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Pat's Peckings By NEALE PATRICK KM Cagers Eye More Victories The Yule time season bring* visions of sugar-plums for the young folks . . . and for the slightly-older Moun taineer cage players, the holiday season brings visions of the best basketball records here in years. While the youthful charges of Coaches Don Parker and Bill Bates take their Christmas respite from the hard wood and baskets, they can look back on the pre-holiday outings which suggest that the new year will bring more victories. The victories to date have been over non-Conference foes, it is true, and the league opponents will put in their appearance after the Yule vacation. But victories are vic tories, nevertheless, and both local cage teams already are only one victory each shy of the total number of wins post ed last season. The Mountainettes have won three in a row and the Mountaineers have copped two out of three, the lone loss •being a last-second affair. Last year, the local lassies won four games, and the KM boys copped three. And both teams have 15 games to go on the current campaign, play ing each^pf the seven league foes twice each, along with a return session with Bessemer City, the Yellow Jacket boys being the only team to hand our side a whipping before Christmas. , J , Kings Mountain’s twosome already has accomplished a feat twice in the first three games that they failed to pull all last year . . . that of winning a double-header. The local clubs clipped Dallas twice in both meetings this winter, and the best the KM clubs could do last year were a few evembreaks in a given evening. Addition of players from Bethware and Grover has considerably aided and abetted the Mountaineer teams. . Linda Eaker, all-Conference performer from Grover, is setting the scoring pace for the Mountainettes, leading the team in scoring in all three games. Gail Huffstetler and Mary Green, also from Grover, and Becky Bolin and Judy “Watterson of Bethware are other transfers giving the KM girls a big boost. A trio of products from Bethware Tommy Barrett, Lawrence Bolin and Ken Cash_lead the Mountaineers in scoring in the pre-Christmas games. Each has led the locals in point making in one game. And the Mountaineers, collectively also have twice turned a scoring trick they failed to accomplish all last season. They have scored in the “60’s” in points twice and the highest point total the Mountaineers amassed in a game last year was 51. Diclc Hunter Rides Again Twisting a few tales in wrapping up the Lions Club football affair. Coach Earle Edwards dutifully thanked Dr. George Plonk for reminding the assembled at the Lions football banquet last week about State winning the ACC champion ship four years ago, in 1957, with twin-halfbacks Dick Christie and Dick Hunter, running wild. “It seems so long since that championship, that we like to be reminded of it,” said Edwards, “And I want to tel1 you a story about Hunter’s first year at State. “He came to us weighing 150 pounds . . . and after a well-balanced diet, well-planned training program and plenty of rest, he boosted his weight to 153.” Edwards went on to relate that early in Christy and Hunter’s sophomore year (1955) State went over to play Duke. “Duke had a good team, we weren't so good, and the game turned out to be a track meet . . . everytime I look ed up, a blue jersey was running by the bench on the way to the goal . . . Duke won all the first places that day,” Ed wards recalled and with the after thought, added, “And I think they also took most of the second and third places, too." * The State mentor reminded that Duke’s best runner was big Hal McElhaney, 210-pounds, six-two in height, and quite a horse in the running department. “His favorite play was right up the middle, and he burst into the secondary like an express train,” said Ed wards, “And tackling him head-on was something for a boy to think about... and not do it. “Well, I finally decided to send in Hunter, but I re „ minded him not to tackle McElhaney head-on ... I told * Dick that if he tried that we would never have any further * use for him ... I told him to grab McElhaney around the neck, and hold-on, until we got help to him. “Sure enough, in a few plays, here came McElhaney right up the middle, and Hunter obeyed instructions per fectly, and grabbed the Duke fullback around the neck . .. the momentum pulled little Hunter up on McElhaney’s ‘back, and he didn’t even break stride ... In fact, I doubt if he knew Hunter was up there. “And as they came by the bench, Dick looked over at me and hollared, ‘Hi-Yo Silver.’ ” 'Upset' Is Misnomer—Edwards The srtate mentor belongs to the school of thought that the much-used name of “upset" is a misnomer, that' there really is no such thing as an upset in college foot-j bill. He explained: 4"There are so many good high school players today, and so many good coaches teaching them the fundamen tals that any college that recruits athletes can get enough good football players to produce a good team . . . And to day, almost any college team can beat another on a given day. "Competition is so even and balanced, that I don’t be lieve there is any such things as an ‘upset’ . . . Just con sider that 540 colleges played football this year, and only •two went undefeated and untied, an indication of the even competition.” < Edwards pointed out that for a club to have a great, undefeated season, it must be “lucky, escape injuries and get the breaks." Edwards used the ACC as an example of the even ccmipetition, adding: . • "Everybody in our league had their moments and everyone was capable of beating another ... you can name scores of turn-abouts such as the fact that we (State) de feated South Carolina by a big margin, and Clemson beat us by a big score, but South Carolina defeated Clemson . . * “We lost four conference games at State and think that we played a mighty tough outside schedule,” he added ‘‘For instance, the three outside teams we play ed last fall lost a total of only three games, and we hand ed one of those to Mississippi Southern . . . Alabama did not lose a game and Wyoming lost only one." KM 7-Year Grid Mark Tops In SWC BY NEALE PATRICK Seven yearns ago, the Moun taineers began flexing their foot ball muscles in the Southwest Conference. Coach Shu Carlton molded Kings Mountain’s first Southwest grid champion that autumn, and the Mountaineers have continued that victorious tradition right down too the present with the best won-lost percentage in the Conference. The seven-year standings for Southwest teams against their 7-Year Standings In Southwest Loop (SWC games only. 1955-61) <(*—Chase entered Conference in 1959). (By WNCHSAA policy, tie ga mes count half-win and half loss in figuring percentage). Conference rivals place Kings Team Kings Mitn. Shelby W L T Pet. 30 8 7 .744 31 10 4 .733 23 17 5 .567 23 18 4 .556 19 22 4 .467 15 28 2 .356 10 29 6 .289 2 19 0 .095 Lincolniton R. S. Central Beflmont Forest City Chemryville Chase* Mountain atop the field, a few percentage points ahead of coun ty neighbor Shelby. Kings Mountain has a .744 percentage in the 45 league con tests through the past seven years, 11 points above the Gold en lions who closed in on the Mountaineers this season with seven straight victories. The KMHS teams, coached by Cariiton and John Gamble have won 30 games, lost eight and tied seven in the “seven years of plenty” in SWC grid action. Shelby, over the same span, has 31 victories, ten losses and four ties. Using the WNCHSAA and Sou thwest Conference regulation of counting tie games as half-win and half-loss, the Mountaineers hold the top spot in the seven year percentage standings. lancolnton and R. S. Central, the other two teams which an nually battle the Mountaineers and the Lions for the top-drawer berths in the Conference ran neek-in-neck for thiird-and-four th place in the seven-year rec ords. Both teams won 23 games over the stretch, with Linoolnton los ing one less game to nab third place in the overall standings since tthe 1955 season. Belmont, Forest City. Cherry ville and Chase, in that order, bring-up the second diviason in the Standings. The Trojans of Chase have been members of the SWC for only three years, -with only two grid victories to show JOHN GAMBLE for -the trouble. In addition to leading the standings, Kings, Mountain also holds several other leading dis tinctions over the seven years. The Mountaineers are the on ly team which has posted two undefeated seasons since 1955. The local gridders did not lose SHtJE CARLTON a Conference game