Pat’s
Peckings
By NEALE PATRICK
Baity 2nd K. M. Shrine Bowler
The cream of North Carolina’s crop of high school foot
ball players are swapping licks in Charlotte this week pre
paring for the annual Shrine Bowl game Saturdiay in the
Queen City’s Memorial Stadium.
Among those on hand and making his presence well
known to his coaches and his fellow teammates, not to
mention the flock of college gridiron scouts, is Kings Moun
tain’s pride and joy, Ken Baity. The blond bomber of the
Mountaineers is one of the prize halfbacks on the Tar Heel
outfit, and he figures to see plenty of ball-carrying action
for Coach Buddy Luper’s club.
Baity justly earned his position on the Shrine Bowl team,
an honor which every high slchool player in the two Caro
linas rate at the top of the list in his prep football career. A
lad chosen to the Shine team knows he is really an all-star.
He actually plays with and against others of the same mold.
All other all-states, etc., selections are mythical items, lack
the true test of stardom which come to Shrine Bowlers.
And Kings Mountain football folk are just as proud of
Baity as their representativ. As far as we have been able
to determine, Baity is only the second Mountaineer foot
ball star in history to land a berth in the Shrine Game. The
other was George Harris, the talented quarterback two
years ago. For Harris, the Shrine Game was a stepping
stone toward a college grid scholarship at Duke. Now,
George is a sophomore quarterback on the Blue Devil team
which will be heading for a bowl game of its own New
Year’s Day, the Orange Bowl in Miami.
If there have been any other Kings Mountain Shrine
Bowl performers down through the years, we have missed
their names in a look over Shrine rosters of the past. If
there have been others, let us know.
Gains Nearly Two Miles In Career
Baity’s high school record ranks with that of any of the
stars in this year’s contest. The Mountaineer is one of the
greatest ground-gainers in Southwestern Conference his
tory, with 1,289 net yards rushing during the past season,
and a three-year net yardage figure of 3,025.
He averaged seven and a half yards every time he tuck
ed the pigskin under his arm running during the past cam
paign, and he has a career rushing mark of better than six
and a half yards per carry.
If that career figure of 3,025 yards gained doesn’t regis
ter any excitement on your adding machine, perhaps you
might measure the distance more accurately by breaking it
down into miles. The figure of 3,025 is just slightly shy of
two miles running with a football under one arm, while try
ing to ward-off eleven other fellows with the other. Try it
sometime.
A year-by-year boxscore on Baity’s rompings may give
further sight on his brilliant three-year career as a Kings
Mountain High School grid star.
Year
Soph
Junior
Senior
Career
Runs
117
163
173
Gain
675
1079
1308
Loss Net
10 665
8 1071
1$ 1289
Avg.
5.7
6.6
7.5
453
3062
37
3025
6.7
That’s quite a record for a young man who became a reg
ular halfback late in his sophomore season and quickly be
came the most feared ball-carrier in these parts. One of the
most amazing things about Baity’s yardage record is that
he lost the grand total of only 37 yards in 453 carries during
his career.
Scores 144 Points In Three Years
Baity doesn't merely chew-up the yardage between the
20-yard lines, either. He goes all-the way on plenty of oc
casions, and does his share of crossing the final double
stripe.
He scored 24 touchdowns for 144 points in his prep car
eer, his junior season of 1956 being his best year. He led this
area in scoring with TS points, and received the area scor
ing trophy from The Gastonia Gazette, which, incidentally,
furnished the picture of Baity in the last issue of The Her
ald. This year, Ken fell-off in the scoring, with 54 points,
but still was tops for his team.
The three-year scoring chart for Baity reads like thi^:
Year Season TD Points
1955 Soph 2 12
1956 Junior 13 78
1957 Senior 9 54
Career
24
144
Just what all those yaxxls and touchdowns have meant to
his team is shown in the won-and-lost record of the Moun
taineers in Ken’s three years!. He has played on teams
w hich have won 27 games, lost four, and tied two. He play
ed on two consecutive Southwestern Conference champion
ship teams (1955 and 1956) and for the runner-up team this
season.
Although his team failed to win the league title again
this season, the ace halfback rates the distinction of being
the Southwestern Conference’s number one player. At
least, he is the league’s lone representative in the Shrine
Bowl game.
Student-Faculty Cage Games
Slated For Gym Friday Night
The annual student-faculty bas
ketball games, sponsored by the
local chapter of the NCEA, will
be played at the high school gym
nasium Friday night.
Kings Mountain High Schools
girls will meet the women teach
ers in the city schools in the first
game starting at 7 o'clock. The
Mountaineers will meet the men
teachers in the second game.
