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| H e r a l a m | S p ° r t s By DICK WOODWARD WCL President Reports On Convention Just before closing time Saturday, John Moss, Presi dent of the Western Carolina League, stopped by the of fice, and immediately our conversation turned to base ball. Moss has recently returned from the National Base ball Convention, which was held in San Diego, California, December 1-4, at which al minor league presidents met to discuss the administrative functions of the 1964 season, and review the progress of last year’s teams. Moss attended the convention with two of the WCL general managers: Jim Baynes, general manager of the Rock Hill entry into the league, and Bob Bell, general manager of the Spartanburg club. “It was quite a trip, and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to sunny southern California,” commented Moss as we talked about the geographic metropolis of San Diego which borders Mexico. The three man aggregation left Douglas Airport in Charlotte November 29, and upon arrival in New York, were joined for the cross-country trip by one of the coun try’s top comedians. George Jessed was on his way to Los Angeles to be guest speaker at a dinner being held in honor of the Los Angeles Dodgers ace pitcher, Sandy Koufax. Moss reported that Jessell was quite a conversat ional » XUViJO ist, and the trip seemed much shorter as a result of lessell’s being along. One incident was related )y Moss that happened dur ng his conversation with lessell which brought out j he true humor oi the co median. ‘‘Koufax is the greatest Hebrew athlete ;inee Solomon,” was Jes joll’s description of the Los \ngeles pride and joy. The baseball conven- j ion was held at the El Cor-1 ez Hotel in San Diego, and i he Western Carolinas Lea-! 'ue was awarded three of ae six national awards. The WCL received the At - j enhance Trophy, presented o the Class A league which j md the greatest attendance for the ’63 season. The WCL j drew 433,14:5 fans during me previous the eastern United States. , , . ... , Lexington was awarded the individual team Attend ance Trophv in Class A, and Spartanburg received the Grand Sweepstakes Trophy for the outstanding individual club attendance for the year. Spartanburg s attendance led all United States Class A teams with an attendance of 104,407. . , , „ Ford Frick, commissioner of baseball, was at the con vention. and congratulated President Moss on the tre mendous strides that he lias taken since becoming presi dent of the league in 1960. “Minor League baseball is on the upswing in the United States.” said Frick, “And the success of the major leagues depends on the success of; the minors,” he added. Game Broadcasts In The Making For '64 Monday afternoon I resumed my interview with Moss as we mot and drove over to Gastonia tor lunch. He was busily informing me that the WCL is pres ently negotiating with the eight WCL teams with regard to sponsoring radio coverage of the 130 game schedule which is to be played this year. ■‘This will be the first coverage of this type in the history of Class A baseball,'’ Moss said, “And although plans are not definite as yet, we are hoping to procure broadcast rights for next season,” he said. All eight teams in the league have been contacted, and Moss is currently conferring with several large cor porations in the area to sponsor the broadcasts at an estimated cost of $175,000. Long, Hard Road To Success The tremendous suoces of the infant WCL has been overlooked by most of the baseball fans in this area, and I think the main reason for this has been due to the fact that Kings Mountain's neighbor, Shelby, has spent two years in last place in the WCL standings. It is quite a feat to be recognized as the best Class A league in the j eastern United States, but the past four years have been | anything but easy for the league. “I was actually thrown out the back door four years | ago," said Moss as he referred to the first year of the lea-j gue's operation. Noone gave the league much of a chance for success, j but, after three years of operation, the WCL is second to ; none in the east. Moss optimistically stated that baseball’s finest years ; are yet to come, and it is the prime objective of the WCL to provide outstanding minor league baseball in every city in the eight team league. It has bee nrumored that four additional teams might; join the league in 1%5, bringing the total league member ship to 12 teams. High Point and Thomasville have shown interest in forming a twin-city team, and Kannapolis-Con eord has shown interest in the WCL, along with Anderson, I S. C. and Columbia, S. C. “We cannot afford to stand still," urges Moss, and he elaborated by saying that the fans of this area can watch for greater strides in the near future because baseball expansion is coming to our area. The 1964 WCL baseball schedule will begin April 24, ' and continue until August 29. 