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Pat’s Peckings By NEALE PATRICK KM'S Unrigged Quiz Program Football fans around town are as full of questions as a four-year old this week. They want to know: “What’s the story on the Mountaineers? . . . Will there be a playoff game for the Southwest Conference championship? . . . What happens if the league finishes in a three-way tie for the top? ... Who will the Mountaineers play next? ... etc, etc.” All are good and, very-much, unrigged $64 questions. And your answers are as good as the next fellows. This much is certain at the moment. The Mountain eers have completed their schedule and are riding the crest of the Southwest Conference and are assured of no less than a tie for the title. But from there things become confusing. The Mountaineers can win the SWC title out right, if both Shelby and Central lose or tie games on Friday night. Or one or both of those clubs could tie the Mountaineers for the lead in the final standings with wins in their final games. The first “if”, of course, would simplify matters. If Shelby and Central lose, Kings Mt. would be the Conferen ce champ and meet Hickory on Friday night of next week for the Western Conference championship, and the right to advance to the Association finals against the Piedmont Conference winner. The second possibility creates the confusion, particu larly if both Shelby and Central win their games Friday, causing the three-way deadlock. Then what? That’* question no one can answer, until and if it happens. Time Big Factor In Plans The time element is a big factor in any playoff plans. The Southwest Conference is supposed to have a winner by midnight November 13, that’s this Friday, and that winner plays the Northwest champ (Hickory) on next Fri day, November 20. The Association Championship game is scheduled for the following Friday, November 27. Thus, it’s obvious that the SWC doesn’t have time for any extended three-team playoffs before advancing in to Association play. In the past years, the deadline dates have been extended one week to play-off two-team ties. It is assumed that the same thing would be done, if it hap pens this season. But, a three way tie. Well, that’s a big bridge the Con ference and the WNCHSAA will cross when it comes to it. That will be one of the topics of discussion at the Associa tion meeting in Mooresville when plans for any and all post-season playoff and championship games will be made. Until then, we will sit and wait. - There seems to be an idea that a flip of the coin may be used to eliminate one of the teams should the SWC race end in a three-way tie. It can be told, that such a possibility is very remote and not at all probable. A team will not—repeat, will not— be eliminated by a flip of a coin. That does not discount the possibility that a flip of the coin could be used to determine a team to meet Hic kory next week, thus playing the Association champion ship games on the scheduled dates. But such a plan and flip of the coin would not eliminate the other two clubs and arrangements would be made fot ensuing playoffs be tween the SWC teams. It’s all quite confusing, isn’t it? Belmont and Forest City certainly could clear a lot of fog by winning a football game each Friday night. Eight Seniors In Final Games Noted briefly on the Mountaineer sports scene: The Granite Falls trip is definitely off for the Moun taineers . . There have been indications in_recent weeks :hat Granite Falls might demand that Kings Mountain •nake-up the game which was postponed on Sept. 18 due to i schedule mix-up . . . The tentative date for a make-up same was to be this Friday, Nov. 13 . . . But Granite Falls Inally cancelled the game. Eight Mountaineer seniors played their nnai reguiai season game, and perhaps their final home game, 1®®* ^I!1, day night . . . They are Gary Blanton, Mike Ware, Harold Crawford, and Steve Henderson in the line, and Don Fish er Paul Hendricks, Phi* Mauney and Jimmy Blanton in the backfield . . . That’s eight big vacancies Coach John Gam ble must fill for the 1960 football season . . . Say, that s jumping the gun, talking about next year before we even finish this campaign ... Oh yes, there’s another senior who was scheduled to play