The students won both games
last year, and will attempt to
make another clean sweep Fri
day night.
Mrs. W. F. Powell is the presi
for tile games.
Following is a list of the wo
men teachers who have indicated
that they will play Friday night:!
Mrs. Margaret Spratt, Mrs. Ann1
Withers, Mrs. Betty Gamble, Mrs,
Juanita Logan, Mrs. Betty Bates,
Mrs. Willie Patterson, Mrs. Mary
Mitchum, Mrs. Wanza Davis,
Miss Elizabeth Collette, Miss
Doris Hoover, Mis Sara Biggers,
Miss Janet Falls, Miss Barbara
Roach, Miss Louise Kiser.
Members of the men’s team
will be:
John Gamble, Fred Withers, E.
Lawson Brown, W. R. George,
^ Tolr Mx*
Mountaineer Cagers Lose Pair At B. C.
KEN BAITY
I
UNC-Clemson
Play Fiist
TV Cage Game
Armchair basketball fans are
in for a treat this winter cage sea
son. An 11-game Atlantic Coast
Conference basketball television
schedule will start over station
WBTV, Charlotte, on Saturday af
ternoon of this week.
The opening telecast will fea
ture the University of North Car
olina 1957 National Collegiate
champions playing Clemson at
Chapel Hill. Game time this and
every week will be at 2 p. m.
Telecasts will originate from
the campuses of ACC schools and
all the games will be televised on
Saturday afternoons through
March 1, with the exception of
December 21 and 28 due to Christ
mas vacations at the colleges.
Every team in the ACC will
participate in at least one tele
vised game, with the champion
Tar Heels due for five appear
ances.
Maryland will play Navy on
Feb. 1 in the only non-Conference
affair. The remaining ten games
will be conferences clashes.
WBTV is also anticipating car
rying the ACC tournament finals
to be played in Raleigh on Sat
urday, March 8. However, plans
for telecasting this game have
not yet been cleared.
Jimmy Simpson will describe
the play-by-play action and Bill
Creasy will handle the color com
mentary for the telecasts.
The complete schedule is a fol
lows:
December 7—UNC vs. Clemson.
December 14—UNC vs. S. C.
January 4—S. C. vs. Virginia.
January 11 Duke vs. N. C.
Statei
JarlU&ry 18—UNC vs. Clemson.
January 25—TBA (Probably a
UNC game).
February 1—Navy vs. Mary
land.
February 8—UNC vs. Duke
February 15—N. C. State vs.
Maryland.
February 22—S. C. vs. Wake
Forest.
March 1—S. C. vs. Maryland.
March 8—ACC Finals (Ten
tative).
Local Men Want
To See To Believe
Lions Club pragram chairman
J. Ollie Harris is doing some
fast talking with Warren Giese,
South Carolina head football
coach who will address the
Lions’ annual football banquet
here next Monday night.
First, Harris talked Giese into
coming to Kings Mountain as
the principal speaker for the
big affair.
Now, he is trying to talk the
Gamecock coach into bringing
along films of South Carolina
Carolina’s 29-26 loss to State’s
Wolfpack a couple of weeks
ago. The Kings Mountain man
isn't anxious to see pictures of
South Carolina losing, but he
wants to be sure that was the
final score.
Harris and Charles Dixon at
tended the game in question at
Columbia on Nov. 23. They saw
the Gamecocks and the Wolf
pack battle down to what they
thought was the final play of
the game, when Alex Hawkins
of South Carolina intercepted a
pass and was stopped 15 yards
short of State's goal.
The clock showed the game
was over, and the crowd milled
onto the field. The two Kings
Mountain men hurried to their
car and started home.
Later they turned on their car
radio and heard announcers
giving the score as: N. f'V State
29, South Carolina 26. Harris
and Dixon thought somebody
was off his rocker.
Finally, they could stand it no
longer, and stopped at a Wad
esboro service station to check
the score, and truly, found that
State won by three points on a
field goal by Dick Christy after
the game was over.
Now, Harris and Dixon want
to ni<-tures of that ending, to
Bowling Leaders
Hold Top Posts
During Week
League leaders held onto their
top-ranked posts in all three of
the men’s duckpin bowling loops
at the Mountain Lane Bowling
Center during the past week.
Independents copped two gam
es from the Keglers Monday
night, with high line hopors go
ing to Lowery with a 138, and the
high set to Albert Brackett with a
328. Furlson topped the Keglers
with a 127 line and a 355 set, tops
for the match. .