130 games are on the sched ule, with the season being divided, with the first half win ner meeting the second half winner in the post-season best 3-out-of-5 series to determine the league champion. President Moss is a familiar figure to most Kings Mountain residents, and he has had quite a career in or ganized baseball. It all started soon after the war when, in 1946, Moss was instrumental in forming a semi-pro lease, which Kings Mountain was a member. I remember the '48 team, and there were quite a few good ball players on the team. Basketball Coach Don Parker pitched for the ’46 team , Charlie Ballard played first base and center field that ' year, and several imported players aided the team. In 1949 Moss moved up to become general manager of i Cagers Split With Dallas In Home Opener I TWO POINTS — Richard Gold (24) is )ust before scoring two of his 17 points against Dallas Friday night. Mike Ballard (SO), Mountaineer center, and Charles Dixon (43), look on as Tim Atkins (41). guards Gold. Kings Mountain won, 55-53. All-Stars, Ramblers Tied In Recreation League The Kings Mountain All-Stars and Belk’s are tied for the lead j in the Recreation Basketball Lea gue standings ns a result of win ning Thursday and Tuesday nights. Roosevelt Adams scored 16 points of the Kings Mountain All-Stars Thursday night to lead his team to a 58-41 victory over Hie Hawks. Sid Franklin led the scoring for the night with 18 j points in a losing cause. In the only other game played j Thursday night Belk’s won a close 41-37 victory over the Ram-i biers with Arthur Allen scoring 13 points for the winners. Doug; Rathbcne scored 19 for the Ram blers, whose record is now 2 wins and three losses. In Tuesday night's action the Kings Mountain All-Stars con tinued to show signs of being the team to beat registering their fourth victory in five starts with an overwhelming 55-30 victory ■ over the Mountaineers. P. Smith j led the All-Stars scoring with 71' points. Ken Cash and Tommy, Barrett scored 9 each for the los-! ers. j Lithium replaced the National j Guard team in the league, and j squeezed by the Ramblers 38-36 to reach the .500 mark with a 2-2 I record. Jerry Ross bucketed 11 points for Lithium and Herman Green and Gerald Hipps each had 8 points for the Ramblers. Belk’s downed the Hawks, 56 46 to move into a tie with the Kings Mountain All-Stars with a 4-1 record as James Robbs hit for 22 points to lead al scoring for i the night. Richard White register ed 21 points for tiie losers. STANDINGS Belk’s KM All-Stars Lithium Ramblers Mountaineers Hawks W L Pet. 4 1 .8001 4 l .800 2 2 .500 i 2 3 .400 1 3 .200 1 4 .200 !V Cagers Lose Opening Games The Kings Mountain Junior Varsity basketball teams opened the 1963-64 season Thursday flight at the high school gym nasium and lost both ends of a louble header to East Ruther ford. The girls found It hard to regi ster on the scoreboard as the lo •al lassies only managed 11 points in the 24-11 opening loss. East Rutherford jumped off to i 12-0 first quarter lead and add-1 ?d three more in the second to; take a 15-8 halftime lead. Kings Mountain scored onlyj three points in the third and fourth quarters as East Ruther ford dominated the action. In the boys game Kings Moun tain fell behind 12-9 in the first quarter, and was hebind 22-16 at: halftime. ‘ East Rutherford continued to i outscore the locals in the third quarter, 15-40 10 and take a 37 26 lead into the final quarter. Kings Mountain found the range in the fourth quarter, scor ing 18 points but was unable to catch the visitors, who tallied for 15, and a 52-44 victory. GIRLS Kings Mountain (11) P—Rathbone 6 P—Butler 1 F -Voss G—Eaker 4 G—Morris G—Lowery Subs: Cleary, Johnson, Dilling,: Wheeler. BOYS Kings Mountain (44) G—Gofort h 11 G—Finger 2 F—Hamrick 5 F Leigh 6 C—Henderson 19 Subs: Burton 1, Connor, L. Bur-! ton, Bridges. East Rutherford (52) G—Gagne G—Baldwin C—Henson F Vassoy F—Dotson 11 4 16 5 16 Subs: Rush. Logan, Moss. Halftime score: E. Rutherford 22, Kings Mountain 16. HUB * i •; «**■ SMS' v HOLD IT — Compact forward Billy McCathen receive* a pass in Friday night's action with Lincoln High. James Hood (21). Vincent Bell (left center). James Good (4) and Miles Boyd (background) are other players. Compact won 61-47. the Rock Hill Chiefs in the Tri-State league, and the Rock Hill team attracted 128,793 fans during the season, high for the Class B league. During the 1950 baseball season Moss was affiliated with the Detroit Tigers minor league system, and from 1951-1956 was general manager for several minor league clubs foi the Tigers. Moss was affiliated with the Warsaw, Wisconsin pro-] sessional football team for three years before returning | Kings Mountain in 1959 to become president of thd WCL. \ r Girls Lose First 42-37. Boys Win j Second. 