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on the bench with Bob Hoffman MORE BASEBALL TALK — With the sun coming out after a long absence, and a breath of warm air brows ing around, I'm going to write a little more about the national pastime of baseball. One of the real baseball “characters” from this area is Gastonia’s Spec Padgett, journeyman pitcher, who has really made the rounds. Tex Millard, Redleg slcout, was taking a little good natured kidding from MC Crash Davis at the Burlington banquet. Davis remarked that a scout had to sign at least one good prospect every five years to keep his job. Padgett broke in to say that he knew some that had never signed a good player. He wouldn’t name the guilty ivory-hunters, but did remark, “That guy that signed me is out of a job.” Ted Abernathy is a boy that Is just waiting for the season to start. The big right-hander from Stanley is getting another shot with Washington, and this time he intends to stick. Ted had a 1-3 record with the Nats at the end of the 1956 season, but pitched very good ball in the four contests. Ted thinks Washington will keep him, but feels that if he has a real good season he might be traded next season — at a much higher price. Abernathy worked in the American Association last year and says Bobby Richardson, the Yank’s Sumter, S. C., infielder, was one of the better ballplayers in the league. Hhe thinks Bobby is a cinch to stay with the Yanks this season — and says that he might just break into that infield. Charlotte’s Sonny Dixon will be back at Richmond next season. Dixon paced the International League pitchers for a good, part of last season in earned • run averages. He finally ended with a two-point something average in relief. Manager Eddie Lopat would start and Sonny would finish. The Yanks may give the bullpen artist a long look before shipping him. George Wilson reported that Bill Dickey thinks Ted Williams is the best hitter in baseball. Dickey has seen some great ballplayers in his day and also feels that Mickey Mantle is the strongest man he ever watched pole a ball out of a park. Gastonia’s Doc Queen, long - time Triple A utility man, had a good year in the Dominican League this win ter after having been dropped in the Puerto Rico circuit. Doc says he will probably wind up at Wichita of the A merican Association this season. Queen reports that the salary figures for American players in th& Dominican loop was tremendous. Said some of the boys went to around $2,000 a month. Speaking of Padgett again, he will be with Charlotte this season and Manager Gene Verble says he will slave 20 games for them. Spec says he has never been fined but once, and that was last year in the Sally League. The tall red - hed did mention that once while in the Pacific Coast League he didn’t show at the ballpark for four days. He reported that Manager Stan Hack ranted, raved, smiled and forgot about it in that order. Rating a try-out with the Cubs one spring, Padgett was caught out after curfew by one of the coaches. The next day he was called in on the carpet and the Cub brass-hat doinfe the talking told Padgett he was disap pointed in him for breaking hours and not trying to stay in shape. Padgett saicf his retort was “Thought you peo ple wanted a pitcher — not a missionary.” — next sitop for Spec was Gastonia. Minor league ballplayers have a lot of fun evidently. George Wilson was telling Tom Wright, who will play in Birmingham next season, that he played a couple of years there. He added that you get a new suit for every homerun you hit in the Birmingham park. Wilson said he picked up 42 suits in his two-year stay. Wright said, “Yeah, that suit deal must be about one-half of your salary, according to the contract they sent me.” LOCAL STUFF — Don Parker’s boys finally won another ballgame, defeating Lincolnton, who has been one of the hottest teams in the loop recently. John Mc Ginnis’ ball handling kept the local boys in the race asi he stole the ball from Lincolnton many times during the contest. The Mountaineers have dropped ten ballgames, but have been outscored only 70 points in 13 contests. The locals have bucketed 542 markers this season, compared to 612 for the opponents. Parker’s team has averaged 41.7 points per contest against a 47.0 average for the foes. Six of the 10 losses have been by five points or less. The combined total points of these six losses was 17 points. Defensively the Mountaineers are among the top teams in the conference. The