(Hor |SI>" aid r t s DICK WOODWARD Davidson Holds Coveted Title You know, it i- phenominal how a few victories by a particular basketball team can change the complexion ol an entire area. Well, the Davidson Wildcats are presently holding claim to the title "The Most Instigating Force To Hit North Carolina Sports Since The Days of Everrett ( ase, Frank MeCSuire. Vic Bubas, and Bono M« Kinney. Now rest assured, there aren't too many schools throughout the nation which can compete for this coveted title, anti to l>e perfectly frank there aren’t many, regard less of geographical location, which would even attempt to try. During the past 16 years. North Carolina has been re garded as being the most productive state in the t . S. with regards to producing high caliber basketball. It all began bark in 1!M7 when Fverrett Case came to the N. C. State campus, and brought his basketball team with him. Case and his fine teams began to make sports history in the Old North State by winning basketball games, and drawing national attention to this area. The ever-popular Dixie Classics were outgrowths of Case’s production of fine basketball teams, and it wasn’t long until UNC, Duke, and Wake Forest followed suit in producing high caliber basketball teams also. Now the Southern Conference has produced a nation ally ranked North Carolina team. Davidson. The Wildcats are every bit as good as the national rankings indicate. They are presently ranked No. 4 Davidson’s head coach. Lefty Drosscll has done basic ally the same thing as did Case. He came to Davidson four year ago. and although he didn't bring his team with him at that particular time, he has managed to assemble one ol the best basketball teams in the nation today. Although Davidson has produced some fine basket hall teams in the past, this year's team is the onlv one which has been able to attain national acclaim, and the basketball fans in the Piedmont section of the state are really showing their enthusiasm. There aren’t many teams that could draw 11.000 fans to Charlotte Coliseum for a single basketball game hut Davidson did it a week or so ago when the Wildcats played Virginia. And I understand that trying to buy a ticket to a Davidson basketball game is like trying to land a position on the Davidson starting lineup, and that would In* next to impossible. One other aspect which should he brought to the at tention of the Davidson followers is the fact that four of this year’s starling team will he hack next year. One Da vidson fan jokingly commented a few days ago that he was having trouble obtaining tickets for the '65-66 sea son. and to bo truthful, he may not have been too far off in his statement. It is always a feather in the hats of a school's alumni when the school produces a good athletic team, and the Davidson alumni have been no exception. And they aren't the only excited ones. Even the staunch Duke, Carolina, and Wake Forest fans are jumping on the Davidson band wagon. The oni\ exception being in the case of the Duke fans, who are holding their breath until after the David son-Duke game at Durham February 15. By the way, the Davidson-Dukc ame will not be tele vised. The game can be seen on closed circuit television at the Davidson campus, and there is a good reason why the game will not he televised in this area. UNC. Clemson. N. C. State, and South Carolina will he participating in a two night double-header at the Char lotte Coliseum Friday and Saturday nights February 14 and 15. and if the Duke-Davidson game were carried via TV. the attendance at the Coliseum would suffer. This is only fair, and most fans will agree. Vanderbilt Scores In National Race Although Vanderbilt has only been recognized as an outstanding basketball power for only a few short months, the Nashville. Tenn. school has produced some real fine basketball teams throughout the years. Bac k in 1946-’47 Vanderbilt spent its last year as a basketball midget, and since that time the Commodores have been growing in stature and this year have reached the giant class having defeated Duke. 97-92 and Kentuckv. 85-83. Vanderbilt's surprise upset over Duke in December opened the eyes of basketball fans throughout the South land. And a few weeks later the Kentucky Wildcats fell victim to the Commodores. Roy Skinner. 