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BY HAROLD PEARSON
Mountaineer Duties Outlined
Kings Mountain high school's football duties appear
to be well outlined for the 1962 season. The team n^st im
prove on a poor 1961 record while each team in the con
ference is intent on doing the same.
If opening games are an Indication at least two oi
the circuits elevens have done some improv mg.
Friday night East Rutherford, Cherryville and Chase
opened their ‘62 grid season. Only Chase suffered defea .
Fast Rutherford (Forest City) unveiled a junior
auarterback who completed nine passes for 145 yards.
quarteroacK £ and Simon Jones’ running anc
kicking ted fheCa&Kto a 35-0 trouncing of the Chas,
Trojans.
This was indeed an auspicious opening for the team
that is picked by the local coaches to be the most impio
vedVggression in the Southwest AAA Conference.
Chase had trouble getting started and was in the
came only briefly near the end. However, the problem
heS could be that the Trojans are being directed bya new
roach for the fourth straight campaign. Should the Tro.
ians iron out their difficulties, the meeting with the Moun
taineers September 21 could be somewhat different thar
Friday night’s debacle.
Cherryville, Bessemer City and York, three othei
Mountaineer grid foes, also opened their seasOTis lrida^
night. York and Cherryville won while the bellow Jacket,
lost in the last quarter.
Cherryville was unimpressive in downing Dallas S tc
7 in a non-conference battle.
Bessemer scored in the first period and held Cowpens
on even terms before falling to a 20-point fourth perioc
surge by the Red Raiders.
York Kings Mountain’s opposition for September 14,
upset favored Clinton in their battle Friday night. Formei
Kings Mountain Legion junior baseball star Ernest McCar
tei led the York gridders to a 13 to 7 victory.
Patterson Or Liston?
Who’s your choice?
For several years the talk in boxing circles through
out the country has concerned itself with the relative
merits of heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and
challenger Sonny Liston. •
Claims have run that Liston could dispatch the
champ with ease if only given the opportunity. These
claims, of course, came from the circles of Liston suppoit
‘Crs.
Running along this line also were the accusations
that Sonnv was being dodged by the reigning champ out
of fear of the destructive power carried in the Liston fists.
Rebuttals were forthcoming from Patterson:s follow,
ers that Liston, with hfs record outside the ring, was not
deserving of a title bout.
Whether or not he was deserving, he is getting the
chance.
Also, if he can dispatch champ Floyd, we will see.
Barring unforseen circumstances the two will
head-on Tuesday, September 25, at Comiskey Park in Chi
cago.
Should Liston win, he would then have a measure ot
fame to help balance his abundance of notoriety.
The two almost met in 1953. Now, nine years later
they take the ring.
Who’s your choice?
You pay your money and take your chances.
Will Safety Measures Help/
Last season there were 37 fatalities among football
players throughout the country. This was the largest
number of deaths in 25 year's of play.
This year there has already occurred at least one
fatality.
What is the reason behind these statistics? Why was
there such a large number last year?
Through the years equipment has been improved as
a safeguard to the athlete. Training methods have chang
ed to assure the athlete an opportunity of reaching the
peak of physical condition. Coaching has advanced in
such a way that the plajer learns to give a more skillful
and safer performance.
With these improvements there is still a large num
her of serious injuries each year. Football is, indeed a
rough sport. Injuries are naturally forthcoming.
But why should the number of serious injuries and
fatalities increase?
Dr. Allan J. Ryan, president-elect of the American
College of Sports Medicine, maintains that it is the fail
ure of the pre-season examination to take into consider,
at ion the prospective player’s medical history. j
Also, a physician should be present at contests in all j
contact sports. Dr. Ryan believes that in order to lower'
the injury rate, medical help should not only be at the
games but also be readily available during practice ses
sions.
This year, the high school associations throughout
North Carolina are playing under new safety regulatiohsV
It will be interestihg to see. how these, help the young
footballer. • • ‘ ’
Sports Of Nofe
Maybe the fieldhouse at City Stadium will become a
reality within the next few weeks. The foundation has
been poured. After several years of pleas from various
sources, it is cjose to idealization. Would be nice to open it
when the Mountaineers open the home grid season.
