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Pat’s
Peckings
By NEALE PATRICK
Three K. M. Teams Post Winning Marks
School bells have been silenced for Hie summer mon
ths and this seems to be the time and place to ring-up the
report on the athletic deeds for the Mountaineers and their
Southwest Conference and Association neighbors.
The past school session has been a busy one, if not an
all-winning one, for Mountaineer athletes who participated
in the broadest sports program in the history of the school.
Seven athletic teams took part in the interscholastic pro
gram during the year, with two new sports, tennis and golf,
joining the list this spring.
Combined won-and-lost marks of all the teams do not
tell the true story of success, but just for the records,
Mountaineer athletic teams won 32 games, lost 47, and
tied two during the year. Three of the sports teams show
ed winning figures, football, baseball, and track. Although
falling under the .500 level, the girls basketball team en
joyed its most successful season in several years. Of the
other three ‘losing" sports, boys basketball was strictly a
rebuilding campaign, and tennis and golf were making
their bow.
The Southwest Conference seasons had that “Shelby
look” for the second straight year. Our Cleveland County
neighbors won or Shared all three of the league athletic
titles, copping the flags in football and baseball and shar
ing the regular-season boys basketball diadem With Bel
mont. The Lions also repeated as WNCHSAA diamond ti
tilists, but relinquished the Association track crown to
Statesville.
Other WNCHSAA championships for the school year
went to Asheboro in football and boys basketball, and Tay
lorsville in girls basketball. In the minor sports, Asheboro
won wrestling, Lexington won golf and Thomasville and
Lexington shared the tennis titles.
The future may be a little tougher in the SWC, how
ever. The stars of Shelby’s two-year sweep of Conference
crowns also have won their diplomas, much to the joy of
rival coaches. Such multiple-sport aces as John Kouri, Ron
nie O’Shields and Ronnie Vaughn have departed.
Mountaineer Grids Just-Miss, Again
Now let’s skip back over the sports season for our
Mountaineers and the Southwest Conference.
Mountaineer gridders posted an overall mark of sax
wins, two losses, and two ties, and a league record of 3-1-2
to tie for second in the SWC standings for the second
Straight autumn. And for the second Straight campaign, a
loss to Shelby (3-0, last fall) bounced Kings Mountain out
of a chance to win the championship. In the past two grid
seasons, the Mountaineers have lost two SWC football
crowns by the margin of four points, having lost 1312 in
‘57.
Don Gladden and David Plonk were the top stars for
K. M. Fleet halfback Don gained all-Conference recogni
tion, scored 66 points and gained 1,051 yards rushing. Tri
captain David won the Plonk blocking trophy and was na
med the top AA lineman in the Gastonia area by The Ga
zette.
Coach John Gamble’s Mountaineers were the toughest
defensive team in the SWC, allowing only 55 points and
permitting only two of eight touchdowns to be scored on
the ground. Kings Mt. was a team anxious to score, too.
The Mountaineers scored the first time they had posses
sion of the pigskin in six of the ten games, twice tallying
on the first play of the game.
Shelby”s 6-1 mark was the best in the Conference, but
the lions' tumbled out of the playoffs, losing to NWC
Champion Hickory, 14-7. Asheboro swept by Albemarle
(28-6) for the Piedmont crown, and beat Hickory (33-14)
for the WNCHSAA title.
Inexperience was the word for Coach Don Parker's
boys cage club, with only one letterman, Don Fisher, on
hand at the start of the year. The lads posted a 3-13 record
in the conference and 4-16 overall, with highlights of the
year being two wins over Cherryville.
Bill Bates coached his first K. M. girls team to six wins
and ten losses in the Conference, and total mark of 7-13,
both the best records for local lassies in several seasons.
Judy Medlin grabbed most of the headline for the
girls, leading the SWC in scoring with 501 points for a 25
point average, and winning all-Conference honors, Chip
Thorburn, one of the flock of sophs on the team, won scor
ing honors for the boys, with 217 points.
Mountaineer boys suffered a couple of dubious distinc
tions during the cage season, losing to Cliffside for the
first time in 31 games, and losing to Tri-High here for the
first time in the 16 years of Coach Parker’s reign.