in either 19 56 or 1956. Only three other schools, in fact, have been able to record undefeated seasons, Forest City in 1955, Linoolnton in 1960 and Shelby in 1961. Kings Mountain beat Forest Cilty in the *55 play offs for the crown. Kings Mountain also has suf fered the fewest losses in the seven seasons, a total of eight. The Mountaineers also have tied the most contests, seven, while Shel'by has won the most games, 31. Three of the Mountaineers eight defeats in seven years came this season, losing to Shelby, R. S. Central and Lin coHn/ton . . . the only three teams, oddly enough, which have de feated Kings Mountain over the stretch. The Mountaineers have lost three games each to Shelby and Linoolnton and two to RSC since *55. Adding another feather to the Mountaineers grid hat KMHS is the only team which has not lost over three conference games in a single season in the past seven autumns. The three losses this fall was the low mark for the Mountaineers, and every oth er dub in ithe circuit has lost at-Ieast four games in a single campaign. The 1961 season provided one dubious “first” far the Moun taineers, In that it is the first time in the seven yearns of plen ty that ithe local Is have not fin ished either one-two In the Con ference chase. The previous six yearns showed two championships, one three way tie for (the top, and three seoond-plaoe finishes. Kings Mountain won the lea gue crown In 1955 and '56, fin ished second to Shelby in ‘57 and ‘58, losing by the matter of an extra point and a field goal to the Lions in those seasons. The Mountaineers, Hilltappens and Shelby deadlocked far the tap in ‘59, and our side was second to Lmeolnton in 1960. Mountaineers 7-Year Record 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 Season W L T Pet. Finish 5 0 1 .917 Champ 5 0 1 .917 Champ 4 2 0 .667 Second 3 1 2 .667 Second 4 12 .714 Tie-First 6 1 0 .857 Second 3 3 1 .500 Ffourth TOTALS 30 8 7 .744 Eaker, Barrett, Cash Lead KM Cage Scoring Mountaineer Cage Scoring GIRLS Player FG FT Linda Baker 35 8 Gall Huffs tetler 12 8 Peggy Plonk 5 4 Judy Watterson 5 3 Frankie Hamrick 5 0 Diane Roberts 3 1 Marian Plonk 2 0 TOTALS 67 24 BOYS Player FG FT Tommy Barrett 15 3 Ken Cash 15 3 Lawrence Bollin 12 8 Eddie Ross 7 4 Charles Goodson 8 2 Eddie Herndon 5 0 Sammy Houston 5 0 Richard Little 0 4 Warren Goforth 1 1 Rick Goforth 1 0 Paul Cash 1 0 Robert Plonk 0 1 TP 78 32 14 13 10 7 4 158 TP 33 33 32 18 18 10 10 1 3 2 2 1 TOTALS 70 26 166 Bob Bush Named Coach Of Year In Palmetto Area Bob Bush, former high school teacher here and husband of a Kings Mountain native, Sara Kincaid, and now coach of the Clover High School football team has been named “Coach of the Year” in a three-county area of South Carolina. The announcement was made this week by The Rock Hill Her ald which tabulated the results of a polll of coaches and sports writers In the three county area of York, Chester and Lancaster. Bush’s Clover Eagles are a member of the Class A Catawba Conference and compiled a rec ord of 7 wins, two lasses and one tie this year. One of the victories was over the Kings Mountain Mountaineers in a game played at Clover. The 29-year old native of Summerville, Ga., and a 1957 graduate of Appalachian under went his practice-teaching in Kings Mountain High School during his senior year In college. He served as assistant coach at Clover for two years and has been head football mentor for the past three autumns, during which time his teams have com piled a record of 17 wins, ten losses and two ties. Jack All Her of York, which al so defeated the Mountaineers last fall, was the runner-up to Bush for the top coaching honors in the three counties. Old-Timers Have Athletic Grants Six of the ten members of the Old-Timers basketball team which defeated the Mountaineers In the alumni game here Tuesday night are now attending college on ath letic scholarships. The group includes five on football grants and one on a baseball- scholarship. Old Timers with grid grants were Keith Layton and Punch Punch Parker at The Citadel, Ken Baity at South Carolina, Mike Ware at Catawba, and Jerry Adams at Western Caro lina. The other athletic scholar ship holder is Jerry Wright, , for baseball at Newberry. Transfers from Beth ware and Grover are setting (the scoring pace