After a number of games ending in frustrating de
feat, the Yankees got back on the w inning track over the
weekend. It took their Kansas • cousins”, however, to halt
the tailspin.
Robert Munday, a former Legion junior player here
and a thorn in the side of Mountaineer grid teams in re
cent years, is headed in the direction of Boiling Springs.
Ruled out of the Clemson picture, Munday appears set to
display his talents for the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs. Hope
he can damage the Bulldogs’ opposition as much as he did
the local team.
Mike Laney, 170-pound halfback, w ill not be with the
Cherryville Ironmen this season. He will ply his talents
this season for the Rock Hill Bearcats.
Coach Fred Withers’ former baseball pupil, Bobby
Richardson, is somewhat less than the Yankee image phy
sically, but the Sumter native is every bit the Yankee
when on the field. Around the .300 mark all year Bobby
leads the league in hits and ranks with Yogi Berra as a
clutch hitter.
Danell Austin
(las Hole-In-One
*r*szjs?£ssi
| ranks of the . , an goH
l made the dream shot ol au t>
lers Saturday. rpmilar coun
&»
I local course Tlus ga
rhoSnrVSs wo" the clo3e8tt
^^jrrssass
SSfMS
^’,ibsrs
^?iaS°Kh- Falls and Carl
I Moss^^were others with runner
lPT^h£gng*t rounds were
^iV«strs?t2t
-on^oeidel Sherman Perry and
‘aul^Neisler was ttie winner^
f abor Day Monday J*xbCoop
LfTack White, Paul McGmrds
Und Charles Mauney comprised
^InC^uCsTnnual ehampmn
mip tournament mne matches
^nneTfSlpenin matches:
Sf(S over Darrell Aus- i
Francis over Fred Wright )
1 John Smathers over Don Bak- !
9rJacob^Cooper over Luther Joy)
3 Charles Neisler over Jay Pat-1
terson 4 and 3.
s™nd mp0^ over
Woodrow Wilson 2 and L
Jack White over Paul Met,
nis 5 and 4
*>»» Brtd
8C,rt'Moi ««»■ <***
Plonk 3 and 2, ^
Biddix Pitches
3-2 Sparta Win
ISS taS to his old base
ball tricks again- his
bafj weSThis" pdeWngarnn,
thTwak^Fot’S t^sXu season
the wane r cehool term
and the end of the ^nwo
Bobby joined the Sparta>
taineers m tne r
^Ke Demon Deacon
• “SSwa team back into eon
pitched his n;am layofls.
tention m victory Bid
Hurling a 3 ,to tl«w»lks and
lix allowed only two , „
five hits while registering eleven
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ttss ssaa -a-j
mns. .
Fast-Pitch Team
To Meet Thursday
All members of the ^°ose
sz: %$ s* —
meeting is to
pto^T team’s post-season
dlOUand --—-ares
the team, r^fSuith them
«** IftiLi Sforms as well
the new t«m « tftat were
as the whit P® state ton*rna
issued prior to the state ^
ment.
To Moss Failure
Is Only A Word
JOHN H. MOSS has just com
pleted his third successful sea
son as president of the Western
Carolina League. This was one
of a long line of successes for
the Kings Mountain citizen.
Women Bowleis
Opened Season
The Women’s Duckpin Bowling
League opened Us 1962-63 season
with two shutouts and one near
shutout Tuesday night at the
Mountain Lane Bofling Alley.!
Opening the season with shut
outs were the teams of Betty Fite
and Louise Dover. The Jennie
Oates team won three of its four
games for a near shutout.
The three games launched a
season that will be split into two
halves with the final games slat
ed for early April.
A new inovation in the wom
en’s league this year is the total
pin fall counting for one game.
In picking up the four wins
in the opener Betty Fite led her
team with a high game score of
106 and a high set total of 306.
