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- SPORTS - KISER'S KORNER — BY RONALD KISER — RAlbERS TO BE ROUGH, TOUGH Belmont — Cherryville High School will get a chance to know just what to expect from their 1954 football eleven come Se.pt. 10, the opening of the gridiron campaign. On that date, a rough and tumble batch of Belmont High Bed Raiders invade the Cherry ville high school park. True, the Raiders lost their ter rific twosome of last season, Jack Lineberger and James Biggerstaff, often called “Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside”. Lineberger, plunging fullback, and Biggerstaff, hard running halfback, sparked the Red outfit to seven straight Western Conference wins last season. Bel mont won 10 before bowing to Albemarle by 14-6 in a post season play-off between cham pions of the Western and South Piedmont loops. Belmont, guided by Wrather Johnson and Johnny Coble, the latter of Catawba fame, defeated Shelby, Lenoir, Rutherford Cen tral, Forest City,- Lincolnton, Kings Mountain, and Newton Conover last season in loop play, added powerful Grey High of W’inston-Salem, Monroe, and Cra merton to their list of victims be fore running into Albemarle. Reggie Huffstetler, captain of last fall’s squad, Pat Murphy, Tommy Barry, and Charles, Glover are also gone plus Earl Penning ton, brg tackle, who joined the M'arines. Pennington made the all conference team last fall. Returning to Raider-land this season are Doug Mauldin, Gary Cannon, J. C. O’Daniels, Denny Williams, Eddie Thrower, Ronnie Helton, Gene Byers, Tommy Ultz, and Dusty Maynard. Mauldin and Cannon operated in thethe Raider oackfield last season with Line berger and Biggerstaff with Can non one of the team’s better per formers at the blocking back spot. Cannon will not workout with the Belmont team until the Gas tonia juniors complete their sea Mauldin May Be Tailback Stepping into Biggerstaff’s shoes will probably be Mauldin, the former Gastonia legion short stop. Baseball standout J. C. O’Daniels will probably fill Line berger’s shores at the fullback station. Mauldin tips the scales at 155 lbs. with O’Daniels, No. two hurler behind Harold Stowe on the Belmont High baseball outfit last aping, weighing in at 170. Helton, Williams, Thrower, and Byers were first string linemen last season with Helton making the all-loop club. Junior Varsity lads expected to aid the Raiders this season are Joe Lewis, Tony Smith, Donnie Wentz, eth alMoop first base man, Dickie Suggs, Truett Line berger, Dean Auton, Buddy Eller, Hall Kale, and Kelly Kee. Forty-two hopefuls turned out for the initial drill at Kings Mountain where Everette (Shu) Carlton of Lenoir-Rhyne fame, will direct things with' aid from John Gamble and Don Parker. The Sept. 24 oponents of the locals have 12 returnees. Harold Jack son, Jerry McCarter, Charles Smith, Mickey Howser, Eral Mar lowe, Curtis George, and Frank Hinson return to the backfield. Returning linemen are Ken Cook, Buddy Mayes, Bobby Wilson, Ken Cloninger, Eddie Goforth, and Palmer Huffstetler. The local beat the lads from the historical city last season by 14-13 here. Hickory, another school with 42 candidates reporting the first day, is the favorite in the Northern half of the Western circuit with Morganton, Taylorsville, and Le noir the darkhorses. The Southern winner meets the Northern victor at the end of the season to de termine the final league champ, thirty hopefuls report at spencer Spencer, the only South Pied mont Conference club on the Cherries’ schedule this time, had 30 candidates at their initial workout last Monday morning, Nine of last year’s starters were lost via graduation, thus new coach Curt Davidson will have a tough task awaiting him. The Railroaders finished sixth in the South Piedmont last session. Jimmy Wilson is the lone re turning' back with right tackle Larry Wagner the only vet up front. Wagner is hailed as Spen cer’s finest grid prospect in recent years. A rising junior, .Larry tips the scales at 205 lbs. Among the other good-looking talent at Spencer are Skeet Ben ton, Jini Tarlton, Don Sebastian, Yates Plummer, and Larry Grubb. Coach Davidson, who replaces Bill Lowe as Spencer bossman, plans two daily drills until school stars and says that he expects 45 can didates before school starts. MEET EMMETT FEEMSTER... Aiding Coaches Bill Link and Sheri ill Cranford with the coach ing duties at the local school this fall will be Emmett Feimster. A native of Valdese, Feimster has established finite a name for him self at Cleveland High School, Rowan County. Feimster starred on the gridiron at Valdese High and Western Carolina College before taking over at Cleveland High. As a tac kle, he played at WCTC