The Kingpins won two games
from the Alleycats in the other
match. Captain Billy Barber led
the winners with a 132 line and
a 326 set. D. Ware was the high
scorer for the Alleycats, with a
122 line and a 343 set.
Hillbillies held their lead in
the Sportman league despite the
fact they lost two games to Foote
Mineral. Caldwell rolled the high
line of 110 and Brackett the high
set of 311 for Foote. C. Morrison
was the high scorer for Hillbillies,
with a 109 line and a 311 set.
Cherry Pickers picked off two
wins from Champions as B. Ware
rolled the high line for the win
ners, a 112, and B. Herndon rolled
the high set, 288. B. Brendle led
the Champions with a 118 line
and a 308 set.
Wildcats made a clean sweep,
copping three from Outcasts. F.
Peterson rolled high line of 118
and Captain Harold Barber had
top set, 318, for the Wildcats.
Houser topped the Outcasts, with
a 117 ,line and 294 set.
Maintenance won two from
Production in the Lithium Lea
gue. J. Bridges rolled a 108 game
and a 287 set to pace the winners.
Sherrer had a 117 line and C.
Guyton a 308 set to top Product
ion.
Lab took two from Staff as
Bridges led the scoring for the
winners with a 104 line and a 289
set. Kennedy’s 120 line and 319
set was best for Staff.
The leading Anne Randall team
boosted its lead in the ladies lea
gue Tuesday night, winning three
from the Jenny Oates club. Anne
Randall and Sara Faye Ruppe
rolled lines of 98 and Anne Ran
dall a 280 set for top honors. Jen
ny Oates led her team with a 95
line, and Jennelle Dedsole had
I top set of 254,
Lib Bolin team moved into a
tie for second place with three
wins over the Diana Gamble
team. Lib Bolin led her team with
a line of 112 and a set of 292. Di
ana Gamble was tops for her club
with a 95 line and a 270 set.
TEAMS
Independents
Kingpins
Alleycats
Keglers
K. M. MEN'S LEAGUE
W
23
21
14
L
It?
18
19
25
SPORTSMEN LEAGUE
Hillbillies 27 12
Wildcats 21 18
Cherry Pickers 21 18
Champions 18 21
Foote Mineral 15 24
Outcasts 15 24
LITHIUM LEAGUE
Maintenance
Production
Laboratory
Staft
27
21
19
11
12
18
20
28
PCT.
.590
.538
.513
.359
.692
.538
.538
.462
.385
.385
.692
.538
.487
.282
K. M. LADIES DUCK-PIN LEAGUE
Anne Randall 27 9 .750
Jenny Oates 19 17 .528
Lib Bolin 19 17 .528
Diana Gamble 7 29 .250
WARREN GIESE
Gamecock Coach
Giese Speaks
At lions Meet
Continued From Front Page
Tatum at Jacksonville Naval Sta
tion. He followed Tatum to Okla
homa and played on the Gator
Bowl team which defeated N.'C.
State. He later joined Tatum as
an assistant cpach at Maryland
and became his chief aide.
Giese was named head coach
at South Carolina two years ago,
about the same time Tatum went
to North Carolina.
Sharing the spotlight with
Giese at the Lions banquet will
be the annual presentation of the
Fred Plonk blocking trophy to a
Mountaineer grid star. This year’s
winner to be disclosed at the ban
quet, will be the fifth award.
The other blocking trophy win
ners:
1953— Ronnie Layton, end.
1954— Charles Yelton, guard.
1955— Joe Meek Ormand, cen
ter.
1956— David Marlowe, tackle.
This yeal’s winner will be de
termined by Coach John Gamble
after a study of the Mountaineer
grid films. ,
Gaidner-Webb
Hosts Tourney
BOILING SPRINGS — the ath
letic event of the year on the Gar
dner-Webb campus takes place
Dec. 6 and 7 as the first Baptigt
Junior College Tournament gets
under way.
The four competing teams will
be Campbell, Wingate North
Greenville, and Gardner-Webb.
Wingate and North Greenville
will lead off as they clash at 7:30
P. M. on Friday. Gardner-Webb
will play Campbell in the night
cap at 9 p. m. On Saturday night
the two losers will be fighting
for a third place spot and the two
Friday night winners will be
competing for the championship.
North Greenville will be the
team to beat in the tournament
as they ran way with the con
ference championship last year.
The Spiders, who lost only one of
their players from last year, wiy
lay their 24-3 record on the line.
Area Four Legion Junior Baseball
Officials Air Complaints At Meet
By NEALE PATRICK
Herald Sports Editor
Legion officials are heating up
their junior baseball hot stove
league with some combustible
items which should keep things
warmed-up during the cold win
ter season.