this year, but missed the season due to an auto accident injury, Chalmers Johnson. Some of the Belmont people were quite unhappy with some of the officiating in the game here last Friday night . The Belmont radio announcer, Ebb Gantt, among oth ers threw up their hands in despair on Punch Parker’s first pass interception in the third quarter . . . Raider folks thought the ball hit the ground before Punch spared it . . . They called it the “short-hop interception” . . . Mountain eer fans and coaches didn’t see it that way at all . . . Nei ther did I... It all depends on which color glasses you are tising. KM High School Principal Harry Jaynes is a brother of the Lenoir Coach, Bruce Jaynes . . . And the local prin cipal is a former grid mentor himself, coaching at Monroe a few years ago. The Littlest “Mountaineer” of them all hasn’t been in a ball game this season, but he has been right there on the bench every game, dressed in full battle-gear, anxiously awaiting the year when he will be out on the gridiron . .. Speaking of Pete Ware, the eight-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wate, the mascot for the Mountaineers this season ... He leads the charge onto the field with the cap tains for every game . . . And, really, you wouldn’t expect anything but football and sports for Pete . . . Brother Mike is a Mountaineer star, and brother Bill a former K M playei . . . Brother Tonie is a midget football star, and sister Mar tha Lou was the statistician for The Herald «\t midget ga mes this fall. - COMING! to .7[HE oFE WAID'S CHON i>t EVERYTHING DIANE 29 THEATRE m Stents Nov. 19th Gamble Plans Playoffs In Meeting Sunday BY NEALE PATRICK Plans and details for the Mounitaineers next football game In the utterly -con f usd ng South west Conference and W3NCHSAA race will e worked out in a meeting to be held in Moores ville on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Coach John Gamble will rep resent Kings Mountain in the confab of coaches of ail the schools involved In Association playoff games within the next few weeks. Kings Mountain is certain of being involved in a playoff game of some sort, either for Southwest Conference honors of for WNC IfSAA laurels. The (Mountaineers have clinched no worse ithan a tie for the Southwest title and, as result, will have at least one more game under the jurisdic tion of the Association. The local clubs next game, thus, could be aginst either Shel by or R. S. Central in a South west league playoff game, or a gainst Northwest champion Hie kory for the Western Conference crown. Kings Mountain has finished its loop season with a, record of Dour wins, one loss, and two ties. Shelby and Central, however, both have a chance to deadlock the Mountaineers with wins in their final contests this week— Shelby at Forest City, and Cen tral vs Belmont aft Ruftherfordfton. The lions and Hilltoppers have identical 3-1-2 records. If one or tooth of these clubs win Friday and (tie Kings Moun tain for the lead, some arrange ments must be made art; Sunday’s meeting for the teams to play for the right to advance in As sociation playoffs against Hic kory. If both Shelby and Central lose or tie in Friday’s games, Kings Mountain wall autamati oally win the Southwest champ ionship, and play Hickory next week for the Western title. The Western Conference win ner then advances against the Piedmont Conference champion for the WNCHSAA grid ©tie. Dates Dor Conference and As sociation title games were set before tthe season, calling for the Conference championship gaime (Southwest vs Northwest and South Piedmont vs North Pied mont) on November 20, and the Association championship game on November 27. In the past, however, W. S. Clary, secretary of the WNOHS AA, has moved the deadline back one week in event of ties for Conference crowns. However, he has not been confronted with a three-way tie, which is entire ly possible, and perhaps proba ble, in the Southwest Conferen ce this fall. If such a three-way tie does exist, the teams involved will be expected to work out the manner of a playoff, or Clary will make a decision so that the Associa tion can meet its championship game deadlines. MOUNTAINEER MENTORS — Behind every good football team is bound to be a good