in ’48 with Ovie Heavner, Max Beam, and Buffalo Humphries. Coach Tom Young's outfit was paced that season by a racehorse tailback named Hugh Hamilton. At Valdese High School in 1946, Emmett captained one of the greatest teams in Valdese history. That season, the Tigers won seven games in 10 starts. Valdese did not belong to a conference at that time. Following his graduation from Western Carolina, Feimster took over the head coaching duties at Cleveland where he turned out excellent basketmball teams. In 1951. his Cleveland girls’ outfit finished second, the boys third in Ronald Turner Moved To Backfield Slot As Locals Began Heavy Work Bodily contract work is the or der of the day this week as the practice tempo picks up on the Cherryville High School field. The Cherries open Sept. 10 with Bel mont, follow up with nine more tough customers. Ronald Turner, 180 lb. G'2” tackle, has been shifted to the baekfield, has been showing his wares at the tailback and fullback slots. Turner this season may play offensive fullback or tailback and defensive tackle. Coaches Bill Link, Emmett Feimster, and Sherrill Cranford are well fixed up front with the baekfield a little shaky. Up front I are Bob Dellinger (175), Turner (180), Jerry Daggerhart (180), Wade Boyles (165) Bob Reynolds (170), Brother Blaekweldcr (160) and Larry Kilby (170). There are two fullbacks in camp at present with the exception of Turner. Paul Taylor, a big- 190 lb. husky, re ported last Wednesday at the full back slot. Charles Black, a veteran 161 pounder, is the other fullback. Also looking good in the backfield are Joe Hallman, a 150 lb. quar terback, Gene Jarrett, speedy 157 lb. tailback, and Carroll Carpen ter. All the boys are working hard, according to Coach Link. Twiee-a day drills are to continue until Aug. 31 on the high school field. Shelby Optimists Edge Cherryville - BY RONALD KISER Shelby — Coach Manley Run yan^’ Shelby Optimist Club came roaring back here last week to register two triumphs over the Cherryville squad by 8-1 and 11-0 scores after Ovie Heavner’s Cher ries spilled Shelby 5-3 last Tues day night. Ronnie Hovis, an 11 year old, 120 lb. righthander, hurled the Tuesday and Saturday contests, posted 31 strikeouts. He was in rare form Tuesday as he held the Shelbians to five hits .fanned 15, and walked two batters. Saturday night, wildness and shoddy sup port brought his downfall. He is sued eight free passes, allowed but three base blows, and com mitted four wild tosses. The Cher ries were guilty of six errors. RONNIE HOVIS Rig Bobby Hoover, Shelby’s ace righthander, hurled a no-hitter the Rowan district. The following season saw the girls take the county championship. He coached all three major sports at Cleve For the past two seasons, Feim ster has been one of the leading characters in the annual City County All-Star games at Salis bury. In ’52, the 6’2” husky pilot ed the county girl stars to a con vincing victory in the Salisbury Post-sponsored game. The follow ing campaign found him joining forces with Tom Jones, of Landis High to handle, the football all stars in a contest sponsored by the Salisbury Civitan Club. The city stars, composed of players from Salisbury Boyden, Spencer, and East Spencer Highs, smashed the county kids at Boyden High stadium. Saturday night after dropping the Tuesday opener. He gave up but three hits Tuesday. Tom Wright, Jr. went the dis tance for the victorious Cleveland County crew Wednesday. The Cherryville forces shoved across their lone run Wednesday in the first frame when Jerry Lail walk ed, went to escond on a wild pitch, and scored on Ronnie Alexander’s singe to right field. Catcher Ken Willis gave the Shelbians a four-run first frame advantage when he homered to deep left with the bases loaded. An error by Larry Turner, field ers’ choice, and Bobby Shull’s sin gle jammed the sacks. Singles by Oakie Canipe, Shull, and Willis gave the winners a singleton in the second. They added one in the fourth and two in the sixth stanza. Cherryville won the Tuesday tilt with four tallies in the fifth after the locals had scored once in the fourth'. Shelby added two in the fifth with the Cherries picking up another in their half of the sixth. Hits by Jimmy Clawson and Lester Jenkins coupled with walks to Jerry Walker and Lail, an er ror, and outfield fly produced,the quartet of Cherryville tallies in the fifth with a free ticket to Alexander plus two errors giving the winners their sixth rack tally. Hoover, big lad from Belwood, fanned 14 and issued four walks. Hovis, who chalked up five wins during the regular season here, recorded three strikeouts in each the first, third, fourth, and fifth, one in the second, and two in the sixth frame. The local Carolina outfit didn’t have a chance Saturday as Hoover tossed his third game of the sea son. He walked Alexander and Jimmy Summitt in the second inn ing. George Lohr in the third, Lail and Walker in the fourth, and Larry Turner in the sixth. Lail hurled the final two frames for Cherryville. Shelby’s nine scored four in the first, four in the fourth, and three in the fifth. They obtained but three hits off Hovis and Lail. Score bv innings: R H E Cherryville OfiO 041 5 3 1 Shelby . . 