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on the bench with Bob Hoffman ROUND-AND-ABOUT — Chuck Clements is rumored to be in line for the Gastonia High School football coach ing job. Chuck is a former Gastonia mentor, who left for a hitch at Davidson College. Reports indicate that Russ Bergman has been ap proached by the Gastonia American Legion post in an ef fort to bring the old master back to the Junior baseball coaching ranks. Last week’s Sporting News was devoted to a great ex tent to telling the Jackie Robinson story pro and con, and gave a lot of background on Robinson’s major league debut. Ted Abernathy was not among those players listed by Washington as being “unobtainable” in trades. Might mean that the Stanley hurler will be playing under dif ferent colors. The Yanks have long liked the looks of the swift southpaw. Clemson lost 13 men off its Orange Bowl squad this season. Doug Cline, the Valdese flash, will no doubt be figured on heavily in the replacement department by Frank Howard. Cline had a very good freshman year this past season. Coach Shu Carlton will have two of the best quarter backs in the state running his West team in the annual East-West clash. Bolick of Hickory, and the Canton field' general will handle the signal calling. This probably means that John McGinnis will be running at his old po sition of halfback. Shu reports that hg has a lot of “beef” on the team and that his line will average around 200, while the little backfield will hit about a 187 average. If Shu is again recreation director for the summer, and I feel that he will be, he has plans cooking for a low cost playground set-up that will bring sighs of relief from mothers of the city. This plan would establish • some two or three playground areasi, probably at ele mentary schools, that would operate in the mornings with high school students in charge. This would at least keep the kids from under foot til noon. UNC will rest on its laurels and enjoy its undefeated basketball season for the next week or so'dr ing exams. The Tar Heels are going to be rough, but Frank Mc Guire doesn’t look for an undefeated season. I go along with that — the Big 4 put out some fair country basket ball teams. Ask those other boys like West Virginia that journeyed down for the Classic these past two years. Ice hockey has found a good many followers in this area according to the reports of persons that have at tended the matches. These will be more and more as tv games continue to interest others that have not caught the bug. Kings) Mountain High School will play a couple of night baseball games this spring. The Mountaineers will play Rutherfordton here on April 23, and will meet the same team in a night contest there on May 3. Looks like night baseball in the local school would draw better than the afternoon affairs. A recreation program should be high on the list of things the city needs when budget time rolls around for the city fathers. Many cities around us have large bud gets set aside each year for recreation of its citizens. Kings Mountain doesn’t have facilities for a full . time program, but plans should be made to obtain these facili ties in the near future. Peahead Walker still makes a jaunt through North Carolina occasionally to pick up some talent for his Mon treal pro team. Joel Wells and Bill Hudson of Clemson along with Ken Owens of Ga. Tech are among the ones the old deacon signed this trip. Peahead would be worth a large salary to some college just to scout and recruit. He seems to have a knack for getting good football play ers. Bob Rush has just signed to play his 10th year in the majors. Last year he won 13 while losing 10 with the Chicago Cubs. Anyone that can win 13 games with the Cubs deserves really good pay. For years the Yankees did not like to give out salary figures, claiming they were too personal. Now they are releasing the figures and bragging that they have the highest payroll in baseball. Yogi Berra gets $58,000 this next season and VVhitey Ford will knock down 35 geesi A high priced battery, even for the Yanks. The Dodgers are planning to travel in style for the next while. The club has pui*chased a 44-passenger air plane at a cost of $800,000. St. Paul and Montreal, Dodger . farm clubs, will also use the sky buggy for transporta tion. i The college baseball boys are feuding with the major league clubs over snatching of players out of college. The pro boys come back with the report that