Spring Teams Show Improvement
Belmont blocked Shelby’s complete domination of lea
gue titles, as the two tied for the boys basketball crown,
with identical 14-2 records. Caroleen Tri-High girls swept
to 16 straight wins for the lassies title.
The Raiders and the Lions carried their deadlock feud
right on to the finals of the Western Conference tourna
ment, Belmont defeating Shelby, 46-38, in an all-SWC fi
nals for the title. Taylorsville beat Newton for the crown
in the all-NWC girls finals.
Belmont’s bubble burst in the Association champion
ship game as the Raiders lost to Asheboro, 60-46. Taylors
ville beat Thomasville for the girls title.
A couple of spring sports teams shared the distinction
with the girls basketball team as being the “most improv
ed” K. M. teams this year. Coach Fred Withers baseballers
posted the best record since he joined the Mountaineer
staff, a 9-7 mark. Coach John Gamble’s trackmen won four
of six meets in the second year of the sport here.
Don Fisher was the bright light on the diamond club
which listed only two seniors and had four sophomore star
ters. Don won six straight mound wins before losing and
gained all-Southwest Conference honors. Don Tignor led
the team hitting (.313).
Conference-wise, it was all Shelby again, completing
its second straight school year of title-taking. The Lions
had a 15-1 SWC mark, and beat NWC champ Hickory, 5-3,
behind John Kouri for Western honors. Kouri came on in
relief to save the 3 1 win over Kannapolis in the Associa
tion title game.
Don Gladden’s 74 % points and Jerry Phillips as the
only K. M. qualifier in the WNCHSAA meet led the track
team which won four of its five home meets. Hickory won
the Western Conference cinder title, and Statesville the
Association diadem.
Graeme Reeves, exchange student from New Zealand,
led the K. M. tennis team which won one of five meets.
Turk Falls and David Plonk were golf leaders in a season
oi one win and three losses.
LOCAL TEAM LEADS LEAGUE —The softball
team representing the Kings Mountain Phenix
plant of Burlington Industries is setting a fast
pace in leading the American slow-pitch soft
ball league in Gastonia. The local team has a
record of 12 wins and a single loss to date. The
squad, left to right FRONT BOW—Paul Smith,
bat boy, Carroll Hutto, Walt Griffin. Vernon
Smith, Manager Lloyd McFalls, and Bill Mor
gan; SECOND ROW —. Charles Seagle and
Giles Grant bat boys. Bill Peterson. Delis Bur.
ton, Dwight Alexander, Dean Fleming, and
Paul Bennett; BACK ROW — Gerald Hipps, Le
roy Styers, Darwin (Lefty) Moss, and Bill Ware.
Burma Boosts
Softball Lead
With Two Wins
The Burmil team of Kings
Mountain added two more wins
and suffered their second loss of
the season in the American Slow,
pitch Softball League in Gastonia
within the past week.
The results boosted Burmil’s
lead in the league to 13 wins and
two losses. f
Burmil split a double-header
last Thursday night, defeating
Kluttz Machine, 3-0, behind the
two-hit pitching of Delis Burton,
and losing to Hardin, 7-4. Both
of Burma’s losses this year have
been at the hands of Hardin
Manufacturing.
The local club needed 11 in
nings to gain a 7-6 decision over
Parkdale last Friday night. Bur
mil pounded out 22 hits in the
affair.
Lefty Moss slammed a homer
and Burton obtained two hits in
the Kings Mt. Club’s win over
Kluttz. Every player In the line
up obtained at least one hit in
the loss to Hardin. Burton, Dean
Fleming and Leiroy Styers rapped
two each in the defeat.
Vernon Smith was the big gun
in the extra inning win over
Parkdale, slugging five kits in
six trips. Bunton, Bill Morgan and i
Bill Petersan rapped three hits!
each, with Moss, Styens and Ger- j
aid Hipps garnering two each, i
Burmil pushed over three runs
in the last of the 11th to win the
game after Parkdale had scored
two in the too half of the frame.