coa ching staff, and the trio of mentors above have coached the Mountaineer varsity griddexs to at least a tie for the Southwest Conference cham pionship for 1959. Head Coach John Gamble is in the center, flanked on the left by Bill Bates and on the right by Don Parker. A fourth mem ber M the staff. Fred Withers, coaches the Jun ior High football team. Mentors mm Moun taineers, alike, this week are awaiting the out come of two games to determine their next foe in WNCHSAA playoffs. Bethware Cage Teams Rebuilding; Froneberger New Coach For Girls This is strictly a rebuilding season for the Bethware High basketball teams. Graduated are tthe stars who1 compiled one otf the finest bas ketball records in history of the | school — a county championship for 'the girls team, a second-pl ace finish for the boys club, and six Bethware playens on all-Con ference selections. Coach Bill Powell is regroup ing his boys team with a few holdover reserves and six sopho mores. All five starters and the tap reserve lastt year have de parted. They include all-confer ence Dean Burton and Jerry Wright, along with other regu lars Jerry Webster, Ted Anthony and Luither Edwards, and the top sub, Charles Carroll. New Coach for the girls team, Blaine Froneberger, has only one returning starter from the unde feated county championship La dy Buccaneer team last winter. She is Jeanette Hamrick, a guard. Gone from the iteaim coa ched by Mrs. Ellen Pwell are four all-conference stars, for wards Barbara Gamble and Faye Bolin, and guards Sara Falls and Doris Cranford and a fifth start er, Norma Hamrick. The current Bethware boys team which opened a 24-game schedule on Tuesday night shows four seniors, two juniors and a half-doaen sophs on the 12-man squad. Only three letter men are in the group—seniors Bobby Biddix and Troy Davis and junior Jerry Morris. Those three monogram wear ers are playing on the first team at the moment, along with the other itwo seniors, Charles Bolin and Jerry Patterson. Coach Pow ell calls that his “black unit.” A “white unit” includes the other junior, Bill Lail and four sophomores, Timmy Barrett, John Cashion, Ken Cash and Lawrence Bolin. The other two sophs on the squad are Eddie Herndon and Billy Wease. “There is little to choose be tween our two units, the black and the white," says Coach Pow ell, “The senior group probably is a little larger and, of course, has more experience, but the sophs are pushing them.” Coach Froneberger, the girls new mentor, is a former Oherry viile High and Appalachian Col lege athlete, making his coach ing debut ait Bethware. Despite the loss of many stars, the new coach feels the club has the po tential to develop Into a strong basketball team. Jeanette Hamrick is the lone regular from last year's team and will play one of the guard posts. Rae Pails is at another guard post, with Jeanette Leigh and Carolyn Dellinger battling for the other. Starting forwards are Linda Herndon, Pat Bohn and Shelia Gantt. Hamrick and Herndon are the only two letter winners on the club. dy Watterson, Shirley Seism. Ju dy Hoopaugh, and Becky Bolin. The only guand candidate on the 12- member squad is Frances Smith. The Bethware teams played their first of tour non-Conferen ce games Tuesday night and wni 1 begin action in the Cleveland County Conference on Dec. 1. The remaining 20 games on the card after ithalt are league contests. The heavy loop slate caused Bethware to cancel its two plan ned games with Kings Mountain, originally set for Dec. 1 and 4. Remainder of Bethware sche dule: Nov. 13 — Tryon Nov. 17 — Bethware All-sltars /Nov. 24 — aft Lattimoire. Dec. 1 — aft Boiling Springs. Dec. 4 —at Belwood Dec. 8 — Fallston Dec. 11 — aft Waco Dec. 15 — Piedmont Dec. 17 — at No. Three Jan. 5 — Polkville Jan. 8 — at Mooresboro Jan. 12 — Casar Jan. 15 — Grover Jan. 19 — Boiling Springs. Jan 22 — Belwood (Homecom ing.) Jan. 26 — at Fallston Jan. 29 — Waco Feb. 2 — at Piedmont Feb. 5 — No. Three Feb. 9 — at Polkville Feb. 12 — Mooresboro Feb. 16 — at Casar Feb. 19 — at Grover Central's Ronnie Rhea Leads Midget Scoring With 37 Points Ronnie Rhea, fleet wimgback tor the city champion Central team, was ithe leading scorer in the Kings Mountain midget toot, ball league this season with 37 