Total pin fall for the winners
was 1273.
The Lib Bolin team suffered
the loss with Lib foiling a 111
high game and a 192 high set
Gerry Werner and Louise Do
ver paced the Dover team to a 4
to 0 shutout of the McGinnis
Furniture team. Gerry had a
high game of 98 and Louise a
high set of 274.
Doris Robbs led the McGinnis
team with a high game of 94 and
a high set of 265.
Dessie Loftin’s team won the
opening game but Jennie Oates’
;eam took the next two and to
tal pins to register a 3 to 1 win
in the night's other match.
Ethel Tignor was the high
corer for the winners with a
105 game and a 285 line. Dessie
Loftin paced the losers with a
high game of 106 and a 281 line.
The second matches of the
eason will be played Tuesday
night
The Men’s Duckpin League
will begin its season Monday
night
Thirty-Four Hopefuls In layvee
Drills; Six Games Are Scheduled
The Kings Mountain Jayvee
football team contimjetf its daily
drills this week with thirty-four
buys'* still vying for a starting
position on the junior high elev-,
en.' ' , » ;
Coach Bill .Cashion has just
two weeks to whip the boys into
shape; for the season’s opener
■September 20 with East Ruther
ford here.
Tras year’s team will be com
prised entirely of ninth graders.
There is a rule fordibbing eighth
graders from playing in night
games, therefore the Jayvees, of
! necessity, will be all freshmen.
Coach Cashion admits to not
having seen an All-American yet
‘but believes he has several boys
with good potential.
‘XXrr big problem,” he relates
“is that we will be inexperien
ced. Most of the boys have nev
! er played before, so the training
must start with the very basic
fundamentals and work up.”
Drills thus far have eoncen
; trated on these basic fundamen
tals, with emphasis on blacking.
Several of the Jayvee hopefuls
got the jump on their mates by
j spending two weeks working out
with the varsity. This early
i workout provided the boys with
some knowledge that is expected
to help them this season.
Assatang Coach Cashion with
the junior high eleven is Charles
; Bums, a guard on the ’GO high
school eleven. Cashion reports
i the youthful aide is doing a fine
job wi th the boys.
The thirty-four boys working
for positions are:
JEStds: Danny Kiser, Scott Clon
inger, Arthur Sprouse, James
Bishop hnd Larry Gillespie. .
Tackles: Larry Morgan. Steve
Wilson, BiU Whitesides, Larry
McDaniel,' Terry Bowen and
Dright Foster.
Guards: Fred Wright, Dan
Dixon, Danny Finger, Dale Al
len and Harold Welch.
Centers: Ricky Hamrick and
Ben Grimes.
Backs: Jay Powell, Paul Rey
; nolds, Wayne Odell, John Var
Dyke, Steve Goforth, Mike Go
forth, Roy Ruff, Dennis Barnes
Phillip Russ. Neil Cooper, Paul
Farris. Steve Dotson, Tbcnmy
Day, Jerry Wherstme, Jerry
Bumgardner and Etkhe Hardin,
j The I960 junior high team hat
scheduled a six game slate witl:
members of the Southwest Jun
jior High School Conference. A
; seventh game with Bessetnei
CSty as the opposition is possi
ble.
Schedule:
Sept 20 — East Rutherford
—Here.
Sept. 27 — at Belmont.
Oct. 4 — at Chase.
Out. 11 — at Cherryvllle.
Oct. 18 — Ruth-Spin. — Here
Oct. 25 — Open.
Nov. 1 — Lincoln ton — Here
All games will be played at 1
o’clock on Thursday night
WCL President
Directs League
To Third Success
Failure is just a word, not
an actuality, to John Henry
Moss.
To prove this he has just di
rected the Western Carolina
League of Professional Baseball
Clubs to its third straight suc
cessful season.
In doing this John went
against all the odds to prove an
old baseball theory wrong. The
Class-D Western Carolina Lea
ue o<f 1962 is the only four-dub
independent league ever to sur
vive an entire season.