The linescores:
Kings Mt. 201 000 0-3-8
Kluttz 000 000 0—0-2
Burton and Bennett.
Sutton and Lutz.
Kings Mt. 022 000 0—4.13
Hardin 001 132 x—7.12
Burton and Styers.
Hughes and Ratchford.
Parkdale 003 000 010 02—6-14
K. M. 200 001 010 03-7-22
J. Phillips and Revels.
Burton and Styers.
Swimming Classes
Start On fune 15
Swimming instructional class
es for children will start at the
Deal Street Pool on Monday,
June 13th.
The lifeguards, Donna Cheat
ham. Noel Webster, and Roger
Blackwell, will serve as instruc
tors.
Lessons will be held from 10
until 11 each morning, and the
cost will be ten cents per lesson,
plus the 15 cents admission to'
the pool.
Babe Ruth League Open Monday;
New Players Replace Old Stan
Babe Ruth League baseball
teams toss out the first ball on
the 1959 season next week with
a host of new players making up
the rosters of the four teams.
Many of the. stars of last sum
mer’s Babe Ruth League now
have passed the 15-year old li
mit and several are members of
the American Legion junior base,
ball team this season. In their
places will be some youngsters
up from the Little League ranks
of ‘58.
The Babe Ruth League program
is designed for youths between
the ages of 13 and 15, with only
boys born after September 1, 19
43 being eligible to play. The
League Is directed by Recreation
Director Jake Early. -
Games will be played each
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday afternoons at 4 o’,
clock with' the opening games
next week pitting Moose vs Re
bels on Monday, and Margraoe
against Mauney on Tuesday. The
schedule continues through July
23, with a week break for the
Fourth. City Stadium will be the
site of the games at the present
time.
Margrace is the defending Babe
Ruith League champion, but
Coach Solon Norris has lost ma
ny of his Stars and must rebuild.
Performers like Dean Green and
Bill Sellers have passed the age
limit.
Coach Norris listed soone of his
top prospects this year as Pete
Cash (p-3b), Tommy Barrett (3 b
p), Dick Smith (lb-of), Jimmy
Medlin (c), Brent McDaniel (of),
Ricky Goforth (2b), Don Bum
gardner (of), and Gary Stewart
(of).
The Moose team, coached fey
Willie Grice, also will show new
faces with five players moving
up to the juniors this year. They
are Paul Hendricks, Perry Cham
pion, Don Smith, Randall Haynes,
and Larry Pearson.
Leading prospects for the
Moose team this year are listed
by Coach Grice as follows:
Steve Carpenter (p-of), Mike
Huffstickler (c-of), Sammy Maun
| ey (of), Eddie Huffstetler (p),
David Adams (p-2b), and Wally
Harris (c).
Other candidates for the Moose
team are: Pete Childers (2b),
Mike Walker (of), Eric Yates (ss)
Mike Jenkins (of), Wayne Lau
ghter (of-lb), Henry Holland
(3b), Charles Benton (of), and
Leo Rickard (lb).
Bill Huffstickler takes over the
reigns as coach of the Rebels
team and must replace such stars
of last season as Chip Thorbum,
James Robbs and/Jimmy Little
john. f
Four players from last year’s
club return to the Rebels, Barry
Gibson (lb-p), Trip Noisier (lb),
Merrill Randall (2b), and Law
rence Bolin (3b-p).
Other players with the Rebels
are Jimmy Leigh (lb-p), Timmy
Heavner (2b), Reggie White (of),
Gene Connors (ss), Jerry Laugh
ridge (3b), Steve Moore (of), Jim
my Grant (of), Eddie Spencer (c),
and Robert Whistant (3b.
Bill Styers is the new coach of
the Mauney team Which also has
lost several of its stars, including
Punch Parker.
Relative Of Kings Mt. Resident
Pitches For Tech In NCAA Event
The Clemson- Georgia Tech op
ening round game of the NCAA
baseball tournament in Gastonia
Thursday night will be just like
ole home week for players on
both teams.