highest total hit against the Kings Mountain club this year was 56 by Lincolnton. These same teams that have been scoring 45-50 points against the locals have been hitting 70 and 80 against each other. Coach Fred Withers will soon be getting out the catching equipment to start working with his pitchers and catchers. Keith Layton, Gene Bowers, and Johnny Carpenter will be the backbone of the hurling staff. The Gastonia Legion coaching job is still open, with no official reports ind' mating who the job will go to. Russ Bergman has been rumored taking over this post. On the other hand, many think that Withers will again be at the helm for the Post 23 team. Clyde Fallsv who played Class D ball last season un til he received a leg injury, is slated to go into the Army in March. Reports are that Gus Hartsoe, Jr., will not play or ganized ball next spring. It is said that Hartsoe’s con tract called for him to go back to the same Class C loop he played in last year, and he felt that he should be mov ed up. Doessn’t look like Foote Mineral will field a baseball team this year. Could it be lack of financial support? John Gamble Gets Central Football Post -< Local Cageis Sweep Twin-Bill; Boys Win 62-42, Girls Cop 47-34 Kings Mountain’s basketball teams won their first double, header of the season Friday night by downing the Cliffside teams in a twin-bill at Cliffside. The boys took a decisive 62-42 win, with Keith Layton continu ing his scoring pace with 19 points. Charles Bridges tossed in 17 for runner-up honors. Coach! Don Parker’s team took a 15-12 lead at the end of the first period, and ran the margin to 31-23 at halftime. The margin was stretched to 10 points, 44-34 at the end of the third quarter. Cliffside was never close to clos ing the gap and the Mountain eers poured 18 points through the hoop in the final stanza for the 20-poirft victory. Ramsey paced scoring for both teams as he hit 29 points. Hayn es was second on the scoring pa rade with seven markers. This win marked the Moun taineer’s fourth win of the sea son, and the second within a week. Coach Lib Collete’s girls took their second win of the season by knocking off the Cliffdwellers by a 47-34 margin. Barbara Smith led the Kings Mountain attack with 24 points. Judy Medlin added 13 and Diane Cansler hit 10. Humphries paced the home Clippeis Looking For 150,000 Gate The Charlotte Clippers, Eastern Ice Hockey League entry, may draw 150,000 fans in its first full year of operations in the Queen City. To date, the Clippers have played 26 home games and have drawn 119,402 persons through the turnstiles. With five games left, it is highly possibly that the lone Dixie team might crack the 150 000 mark. To add to the gate appeal, the Clips have a current 14-game win ning streak going at home. Averaging 4,592 persons per contest, the ice hockey squad wins the sports appeal cup in this area. Many think the Hornets should have it so good. The next home game will be Wednesday, February 27, when the popular Johnstown team, com plete with the League badman, Indian Joe. comes to town. A Charlotte-Washington con test on March 1, and three tilts with secondplace Philadelphia on March 2, 6, and 7, will round out the remainder of the regular sea son tilts. town girls with 15 points. Thomp son added eight for second-place honors. Kings Mountain got off to a roaring start and led by a 17-9 score at the end of the first pe riod. Cliffside couldn’t hit in the second quarter, and by halftime, the local gals enjoyed a 28-10 margin. From that point on, the Kings Mountain squad was never in danger of being headed. BOYS KINGS MOUNTAIN PLAYER FG FT PF TP 7 5-7 Layton Baity Bridges McGinnis George Fisher Blanton Pressly Stewart Houser Goins 2 3 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 3-5 10-13 2-3 2-3 0-0 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Totals CLIFFSIDE Dedmond Ramsey Haynes Hall Gardner Dobbins Tinkler Hawkins Byrd 1 12 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-0 5-9 1-2 0-0 2-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 5 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 7 16 8 6 2 2 0 2 0 0 19 24-34 11 62 5 4 5 2 0 1 2 1 0 2 29 7 0 4 0 0 0 0 Totals 17 8-18 20 42 Score by quarters: KM Cliffside 15 16 13 18—62 12 11 11 8—42 PLAYER Medlin Smith Cansler Beam Dean Lawrence Wright Pearson GIRLS FG FT 3 7-19 11 3 0 0 0 0 0 2-7 2-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 ,0-0 0-0 Totals CLIFFSIDE Humphries 5 5-11 Holtzclaw Thompson