for the Kings Mountain High School basketball teams in the pre-holiday games of the 19 61-62 season. Grover products Linda Eaker and Gall Huffstetler are running one-two at the head of the Moun tainiette point parade, and a trio of Bethware transfers, Tommy Barrett, Ken Cash and Lawrence Boflin, are waging a three-way scrap as the biggest point-ma kers for the boys team. Linda, the high scorer and ail Oonference performer for Grover in the Tri-County circuit test winter, has hooped 78 points for a 26 point average in the three pre-Christmas games against other high school foes, Gail is second in the girls sco ring race with 32 markers. She also was a regular at Grover last season. Tammy and Ken are tied with the most points for the boys, each with 33, an average of 11 per game to date. Just one point back is one of their Buccaneer teammates last year, Lawrence Bolin with 32. The point totals are for the Mountaineer teams’ three games against prep foes, Bessemer Oity and Dallas, and do not include the points scored in the exhibi tion games with the alumni teams Tuesday night. Linda and Tommy have turned in the biggest single game sco res to date, Linda hitting 31 a gialnst Bessemer Oity in the op ener, with Tommy hitting the season’s high for the boys with 21 at Dallas last week. The Kings Mountain teams completed their pre-Christmas holiday schedule with five wins in the six games played. The Mounfainettes swept to three straight victories, and the boys won two of three, the lone loss being a last second defeat by Bessemer City. Mountaineer clubs return to action on Friday night, January 5, at Forest City, the first of 14 Conference games for the local outfits. First Conference home game and the first here after the holi days will be against Cherryville on Tuesday night, January 12. Fourteen of the 15 games re maining on the cards for the KM boys and girls are Southwest Conference affaire, the lone non loop contests being the pair at Bessemer City on January 16. A total of 12 boys and seven girls have scored points in the three early contests, both totals exceeding the number of point makers for the Mountaineers last season. Ten boys and six girls sewed points in tire 1960-61 season. Senior Marlene Weir with 399 points and Punch Parker with 162 led the scoring for the Kings Mountain teams last year. The soaring totals for the pair of Mountaineer clubs to date are tabulated in an accompanying table. Helms To Coach Grapple Team Charles Helms, former Kings Mountain High teacher and sum mer-time recreation <t rector here In 1960, will coach the wrestling team at Chowan Junior College this winter. Helms, a member of the wres tling team during his collegiate days at Appalachian, is serving his first year as a teacher at the junior college near Murfreesboro in eastern North Carolina. He received his masters degree last year at Appalachian, after leaving Ids teaidling and recrea tion post here. His wrestling team will be the first in that sport in the expan ding athletic program at the Ju nior college i Medics Bowleis Move Into Tie For Loop Lead Medical Pharmacy moved into a tie for the lead in the ladies duckpin bowling league, defeat ing Rollettes three straight ga mes, while the Go-Getters lost their slim edge, defeating Moun taineers two games to one. The results left the Go-Getters and the Medics tied for the top at the Chrismas holiday break. The league will be idle next week for Christmas. Helen McGinnis with a 103 line and Iva Lee Parson with a 274 set paced Medical Pharmacy to the three straight wins. Evelena Herndon scored a 108 line and 278 series to pace Roll ettes. Her 108 was tops for the league for the night. Jo Ann Smith bowled a 101 game and 281 total to lead Go Getters to their victory. Margaret Harmon had a 90 line and Doris Ware a 252 series to pace Mountaineers who edged the Go-Getters in the second box to bounce the rivals out of sole possession of first place. Warriors scored Ithe high team tallies of the night, a 443 team game and 1,258 team total pin fall in defeating Scorettes, two games to one. Betty Fite led the set winners with a 100 line and 283 set Lib Bolin was best for Sootr ettes, a 106 game and 303 total. THE STANDINGS Team Go Getters Medical Pharmacy Warriors Rollettes Scorettes Mountaineers W 37 37 