in some in stances they have had to pay a boy’s college coach more than they did the player in order to get his signature. In my opinion, if a kid is smart he will get a college education clause in his contract when and if he turns pro. The major league clubs can certainly afford to edu cate a boy, and it helps everyone concerned. A college .education never hurts anyone and prestiege is important in baseball. Bob Feller says one of his ambitions is to own a part ' of a major league ball club. Bob would probably be a good man for baseball management, and his name alone has meant baseball for thousands of kids for the past 15 years. CONGRATS TO SHU — Shu Carlton was a very de serving winner of the Jaycees Young Man of the Year Award for 195b. Coach Carlton has turned in a good job at the helm of Kings Mountain’s football teams, and brought home conference championships during the past two seasons. He is liked, respected and admired by play ers, fellow coaches, and sports fans alike. A very good choice for a very big honor. "B" Team Gagers Win Pair Here Kings Mountain’s “B” team cagers defeated the Forest City Jayvees in a pair of contests here last Thursday to bring their sea son records to a 1-1 split. Shu Carlton’s boys downed the visitors in a 34-28 thriller, and the girls of Coach Lib Collette drop ped their opponents 43-37 in a wellplayed tilt. Tommy Thomas paced the local boys with- 10 points, while Con nor and Biddix hit nine each. Medford hit nine for top scor ing honors for Forest City. Evelene Olivet- dropped in 30 points to pace the Kings Moun tain girls. Judy Medlin hit nine for runner-up honors. Bailey was almost the entire show for the visitors with 34 of their 37 points. Jones hit the other three mark ers. BOYS Kings Mtn. 34 Gladden 4 ! Thomas 10 | Connor 9 j Biddix 9 I Bower* 2 GIRLS ! Kings Mtn. 43 Ormand 2 j Medlin 9 | Oliver 30 | Edwards Scruggs Pearson | Black 2 Goforth Lynn F C 28 Oweng 6 Ayers 1 Medford 9 Greenlee 1 Cunningham 1 Marshall 3 Watkins 5 F C 37 Bailey 34 Jones 3 Rhymer Padgett Harris Alley Locals Drop Pair To Tri-High; Bridges. Medlin, Falls Pacers Kings Mountain’s high school basketball teams are still taking their lumps in Southwestern AA play, as both teams dropped de cisions to Tri-High there Tues day night. Don Parker’s boys trailed the entire game but threatened sev eral times to pull ahead for their second win of the season. Final tally was 52-44. Playing in the ill-lighted, small Tri-High gym, the Mountaineers found the long shot* of the home towners too much to cope with. Kings Mountain outscored Tri High from the floor, but fell be hind from the foul circle. Charles Bridges, who did not start, came off the 'bench in the second period 'and played one of his better games of the year leading the local scoring with 15 points. Keith Layton tossed in 11 and John McGinnis added 10. Hamrick paced the Tri-High squad with 15 points ,and was trailed by Pleasant and Reynolds who hit 10 points each. The girls fell behind 27 -15 at the end of the first period and were never within striking dis tance throughout the remainder of the ball game. Kings Moun tain’s team has shown much im provement and played a good ballgame, but the superior height and experience brought the Tri-High lassies through to a 83-62 win. Judy Medlin and Pratt Falls hit 21 points each to pace the local attack. Philbeck was the big gun for Tri-High with 30 markers. She got plenty of help from Raye with 24 and Rhymer with 18. Tri-High’s girls are third in the conference .having lost only two games. These losses gives the boys a 1-6 record, while the girls are zeroed in the win column with an 0-7 mark. BOYS KINGS MOUNTAIN PLAYER Layton Baity Pressly McGinnis George Bridges Blanton TOTALS FG FT PF TP 4 3-6 2 11 4 0 4 0 7 0 19 0-0 0-1 2-3 0-0 1-3 0-0 8 0 10 0 15 0 6-13 14 44 TRI-HIGH PLAYER Childers Pleasant Hamrick Reynolds Mitchell Roach Shew TOTALS FG FT PF TP 0-0 4 2-2 0 3-6 0 44 3 5-10 0 2-3 2 0-0 0 18 16-25 9 6 10 15 10 7 4 0 52 SCORE BY QUARTERS: KM Tri-High 6 13 13 12-44 14 10 14 14—52 GIRLS KINGS MOUNTAIN PLAYER Smith' Falls Cansler Lawrence Beam Dean FG FT PF TP 3 9 5 0 0 0 1-3 3-5 3-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 7 21 13 0 0 0 TRI-HIGH PLAYER Philbeck Rhymer Raye Phillips Branch Quinn SUBS: lin. 21, FG FT PF TP 13 9 3 0 0 0 4-4 0-0 6-9 0-0 0-0 0-0 30 18 24 0 0 0 Kings Mountain—Med Pearson, Scruggs, Ed wards: Tri-High—Webb, 8, Wal ker Cannifield, Waters, Phillips 3, Gibson, Seay