Not only did the circuit sur
vive against the odds but also
showed an increase in overall
attendance figures. The sax-team
league of 1961 showed a total at
dencance figure of 130 thousand.
The four - team "62 circuit’s at
tendance figure went over the
100 thousand mark.
However, successful in the
baseball world is nothing new to
this Kings Mountain citizen. In
1947 he successfully organized
the original WCL and at the age
of 26 became the youngest lea
gue president in the history of
organized baseball.
This was the first step in a
long line of successes for Moss.
His next venture in organized
baseball was as general man
ager of the Rock Hill Chiefs of
the old Class-B Tri-State League
in 1949. Here he set an attend
ance record when the Chiefs
drew better then 120 thousand
fans through the turnstiles.
From Rock Hill it was a short
hop to the Detroit Tiger organi- 1
zation which he joined in 1950
1 as general manager of Tiger '
minor league clubs.
. With the Tigers Moss served :
! as GM at Jamestown, N. Y.r !
Richmond, Ind., and Wausau, !
Wisconsin.
His most varied duties were
with the Huskies of Wausau.
Here he was GM of the baseball,
basketball, football and hockey ,
teams.
The football Huskies, comprised .
of Big Ten graduates, were three j
time champions of the Central
States Professional Football Lea
I gue.
j It was during his tenure at 1
Jamestown that John inked 1
i Frank Lary to a Falcon contract. 3
Duke Maas, Elroy Face, Char- 1
i lie Neal, Don Zimmer and Billy 1
! Hoeft were other players of note
: in the PONY League that season. :
High Point Of Career <
John spent nine years as gen
eral manager of these three I
teams, but in 1959 decided it was <
time to return home. <
It was upon his return home
!■ that he believes he reached the
thigh point in hi baseball ca
reer.
This peak in his career was
I successfully negotiating with
[ Branch Rickey in the reorganiz
| ing of the Western Carolina Lea
! gue. (Some success it was, too,
(Continued On Page Three)
| —■
STARTING TACKLE — James
Hope will be at one of the start
ing tackle slots when the Moun
taineers open their 1962 grid sea-1
son Friday night at Ecst High!
in Forest City. The 190-ponnder
is a senior back from last year's
team.
Midget League
Sets Four Teams
The Kings Mountain Midget
Football League will again be a
four-team league this year.
T*e four teams will be East,
West, North and South.
According to recreation dir
ector Jake Early the players will
begin registering Saturday, Sep
tember 8, with the first prac
tices scheduled tor the following
Monday.
This will give the boys about
twq weeks to practice before the
first games which are tentative
ly scheduled for the last of Sep
tember.
Weight limit for the midget
players is 125 pounds and the
age range is from 9 to 13 years
of age. The local teams do not
play under the Pop Warner foot
ball rules.
T^e South team wall hold its
practices at either Park Grace
school field or at the swimming
pool. The other three teams,
East, West, and North, will prac
tice on their respective school
fields.
As in past years the teams will
play a Gty Stadium series of
six doubleheaders. Starting time
is not yet set but all games will
be played on Saturday nights.
There is still one problem fac
ing the league this season. Early
reports that a major portion of
the equipment is in disrepair and
must be replaced. This could pos
sibly delay the issuance of equip
ment to some players.
Saturday night's Hypnodrama
receipts are earmarked for mid
get football equipment.
The program is sponsored a
gain this year by the Optimist
31Ub in conjunction with the
Sty's recreation department.
Recreation seekers visited the
National forests at an average
rate of 194 a minute during 1961
reports the September Sports
Afield. There were a record 102
million visits, better than a 10
per cent increase over the 92.5
million visits in 1960.
Six Seniors
On Starting 11;
Boys Determined
"We feel that the ‘boys have
worked hard and are determined
to play their best football," were
the words of head coach Bill
Bates and his coaching staff as
they made final preparations for
the 1962 Mountaineer football
opener with East Rutherford Fri
day night.
