Herald
Sports
History Is Repetitous
Will history repeat itself for the Mountaineers in the
Southwest loop during the second-half of the baseball
race? It is said to do so in other fields.
Indications point to certain alterations of the first
half script.
Second-half openers went pretty much the same as
the initial lid-lifters, with the only changes being at Cher
ryville and in the runs column. The winners in three spots
were identical. East whipped the Mountaineers, Lincolnton
took the Ililltoppers, Shelby rousted the Raiders, but
Chase’s Trojans handed Cherryville’s Ironmen a few more
lumps.
Form carried through a little more in the second
games with Iviugs Mountain taking their second from R-S
Central and Shelby again measuring out the Trojans for
defeat.
Then a new script was found.
Belmont turned the tables on Cherryville and repaid
the Ironmen for an earlier beating with a sound shellack
ing. This was done through the innate generosity of the
Cherryville defenders and the obvious pilferage potential
of the Raiders.
At Lincolnton they started out with the same cast
and ran much the same script, except for the final act.
Whereas the Wolfpack won the opening round in 14
frames, “Chuck” Shytle’s Cavaliers had a few new ideas
Friday,
Using Simon Jones to fullest advantage, East came up
with a run in the top of the tenth for a 4-3 decision. Al
though Jones surrendered his hill chores to Bruce Steffey
in the sixth, the Cavalier chief stroked a three-run cir
cuit clout in the top of that frame which was enough to
stretch out the game when the Wolves roared back in the
bottom of the inning.
Can This Be Mountaineer Year?
Those were the repetitions and the reversals of the
first-half forms.
Now the big questions.
If enough history repeats, will the Mountaineers come
out on top at the end? Can they become the loop champs
that Coach Fred Withers has sought for some nine Springs
and so richly deserves? Will this year’s seniors bow out as
no team here has done in many, many a moon? And, fin
ally, will there be another trophy in addition to the MVP
at the season’s conclusion?
Much water must go under the dam before the an
swers are known. Many balls will be thrown, bats will ring
and strikeouts will come, but it is not outside the realm of
possibility.
Some years back Withers and the Mountaineers came
within a “frog’s hair” of picking up all the marbles but
lost out at the end.
Talking around town with folks who remember that
team and have witnessed this year’s edition brings one to
the conclusion that the ’63 Mountaineers are superior to
the former group.
The earlier nine gets the nod in certain departments,
but the present aggregation receives the plaudits when
considered collectively.
This is based on the opinions of certain people who
know whereof they speak.
Opinions Have Reservations
Some reservations are made when these observers
pass their judgments. They ask that allowances be made
for certain intangibles and for happenings that, obviously,
cannot be considered due to unknown future fates.
'Amang these "intangibles” are such things as attitude,
desire, comradship, and intestinal fortitude.
None of the “rail-birds” are certain of the attitude of
the present group. They wonder if the thin air at such
heights will effect the play of the boys. In the back of
their minds they ask if the boys will become cocky enough
to be a winner or if they will merely become impressed
with themselves and expect their record to scare the op
position into submission.
Do they really want to win? Have they the desire it
takes to overcome certain difficulties that will naturally
befall them?
Almost all are of the opinion that if the Mountaineers
are desirious enough of winning, they can win.
Intestinal fortitude (Don’t let it throw you. It’s the
polite way of saying “guts.”) is another of the unknown
factors, and like an algebraic puzzler must be solved.
They know that the boys can talk tough and act it.
“Anyone can do that,” they say.
What they want to know is: Do they have the “guts”
1o fight back when the going gets rough?
Most formed an opinion on this point following the
three-hour party held for the Belmont Red Raiders a cou
Pie of weeks back. Then it was altered a “mite” when they
folded at Forest City, but received a reprieve in City Sta
dium against the Hilltoppers.
What will Tuesday’s encounter with Lincolnton do to
these opinions? Beats mo. Since this is only Saturday (as
this is penned), and I left my crystal ball on top of the
piano.
1 his I do know. Lincolnton and Shelby, in my some
what less than authoritative opinion, are the only serious
threats to the Mountaineers finishing the season without
another setback.
This is also certain: If they get by Lincolnton Tues
day and stay close to Shelby for the first few innings, they
will hurdle that stumbling block.
