Doug Walls Hired As Coach
Of Halls boro Tiger Teams
By IIGHS POWERS
(Nows Reporter Sports Editor)
HALHSBORO An East Caro
lina College graduate, a native of
Southport, has been named coach
of Hallsboro High School’s Tiger
sports teams for the 1962-63
term.
- Douglas Watts, former South
port Dolphin and East Carolina
Pirate sports performer, will come
to the Bogue school as head men
tor in football, girls' basketball
and baseball, according to Prin
cipal Robert C. Elkins, who said
today that the loca' board had
approved Watts' selection for the
post.
Succeeds Hood
Watts will succeed Henry
"Bud” Hood in (lie head coaching
post. Hood moved up to athletic
director of the school recently.
Jlo will also work with Watts in
tutoring the athletes of the
school, in capacities yet to be de
cided. Fluctuating health condi
tions was the cause of Hood’s
change of posts, Principal Elkins
has said.
noi <; watts
The new Hallsboro coach is 29
years old and played all sports
at Southport High School during
his days there. He has been a
semi-pro baseball player for
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Southport and other teams in
the Cape Fear League for prac
tically every year since he enter
ed high school and still plays
with Seagate of that loop.
Co-Captain At ECC
‘ Watts graduated from East
Carolina College in 1959. He play
ed four years of baseball for the
Pirates, being a catcher, and was
co-captain of the 1959 team which
won 16 straight North State Con
ference games without a defeat
within the loop. The overall Pi
rate record that year was 23-3.
His batting average, for the
four-year period at ECC, was a
good .275.
Southport Native
Doug Watts was born and
reared in Southport and, after
graduation from Southport High
School, served in the US Army
with Korean service. He entered
ECC after his discharge.
He will be remembered as a
member of the Whiteville Amer
ican Legion Junior Baseball nine
during the summer of 1949.
After graduation from the
Greenville college in January of
1959, Watts became assistant
coach of Blair Junior High School
in Norfolk, Va.
Was At Colerain
He became head coach of all
male sports at Colerain High
School in Bertie County and was
still in that post at the time of
his decision to come to Hallsboro.
He said he resigned there because
he saw in the Tiger post a chance
to return to Columbus County,
“a place X will always remember
from my Legion baseball days as
one where people are very much
interested i n sports! ’ ’
While at Colerain, his teams
competed in the tough Roanoke
Chowan Conference, a 10-school
loop. His 1961 football team won
| 5, lost 5 to gain 5th place in the
I league standings.
In boys’ basketball, his quint
| won 9, lost 5 games for third
spot.. His big pride in this sport
was that "We heat Windsor, the
district Class A champs!” His
baseball club, mainly of newcom
ers, had a 5-9 season.
Will Also Teach
Watts will also teach as a
| member of the Hallsboro High
j faculty, in physical education and
I science.
The new Hallsboro coach is
| married to the former LaVonne
Williams of Farmville. They have
! a son. Chip, who is about a
i year old.
He and his family expect to
move to the Hallsboro area as
soon as housing is available.
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Photo shows Southport’s Little Leaguj Baseball Team just prior to their tak
ing the field for a regularly scheduled game in the Good Neighbor League at
Wilmington. Left to right, front row are: Thomas Parker, Jon Jones, Richard
Parker, Philip Templeton, Gary Clark and Richard Bellows. Rear row, left to
right, are Jack Duffie, Patrick Duffie, Michael Parker, Patrick Parker, John
Brown, Robert Graham and Roland Clark. Other team members not shown in
photo are John Bellamy, Gerald Dilsaver, Charles Sellers, Stephan Donnelly and
Manager George W. Parker.
Sails Cling To
League Lead In
Pirate Victory
BY FOXY HOWARD
The Southport Sails tightened
their grip on first place in the
Cape Fear League Saturday night
at Taylor Field when they down
ed the Shallot te entry 8 to 6.
Gene Russ went all the way for
the Sails, striking out seven,
walking four and giving up seven
hits in picking up his third win
against no losses. Foxy Howard
continued his nitting spree with
two singles for four times at bat
to add 21 points to his batting
average.
Shallotte jumped to an early
lead in the top of the second in
ning when Bobby Benton led off
with a single. Bob White went
down on strikes, but Bobby Hub
bard se7it Benton to third with a
Texas league single into center
field. Gordon Gore's smash
through the Sail’s third baseman
brought in Benton, but caught
Hubbard trying to make it to
third. Jarvis Jones lined another
single over second base to bring
in Gore with the run that kept
Shallotte in front until the bot
tom of the fifth inning.