Brown Laye Harris Lawrence Bridges Kirby Phillips Webster 1 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0- 4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1- 2 24 0-0 0-0 0-0 PF TP 3 13 1 2 2 5 5 3 3 24 10 10 0 0 0 0 18 11-23 25 47 3 2 4 4 5 5 1 0 1 1 4 15 2 8 0 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 Totals 12 10-23 30 34 Score by quarters: KM Cliffside 17 11 7 12—47 9 1 13 11—34 Bethware Takes Two Twin-Bills, Grover Gals Lose First Ot Year Grover’s league - leading girls' basketball team was within easy distance of an undefeated season Tuesday night when the Waco team bounced the heretofore un. beatable sextette by a 76-73 score. Francis Carroll, big Grover scorer during the entire season again turned in a fine perform ance as she hit for 59 points. Pon der added eight. Joan Cllhe paced the winners’ attack with a 51 point perform ance.'Norma Neal aided the win ners cause tremendously with a 21 point contribution.. Grover’s boys downed the Wa co five by a 38-35 score in anoth. er thriller. Peterson had 10 and Pinkleton nine for the winners. Hamrick with 11 and Dalton with 10 paced the losers. Bethware’s boys knocked off Polkville by a 63-46 margin to tie for second place in the county standings. Bethware and Number 3 tied in the standings with 16-4 records, only a step behind Falls, ton, who won the conference ti tle with a 17-3 mark. Barrett’s 17 point paced the Bethware win, while Canipe’s 10 points was second high. For Polk ville, Bridges’ 17 and Warlick’s 15 paced the attack. Bethware’s girls also emerged victorious with a 51-21 win over the Polkville team. Yarbro’s 20 points paced Bethware and a nine - point performance by Davis led Polkville. In games last Friday night, Grover's girls downed Polkville by a 92-43 score, with Carroll hit ting 57 for the winners. The Gro. ver boys also defeated Polkville by a 51-41 margin, with Peter son’s 17 points leading the way. Bethware’s team took a double bill from Boiling Springs with the girls winning 26-21. Bolin’s Prizes On Tap For Last Game Lawson Brown, principal ot Central High SchooL announc ed Wednesday that several door prizes will be awarded at the final home conference basket- j ball game here Friday night. Mr. Brown said drawings would be conducted during half . time of the boys’ contest local business firms, for several prizes donated by Tri-High will furnish compe- ' tition for the Mountaineers in : the 1956-57 finale. 13 points paced the winners. The boys took a 56-31 victory, with Putnam’s 21 points paving the way. The County Basketball tourn ament starts next week in Shel by. Drawings have not been com. pleted, but Grover’s girls and Bethware’s boys will be among the top-seeded teams in the play offs. 7 Area Cagers Make All-loop Cleveland County Basketball All • Conference lists, released Wednesday, included four boys and three girls from the Grover and Bethware teams. Boys named from Bethware were — Jesse Putnam, Bob Ca nipe, and Jack Barrett. Russell Pinkleton was the lone Grover boy making the list. Girls included Francis Car roll and Dale Gold, both of Grover, and Rachael Hamrick, Bethware. Grover’s girls’ team copped conference honors, losing only one game during the entire season. Bethware’s boys tied for sec ond place in t h e conference standings with Number 3. Both of these teams were only one half game behind Fallston, the conference’s number one squad. STRICTLY FRESH *‘pNE” whisky is the stuff you drink before driving. * • • Some has-been actors never Were. • • * Weekend golfer: frustiates himself trying to hit a little ball to get rid of his frustrations. Soviet: what mother says when you’re late lor dinner, * • • Hear about the fellow \,..j cracked up his car and was lined to boot? Just got bad brakes, we’d say. 0-< Local fayvees Split Two With Cherries Kings Mountain’s "B" Team basketball squads split a pair of contests with the Cherryville Jay vees here Monday night. The local girls edged the visit ing lasses by a 42-39 score, with Evelene Oliver pacing the Kings Mountain scoring parade with 19 points. Ormand added 13 and Peg gy Black hit for 10 to complete the scoring. Carpenter with 15 and Rudisill with 14 paced the Cherryville at tack. Setzer dropped six and Boyles tossed in four to complete the scoring. Kings Mountain led 18-13 at the end of the first half, and still held a five point margin at half time.. At the end of the third per iod, Cherryville had cut the led to 31-28, but Kings Mountain fought off a determined