55-53 Kings Mountain opened its home basketball schedule Friday night by dividing a twin bill with Dallas of the Little Six Confer ence. The Kings Mountain girls dropped its first decision of the season, 42-37 in the opener, and the boys redeemed themselves with a 55-53 victory aftr having lost to Dallas last week by two points, 50-48. The Kings Mountain girls quickly moved out in front of the Visiting Dallas team in the first quarter as forward Joyce Bolin scored six quick points from the1 floor, and added another point! with a .free throw. Dallas closed1 the scoring gap late in the first, quarter as Alice Blake and j Christine Ratchford scored from! the floor and Jill Payseur added! two free throws to draw within! 1 point of Kings 'Mountain, 11-10 as the first quarter ended. The Dallas offense began to jell in *1*0 second quarter and Dallas outscored the Mountain ettes 11 to 8 to take a 21-19 lead at halftime. In the second half Dallas in creased the margin to six points as the Dallas lassies outscored Kings Mountain 12-8 to lead at the end of the third quarter 33 27. Kings Mountain rallied early in the fourth quarter and came within four points of knotting the score midway through the period, but fhe Dallas team, which lost to Kings Mountain last week 31-27, held on for the victory. Blake led the Dallas scoring with 20 points, and Payseur add- ■ ed 18 for the visitors. Joyce Bolin paced the Kings Mountain attack with 21 points,| followed by Becky Webster with» six, and Margie Huffstetler who scored five. In the boys game, Kings Moun tain built up a seven point half-, time lead, 29-27, and fought off a; second half Dallas scoring bar rage which netted the visitors 21 points in the third quarter, to win a seesaw battle 55-53 over a strong. Dallas team. The scoring pace started slow ly in the first quarter with Ken Bunkowski, Richard Gold, Terry Leonard and Mike Ballard pro viding the Mountaineer scoring which’ gave Kings Mountain aj slim 9-8 first quarter lead. The pace quickened in the sec ond quarter of play as Gold scored seven, and Bunkowski and Ballard adding two field goals each, as the Mountaineers scored 20 points and pulled away, 29-22 at intermission. Dallas caught fire early in the; third quarter with Alvin Culber- j son scoring six points, and Tim Atkins and Steve O’Shields add ing four each to give Dallas a 43 39 load going into the final per iod. The Mountaineers were not to j be denied as Ballard kept Kings Mountain in the game with time ly shooting from the floor and accurate scoring from the foul line. , \ With two minutes remaining, and Kings Mountain leading 51 49, Bunkowski stepped to the free throw line and calmly buc keted two charity tosses to in crease the Mountaineer lead to four. Dallas was far from down as Culberson got loose under the basket for a layup to narrow the margin to 2 at 53-51. Lewis Cook missed on a one ana-one attempt from the foul line with 1:06 remaining, and Dallas was still alive. Mickey McMahon knotted the Continued On Page Three Compact Trims Lincoln Hioh In Twin Bill Compact basketball teams scored a double victory Friday night, downing the Lincoln High Eagles. Compact junior varsity edged the Lincoln junior varsity team 21-20 in the opener, and the Com pact varsity won easily, 61-47 in the nightcap. Sonny Moore and Donald Lea ch scored seven points each for the Baby Cobras in the opener, which saw the lead change hands several times before Compac could win in the final seconds. In the nightcap, James Hood hit 44 percent of his shots from the floor in leading the Compact scoring with 15 points, and James Hood, 6’4” Cobra captain ripped the nets for a 43 percent average and 13 points as the Cobras out lasted the Visiting Lincoln Eag les, 61-47 before a sellout crowd at Compact gmynasium. Friday night’s victory gave Compact a record of 3 wins and 1 loss for the season. Varsity 4-Game Scoring Table: G FG FT TP AV. J. Curry 4 15 14 44 10.8 M. Bovd 4 15 13 43 10.7 J. Hood 4 12 17 41 10? 1 McCathen 4 17 5 39 9.7 A,. fin 4 10 2 22 5.f (V fell 4 7 5 19 4.8 BALANCING ACT — Margie Huffstetler, KM forward, balances the ball on her fingertips in Friday night’s action with Dallas as Joan Howard (31). Becky Webster (12) and three unidentified Dal las players look on. Dallas won, 42-37. McGinnis Furniture Takes First Round Lead In Men's Bowling The second half of the Men’s Bowling League got underway Monday night, and for the first tiftie this season, the Bob Hern-! don team is not on top of the standings. McGinnis Furniture managed the only shutout in the first round of the new race with a 4 to 0 victory over Tignor & Russell. Plonk Oil battled the heretofore' front running Bob Herndon tean to a 2-2 tie, and Dye Construe tion handed Dilling a 3 to 1 loss Albert Brackett began the sec ond half of the season with high scoring single game of 123, 96, and 113, to lead the McGinnis' Furniture team to a 4 to 0 shut out of Tignor & Russell. Brack