
Dixon of the Hoskins Giants.
The Rangers will depend on
the hitting of Londell McCla
ry, Bill Davis, Bobby Rey
nolds, Rudy and Randy Falls
and Tim and Murphy Morris.
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Clash Returns To
Yankee Stadium
Morgan State University
and Grambling State Univer
sity, predominantly black
schools, will meet in their
annual football clash at Yan
kee Stadium, September 17.
The time of the game has not
been determined at this time.
The modem Morgan-Gram
bling football feud started at
Yankee Stadium in 1968. Since
that time the two teams have
waged gridiron wars in four of
the world's moet celebrated
sports palaces.
In addition to Yankee Sta
dium, the game has been
played in Three Rivers Stadi
um in Pittsburgh, Robert F.
Kennedy Stadium in Washing
ton, D.C. and last year the two
squads jetted across the world
of play in the first Annual
Pioneer Bowl in Tokyo, Ja
pan's Korakeun Stadium.
Before Yankee Stadium
seating was reduced, the an
nual Bear-Tiger tiff attracted
64,204, 60,118, 65,055, 64,970,
and 64,317 spectators. This
year’s game is expected to
bring 57,000 fans to Bronx,
New York.
Ticket prices will be *25, *15,
*10, $8, and *6, and can be
bought by contacting Morgan
State Athletic Department,
Hill Fieldhouse, Room 311,
Baltimore, Maryland 21239 or
calling 301-444-3050.
1*11010 by Martin Chisholm
VERSATILE PAT LOOPER
..baseball standout
Young Pat Looper
Is Extraordinary Kid
By Deborah Gates
Post Staff Writer
Pat Looper, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy B. Looper of
1338 Plumstead Road may
seem like an ordinary kid to
most people, but to his family
and Adam II team mates, he’s
something special.
Pat, who is 10 years old,
began playing baseball when
he was eight. Beginning his
career with the Oakland A’s, a
member of the Derita Athletic
Association, he’s batted .454,
and has had only 4 or 5
strikeouts at 60 times at bat.
According to Pat’s father,
his son left the A’s and went to
play with the Cummins Cubs,
only to be drafted from there
to the Optimispic ball team,
both of the Derita league. The
unusual circumstance was
that the Optimispic team con
sisted of 11 and 12 year olders,
while Pat was only 10.
The season has ended for the
Optimlspic's where Pat’s posi
tion was pitcher which allows
him to pitch and play outfield
er with the Adam II team, part
of the Charlotte Law Enforce
ment League.
Pat attends Statesville Road
Elementary School where he
is president of the student
body. “This was the first year
the school had an election for
student body president and
Pat won,” his proud father
said.
Along with being a member
of the school band where Pat
plays the saxaphone, he is a
member of Grier Heights
Presbyterian Church.
In spite of his busy baseball
schedule, Pat is active on a
basketball team sponsored by
the Derita Association. With
all of these activities to attend
to, “Pat is a very good stu
dent.” his father said, adding.
“At this point he has four A s
and two B’s.
Pat’s mother, Patricia, said
her son is “dynamite.’’ She
also said that anything her son
goes after, he feels confident
he can excell. "When he grows
up he'll be like Muhammad Ali
and Adam Clayton Powell,”
Pat’s father commented.
When asked why Ali and Po
well, he chuckled, “Because
he brags.”
However, Pat said he most
admired Minnisota Twin play
er Rod Carew, and boxer
Muhammad Ali. He revealed
that he would some day like to
play with the Minnisota
Twins as well as becoming an
attorney.
With so much activity, and
maintaining an A average in
school, Pat had time to write a
book, “Northwestern Bank
Robbery.” ~
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Gilmore-Gist Golf Tournament Set For August 6
SALISBURY - The Fifth An
nual Gilmore-Gist Golf Tour
nament will be played at the
Corbin Hill Golf Club here,
Saturday. August 6. Leon Gil
more, Coordinator; announc
ed Monday.
In making the announce
ment, Gilmore said that there
will be three flights, Cham
pionship, B and C. In addition,
the annual golf slugfest bet
ween members of the Gil
more-Gist family will be stag
ed.
There will also be a tourna
ment (or female participants.
George Hargraves, the de
fending champion in the
championship flight, will re
turn to defend his crown. Joe
Henderson, who won the B
flight last year, has indicated
that he will return to defend
his crown.
George Wilmore won the
family title last year, he's
favored to win again this year
The Gilmore-Gist Golf Tour
nament attracts participants
from as far away as Ohio in
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S. C. State Among Leaders
In NAIA Final Track Statistics
Orangeburg, S.C*. - South
Carolina State College
finished among the leaders in
six categories, according to
final National Association of
Intercollegiate Alhletics
(NA1A) Track Statistics
released recently.
Bulldog sprinters Charles
Burgess and Derrick Harris
were ranked one-two in the too
yard dash with times of :09.2
and :09.25, respectively.
Burgess also had the third
best time in the 220 vard dash
skip Manning
Heads For
Nashville 420
Skip Manning, 1976 Grand
National Rookie of the Year, is
heading to Tennessee to win
the “Nashville 420" at Nash
ville Speedway Saturday
night.
Sponsored by Strata-Graph,
Inc. and First National City
Travelers Checks, Skip and
car owner, Billy Hagan, have
put together a racing team
that they consider not only
competitive, but capable of
winning races on the NASCAR
circuit.
“Last year my team con
sisted of my brother and me,”
laughed Manning as he sat in
his garage in Harrisburg, N.C.
‘Since I raced in Nashville in
May we have put together-a
good experienced team. One
thats ready towih."
Heading the No. 92 team as
crew chief is Darrell Bryant.
Bryant was previously with
Sam Sommers. Other team
members are Mark Nettles
and Dennis Connors.
with a :21.0 showing. Other
individual leaders were A1
Golden who had the fifth best
time in the 880 yard run with a
1:49.6. and Kenny Brown who
recorded a: 13.7 time in the 120
yard high hurdlers to tie
Southern's (Baton Rough)
Ricky Davenport for second.
In team events, the S.C.
State 440 yard relay team had
the top NAIA mark of :40.1
while Bulldog mile relay team
was sixth best with a 3:11.3
time.
The Bulldog track team,
under four-year head coach
Robert Johnson, had one of its
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