fourth quarter bid to cop the win. Shu Carlton’s boys didn’t fare as well against the tall, talented Cherryville lads. Cherryville took a 44-25 win going away. Kruskrra, who is playing some varsity ball along, hit 19 points to pace the visitors in the victory. Mauney added 12 and Alexander nine in the winning cause. Conner with eight and Thomas with four paced the Kings Moun tain attack. Cherryville held a 24-15 lead at halftime, increased it to 31-17 at the end of the third quarter and added five more points to the margin in the final quarter. During World War II, the lar gest deposit of tungsten east of the Rocky Mountains was disco vered and developed in Vance County. JOHN GAMBLE New Head Coach Tri-Hi, Belmont Ehd Cage Season Kings Mountain’s Mountain eers wind up their regular sched. uled basketball games next Tues day night. The local cagers will meet Tri High here Friday night in the fi nal home game of the 1956-57 Southwestern AA Basketball bat tles. Cm Tuesday, the Mountaineers travel to Belmont to engage the Red Raiders in the last loop con. test of the season. ' Both Tri-High and Belmont de feated the local boys and girls in their first meetings, But the Kings Mountain squads will be out for revenge in the upcoming tilts. It has not been a good season for Coach Don Parker and Lib Collette. However, the girls have Assistant For Past Three Years Gamble Assumes Top Spot In Fall John Gamble, for the past three years assistant football coach at Central High School, will be the new head football coach starting in the fall of 1957. . Coach Gamble succeeds Eve rette “Shu" Carlton, who resigned to accept the Ashley High School football position starting next fall. “I am naturally happy to get an opportunty to serve as head football coach here ” Coach Gam ble said. “It will be a big job trying to fill Coach Carlton’s shoes. Ie realize that the job a head of me will be a big one, but I‘m looking forward to it.” Mr. Gamble way offered the coaching position following a City School Board meeting Mon. day night. He was unanimously chosen by board members to re ceive the job, if he wanted it. Coach Gamble reportedly accept ed the position Tuesday. A graduate of Appalachian State Teacher’s College, Coach Gamble began his coaching career in Kings Mountain as assistant coach in the fall of 1954. His football playing career in. already won twice as many games this season as they captured last year. Of course, they only won one last season- and have two to date this year. Parker’s boys have been among the best defensive clubs in the loop, but have found it hard to score points thmselves. Many of the 10 losses suffered this season could have gone to Kings Moun. tain with just a few more points. Both local squads will be out to cop these last two games. Two wins would give the boys a 6-10 record, and the girls a 4-12 mark for the season. eluded stints at a Miami, Fla., high school ,one year at Gardner Webb Junior College, and two> years at Appalachian. Coach Gamble played both guard and tackle positions during his play ing days. He is a veteran- having served in the U. S. Army alter World War II and being called back lor the Korean War. During the Ko rean conllict, he was stationed in Japan. Coach Gamble received his Masters Degree in education at Appalachian in the summer of 1956. Since Gamble joined the coach* ing staff in 1954, the Mountain eers have enjoyed the best years in Kings Mountain football his tory. In 1955 and 1956, the teams won the Southwestern Conference Championship, and last season al. so added the Southwestern-North western crown to its laurels. Gamble’s work with the line has been credited by many local fans with being a great factor in the team’s past success. It is felt by most football fan® here that a backfield eoach will, be added as an assistant, with Coach Gamble sticking with the line coaching duties. Mr. Gamble will also assume the role of physical education and history teacher in the local high school, a teaching post currently held by Coach Carlton Previously, he has been eighth grade teacher at Bast Elementary School. Mr. Gamble married the for mer Miss Betty Roberts of Shel by. Mrs Gamble is also a mem ber of the city school system’ serv. ing as Home Economics teacher in tfye local high school Mr. and Mrs Gamble reside on Monroe avenue. 40-denier 100% NYLON SLIPS Ladies’ Pantie BRIEFS. Children’s Cotton size 4-12 PANTIES.... Ladies’ Corduroy DUNGAREES.. 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