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. Bryant
posted a three and Hambrighit a
two in the extra round. Paul Holt
was third with a score of 18.
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Kiwanis Beats
Burmil To Take
little Loop Lead
Kiwanis took over the lead in
the Kings Mountain Little Lea
gue late last week, handing Bur
mil its first defeat of ithe season,
5-2 in eight innings on Thursday
afternoon.
Black and Ballard teamed-up
to pitch the victory in ithe extra
inning affair. Plonk with four
hilts, Rhea with a homer, Ballard
and H. McGinnis paced the 14
hit Kiwanis attack. Hord and
Murphy rapped two hits each to
share the Burmil hits. Kiwanis
pushed over the winning runs in
ithe eighth frame.
Rarkgrace defeated Jaycees, 6
3, in another game last Thursday,
with Bumgardner and Medlin
hurling the win. Bolin, Mullinax
and Bumgardner slapped a pair
o| knocks each for the winners,
with Cavney slugging two hom
ers to lead Jaycees, with Walker
Gladden and Ware,also aiding
the Jaycee attack.
Piedmont Raiders withstood a
last inning explosion to defeat
North 8-7 on Friday. The losers
scored six runs in the final
frame. Pearson with three hilts
and Huntsinger and Putnam with
two each led Raiders. Leftwich
obtained four hits, Bridges three
and Bennetite two for North.
The linescores:
Burmil 100 010 00—2- 4-0
Kiwanis 010 001 03—5-14-1
Murphy, Hues and Hord.
Black, Ballard and McGinnis.
Jaycees 200 001-^3-6-5
Parkgrace 600 000—6-7-0
Caveny, Ware and Lawrence.
Bumgardner, Medlin and Mull
in ax.
North 100 006-7.12-6
Raiders '100 34x—8-11-1
Bennette, Leftwich and Left
wich, Bennette.
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Negro News
By Connie Gordon Brown
107 Carpenter Street
There will be a big ball game
at City Stadium on Saturday
night, May 23, 1959, in the in
terest of the Girl Scouts. Proceeds
from concession stand will go to
the Girl Scouts, to help them
send a scout to Colorado. Please
eolme out and help to support
this worthy cause. The game will
be the Kings Mountain Tigers vs
the Statesville Red Sox. Game
time 8 p. m.
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SCOUTS CELEBRATE — Boy Scouts from Troop 2 of St. Matthew's
Lutheran church are pictured above as they enjoyed milkshakes in
celebration of their second consecutive "winning of the banner" for
having the highest awards average in Kings Mountain for the May
Court of Honor. Pictured, with Scout Leaders Charles Ramsey and
Otis Falls, Jr., are Speedy Ramsey, Danny Finger. Chip Bridges, Rod
Smith, Danny Seism, Ken Barnes, Sam Mauney, Charles Lawrence,
Andy Harris, Jimmy Pressly, Gary Smart, Carl Gladden, Jimmy
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was not present for the picture taking.
(Photo courtesy Wilson Griffin)
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Vaughn's 2-Hitter
Minette's Only Win
iMinfeftite Mills won one game
and lost three in South Atlantic
Softball League pflay Friday and
Saturday might in Grover.
The MlnOt te-men won the Fri
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