26 17 14 13 L 11 11 22 31 34 35 Pet. .771 .771 .542 .354 .292 .271 McCarter MVP On York Team Ernest McCarter, Kings Moun tain’s American Legion junior pitching star for the past two summer has been named as the Most Valuable Player on the York High School football team for this fall. He was presented the MVP tro phy at the York banquet last week, climaxing the season which saw the Green Dragons win eight games and lose two, one of the defeats coming in the Upper State grid finals, by 21-20 to Honea Path. The Most Valuable Player tro phy at York was the second of its nature McCarter has received in consecutive sports seasons. He also was named as the Most Val uable Player on the Otis D. Green Legion junior team here hast summer, and received the trophy presented by the Post. Husky Old-Timers Defeat Mountaineers; KM Girls Win A husky, football-flavored “Old-Timers” team taught the modern day version of Mountain eers some old and new (tricks of basketball with a 59-43 victory Tuesday night at Central High Gym. The Mountainettes, however, squared the set With the alumni teams, winnin gthe other half of' the double-header, 50-49, on a goal by Linda Baker in the final seconds. The pair of games with the "told grads” completed the pre holiday schedule for the KMHS teams and they learned that the lads and lassies who have pro ceeded them still know their basketball. With five of the alumni boys being members of college foot ball teams this season, the Old' Timers beat the Mountaineers with ragged mess off the boards and sharp shooting (from all sec tors of the court. All ten Old Timers scored at least one field goal and three points, led by Keith Layton’s 11 points, and only member of the winning team hitting in the dou ble-digits. The Old Timers sub stituted in team units, changing a couple of times each period. Big Mearl Valentine and Lay ton, along with Jerry Adams and Ken Baity, completely controlled the rebounding, seldom permit ting the Mountaineers more than one shot. The Mountaineers grabbed an early lead, 15-10, at the end of the first period, but the Old Ti mers assumed command in the waning minutes of the first half, scoring three fast-break goals in the final seconds against a third Mountaineer unit. The alumni led'28-23 at halftime, and boost ed the lead in the second half. Tommy Barrett was the only Mountaineer able to hit with consistency from the floor, with six field goalls and 12 points, with Ken Cash chipping in with ten; Barrett hit ten of his points in the final half in an effort to keep the Mountaineers in (the game. The Mountainettes and’ the a lumni girls matched basket-for baskeit all night, seldom over four points separating the teams. The KMHS lassies led at halftime, 25 24, and maintained the edge through most of the second half, until the alumni captured the lead with slightly over a minute to go. But Linda Baker drove-in for a lay-up-shot with 30 seconds to play to win the game. Furman Wilson Team Cops Crown For First Half In Bowling Loop The Furman Wilson team wrapped ^up its Christmas pack age several days early In the .shape of the first half (tittle in the the men’s duckpin bowling lea gue. They won four straight games over the Plonk Oil outfit Monday nightt to complete the first half of the bowling season with a 44 16 record and a seven-game ad vantage over the secondjplaoe McGinnis Furniture team. 'Richard Culbertson and Fur man Wilson set the soaring pace for the league champions, the former rolling three games over the century figure, and the latter leading his team with a 121 game and a 319 set. Paul Ware was the big gun for Plonk with a 105 line and a 301 series. Top individual and team scor ing honors for the final night of the first half went to Albert Brackett and his McGinnis Furn iture team which won flour strai ght games from Page's Mien's Store and finished in second place In the circuit. Brackett hit a 129 toe and a 340 set tops in the league, and the McGinnis team rolled the high game of 511 and the high series of 1,486. James OordeU rolled a 107 game and alt Ids lines ower a hundred and a 310 set to pace Page's, along with! Clyde Culbert son who also had a 107 line. Noisier Mffis defeated Kiting Heating, three games to one, but could not escape the cellar for the first half. Peterson