The fact has been well-told be
fore that Clemson has three stars
who cut their baseball teeth, so
to speak, on the Gastonia prep
and Legion junior sandlots —
Harold Stowe, Doug Hoffman, and
Dickie Suggs.
Georgia Tech's Yellow Jackets
from the Southeastern Conferen
ce also have a player who claims
a Gastonia background, and with
relatives in Kings Mountain.
Eddie Chambless who is in line
to pitch the second game of the
tournament for Georgia Tech is
the son of a former Gasrtonian.
His mother is the former Miss
Local Man Takes Lead In Planning
Pro Baseball Loop For *60 Season
A Kings Mountain man with
several years of experience in
baseball organization work is
taking the lead in the plans to
bring professional baseball back
to this section of the Carolinas.
John Henry Moss, a native of
Kings Mountain, who has been
associated with Organized Base
ball and pro football for over a
decade, has lined up 13 cities and
towns in the area who have
shown an interest in forming a
league for the 1960 season.
Moss has talked with interested
persons in the 13 towns and has
called the first organizational
meeting to discuss the plans at
the Gastonia Elks Club at 3 o’-;
clock Thursday afternoon.
The towns which are expected
to send representatives are Gas-!
itonia, Shelby, Hickory, Newton,
Forest City, Statesville, Moores
ville, Lenoir. Lincolrrton, Morgan-j
ton, Marion, and two South Car
olina towns, Spartanburg and
Rock Hill.
All of these towns formerly
had teams in pro baseball cir
cuits when North Carolina led
the nation in the number of mi- j
nor leagues and minor league
teams.
“I have received favorable re
sponse from persons in each of
these towns in my visits within
recent weeks,’ ’ stated Moss, "And
now we want to get together in
Gastonia on Thursday afternoon
to discuss the prospects for or
ganizing a professional baseball
league for the 1960 season.”
The number of clubs and the
classification of such a league
will be discussed ait the meeting
Thursday.
Moss has been in executive
and organizational capacities
with Organized Baseball for sev
era! years.
He was president of the Wes
tern Carolina League in 1948
When that league was one of the
some half-dozen Class D circuits
including some 50 teams in the
Ole North State.
Ip 1919, Moss was general
manager of the Rock Hill team
of the Tri-State League which
posted a season’s attendance fig
ure of 131,000 and won the league
award for the biggest opening
night attendance of over 7,000.
The local man later joined the
Detroit Tiger organization and
served as the general manager
for several Detroit fanm clubs in
the minor leagues. He has been
living in Wisconsin for the past
few years and there was connect,
ed with pro baseball and hockey
teams. Moss returned to Kings
Mountain recently.
Beatrice Laugh ridge, naibive of
Gastonia and now Mrs. Cecil
Chambless of Vero Beach, Fla.
The Georgia Tech pitcher is a
nephew of Mrs. Charles T. Car
penter, Jr., of Kings Mountain,
the former Miss Marion Laugh
ridge of Gastonia.
His grandfather, A. L. (Gus)
Laughridge ives in Gastonia on
Robinwood Road, and is a great
basebal fan.
Chambless has been one of the
top pitchers for Tech this season,
and Coach Joe Pittard plans to
start him in the Jackets’ second
game of the tournament, win or
lose in the opener against Clean
son. The Tech coach was quoted
in last Sunday’s Atlanta Journal
regarding Chambless:
“Eddie seems to have gotten
over the spell of nervousness he
had late in the season. He can
pitch good baseball. I know be
cause I’ve seen him do it too
many times. Remember he was
the fellow who beat Clemson, 8-1,
last year, and I think Clemson
was stronger a year ago.
In 50 innings pitched for the
j Yellow Jackets this spring, Cham
bless has allowed 46 hits, struck
! out 45, walked 23 and has an
| earned run average going into
the district tournament of 2.99
per nine inning game.
He also carries a big bat at the
plate, with eight hilts and seven
runs batted in for 20 trips to the
plate and a .400 batting mark on
the season.
ne is a meinoer or me jueiia
Sigma Phi fra/temity at Georgia
Tech and is president of the In
terfraternity Council.