000 120 3 5 4 Hovis £ Turner: Hoover & Willis R HE Cherryville 100 000 1 3 2 Shelby . 410 :l0x 8 10 2 Alexander and Hovis; Wright and Willis R H E Cherryville 000 000 0 0 0 Shelby 400 43x 11 3 1 Hovis, Lail and Turner; Hoover and Willis A detachment of Marines under Colonel Robert E. Lee, U. S. 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Gastonia, with Sheppard breezing, held a 4-1 lead going into the seventh but two walks, an error, stolen base, and two-run single by Butler Powell gave New Orleans four big tallies. Two thousand fans attended the tilt, played at Ponchatouli, La. with Bobby Folse and Marshall Piper working on the rubber for the winners who wait until tonight to see their next action. Gastonia outhit the victors 7-2 with Roger Martin and Gary Can non getting two each. Sheppard walked eight, committed a wild pitch with Stowe, the lefthander, guilty of a pair of wild tosses. The Tar Heels stranded 13 runners on the bases. Howard Henkle, the local flash playing second base for the Green ville Spinners in the Class B Tri State League, is hitting .294 ac cording to latest averages releas ed yb Howe News services. The Sandlappers are standing in fourth place in the six-team loop. Bobby Beal has reecntly taken over the managerial reigns at Greenville. Buzz Peeler got the Lincolnton Cardinals off on the right foot in the Gaston Textile League play offs last Saturday night by pitch ing them to a 5-2 win over Stan ley’s Talon Zipper nine. Peeler gave up eight hits, fanned seven, and rapped out a single and dou ble, batted in two tallies. Porky Rose garnered two doubles and a single in four trips to pace the Redbirds offensively .Bus Huff stetler manages the Cards. A big all-star outdoor wrestling show is booked for Sims Legion Park tonight starting at 8:00 o’ clock. Ldu Plummer tangles with Herb Schiff in the opener, a 30 minute one fall job with the gals taking over in the evening’s sec ond match. Mae Young and Glor ia aBratinni, two of the classiest women grapplers in the nation, hit head on in a one-fall 25-min ute time limit. The main events sends Charro Aztec and Al Cortez against Freddie Blassie. the South ern heavyweight champion, and Pete Managoff in an Australian tag team match, two of three falls with a one hour time limit. A number of tickets have been sold for the big evening with each ticket carrying a chance at a new automobile. T fyou boxing fans ,vi.v to ob tain tickets to the Sept. 11 bouts at Griffith Park. Charlotte, the initial card of the new Carolina Amateur Boxing Association, Red Dellinger has 500. Cherryvilie is a charter member of the asso ciaiton along with Rutherfordton, Gaffney. S. C-, Charlotte, Mt. Hol ly. and Belmont. Driver- Of Goats Preaches Sermon Selma—A herd of 30 groats and their vagabond driver drew crowds estimated at 50,000 to this small Johnston county community over the weekend. Chess McCartney rested his goats in a prove just off U. S. I 301, the highway the caravan is | following in its trek from Geor gia northward. Sunday he took a battered Bible from his wagon and preached on “Brotherhood in i Kindness.” Police Chief Percy Moore said the droves of curious visitors add up to the largest crowd ever to visit Selma. Police officers and ( highway patrolmen struggled with j bumper-to-bumper traffic lined up at least 10 miles in each direction, he said. It got so bad Sunday afternoon 1 that Moore and three of his police- | men had to route traffic bound , north on 301 around the town. Monday morning McCurtney 1 hitched up his goats again and started off northward. At the | caravan's pace of a few miles a day, it looked like McCurtney | would still spend at least several weeks in North Carolina. Tir*$ton* Budget Plan SELECT WHAT YOU WANT TELL US NOW YOU WANT TO PAY YOUR ACCOUNT IS OPENED AND YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY FIRESTONE HOME & AUTO SUPPLY WOODROW W. BEAM SOO East Main Street CHERRYV1LLE, N. C. Thomas Poirier Named Asst. To Pres. At Chrysler Corp. Appointment of Thomas Poirier as assistant to the president is announced by E. C. Quinn, presi dent, Chrysler Division, Chrysler Corporation. 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