was best for the winners, with a 13# line, three lines over a hundred and a 329 total. Tootle Allen howled a 118 line and John DilUng a 309 series to lead the losers. The men's duckpin league will take a vacation next week, and return to action for the second half of the season the first of the year. FINAL ST AN piNOS (First Half) * Team W L Pet. Furman Wilson 44 16 .733 McGinnis Furniture 37 23 .617 Diiling Heating 31 29 517 Page's Men's Store 27 33 .450 Plonk Oil 21 39 550 Noisier Mills 20 40 .333 Linda and Gaall HufSstetler hooped 14 each toff ithe Moun tainettes, Judy Watterson add ing 12. Sandy Myers, Miss Kings Mountain of 1961, and Pat ('Bo lin) Barrett, former Bethware star, led the alumni with 17 points each, and Pat Gladden scored 15. Sandy hit five straight tang shorts in the first Half, fir ing two-handed sets from behind the circle. Isaiah Davis “coached” the Old-Timers to the victory and Wanza Davis was the ”ooaeh” of the alumni girls. GIRLS Alumni (49) Forwards Gladden P. Barrett Myers Farr FG FT TP 6 3 15 7 3 17 7 3 17 0 0 0 TOTALS 20 9 49 Guards — Goodson. C. Plonk, Lynn, R. Barrett, Yates, Motmtainettes (SO)' Forwards FG FT TP Baker 5 4 24 Hufflsttetler 5 Watterson 6 P. Plonk 0 Roberts 1 Hamrick 3 4 14 0 12 0 0 2 4 0 6 TOTALS 20 10 50 Guards — M Plonk, BoHn, Green, Hendricks. Score by quarters: Alumni 14 10 14 H—49 M'toinettes 13 12 17 8—50 Player Layton Parker Robbs Champion Ware Baity Adams Valentine Wright McGinnis BOYS Alumni (59) FG FT PF TP 5 1-2 0 11 2 2 1 2 2 1 4 4 2 0-2 2 1-2 1 1- 3' 0 0-0 2- 3 3- 4 0-0 0-1 0 1-2 0 1 2 2 3 4 5 3 4 6 5 8 8 S TOTALS 25 9-10 11 59 Player GoodSon K. Cash Ross Barrett Bolin Houston Herndon Little W. Goforth R. Goforth Plonk Wease Camp Cook P. Cash Mountaineers (43) FG FT 1 4 1 6 2 1 1 1 0 1 o 0 0 0 0 0-0 2-5 1-2 0-2 4-5 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 PF TP 1 2 2 10 2 3 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 12 8 2 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 18 7-17 13 , Score by quarters: Alumni la 18 17 14__j Mountaineers 15 8 10 10_1 layvee Cagers Divide Paii The Little Mountaineer cage teams divided a double-header with Bessemer City Monday night, the girls winning their first start of the year and the boys Hosing to square their rec ord at one-all. Three KM junior high girls scored in the double figures to pace a 39-19 victory, while the boys lost by a 32-23 score. Ann Hamrick, who did not play during the first half, came along to pour in 14 points in the last half, 12 in the third quarter, to lead Coach Betty Bates’ ^irls. Joyce Bohn and Margie Huffbtot ler chipped in with (ten points each in the victory in the first and only game for the Jayvee Hassles before the holidays. The KM girls led by a 16-10 score at halftime. The Little Mountaineer boys made a slow start and never could recover in losing to' the same team they defeated, 33-9, last week. Coach Fred Withers team fell behind 20-8 at half tim, and cut the margin to the final nine points In the last two periods. Richard Gold scored eight points to lead the Little Mbun taaneflrs and gain top scoring honors for the game. Three Bess emer City boys hit seven each. The games were the final ones until after the Christmas holi days far the pair of junior high teams which will participate In the Southwest Junior High Con ference this season. onu Bag* Mtu. (39) CUT 0* F—Bolin 10 F—Allen 4 C—Huffstetler 10 O—J. Hamrick G—Howard G—Montgomery Sisk Helms Nichols Hoe Marshs Emit *• Hamrick 14, T. Ha: rick, McCarter 1, Haynes, Heavner, W — Whitworth 2, S. CU d Dameron, Mitchell. G. Clark. Halftime score: KM 18. BC 10. SOTS: Bags Min. (U) city <«> F—Bunkowskl X Coleman F—Carrigan X Queen fctSM 6 Froneberg« O-Jetl B Cochcroft G—Gold 8 Long JM “ McGinnis 2, HuMsteUei w* t Hambrlght, Matheny, Clonings ?lonk. Murphy. Putnam, Hobbs. For«t— BM*' BrM"lon- Anthony, Frldal Halftime score: BC 20, KM & NOMINATION BLANK For Kings Mountain laycees* Sponsored YOUNG MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD Name of Nominee__ Address ' Age --Date of Birth __ _ List Information about naming. ______ —v.'r .zzzir (Enclose separate information sheet) MAIL TO: CHARLES BLANTON. CHAIRMAN DSA Committee. P. O. Box 262. Kings Mountain i
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