The Clemson-Tech game is the
second of the double-header on
the opening evening of the dis
trict three NCAA event. George
Washington and Florida State
tangle in the opener at Sims
Park in .Gastonia at 6:30 p. m.
Clemson’s defending cham
pions hope to make it two
straight Dixie diamond crowns
in the double elimination affair
which continues through Satur
day night. A couple of products
of the Gastonia kid program car.
i ry the big hopes for the Tigers.
Doug Hoffman Nis the team’s
; leading hitter and extra-base
| clouter, and pitcher Harold Stowe
| has won 23 games in his college
career, breaking the former
school mark set by Billy O'Dell,
; now of the Baltimore Orioles.
Rain Postpones GastoniaTiit;
BeimontPiavsHereSaturday
Area 4 legion
Ir. Baseball
STANDINGS
South League
Team
Shelby
Charlotte (9)
Charlotte (262)
Belmoijt
Mt Holly
Kings Mt.
Gastonia
2
1
2
1
1
0
0
L Pet
1 1.000
0 1.000
1 .667
1 .500
1 .500
2 .000
2 .000
Team
Newton
Forest City
Morganton
Hickory
Granite Falls
Cherryviile
Rutherfordton
Lincolmton
North League
W
ii
1
2
1
>■ 1
1
0
0
L Pet
0 1.000
0 1.000
1
1
1
2
1
2
.667
.500
.500
333
.333
.000
K. M. SCHEDULE
Friday — at Charlotte Post 9
Saturday — Belmont here.
Monday — Gastonia here
Tuesday — Shelby here.
K. M. RESULTS
Mt. Holly 6, Kings Mt. 3.
Charlotte (262) 7, Kings Mt. 2.
RESULTS THIS WEEK
Shelby 12, Charlotte (262) 3.
Morganton 9, Cherryviile 2.
little League
Tournament Set
Liittle League teams were sche
duled to complete their regular
season make-up games this week
to set up pairings for the league
tournament next week.
The plan for the tournament,
as announced by Commissioner
Bob Maner, calls for all six teams
in the league to participate in
the event. The top place team
will face the fourth place finish,
er, the number two team will
play number five, and the third
place club will tangle with num
ber six in the opening round.
First round games will be sin
gle elimination basis, with three
•clubs being eliminated.
Two of the victorious survivors
will play another single game for
the right to advance into the fin
als which will be on a best two
of-three basis. The finals of the
tournament is slated for the week j
of June 15-20.
The local all-star team will be
picked after that date and begin
practicing to participate in the I
district Little League tourna
ments.
Wet grounds have hampered
action in the wind-up of the reg
ular season this week.
Standings to date:
Team
Ki warns
Burmil
Raiders
Jayoees
Parkgrace
North
W
8
7
5
3
3
2
L
1
2
5
6
7
8
Pet.
.889
.778
.500
.333
.300
.200
The weather man has put a
damper on the first full week of
acition for the Kings Mountain A
meriean Legion junior baseball
team.
Monday night’s rain left City
Stadium in a soggy condition and
the scheduled game with Gaston
ia here on Tuesday evening was
postponed and has been reset for
next Monday night, June 8. Ac
tually the postponement came as
a welcome relief to Gastonia.
High School graduation exer
cises were held at Gastonia Tues
day night, and Coach Gaither
Cline was the senior class advisor
and had to be on hand for the
graduation. At least one of the
Gaston players, Jennings Smith,
was a member of the senior class
and would have missed the
game. The team planned to play
under the direction of a substi
tute coach for the game.
The rescheduled game with
Gastonia here next Monday night
thus, gives Kings Mountain three
straight home games against ri,
vp.1s within four night around the
weekend.
Coach Fred Withers team plays
host to Belmont here an Saturday
nighit, then on Monday evening
comes the makeup affair with
Gastonia, and on Tuesday night
Shelby’s defending Area Four
champions come to town for the
first time of the season.
(Before playing host to the three
foes, the Otis D. Green Post 155
youngsters make their second
jaunt to Charlotte in the young
season, playing Post No. 9 at
Highland Park on Friday night.
Kings Mountain lost to Post No.