points. The wingback in Coach Bud Medlin’s single wing attack sco red six touchdowns and added one extra point tor his pace-set ting scoring role. Ronnie barely edged his team mate, fullback Chip McGinnis, and North's backfleld ace, Mike Allen, tor the Individual scoring crown. Chip punched over five touchdowns and added five ex tra points tor a total of 35 for Central. Mike, who concentrated on long kickoff returns, tallied 32 points tor North, on five TD’s and two paints-after. Tailback Tonnle Ware of the strong Central club was fourth in the point parade with 24 points, on four touchdowns. Pat Hard of North and Butch Van Dyke of West tied tor fifth in scoring, with 18 points each. Chip McGinnis had the biggest single evening of the season, sco ring three touchdowns in the fi nal game last Tuesday, all on runs of over 50 yards. His 65-yard jaunt tor one of the TD’s match ed the longest scoring run from scrimmage this fall. He also had 59 and 55 yard dashes in the last game. Ronnie Rhea had the other scoring dash of 65 yards from scrimmage during the year, and another tor 55 yards. Mike Allen had the longest scoring scampers of the year with a pair of 70-yard kickoff returns for TD’s. He also return ed a kickoff for 55 yards, and had a scrimmage dash of the same distance. Other players with scoring runs of mare than half (the len - gth of the field were: Tonnie Ware with a pair of 58-yard trek, Pat Hord with a 60-yard run, and Butch Van Dyke tar 57 yards. Season's scoring totals by teams: Player Ronnie Rhea Chip McGinnis Tonrtie Ware George Plonk Mike Tignor CENTRAL TD 6 5 4 1 1 PAT 1 5 0 2 1 Pts. 37 35 24 8 7 TOTALS Player Mike Allen Pat Hold Pat Murphy Steve Moore Charles Ruff Jimmy Neal Richie White TOTALS 17 NORTH TD 9 an 5 3 2 2 1 1 1 PAT 2 0 5 2 1 0 0 Pts. 32 18 17 14 7 6 6 15 10 100 WEST Player TD PAT Pis. Butch Van Dyke 3 0 18 Mike Goforth 10 6 Wayne O'Dell 10 6 Jimmy Lewis 10 6 Jimimy Cloninger 0 2 2 TOTALS 6 4 40 EAST Player ' Freddie Smith Steve Goforth Eddie Robbs TD PAT Pts. 2 0 12 117 117 TOTALS 4 2 26 Southwest Conference Football CONFERENCE Teams Kings Mt. Shelby RS Central Belmont Lincol niton Cherryville Forest Ciity Chase STANDING W L T Pet. 1 1 1 2 3 4 3 6 2 2 2 1 .714 .667 .667 .583 0 .500 0 .429 1 .417 0 .000 RECORD Team Kings Mt. RS Central Shelby Cherryville Lincoln ton Belmont Forest Ciity Chase AND SCORING W L TPts OP 6 1 2 161 38 5 2 2 145 64 4 3 2 84 80 4 5 0 156 149 4 5 0 118 144 3 5 1 96 171 2 5 1 108 180 0 8 1 47 238 FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Belmont at R. S. Central. Shelby ait Forest City. Lincolnton at Chase. Cherryville ait Morgamton. LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Kings Mt. 13, Belmont 0. RS Central 21, Marion 6. Gaffney, S. C„ 27, Shelby 6. Bessemer City 13, Chaise 0. Mooresville 26, Cherryville 0. West Meek 33, Lincolnton 25. The (Mountaineers are assured of no less th^n a tie lor the championship of the Southwest Conference for the 195s season. Friday night’s 13-0 triumph ov er Helmont boosted Kings Moun tain into the undisputed lead in the topsy-turvy Southwest race with a record of four wins, one loss, and two ties, and makes it certain that our side will finish in at least a tie for the title. The win over Belmont was the regular - season finale for Kings Mountain which now must await the outcome of Shelby’s game at Forest City and Central’s home game against IBelmont Friday night. Shelby and Central still have a chance to dealock Kings Mlt. for the crown with victories this week. Both have current identical marks of three wins, one loss, and two ties. If, both of those teams lose, however, the Mountaineers will have clear claim on the 1959 grid title in the Southwest Conference. Paul Hendricks scored both touchdowns and the (Mountaineers came-up with one of their typi cally-tough defensive games to post the victory over (Belmont Friday. Particularly alert against pass ing, the Mountaineers snared three Raider aerials, with one of the interceptions leading directly Mountaineers Drill For Next Foe... But Who? The football season isn’t over for the Mountaineers. They still are busy at practice drills this week, preparing for their next opponent . . . Shelby . . . or R. S. Central . . or Hic