Several state and Area Four
Legion and junior baseball mo
guls gathered at the Legion Hall
in Gastonia Sunday afternoon to
discuss the program for next sum
mer. and to air some of their com
plaints about the rules which
govern play in the kid diamond
program.
The group representing almost
every Legion Post with a junior
baseball team in the Western
Area Four could not, and did not,
take any action about the rules
and regulations which led to
quite a bit of bickering and con
troversy last summer. But area
athletic officers did state their
complaints a^id indicated plans
for sending their suggestions for
changes to the state Legion ath
letic committee, headed by Char
les Smith of Albemarle.
The present and past state com
manders of the American Legion
were among those on hand for
the meeting to hear the com
plaints. They are Tim Craig of
Newton the immediate past com
mander, and Dudley Robbins of
Burgaw, the present Tar Heel
Commander.
Also on hand was Oscar Brad
shaw, the Legion baseball com
missioner for the Eastern North
Carolina Area. Presiding over the
meeting was John Mosteller of
Cherryville, 26th Legion district
commander, and a leader in the
Cherryville Post junior baseball
program.
William Plonk, Kings Mountain
junior baseball committee chair
man, was on hand representing
I the local post.
ft*:
of some of the post committee
men was that the North Carolina
supplementary rules are in con
flict with national rules and, as a
result, cause confusion among
Legion Posts attempting to spon
sor a junior baseball team.
Past state Commander Craig,
in fact, cited a case last summer
when National Junior Baseball
Commissioner Lou Brissie over
ruled a North Carolina rule in a
dispute between Lincolnton-Cher
ryville and Bessemer City over
several players.
The matter of measuring dis
tances in determining a boys’
nearest Legion post also came in
for lengthy discussion. National
rules call for measuring distances
from the town square. The state
rules last year changed that to
measure distances from the A
merican Legion Post building.
The national committee over rul
ed that change, however, and for
ced teams to measure from the
square.
Roads and highways used for
measuring such distances also
were discussed. State bylaws call
for use of official state and fed
eral highways. However, some of
the post officials prefer the use of
any road traveled by automobile.
Another item discussed point
ed the finger at Lincolnton-Cher
ryville. The two posts have joint
ly sponsored a Legion team for
the past few years, and have used
first one town, then the other, as
the starting point for measuring
distances to a players’ home.'
They have used Lincolnton as the
base point for the past two sea
sons primarily to get legal
rights to pitcher Tony Cloninger.
Other officials at the meeting
Sunday expressed the belief that
if two or more posts jointly spon
sor one team that the starting
point for measuring distances
should remain at the same place
every year, and not switch back
and forth depending on the home
I-*
K. ML Gridders
To Attend Fete
In Gastonia
Coach John Gamble and three
members of his 1957 Mountaineer
football team will bfe among the
guests at the Annual Gastonia
Gazette football banquet next
Wednesday night December 11.
Attending with the mentor will
be halfbacks Ken Baity, and Don
Gladden and tackle David Mar
lowe. All three were cited as play
ers of the week during the past
gridiron season.
They will join players from
other schools in the Gastonia area
who are honored for fine perfor
mances. Several trophies will be
given to outstanding coaches and
players.
Bethwaze Splits
Pair With Waco
Bethware cagers split a pair of
Cleveland County Conference
games with Waco Tuesday night,
winning the girls game, 52-50 in
an overtime; and lQsing the boys
contest, 68-65.
Pat Yarborough led the scoring
for the Bethware lassies, tally
ing 21 points, and five of her
teammates also entered the scor
ing column. Weal led Waco with
25.
BETHWARE
PLAYER
Edwards
Burton
Blanton
Anthony
Wright
Freeman
SCORE BY PERIODS
BETHWARE
WACO
BETHWARE
PLAYER
Yarborought
Bolin
Gamble
P. Hamrick
N. Hamrick 4
M. Hamrick 3
G. Falls
Cranford
J. Hamrick
Wease
SCORE BY PERIODS
WACO
BETHWARE
BOYS
65 WACO 68
TP PLAYER TP
18 Grigg .HO
17 Black 16
17 Morrison 10
8 Bingham 6
5 Williams 2
2 Hamrick 2
1 2 3 4 0 TOT.
14 16 10 25 — 65
14 16 17 21 — 68
GIRLS
52 WACO 50
TP PLAYER TP
21 Neal 25
9 F. Grigg 11
8 Dellinger 14
7 11 —O. Grigg
4 Gantt
3 Beam
Bell
12 3 4
16 8 9 15
17 12 12 7
TOT.