262 on the same field last Satur
day night, by a 7-2 score.
The Kings Mountain club has
lost both its starts to date, a 6-3
defeat by Mt. Holly here being
the other. But, both games have
been much closer than, the scores
have indicated.
In both games, the winners
have used four-run innings to ice
the victories, and also in both
contests, late rallies by the local
lads have fallen short.
Bobby Biddix and Jerry Wright
have pitched good ball, except for
one inning each, in ithe two ga
mes to date.
Jerry Morris, husky 16-year old
catcher from Beth ware has been
leading the hitting in the two ga
mes, with four hits in the pair of
contests. Don Horn, Ronnie Pear
son and Biddix have been other
stick leaders.
Phillips 'Released'
To Shelby Juniors
The “player release” clause
in American Legion junior
baseball is under fine again.
Area Four Commissioner
Charlie Carpenter has received
a release of pitcher Buddy Phil
lips from the Rutherfordton
Post to the Shelby Legion team.
Phillips, a student and ath
lete at Caroleen Tri-High in
Rutherfordton County, is one of
the two players released by
the Rutherfordton to Shelby
lips and Junior Green then
last year. The transfer of Phil
caused quite a bit of unofficial
protesting around the Area.
Phillips' high school coach at
Caroleen, Bill Metcalfe, is the
Shelby assistant coach to Pop
Simmons.
Commissioner Carpenter had
not approved the release late
Wednesday. '
Inniors Victim Of Kg bluings
In First Two Losses Oi Season
Kings Mountain American Le
gion juniors were victims of the
big inning in their first two starts
in Area Pour league play last
week.
Mt. Holly-Pawcreek and Char
lotte Post 262 both used four-run
frames to defeat Coach Fred
Withers’ club iirithe openers.
Playing before a good opening
night crowd here Friday night,
the Otis D. Green Post team saw
Mt. Holly score all six of its runs
in the middle frames to win by
6-3. MIL Holly tallied four in the
fourth and two in the fifth, while
Kings Mt. rallied for its three in
the last of the ninth.
At Charlotte on Saturday night,
the Kings Mt. club again was a
victim of a four-run inning, the
eighth in. this case, as the Post
262 outfit won by 7-2.
In both games, the local Le
gion lads made their pitch to win
too late.
Kings Mountain threw a scare
into ML Holly here Friday with
the three runs on four hits in the
last inning, and the next night at
Charlotte pulled up to a 3-2 de
ficit in the top half of the eighth
inning, only to see the winners
add the four insurance runs in
the last of the same frame.
The Otis D. Green Post club
cracked out four extra base blows
; in the loss to ML Holly here.
Pitcher Boboy Biddix slammed
a triple, with Jerry Morris, Ronnie
| Pearson and Don Horn contribu
ting doubles. The long hits by
Biddix and Morris came in the
: final inning uprising.
Kings Mountain outhit Mt.
I Holly in the opener, nine to-sev
I en as Biddix kept the visitors
! under control except for two in
| nmgs.
-Biddix retired the first ten mem
I in order before running into the
, fourth inning trouble when Mt.
Holly put together four hits for
the four runs. Jiim Pittman and
Bob Broome hit doubles in the
rally. Even aft that, am error of
commission and one of omtinmiis.
sion gave Mt. Holly the chance.
The visitors added two more
unearned runs in the fifth when
three Kings Mt. errors kept the
rally alive. *
Biddix did not allow a hit for
the final three frames, and fam
nec» 11 for (the game.
Kings Mt., meanwhile, missed
several opportunities, twice leav
ing the bases loaded, in the sec-j
ond and the sixth.
Finally in the ninth, the local
boys found the. range.
James Robbs and Horn started
it with singles, then came the
double by Morris and the triple
by Biddix to aid in the three-run
frame.
Kings Mountain ran into a
strikeout phenom Saturday night
in Riger Oxidine, a North Meck
lenburg High product, who fan.
ned.ithe side in the first and third
innings. He did not allow a hit
until the seventh when Bobby
Biddix rapped a single.
