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|Union Count) v Dodgers Clouts Burns The rampaging U nion County Dodgers, who will encounter the league leading Mecklen burg Orioles in Dodge City Saturday afternoon, bombed the Koyal Bums. 25-12, last Sunday at the West Charlotte High athletic field According to manager Clar ence Alsobrooks, the Jackie Robinson victory was led by Billy Joe Alsobrooks, who clouted a triple and a double ^■in a 5-for-S performance at . bat Thirdhaseman Gene Stre ater also enjoyed a perfect day collecting three hits for as many times at the plate IBasiel Cuthbertson. strong righthander upped his unbeat en record to 2-0 with a strong pitching performance! Alsobrooks has named Cle tis Hammonds, swift young righthander to face the * Unbeaten Oriole*. He expects ’in unusually large turnout for the league s "Game of the 'Week." Alsobrooks says podge City is near Mint Hill »nd playing field is located at *Rock Hill Church. 1 Sunday afternoon will find Dodges pa lying the Hosk g£|ns Giants at Hoskins, with 17 ^gcar-old Henry Houston on the gpty-Wide Spring Games Scheduled There will be a city-wide spring games competition for | Charlotte area residents of the Social Olympics program. Sponsored by the Charlotte § Park and Recreation Depart 3 ment, the Metro Center, jj Nivens Center, Inc., the Char ? lotte-Mecklenburg School Sys J; tern and the center for Human tj Development the games will t.' be held on April 20 and April | 21. On April 20 the swimming competition will be held at the , , Johnson C. Smith University J Pool from 7-9 p.m. | Track and FWd competition 3 will be held on April 21 at a Myers Park High School’s H stadium from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. S Winners will advance to I area competition on April 28 at Wingate College in Wingate and state competition at High Point College in High Point on May 19,20 and 21. In conjunction with the g spring games a Special Olym | pics Fun Festival will be held 1 in Marshall Park on April 20 | from 10 a m.-1:30 p.m. Sports clinics, disco dances, (games and sports demonstrat ions will be presented. Sports clinics are urging that picnic lunches would be brought for full enjoyment of the activities. | Babe Ruth League IP Needs Volunteers jj The West Charlotte Babe 5 Ruth Baseball League is in 1 need Adult Volunteer Coach P es to help coach young men E ages 13 to 15 years of age. % There will be a meeting of all interested persons on Tues day, April 25. at 7:30 at the McCorey Branch Y.M.C.A., 3801 Beatties Ford Road. For additional information, please contact Lloyd Harris, 394-5446 I" _ : . CENTER FIELDER CURTIS WILSON ...Conference’s leading hitter Myers Park Curtis Wilson Is “Athlete Of The Week” By Chase Vance Post Staff Writer "The Myers Park Mustangs have not been living up to their pre-season billing as the pre mier team of the Southwest ern 4-A Conference. The Mustangs got into a rut giving up as many runs as they scored and were reeling and rocking towards the cellar of the conference. One of the players that had a produce was centerfielder Curtis Wilson who was one of the conference's leading hit ters last year. Last year, Wilson hit .430 and stole 28 or 29 bases. “He is one of the better hitters in the League and one of the best runners in the Conference,” said Coach Jack Sink. "We are putting him in the sport this year by saying bow much he matters to the team,” said Sink. Perhaps that is why be started off so slow this season. And as Wilson goes so goes the runs in the last week, the Mustangs are riding a three game winning streak and are only two games out of first place at the halfway mark of •he season. “I am not sure which sport I will choose in college," said Wilson who was also a top notch football star in the fall making almost everybody’s all-County list. “But right now 1 like foot ball and baseball," be added. “I might try to play both for a while. They really don’t conflict that much," said the affable Charlotte Post Spring Sports Star of the Week. table tennis Winners Announced The Charlotte City-Wide championship table tennis competition was held at Amay James Recreation Center re cently. tournament go' to diit^ctSibi: petition on April 22. The state tournament will .he held in High Point, North Carolina on April 29. Stan Law, representing West Charlotte Community Center, was the winner in the junior boy's singles. Other West Charlotte Community • center winners were Derwood Anderson in inter-boys sing les, Derwood Anderson and David Blair in the