ett’s three game total of 334 was; high for the match, leading alii scoring by 34 pins. Red Morrison1 led the losers scoring with a sin gle game of 109 and a line set score of an even 300. Clarence Plonk, who rolled a single game high of 115 and a line set score of 328, led the Plonk Oil team to a 2-2 split with the Bob Herndon team. Richard Culberson rolled a single game high score of 122 to lead the Bob Herndon single game scoring, and Charles Culberson posted a three game line set score of 330. high for the match. i Dye Construction shaded Dill mg Heating 3 games to 1 as John Dilling copped high single game scoring with a 126, and EMgce Wells’ line set score of 346 led all scoring for the match. Jack Rhea led the losers scoring with a sin gle game high of set score of 322. STANDINGS: McGinnis Furn. Dye Const. Plonk Oil Bob Herndon Dilling Heating Tignor & Russell 122 and a line Won Lost Pet. I 4 0 1.000; 3 1 .750! 2 2 .500! 2 2 .5001 1 3 .250| 0 4 .000, Eight Western Carolina Leaqne Players Drafted Eight Western Carolinas League baseball players were drafted by major league teams December 3 at the annual base ball meeting held at the El Cor tez Hotel in San Diego, Califor nia. The national meeting, at which league presidents, general man agers, and team managers were present, drafted 98 minor league ball players, who will attend spring training drills with their respective major league teams, i The WCL sent eight players to the major league teams via the draft route. Gastonia has three 1963 play ers drafted: Jack Gaines, left handed pitcher, was drafted by the Boston Red Sox; Ken Solo man, right handed pitcher was the choice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Victor Antonetty, an outfielder, was also secured by the Dodgers. Gary Wallman, who pitched for the Shelby Colonels last year W'as drafted by the San Francis co Giants, and George Culver, another Colonel pitcher, was drafted by the Cleveland Indians. Cary Overstreet, third base man for the Rock Hill team, was drafted by the Houston Coltona. Right handed pitcher Jim Da vis, of the Salisbury Dodgers, was drafted by the Minnesota Twins, and Clarence Stanley of the Salisbury team was drafted by the San Francisco Giants. The newly drafted players will accompany their respective major league teams to spring training. WCL officials ware well pleat ed with the caliber of baseball that was played in this area last vear, and report that the primary Sanction of this league is to de-! veloo the young hopefuls into major league players of the fu ture. Plans In Making For Boxing Team Plans for a boxing team are being made it was announced this week by Ciydc Huffman. Huffman sain that all boys, ages 12-15 and up, who are inter ested in participating, should contact him immediately. He can be reached by calling 739-3487. An inter-city schedule of bouts is being established with matches with Gastonia, High Point, Mt. Holly, Charlotte, and other cities being considered. ,A11 interested candidates, who are 18 years old or Jess must have their parents consent before be ing eligible to participate. Boxers from the Kings Moun Continued On Patjc Three McCurdy Team | Increase Lead In Women's Race McCurdy Cleaners increased its lead in the Women’s Bowling League to three games Tuesday night with a 3 to 1 victory over Fulton’s Department Store. Second place Oates-Henderson had to settle with a 2-2 tie with Kings Mountain Drug, and Kings Mountain Moose outlasted Grif fin Drug 3 to 1. Lih Gault dominated the scor ing for McCurdy Cleaners as she rolled a single game score of 106 and a three game set score of 296 to lead her team to a 3 to 1 vic tory over Fulton’s Department Store. Charity Goforth rolled a single game high score of 94, and a line set score of 258 to lead the losers. Oates - Henderson Shell and Kings Mountain Drug battled to a '2-2 tie with Jenny Oates pacing the Oates-Henderson Shell scot itig with a 110 single game and a 302 line set. Mickey Houser tied for single game high scoring for the match with 110, and Betty Cash rolled a 317. line set score, high for the match, to lead the Kings Mountain Drug team. Griffin Drug found the Kings Mountain Moose Club hard to beat as the Moose dropp<*d Grif fin Drug four games behind the second place Oates - Henderson Shell team with a 3 to 1 victory. Helen Biddix and Pat Panther rolled identical single game scores Of 107 to pace the Moose scoring, with Houser posting a line set score of 282, one pin higher than Pat Houser’s 281. which was high for the Griffin Drug team. Houser’s single game score of 99 led the Griffin Drug scoring. McCurdy Cleaners 46 26 .639 Oates - Henderson 43 29 .597 Fulton's Dept. St. 21 51 .291 Griffi'i Drug KM Moose KM Drug 39 33 .541 38 34 .527 29 43 .402 P A G E’ S CHRISTMAS CHECK LIST All Kinds oi Gifts foi Men. Women and Boys! 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