33-year-old head coach at Vanderbilt, played_ his collegiate basketball at Presbyterian in the early 30‘s and became acting head mentor at Vandy in 1958 following a heart attack suffered by head coach Boh Polk. Polk returned to guide Vanderbilt* for the next two years before his assistant. Skinner, inherited the job in 1961. Polk directed the Commodores from 1947 to 1961 and his coaching career was studded with accomplishments as Vandy inched forward toward national recognition. His teams won 197 games and lost 106. took the Southeastern Conference tournament in 1931 when they upset mighty Kentucky's national champion, and finished second five times in the conference race behind the Kentuckians. Skinner continued to produce good teams after taking over the head coaching duties, but. until this year, his teams didn’t make the so caled "big time”. Prior to this year, his finest team was last year's which finished fourth in the conference and won the 1962 Poinsettia Holiday Tournament at Greenville, s. C. Skinner's present team was ranked the best in school history even before its notable 85-83 victory over Ken tucky at Nashville. January 6. It wasn’t the first time the young looking Skinner had prevailed over the master Adolph Rupp of Kentucky. Coach Rupp went to Nashville in January seeking his 695th vic tory. but went away with his 136th defeat. And again dur ing the 1938 season acting-coach Skinner turned the trick and defeated Rupp. 75-66. and last year Skinners’ team downed Rupp's boys. 69-67 for Vanderbilt's first win at Lexington since 1932. Another factor regarding the Vandy team is the fact that this year’s team has only one senior. The first ten players include four sophomores, five juniors, and a sen ior, and the senior, 6-7 Bob Hines rarely starts. Coach Skinner only dresses 10 plaj^rs for games al though several other players are attending school with athletic scholarships. Vandy’s second team can score well, and this was shown in December when Vanderbilt met South Carolina in the holiday tournament. When the Commodore coach felt his regulars had a comfortable lead over the Gamecocks in the final game of the tournament, he summoned his second team. They scored 42 points in nine-and-a-half minutes as Vanderbilt won, 106-78. , College basketball is better than ever, and this year’s outstanding teams seem to be well heeled for the coming 4 Mounties Upend Cherries, 53-41 PACE SETTER — MUm Bollard, KM junior center, set the pace for the Mountaineers Friday night with 19 points to lead KM to a 53-41 upset win over Cher syville. Box Scores BOX SCORES Girls Kings Mountain (27) F—Huffstetler 1 F—Bolin 3 F—Webster 17 G—Howard 4 G- Ramseur 1 ] Subs: Ruff 1, Lowery. Williams. Lynn. Putnam. Cherryville (46) F Harris 14 p—Dellinger 11 F—Moss 10 G—Gilbert 3 j G Cadwallader 2 : G—Neil Subs: White. Janet Brown, Jan ell Brown. Moss 4, Rhybe Beck 2. Boys Kings Mountain (S3) G—Gold 12 G Goforth 4 C—Ballard 19 F Bunkowski 9 F Cook 4 Subs: Leonard. ChonyviUe (41) G—Sipe 4 G—Self 3 C—Cooke 2S P Hager 2 F—Black w elder Halftime Sore K.M. .14. Cher ryville 17. Tignor & Bnsseli Galas Tint Spot la Men’s League The TSgnor * Russell team is the new leader in the Men s Bowling League, and heretofore front running McGinnis Furni ture is tied with Plonk Oil for second place as a result of Mon day night's bovl-ng action. Tignor & Russell upended the i first place McGinnis Furniture team Monday night hy a 4 to 0 count, and mo\< d into undisputed possession of first place in the standings. Clyde Culbertson paced the Tignor & Russ. 11 scoring with a single game high score of 133 and a three game set high of 350. Richard Bridges copped high scoring honors for the losers with a single game high of 113 and a line set score Of 325. Plonk Oil became the sixth team in as many weeks to defeat the Bob Herndon team, and push . Bob Herndon into the cettar oil By DICK WOODWARD Kings Mountain opened its l!#vt SWf home basket ha 11 schedule. anti the Mount ies even ed their Southwest Conference record at 1-1 Friday night but up ending a highly favored Cherry vilie team. 53-41 in a heated con test which saw almost as many fouls called on the non-partici pants in the game as against the participants. The local lassies dropped I heir second SWC .Mine, lfi-27 in Hie home opener. Kmmitt Femisler. Cherryville heart coach. was charged with two technical fouls during (he hoys 'amp which saw the pre sca sorted pic ked SWC champion Cherryville squad fall victim to the accurate shooting Mountain* eer cagers. The local lads, who were un impressive in the SWC opening loss to Shelby Tuesday night. 