Southport came back for one
run in their half of the second
as Davis got on by an error and
came home on a long triple by
Jerry Spencer.
In the fifth inning Russ work
ed Hubbard, the Shallotte start
ing pitcher, for a walk Singles
by Foxy Howard and McKeithan
and a double by Davis accounted
for three runs. Then a walk to
Jerry Spencer and singles by Ben
Blake and Jerry Wayne Spencer
brought in two more Sails tallies
and put Southport ahead to stay.
In the sixth inning the Sails
scored a run in a manner seldom
seen on the diamond. Gehrig
Spencer singled through the
mound, then stole second and
third on successive pitches, with
Davis at bat. On a slow roller to
the shortstop the quick thinking
Davis did not budge out of the
batters box until Spencer, roar
ing irj from third, was only a
half-stir 11 from the plate. The
shortstop fielded the ball nicely
but hesitated on his throw home
Cape Fear Ail-Star
Tilt Here Thursday
Southport Boosters Club Presi
dent Foxy Howard, announced
Saturday that the Boosters Club
will be the sponsoring organiza
tion for the Cape Fear League
All-Star Baseball Game scheduled
for Taylor Field in Southport
Thursday night.
The Cape Fear League has been
divided into two sections for the
All-Star Game with Southport,
Ransom Township, Hampstead
and Ogden forming the West
Team to be managed by Preston
Bryant of the Southport Sails and
Leroy Grice of Ransom. The East
Team will be composed of all
star players from Seagate, Riegel,
Leland and Shallotte and will be
managed by Hunker Benson of
Seagate and Donald White of Le
land.
The four outstanding players
from each team will be chosen
by their managers and teammates
to form the two sixteen-man ros
ters. Southport’s selections were
announced Saturday night by
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Manager Preston Bryant and in
clude Jerry Spencer, outfielder,
j catting .345; John Carr Davis,
nfielder, batting .427; Bobby Mc
i Keithan, pitcher, with a 5-2 won
I lost record; and Gene Russ, pitch
I it, with a 3-0 record.
Regular play will be resumed
I in tile Cape Fear League follow
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will be host to the Riegel Team
I or. Friday evening at 7:30 at
Taylor Field in Southport. The
other six teams will resume their
regular schedule on Sunday after
noon.
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when he saw too many men
standing there. When he did make
his throw Spencer was sliding in
and Davis was sliding out of the
box. The Shallotte catcher had
the ball but was still trying to
figure out just what had happen
ed when he suddenly realized that
Davis was almost to first base.
He threw the ball hard in a des
perate attempt to catch the run
ner but the ball got away from
the first baseman, the Shallotte
second baseman moved over to
recover the ball leaving second
unprotected and wide open for
the fleet-footed Davis.
Shallotte got back in the ball
game in the seventh when Gore
led off with a double, was ad
vanced to third on an error and
scored on a fielder choice to first
base. The Sails also scored a sin
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Army Personnel In
Softball Game
The Sunny Point Army Ter
minal Softball Team played the
U. S. Army Reserves in a double
header softball game Tuesday
night at Taylor Field. The Army
Terminal won the first game by a
score of 15 to 2 but dropped the
nightcap to their elders to tile
tune of 5 to 2.
gle run in the seventh as Jerry
Wayne Spencer went to first af
ter being hit by one of Gore’s
fast balls. Gore having relieved
Hubbard in the sixth. Rip How
ard, playing his first game as a
Sail, went down on strikes. Suc
cessive walks to Russ, Foxy
Howard and McKeithan moved
Spencer around with the Sails
eighth run, making the score 8
to 3.
Shallotte cut this lead to 8 to 5
in the eighth inning when they
scored two runs on a walk to
Benton, a single by Bobby White,
and a base clearing triple by Hub
bard. Shallotte added another
marker in the top of the ninth
when Billy Cheers was hit on the
shoulder by Russ. A two base
throwing error by the Sails catch
er moved Cheers to third and he
came in on an infield out with
the final run of the ball game.
The loss dropped Shallotte six
games off of the pace, their rec
ord now being two wins and eight
losses.
The same two teams will re
new their rivalry next Tuesday
night at Taylor Field at 7:30
p. m. The U. S. Army Reserves
are in the final week of their two
week training tour at the Sunny
Point Army Terminal.
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