K. M. Tigers Play At City Stadium Saturday Night The Kings Mountain Tigers will play their first flight game of the season at City Stadium Saturday, meeting the Statesville Red Sox art 8 o’clock. Detroit Jones will hurl for the Tigers against the Red Sox’s tout ed 18-year old chunker, David Jackson, who has won five straight this spring and tossed a t one-hitter against the Tigers here last season. Owens spoiled a no hitter in that one with a double with two out in the last of the ninth. The Tigers split a double-head , er here last Saturday, defeating Grover 6-4 in an opener, then losing to the Shelby Red Legs, 2-0 in the nightcap. The second game was called at five innings due to darkness. Kings Mt came from behind to beat Grover, with five runs in the sixth frame. Miller, Petty and Jones worked on the mound for the Tigers, with the latter giving up only one run and three hits in the final three stanzas. D. Jones also started the sec ond game and blanked Shelby without a hit for three innings. W. Jones took over in the fourth and gave up three hits and two unearned runs. An error by Man ager William Orr a third base poved costly to the Tigers. The linescores: Grover 120 100 00—4-13-3 Tigers 000 105 Ox—6- 8-4 Shelby Tigers 000 20-2-3-2 000 00-0-2-3 Ballard Fans 12 In Kiwanis Win Kiwanis banged out a 11-2 vic tory over Jayoees in Little Lea gue action on Monday. Ballard hurled a four hitter and struck of 12 for the winners. Chip McGinnis with a homer and single, and Plonk, Ballard, and H. McGinnis slapped out two hits each for Kiwanis. Lawrence with a double, Reynolds, Tignor and | Smith with singles obtained the [ knocks for Jayoees. Kiwanis 080 030—11.10-2 Jaycees 001 010— 2- 4-1 Ballard and C. McGinnis. Smith, Tignor and Lawrence. Gun Club Scores Win Over Guard The Universal Gun Club de feated ithe National Guard in a 50-foot NRA indoor course rifle match last week. The club posted a score of 491 with an average of 98.2, compar ed to Ithe Kings Mountain Guard unit’s 461 score and 92.2 average. T. W. Bryant at Kings Moun tain was the high scorer for the Club, with a 100 score. He was followed on his team by Fain Hambright with a 99, C. D. Coats 98, Gene Champion and Frank Sikes 97 each. M/Sgrt. Preston Holt, Graver High School coach, led the guardsmen with a 99 score. He was trailed by M/Sgt. William Clack and Cpl. Bill Ivey with 96 each, Cpl. Bill Morgan 94, and Pfc. Richard Wells 76. Ex-KM Football Coach Weiner Gets Promotion Art Weiner, former Kings Mountain High School football coach, is moving up the ladder in the business executive field with Burlington Industries. The former football All-Ameri can at the University of North Carolina has been named as an assistant vice president of Bur mil following his transfer from New York ito the Greensboro of fices of the textile firm of which Phenix in Kings Mountain is a par;. In his new capacity, Weiner will serve as executive assistant to Spencer Love, chairman and president of Burmil, and Vice Chairman J. C. Cowan, Jr. He will have responsibilities in both staff and manufacturing areas of the company’s Southern opera tions. Weiner has been working in Burlington”s management and personnel divisions since 1953. ! An All-American football end at North Carolina at the same time Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice was a Tar Heel star, Weiner coa ched the Kings Mountain Moun taineeers one year (1951) when Shu Carlton was recalled by the Marine Reserve during the Ko rean War. Weiner also served one year as assistant football coach at Carolina, while getting his mas ters degree. I Shelby, Cannons Play For Crown Shelby and Kannapolis will play for he WNOHSAA baseball ! championship Friday night in j the towel city. The two teams won opening | round playoff games between I conference champions by identi | cal scores 5-3 Tuesday flight. Shelby’s Southwest Conference and defending champions need ed eight innings to beat Hickory in a game at Shelby. The regula tion 7-inning game ended 2-all, and Shelby scored (three runs in the top of the eighth and Hickory one in the last of the frame. John Kourti pitched the win. Kannapolis defeated Asheboro by the same 5-3 score at Kanna polis. Bryant Top Scorer In Two Gun Matches T. W. Bryant of Kings Moun tain fired high scores in two Uni versal Gun Club matches at the range in Grover on Sunday. IHe posted a score of 185-4x out of a possible 200 to win the 30 calibre rifle match at 100 yards. C. D. Coats was second in this divsion with a score of 173-2x, and Floyd Willis was third with a score of 164-lx. Bryant also had the high score in the shotgun trap 16 yard, any iguage, match. He won in a shoot off with Fain Hambrighit of Gro ver. The two tied with identical scores of 20 out of a possible 25 in the regulation match. 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