kory. The Mountaineers will not know the identity of their next opponent in Southwest Conferen ce or WNCHSAA playoff plans until after Friday’s games and tire Association meeting in Mooresville on Sunday. But that doesn’t mean that the Mountaineers don’t have work to do. Coach John Gamble and his aides are busy working on offen sive patterns this week. “We don’t know the identity of our next opponent,” observed Gamble, “So we can’t set-up any defenses. All of the teams we could play use (the T-fdrrroation, but it’s a different sort of T, so we cant plan any special defen ses until we know who that team will be.” All of the Mountaineers poten dial foes play their final Confer ence games this week. Shelby playis at Forest City and Central is host to Belmont in (games which could determine whether either Shelby or Central or tooth Itne Kings Mountain for the top spot in the SWC stand ings. Hickory plays its final North west Conference game at Val dese. The Tornado has already clinched the title in the league for the second straight year. Goodson Leads Kings Mountain Junior High jridders completed thetir season losing ito Chase Jayvees, 6-0, here last Thursday afttemoon. The loss was the finale of a six-game card for Coach Fred Withers' club of eighth and nin th graders. The team posted a mark of two wins and four losses on the campaign. The two wins were over Bessemer City Junior Varsity, and losses to Ltnoolnton and Chase Jayvees. Charles Goodson, a ninth grade halfback, led (he scoring (or (the season few the Little Mountaineers, with three touch downs and 18 points. Fullback Timmy Heavener and end Jerry Lockridge scored one touchdown each for the other Kings ML scores. Quarterbacks rommy Hope and David Adams each tallied two extra points. Four of the five TD’s the club scored during the season came >n passes, with Adams tossing three and Goodson one. Goodson, rated a good pros pect, thus, had a hand in four t/vnm’r film fniinhrlnuinc the team’s five touchdowns it jthe to tlhe final touchdown. Mike Ware stole the pass which set-up the touchdown in the four th period, and Punch Parker, who had returned to action only the week before after recovering from (His collar (bone break in baseball, intercepted two Raider passes in the second half. The pass steals highlighted the Mountaineers fine aerial defense which did not allow the Raiders to complete a pass in the second half, after connecting on six of ten before intermission. Kings Mountain also came up with tough, aggressive defensive play to stymie Belmont’s lone scoring threat of the game, late in the second period. Jimmy Blan ton pounced on a fumible on the four-yard line to put a halt to Belmont’s 68 yard drive which seemed destined to at least tie the score. The Mountaineers used a drive of their own to score the first TD in the second period. Taking over on their own 47 after a Raider punt, the local lads pushed 53 yards in 11 plays for the score. Big play of the march was a 21-yard pass completion from James Rdbbs to Chip Thoiburn. The Mountaineer quarterback was rushed hard on the play, but, somehow, managed to escape a trap and fired a strike to Thor burn down to the Belmont 16. Hendricks drove off the right side for the final yard and the TD, with Mike Ware missing the extra point attempt, wide to the left. Belmont came right back from that score, to march the kick off from its own 28-yard line to a first-and-goal at the four yard line. On first down, Carey Ander son’s pitchout struck Tommj Grady on the leg, and alert Jim my Blanton recovered. That was Belmont’s lone bid of the game, Only one other time did the Raid ers cross the midfield stripe in possession of the pigskin, then only to the KM 47 yard line on a third-down play, proceeding a punt. Parker stopped two more po tential Belmont marches with in terceptions in the third and four th periods, and in between those two steals, the Mountaineers made another bid. They drove from their own 46 down to the Belmont 10 yard line where a fourth-down play missed first down by inches. Ware set-up the insurance touchdown late in the game, in tercepting an Anderson pass on the Raider 25 and returning to the 19. It took Kings Mountain five downs to negotiate the dis tance, with