"We will have six seniors on
our starting eleven but most of
our boys have little or no var
sity game experience and Fri
day’s game will be a determining
factor fo whether or not we have
a good season/’ the coaches fur
ther stated.
The Mountaineers will be fac
ing a formidable opponent in the
opening clash. Last week the
Cavaliers downed the Chase Tro
jans 35 to 0 in the opener for
both schools.
(Although the Trojans are the
Southwest Conference’s peren
nial oellar-dwellers, Coach Bates
feels that any team that scores
35 points in its opener must be
regarded highly. _
CAVALIER OFFENSE
The CavMers run from an un
balanced T formation with an
equal assortment of runniing and
passing plays.
In their win Friday the Cav
aliers rolled up 186 yards rush
ing with 113 of these yards com
ing on off-tackle slants. The un
balanced line employed by East
High puts their big men Taylor
(208) and Willis (190) in position
to open the holes off tackle.
Adding to the Strength of the
Cavalier running attack is one
of the best back fields in the con
ference. The local coaching staff
feels that the East runners can
hold their own with any group
in the circuit.
In the passing department the
Cavaliers have David sMatheny
to do the hurling. In last week's
romp over Chase the junior
quarterback completed nine
passes for 145 yards. This was
80 per cent of the winners pass
ing attack.
One of Matheny’s favorite tar
gets is right halfback Simon Jo
nes, a fleet-footed senior.
MOUNTAINEER STARTERS
The starting offensive team
holes for the Mountaineer run
comprised of six seniors, four
juniors and one sophomore.
Ooach Bates reports that he
actually has what cotfld be term
ed a sixteen-man starting eleven.
At the end positions on offen
se will be Charles Goodson and
Tommy Hope. Richard White
will alternate with Hope at the
left end slot.
Hope started his first physical
contact this week and showed
that he has learned his new pos
ition well.
Two seniors, Tim Heavner and
James Hope will be at the tackle
posts for Friday’s opener. Both
boys tip the scales at 190 pounds
and are expected to open the
hole for the Mountaineer run
ners.
Jimmy Medlin will man one of
the guard positions with Brent
McDaniel and Fred Dixon alter
nating at the other.
Sophomore Pat Murphy has
Oil the all - important quarter
til Ithe all-important quarter
back spot and will be directing
the Mountaineer offense in the ;
opener.
Warren “Bo” Goforth will
handle the right half chores
while a punaor and two sop ho
HALFBACK SPEEDSTER — Mike
Hurts tickler will alternate at the
left halfback position in Friday
night's football opener. A speed*
merchant Mike saw action a
gcdnst Forest City last year be*
fore being sidelined with an in*
jury.
Season Tickets
Still Available
Season tickets for Kings Moun
tain high school's Dour home
football games are still on sale
in the office of Principal Harry
Jaynes at Central School.
Price of the tickets this year
is $5 and the season ducat en
titles the holder to a reserved
seat for each of the four con
tests.
Principal Jaynes reports that
there are still plenty of choice
seats available.
Mountaineers home games
this year- are Sept. 21 Chase;
Oct. 12 Mboresville; Oct 26 Ru
therfordton - Spindale; and Nov.
9 Cherryville.
mores will be alternating at left
half. Mike Huff stickler, Von
Hotoomto and Eddie Huffstetler,
all speedsters, will share the run
ning duties there.
Wally Harris, a quarterback in
‘61, will open at fullback for
the local. Wally will also handle
Che punting for the Mountain
eers.
Rictmrd Gold will spell Mur
phy when the Mountaineers are
on the defensive.
Probable Lineups:
K. M.
T. Hope E
170
Heavner T
190
Medlin G
165
Leonard C
165
McDaniel G
171
J. Hope T
190
Goodson E
175
Murphy QB
150
Huffsticklea- HB
145
Goforth H3
145
Harris FB
165
EAsr
Newton
175
Taylor
208
Grant
180
Heffner
145
Hardin
150
Willis
190
Stallcup
175
Staleup
160
Waters
175
Jones
160
Bradley
180
Weekend
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