No one told me so (I figured it out for mvself), but it
is close to certain that the Lions cannot beat the Moun
taineers with Don Patrick on the hill, and when they
get past him, Shelby’s moundmen are a little thing on ex
perience and skill.
(If memory serves, Patrick has yet to beat Kings
Mountain and it is the fervent hope here that he doesn't
toss these words back at me. Don’t let me down boys!
Words never suited my appetite.)
Pat A Few Backs ....
As a finale this week let’s pass out a few pats on the
back.
Why not start these with some healthy whacks for
the boys who are contending in the Southwest? You folks
in town who sit at home on game nights might join in
this.
A big bow to all the boys on the Mountaineer squad
for their showing up-to-date, with special recognition to
the boys who join yours truly on the bench in the seeming
ly sub-zero temperatures and do not get the benefit of
playing to keep warm.
Special plaudits are in order for Louis Cook, Jackie
Hughes, Barry Gibson and Charles Goodson. These boys
have been the weekly winners of the Swank baseball tie
tack awarded by Belk’s to the player deemed most valu
able to the team over a two-game span.
Finally a pat on the back to John Moss, who continues
to prove that it can be done. John’s WCL opened last week
to some of the biggest, if not the biggest, crowds in his
tory. Another pat for providing the big trophy that is go
ing to 1963’s most valuable Mountaineer and for working
diligently to help provide the boys with a bajiquet, win
or lose, at the end of the campaign.
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Mountainers Invade Shelby For Key Game
KMHS Trackmen
In Bi-Loop Meet
Ratterree Pleased
With Tackle "Beef"
Pride Ratterree, assistant foot
ball mentor of The Citadel, said
here over the weekend that
spring football drills proved satls
j factory.
Coach Ratterree, Kings Moun
| tain native who playea tackle
for the Wake Forest Demon Dea
cons, was particularly pleased to
find some "beef” at tackle.
“Some of these boys have some
size on them,” he commented.
‘They’re young, but they’ll
learn."
Golfers Edge
Lines By7to5
The Kings Mountain High
School golfers narrowly escaped
defeat at the hands of Llncoln
i ton Thursday 7 to 5. The win
was the second of the season o
ver Lincolnton in a match played
on the Lincoln Country Club
course.
The linksmen, who now have
a record of seven wins against a
single defeat, next will play Che
rryville on Cherryville’s home
course.
The Cherryville match, which
is scheduled for May 6, will be
the last regular season match
for the linksmen unless coach
Don Parker can arrange matches
with other teams.
After the Cherryville match the
top four linksmen and one alter
nate will travel to Morganton
for the Associational Match on
May 11.
Several Mountaineer golfers
had their troubles against Lin
colnton. In an eight-man team
match, the Mountaineer linksmen
were able to take only four In
dividual matches but managed to
win three out of four team mat
ches to take the victory.
Winners for Kings Mountain
were: George Plonk, 5 up over
Buddy Carpenter: Robert Plonk,
3 up over Jerry Talbert; Jay Po
well, 1 up over Billy Lentz; and
Donn Freeman, 6 up over Mike
Richards.
Winners for Lincolnton were:
Bobby Stamey, 3 up over Mike
Ballard; John Self, 2 up over
Chuck Neisler; Bo King, 4 up
over Terry Leonard; and Bobby
Lynch, 1 up over Fred Wright.
'Medalist for the day was Bo
King of Lincolnton who had a 41.
Best scores for the Mountain gol
fers were 44’s carded by George
Plonk and Robert Plonk.
Other scores for the Kings
Mountain linksmen were: Bal
lard, 46; Neisler, 47; Leonard, 45;
Powell, 46; Wright, 51; and Donn
Freeman, 49.
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Bowlers Off
To Tourney
Seven Kings Mountain bowlers
are in Washington, D. C., to par
ticipate in the National Duckpin
Bowling tournament.
Planning to take part in the
national event are Furman Wil
son, John Dilling, Albert Brack -
ket and Clarence Plonk, Jr.,
leading the participants in the
Kings Mountain Men's league,
and Jennie Oates, Lib Bolin Gault
and Janet Burns, leading bowlers
in the Kings Mountain Women’s
league.
Last year’s national tourna
ment was held in Greensboro,
Dilling, Brackett, Wilson, Mrs.