Our side put together three
more blows for the two runs in
the eighth. Punch Parker opened
with a walk, (then followed sin
gles by Horn, Ron Pearson and
Morris to notch the two runs
which pulled K. M. up to a 3-2
deficit.
Charlotte clinched matters with
four runs after the first two bat
ters had been retired in the
eighth.
TOPS JUNIOR HITTING — Jerry
Morris, husky young catcher from
Bethware High School, has been
setting the 'hitting pace for the
Kings Mt. juniors in early games.
He rapped three against Mt.
Holly here and added another
with an RBI at Charlotte.
lunior Boxes
MT. HOLLY
Webb, 2b
J. Pittman, cf
Lineberger, lb
Broome, 3b
B. Pittman, ss
BoMck, c
Donaldson, RF
lesson, 11
Cline, p
Kirksey, p
Rick, If
Totals
KINGS MT.
Robbs, 2b
Ham, lb
Pearson, rf
Morris,''c
Biddix, p
Bolin, of
Hendricks, ss
Parker, If
Ware, 3b
B-Harmon
L. Pearson, cf
Totals
AB R
5 0
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
0
1
37
AB
5
5
5
4
5
3
3
4
3
0
1
38
H
0
1
0
1
2
1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
1
6
R
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
rbi
0
0
0
1
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
5
rbi
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
B-Waked for Bolin in 8th.
ML Holly 000 420 000—6
Kings ML (NX) 000 003—3
Pitchers IP H R ER BB So
Cline (w) 8% 9 3 3 * 3 8
Kirksey % 0 0 0 0 1
Biddix (L) 9 6 7 3 1 11
E — Lineberger, B. Pittman,
Cline, Morris 2, Ware 2; LOB—Mt.
Holly 6, Kings Mt. 13; 2B—Pear
son, J. Pittman, Broome, Ham,
Morris; 3B—Biddix; SB—Lineber
ger; HBP—Hendricks, Donaldson;
PB—Bolick 2; U—Lutz & Ham
rick; T—2:40.
KINGS MT.
Robbs, 2b
Horn, lb
R. Pearson, rf
Morris, c
Biddix, If
Bolin, cf
Hendricks, ss
Parker, 3b-cf
Wright, p
Champion, p
Ware, 3b
A-Haynes
L. Pearson, cf
Smith, cf
AB
3
4 0
2 0
4 0
0 0
H
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
1 0
0 0
0
0
0 0
1
0
0
0
A-Ran for R. Pearson in 8th.
rbi
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Totals
Charlotte 262
Hulse, cf
Apers, 2b
Baker, 2b
Chapman, ss
B. Barnette,'lb
Green, lb
De Kraff, 3b
H. Barnette, rf
Bums, If
Hughes, c
Oxindine, p
Totals
Kings Mtn.
Charlotte
Pitchers
Oxindline (w)
Wright (L)
Champion
5
H
0
1
0
3
0
0
32 2
AB R
J 0
3 0
1 0
4 1
3 0
1 1
4 2
4 1
4 0
4 12
3 10
36 7 10
000 000 020—2
002 100 04x—7
IP H R BB So
9 5 2 2 11
8% 10 7 0 10
. - % 0 0 1 1
E—Ayers, Robbs, Hendricks 2,
Horn; DP—Robbs to Horn; LOB—
Kings Mt 6, Charlotte 6; 2B—
De Kraff; 3B—Chapman; WP—
Champion; PB—Morris.
2
rbi
0
2
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
5
Lefty Moss Hurls
Two-Hit Victory
Darwin (Lefty) Moss of Kings
Mountain is back up to his old
tricks with a Charlotte semi-pro
baseball team.
The local southpaw pitched the
Charlotte Eagles to a 4-1 win ov
er the Southsdde team in a semi,
pro league game in Charlotte last
Saturday afternoon. Moss allowed i
only two hits and struck out 17 in
the victory.
It was toe first game of the
season for Moss and the semi
pro team.
His catcher in the fine opening
performance was Russ Pinkelton,
tile Grover native who has re
turned home after a spring trial
with a Cincinnati Redleg farm
team in Florida.