50
52
Keith Layton And Diane Cansler
Lead K. M. Scoring In Defeats
The third quarter proved the
downfall for Kings Mountain’s
pair of high school cagers in the
season’s openers at Bessemer
City on Tuesday night.
Both the Mountaineers and the
Mountainettes were victims of
big 17-point tnlrd quarters by the
Yellow Jackets who copped the
double-header by a 53-47 score in
the girls game and by a 50-42
count in the boys tussle.
Kings Mountain’s lads and las
sies were holding their own
through the first half of each
game, with Coach Lib Collette’s
girls boasting a 24-23 edge at rest
time, and Coach Don Parker’s
boys were tied at 24-all.
Then in the third period, the
Yellow Jackets pulled all the
stops on all their stingers and
hooped 17 points each during the
eight-minute period, and, to all
intents and purposes, that was all
for Kings Mountain.
Despite the losses, Kings Moun
tain came up with the individual
high scorer for the games. Dianne
Cansler hooped 26 points to lead
the girls, most of her tallies com
ing on her driving jump shot.
Keith Layton helped keep the
Mountaineers in contention with
24 points.
But they could not match the
balanced scoring of the Yellow
Jackets. Anne Simmons and Pat
Canipe scored 20 points each for
the Bessemer City girls, while
four of Coach Jack Parker’s rangy
boys hit the double figures. Hoy
le Strutt, a smooth-operating
youngster topped the point-mak
ing for the winner with 14, and
three others had ten each.
Kings Mountain’s girls grabbed
an early lead in their game, held
a 12-8 edge at the end of the first
quarter, and maintained a 24-23
edge at halftime. But then third
quarter lightning struck as B. C.
hit 17 points, and the Mountain
eerettes fell behind despite a
13-point stanza of their own.
The boys game followed some
what the same pattern.
The teams were tied at nine-all
at the first period, and 23-all at
halftime.
With three minutes gone in the
third period, the score was still
deadlocked at 26-26. Then it hap
pened. Big, red headed Richard
Sisk, Bessemer City center, tapped
in two rebounds, and Donnie Hon
eycutt scored on a fast break and
the Jackets were winging. Bess
emer City ran the score to 42-27
before the Mountaineers could
garner another field goal after a
minute and a half of the fourth
period.
The Mountaineers, thus, went
Almost seven minutes without a
field goal.
Bessemer City’s second unit e« -
tered the game midway of the
fourth quarter, with a 44-32 lead.
Layton cracked three quick field
goals, and J. D. Biddix and Don
Fisher a pair of foul tosses each,
and the Mountaineers cut the
margin to 44-40. The Bessemer
regulars hustled back into the
game to protect the lead.
PLAYEH, POS.
Layton, F
Fisher, F
Pressly, C
Biddix, G
Thomas, G
Conner. G
TOTALS
BOYS
KINGS MTN. 42
FG
11
1
1
2
1
0
16
FT
2- 3
3- 3
1-1
1-3
3-4
0-0
TP
24
5
3
5
5
0
BESSEMER CITY 50
10-14 42
PLAYER, POS.
Honeycutt, F
Strutt, F
Sisk. C
Holland. G
Davjs, G
J. Rockholt
Carpenter
Harmon
Robinson
Mackey
R. Rockholt
TOTALS
SCORE BY PERIODS
KINGS MTN.
BESSEMER CITY
FG
5
5
4
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
FT
0-0
4-6
2-2
0-1
6-6
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-1
0-0
TP
10
14
10
6
10
PF
1
2
1
3
4
1
12
PF
0
2
2
2
11
19 12-16 56
1 2 3 4 0 TOT.
9 12 6 15 — 42
9 12 17 12 — 50
PLAYER, POS.
Cansler, F
Medlin, F
Raines, F
Black, F
Kirby. F
Wright, G
Edwards, G
Pearson, G
TOTALS
GIRLS GAME
KINGS MTN. 47
FG
11
3
5
0
0
0
0
0
19
PLAYER, POS
Canipe, F
Sanders, F
Simmons, F
Wiggins. G
Sharp, G
-ooper, G
Carpenter, G
-utz, G
TOTALS
SCORE BY PERIODS
CINGS MTN.
BESSEMER CITY
BESSEMER CITY 53
FG
9
6
9
0
0
0
0
0
24
FT
4- 10
5-8
0-1
0-1
0-0
0
0
0
9-20
FT
2-6
1- 5
2- 4
0
0
9
0
0
5- 15
TP
26
11
10
0
0
0
O
»
47
TP
20
13
20
0
0
0
0
0
53
1 2 3 4 TOT.
12 12 13 10 47
8 15 17 13 53
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