Oates and Mrs. Gault capturing
$367 in prize money.
Women's League
Banquet Planned
K lags Mountain Women’s
Duekpin League will honor its
outstanding bowlers on .Vlay 22,
at the Eagle Steak House in Gas
tonia.
Mrs. Willard Werner anuounc
ecd that trophies will be given to
high line and high set bowlers
for this season,
Each member of the Ol tes and
Henderson Shell team will re
cive a trophy for finishing first
in regular season play.
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STANDINGS
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Kings Mountain
East Rutherford
Lineolhton
Shelby
Belmont
Chase
Cherryville
Rutherfordton
Won Lost Pet.
7 2 .778
7 2 .778
6 3 .667
6 3 .667
4 5 .444
3 6 .333
2 7 .222
1 8 .111
Cindermen
Placed Third
At Shelby
The Kings Mountain Hig’.
School trackmen placed third in
the Southwestern AAA Confer
ence meet at Shelby Friday, fail
ed to score a single first-place
point, but found ten performers
qualified for the Bi-Conference
meet scheduled for Morganton on
Friday.
Shelby edged Rutherfordton 57
points to 52 to capture team ho
nors, while Kings Mountain’s 24
points werq good enough to take
third spot.
The top six in each event at
Shelby won the right to partici
pate at the Morganton meet. Ot
her than for members of the 880
yd. and the mile relay teams and
the individual qualifiers, the reg
ular season is over for the Moun
taineer track team.
Kings Mountain’s Bi-Confer
ence individual qualifiers are:
Jimmy Wright yvon third place
in the 120-yd. high hurdles in 16.3
seconds.
Fred Dixon won sixth place in
the 120-yd. high hurdles in 17.6
seconds.
Butch Blackburn won fourth
place in both the 440-yd. dash in
55.2 seconds and the 220-yd. dash
in 25 seconds.
Mike Goforth tied for fourth in
the 180-yd. low hurdles in 24 sec
onds.
Pete Putnam won fourth place
in the 880-yd. run in 2 minutes
and 13 seconds.
Steve Baker won sixth place in
the 220-yd. dash in 25.3 seconds.
Von Holcomb won second place
in the discus throw and third
place in the 100-yd. dash in 10.65
seconds.
Wayne Laughter won second
place in the high jump with a
jump of 5 ft. 7 in.
Jimmy Cloniger tied for third
place in the high jump with a
jump of 5 ft. 6 in.
Calvin Lockridge tied for third
place in the high jump with a
jump of 5 ft. 7 in.
Kings Mountain’s 880-yd. relay
team won second place in the
Shelby meet with a time of 1
minute 38.6 seconds. This time
was 1/10 of a second off the win
ning time that Shelby posted.
Kings Mountain’s mile relay
team also gained entrance into
the Morganton meet by winning
third place in the Conference
meet at Shelby.
Men's League
To Honor Leaders
Line, set, team and average
leaders in the recently completed
Kings Mountain Men’s Duekpin
league will be nonored with tro
phies and a banquet to be held
May 6.
Trophies will be awarded to
the winners In each category for
both the first and second halves
of league play.
First-half winners were K. E.
(Red) Morrison, high line, 157;
Johnny Dye, high set, 383; Albert
Brackett, high average, 111; and
Plonk Oil Company, first-half
team winner.
Winners of the second-half tro
phies will be C. S. Plonk, Jr., and
Dye, high line, 153, Plonk, high
set, 383; and average, 109; and
Gaffney’s Barber Shop, second
half and season champ.
ALL CHAMPS — Competing against a field of
96 pro and amateur golfers, these three em
erged as the new champions of the fourth ann
ual York Colonial Festival Pro-Am tourney at
York last week. Cliff Myers, at left, carded 74
to lead the amateurs, while Harold (Catfish)
Kneece, a touring pro. and Jim Belton. Kings
Mountain Country Club pro, shared the pro
title with each shooting a 71. The packpot for
all winners amounted to $800 in cash and
prizes.
Mountaineers Back In Win Column
As Goforth Stops Hilltoppers 3-1
By TERRY LEONARD
A two-run first and a one-run
second inning spelled defeat for
the Hilltoppers from Rutherford
ton-Spindale high school Thurs
day night ait City Stadium.