inter-boys doubles, and R. Law, Jr. and S.C. State College To Honor Athletes ORANGEBURG- Male and female athletes at South Caro lina State College will be honored at the college's annu al athletic awards program Tuesday, Apr. 25, 7:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King. Jr. Auditorium on the campus The athletes will be cited for outstanding achievements in their respective sports and also in academics during the program. Special awards will also be presented to athletes. coaches and ouier persons who made contributions to the Department of Athletics dur ing the year Lennox Marshall in adult men’s doubles. Methodist Home Commun Grate in Revolution Park. Tony Jeffries and Donald Carson were junior boys doubles Vinners repre senting Grayson Park. Brenda Shepard represent ing Oaklawn won the junior girls singles and Faye Saton and Valeria Clendedon won the junior doubles. They represented Boulevard Homes. Alvin Grier Named “Golfer Of Week” By Chase Vance Post Staff Writer In these tough days and times the man, who has his goals and objectives planned, will be the one who is success ful Charlotte's Alvin Grier definitely has hia strategy mapped out and n he has ms choice next year he will be playing on the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) tour making money with lead ers like Gary Player. Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus. Sounds far fetched? Not really! My main ambition is to be a touring pro," said Grier recently “I will go to the PGA s tour school In June, complete two weeks of class room work and play eight rounds of golf to see if I'm eligible Of course all of Charlotte wishes Alvin good luck. Pre sently, he is playing on the Miniature golf circuit and will leave town at the end of the month for a Satellite tourna ment in Augusta, Georgia That is how he earns his living tirowing up in Charlotte on Hemphill Street with his bro thers Larry, Raymond and Plato, Jr., he played golf for three years at Plato Price Junior High School and then moved to York Road where he held down the position of number one player for three years. His York Rood Baptist team won the state championship. - As a matter of fact, the three years he was oo the team, the Baptist were undefeated. Grio^wbo shoots under par, likes the courses at Cedar-wood, Rain tree and Cry stal Springs. For those just taking up the game he advises them to get the basic iunaamentals down pat before they start learning trick shots. “You have to learn to hit the WHERE THEY PLAY SATURDAY, April 22 Royal Bums at Charlotte Mets Morris Field at Davidson Hoskins at Kings Mountain Orioles at Union County Norwood at Northside SUNDAY, April 23 Union County at Hoskins Kings Mountain at Morris Fiel Kings Mtn at Morris Field Davidson at Royal Bums Charlotte Mets at Northside Orioles at Norwood ball before you can do Patrol To Crack Down On Drunk Drivers RALEIGH - “When 65 per cent of the 1,500 highway deaths occur as a result of speeding or driving under the influence, we can no longer afford to think that violation of a motor vechicle law is any less serious than violation of any other criminal law, said J. Phil Carlton, Secretary of North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. The number of people killed in the first month of this year is even greater than for the same period last year. So the department has announced a I crackdown on speeders and drunk drivers. “Since approximately 45 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to speeding and 25 percent are related to drivers known to be under the influ ence of alcohol, it is obvious that we must step up our traffic law • enforcement in these areas,” Carlton said. A federal agency, the Law Enforcement Assistance Adminstration, provided funds to buy 500 new 12-chan nel radios to improve com mm uni cations. That cost was about $90,000, This Is Your Paper Use If i RE-ELECT CAROLYN MATHIS DEMOCRAT For N.G Senate CABARRUS - MECKLENBURG Top Priority jj Anything more important I, than your family’s future? :l Put first things first with I1 common sense life • insurance. Call me today. Jamaa P. Goodman. 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The feel up through the 4-spoke sport steering wheel is one of precise, flowing control. This year, the Hugger has a new soft nose sheathed in body color urethane. Smoother looking, move rakish than ever. Take your pick. Camaro Z28, Rally Sport or Luxury Type IT. Then go out and hug a road. i '
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