Hendricks sweeping wide around right end for the final eight yards and the TD. This time, Ware was true with his placement — and the Moun taineers had at least a Share in the Conference championship. X, Mountaineer Grid Graph YARDSTICK KM 12 159 6 3 31 3 5-32.5 0 15 K 10 104 16 6 67 0 4-28 1 67 First Downs Yards Rushing Passes Attempted Passes Completed Yards Passing Passes Initcptd. by Punts — Average Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized SCORE BY QUARTERS Kings Mountain 0 6 0 7—13 Belmont 0 0 0 0— 0 SCORING For Kings Mountain Touchdowns: Paul Hendricks, 2 (1-yard smash, and 8-yard end run.) Extra Point: Mike Ware 1 (Placement). INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Kings ML Rushing Player Carries Net Yds. Paul Hendricks 21 80 Phil Mauney Don Fisher Punch Parker James Robbs 7 16 2 2 41 37 3 -2 TOTALS 48 159 Kings ML Passing Player Passes Compl. Intcp Robbs 6 3 31 Kings ML Receiving Player Caught Chip Thorbum 3 Belmont Rushing Player Carries Net Yd! Fred Cuthbertson 13 Tom Grady 8 Darryle Robinson 4 Carey Anderson 2 Yds. 31 59 30 16 -1 TOTALS 27 104 Belmont Passing Player Passes CompL Intcp yi Anderson 14 6 2 I Grady 2 0 1 Belmont Receiving ?laY« Caught Yd Joe Buckner 4 4 Fred Cuthbertson 2 : KM Ranked 13th In 3-A Ratings The Mountaineers remain top-ranked Southwest Confiea ce team in newspaper ra1 charts. The Charlotte Observer week itahs Kings Mountain 13th place in ithe 3-A rankio SIflbyJn 19th Place is the c other SWC team in Ithe top 2< the Observer’s coaches poll. ] ^ the 3-A rankings. No SWC team is in Ithe top m the Greensboro News ra ings, a spot the Mountain* held a couple of weeks ago. 22 Letter-Winners Lend Grover Cage Tennis In 25-Gnme Schedule A total of 22 letter “winners will carry the hopes of the Gro ver High School basketball teams which opened their seasons with a pair of Conference games last week. Coach Preston Holt has 15 monogram wearers on his girls team and seven lettermen on the boys cluh which will participate in the Cleveland County cage race this winter. Eighteen of the 20 league gam es remain on the card, with five other games against non-Confer enoe foes, including clashes with county rivals, Kings Mountain and Shelby. The other game is against Mt. Vernon. Grover will host Kings Moun tain on December 11 and will re turn the visit on January a Coach Holt' is rebulding his boys team which lost several of its top stars, including all-ccunty Jerry Huffstetler. Billy Crocker is the lone re turning regular and is expected to lead this year’s team. He is teaming up on the current first team with Jack Mullinax, C. B. Green, Ray Robinson, and Phil lip Humphries, all lettermen. The other letter winners are Robert Bess and Dean Green. Crocker, Bess, and Humphries are the team's lone seniors. Holt also points to some ten freshmen as fine future pros pects. Heading this first year del egation are Steve Heafrter, Rich ard Little, Gary Collins, Lionel Barnes, and Butch Moss. “I expect several of those boys to help us before the season is over,” says the Grover mentor. , J"* year’s six starters and 15 letter winners are on hand lor the Grover girls team. Returning regulars at lorwani are Gloria Hulfstetler, Judy Bat Relba Goforth, and the ^h,rnin g trom iast year are Linda Wilson, Char %h e,n'»and 0nda Stewart. Other letter forwards are Cyn Lhfda ht’ Brenda Crocker, Eaker> and Ann Ledford. Monogram guards are Virginia Rollins, Phyllis Allen, Gail Little, "Martha Ayers, and Jennie Put nam. Five freshmen girls also are battling for positions: Gail Huf steteler, (Nancy Watterson, and Sandra Spangler at forwards, airi Mary Green and Margaret Sides at guards. Remainder of the Grover sche dule: Nov. 17 — No. Three. Nov. 20 — At ILattimore. Nov. 24 — Mt Vernon. Dec. 3 u. Shelby 4 — ait Poikville. Dec 8 — aft Shelby. Dec. 11 — Kings Mountain. Dec- 15 — at Boiling Springs. Dec. 17 — Belwood. Jan. 5 — Piedmont. Jan. 8 — at Kings Mountain. Jan. 12— at Fallston. Jan. 15 — at Bathware. Jan. 19 — at Mooresboro. Jan. 22 — Polkville. Jan. 26 — at No. Three. •Jan. 29 — Lattimore. kva k ~~ Bo41ing Springs. 5 — ait Belwood. Feb. 9 — at Piedmont. Peb. 12 — at Waco. — Faliston. . Feb. 19 — Bethware. ,
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