The Hilltoppers could manage
only one run off winning pitcher
Bo Goforth as the Mountaineers
defeated R-S Central for the sec
ond time this season by a score
of 3 ito 1.
The Mountaineers scored two
markers in the welcome frame
when Charles Goodson rattled a
two-strike count pitch of George
Helton against the left field bank
for a double and scored Pat Mur
phy and Richard Gold who were
on second and third base. Mur
phy had singled to start the rally
Tigers Open Season
At Dallas Saturday
The Kings Mountain Tigers
will open their regular season of
play when they face Dallas on
Saturday on Dallas’ home field.
This will be the opening game
of the Tri-County League of
which the Tigers are members.
The Kings Mountain Tigers
split an exhibition double-head
er here Saturday. The first game
was won by the Tigers as they
defeated the Grover team by a
score of 5 to 1.
The Tigers were led at bat by
Robert Edgerton who had a triple
and a double. Harold Williams
was the winning pitcher.
The Tigers lost the second
game to the Belmont Blues by a
score of 4 to 3. William Wells,
the Tigers’ ace pitcher, held the
Blues hitless for six innings but
had trouble in the seventh, as
the Blues scored four runs on two
walks, an error, and a triple.
The Tigers scored three in the
seventh and loaded the bases in
the ninth, but failed to overcome
the four run lead of Belmont.
Jesse Howell will be the start
ing pitcher for the Tigers when
Manager William Orr’s team
faces Dallas in the first regular
season game.
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and Gold got life when the short
stop booted his grounder.
The Hilltoppers scored their on
ly run in the top of the second
inning with one out a bases load
single to left field by Helton
scored Leroy Laughter.
The Hilltoppers left the bases
loaded in the second inning.
Their other bid for a marker fail
ed as Cyrus Taylor was tagged
out sliding home by Mountaineer
catcher Louis Cook.
In the bottom half of the sec
ond Inning, the Mountaineer dia
mond boys scored a single mark
er when Bo Goforth doubled to
right-center and Barry Gibson, a
courtesy runner for the pitcher,
scored from second on a single
to left by Henry Hilliard.
The Hilltoppers got rallies go
ing in the fifth, sixth and seven
th innings but the Mountaineers
and Goforth stopped the rallies
with two runners stranded in
each frame.
Both pitchers went the distance.
Goforth struck out six, and al
lowed eight hits.
Helton struck out six Mountain
eer batters, walked three, and al
lowed only five hits.
Goforth’s record is now three
wins against two defeats.
Pools To Open
About June 1st
Elmer Ross, City Recreational
Director, reports that the pools
wil not open until after the pres
ent school term.
New filters have been ordered
for the Deal Street pool and prob
ably won’t be installed until a
bout June 1.
Both of the City's pools have
been repaired, with concrete pat
Diamond Men
Tied For First
In Conference
The rains came Tuesday and
caused postponement of virtually
all the games slated for South
western Conference play. The de
lay of the games leaves the Moun
taineer team tied with East Ru
therford for first place in the
conference standings.
Kings Mountain’s game with
Lincolnton, slated for City Stadi
um, was postponed to Wednesday
night, if the ground conditions
would permit.
East Rutherford was to play a
home game with Rutherford ton
on Tuesday afternoon, but their
game was postponed to Monday.
Simon Jones, East Rutherford’s
ace lefthander is slated to pitch
for East against the Ironmen of
Cherryville on Friday aftemon.
If the Mountaineer game with
Lincolnton is played on Wednes
day, and the Mounties win, Kings
Mountain will move into a one
half game lead over idle East Ru
therford. A loss would drop Kings
Mountain into a fie for second
and leave East in firm control of
first place.
Kings Mountain will journey
to Shelby on Thursday night to
play the Shelby High Lions. The
Lion currently have a record of
six wins against three losses,
were to make up the rained out
game with Cherryville on Wed
nehday also.
When Kings Mountain plays at
Shelby Thursday night, Danny
Patrick is cheduled to toe the
rubber for the Lions. The Mount
ies hope to continue their mas
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ching, Ross added.
A set of bleachers costing $600
was bought for the Davidson)
Park, and is already being used.
None of the City’s baseball or
softball recreational programs
are slated to start before the first
of June.
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in the 1962-63
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