Hill, Robbins. SCORE BY QUARTERS: KM Tri-High 15 15 21 11—62 27 20 22 14—83 AAU Should Revise Amateui Rules To Help U. S. Olympic Athletes More concentration on the so called “minor” sports which cau sed the United States to lose the unofficial 1956 Olympics team championship to Russia and lib eralization of our definion of “amateur” are urged by the na tion’s retailers of sporting goods and sports associations. These are two of a number of conclusions regarding the inter national games brought out through a survey conducted by The Sporting Goods Dealer, na tional business magazine publish ed at St. Louis. The results ap pear in the January issue of the publication. Over all, the retailers of sports equipment, feel that America’s failure in the various shooting e vents was the most deplorable development of all, because of our pride as a nation of outdoorsmen. Actually, the U. S. did not even enter a team in the trapshooting events, largely because its best marksmen are classed as profes sionals. They traditionally com pete for cash prizes, which rare ly even pay for the ammunition used. Another difficulty in shooting, according to The Dealer, is that Europeans, and especially Rus. sians are able to devote themsel ves to extensive training without expense. The magazine quotes F, C. Daniel, secretary of the Na tional Rifle Association, as fol lows: “Vassili Borissov, the Russian who won the 300-meter free rifle championship, has shot in prac tice with the same coach tor the last five years and shoots approx imately five hours every day. I know of no civilian sportsman in the United States who could conceivably hope to match this.” The only solution, Daniel sta tes, is closer co-operation between the manufacturers of firearms, the National Rifle Association, the Armed Services and Congress in sponsoring and financing marksmanship programs. However, the problem of de fining an amateur is cited by most retailers as America’s No. 1 Olympic problem in view of Rus sia’s out-and-out subsidization of athletes and the far less restric tive attitudes in most other coun tries. “The AAU had better realize that our athletes need more help. The AAU should wake up to the fact that these are the 1950s, not the 1850s. Athletes should be able to accept help or even earn mon ey through endorsements, public appearances, etc., without being ruined by arbitrary rulings. Eith er kill the rules or bring them up to date.” A Massachusetts retailer com MACK'SA MENTHOLATED Shaving Cream For Men Who Prefer Smooth Shaves You Too Will Like And Enjoy EMERSON TV For '57 The Future At Your Fingertips AND NOW!!! 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On Tuesday night, the Moun taineers open the second half of the conference schedule by traveling to Cherryville for a pair of tilts with the Ironmen squads. The Cherries were leading the conference in the boys’ standings but dropped a contest to Lin colnton by a 49-38 margin Tues day. This may mean a drop to second place or at least a tie for top spot for the Ironmen . Cherryville’s girls are also rated among the top four teams in the lower end of the conference and took a 70-52 win over Kings Mountain in their last outing. However ,the local lassies have ■improved since -that opening tilt, and a closer game is seen for the next meeting. Judy Medlin turned in a very impressive game against Tri High and may get a starting nod against Belmont .Pratt Falls also looked good Tuesday night, es pecially on long set shots from the floor. Coach Don Parker will prob ably go along with his same start ing five. Charles Bridges came off the bench Tuesday following a short benching period to bucket 15 points and turned in a nice game on the court. Lack of point production from the pivot spot has hampered the Mountaineers, but Bridges gave indications Tuesday that this trouble may be taken care of. The girls’ game starts at 7 p. m., and the boys’ contest fol lows. shade trees, like other plants, need certain essential fertilizer elements for good growth. Costs Less than many Table Models! EASY TERMS, OF COURSE) 261 square inches In Beautiful Blonde Oak Finish Modern Pressed Wood Cabinet Why settle for less than a con sole, when this beautiful model in rich mahogany-grain finish on pressed wood costs less than so many table models? And why settle for less than de pendable General Electric, when G-E Television Sets are priced so low? 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