42 3o. unleashed a scoring barrage which netted the- locals .34 points in the first half, and a 1? point lead. Mike' Ballard. 6-1 junior center, and junior guard Richard Gold led the Mountaineer massacre with lf> and 12 points respective ly Cherryville’* center. Jack ooko copped high scoring hon ors for the evening with an im missive 28 points, but the other our Ironmen found the going too rough as the KM defense domi noted rebound action under the Cherryville basket. Friday night's loss was Cher ryAide's second loss of the week, and the pre-seasoned picked 'team to beat” stands 1-2 in the ?WC, while the locals are 1-1 in the* SWC. and 4-2 on the sea son. Trailing 34-17 after two quar ters of play. Cherryville came roaring back in the third quarter with ten |H>ints in the first three minutes to narrow the KM lead o seven. .344-27. but the Moun ties refused to be denied as Ken 3unkowski spearheaded the KM Utack with aggressive defensive play. Hold and Ballard picked up he scoring slack to cushion the Kings Mountain victory. The Cherryville girls moved their SWC standings to 2 wins •gainst only 1 loss by shattering the local lassies, 0-2 in conference ilay. in the opener. 46-27 with Gearaldine Harris scoring II for the visitors, and Nancv Moss eentributing 10. and Gay Dellin ger 11 for the winners. Beekv Webster continued to pace the Mountainettes scoring as she netted 17 points. The visiting lassies moved out in front by a 15-10 count in the first quarter of play, and cush ioned the lead to 28-14 at haif time. The locals managed only 13 points in the second half, and the visitors continued to roll and outscored KM 18-13. Duke-Davidson Telecast Set DAVIDSON — Arrangements have* been made to close-circuit telecast the Davidson-Duke bas ketball game to be played in Dur ham. February 15. The telecast W'U be to Johnston Gym on the Davidson College campus. Dr. Tom Scott, Dav’idson Ath letic Director made the announce ment Fr’day following the com pletion of negotiations for the closed showing of the already sold-out contest between two of the nation's top-ten teams. "A very large TV screen will be used and we will be able to ac commodate approximately 4.000 fans in the gym by placing seat ing on the gymnasium main floor »!>d using regular seating capa city of 3.600. Reserve seat tickets for the telecast will go on sale at the college athletic ticket office immediately."’ Dr. Scott said. The decision was made to telecast the game in the light of the fart that the Duke-Davidsan game is shaping up to he one of the outstanding games in the area between two of the nation's best basketball teams. Duke was able to allot our fans about 20tt tickets for thei rindoor stadium. the second half of the season's standings with a 3 to l victory. Plonk Oil. which was tied with Tignor A Russel,; for third place a week ago. mo. ed into a tie with McGinnis Furniture for the run ner-up spot in the standings. The Plonk Oil victory was spearheaded by Rod Houser and Paul Ware who rolled high scores of 123 and 329 respectively. Bob Hcrndm paced the losers with a single game high for the night of 137 and a line set score of 363. al high for the night's action. DilUng Heating advanced from sixth to fourth place in the stand ings with a 4 to 0 shutout over Dye Construction, with John Dill ing providing the scoring punch for the winneta with a single game high of <14 and a line set score of 309. Boyer .Murray led tne losers scoring with a 116 sin gle game score and a line set score of 328. Standings: Tignor A Russell Plonk Oil McGinnis Furn Dilling Heating Dye Const. Bob Herndon 16 9 .666 13 11 342 13 11 5U 11 11 J 10 14 8 H HEADS EASTER SEAL DRIVE — Vic Babas. Duke University head cd Chairman of the 1984 Easter Seal Drive in North Carolina. Duke Mentor Named Chairman Durham Victor »Vic> Bubas has been namev a* 1961 North Carolina Easter Seal Chairman I Hike University's famous head basketball coach was named to the chairmanship by Clarence E. Whitefleld of Durham, president of the N»rth Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults. White field slated: “I am ex tremely pleased to announce that Vic Bubas has consented to acne as our 1964 North Carolina East er Seal Chairman. I know rhat under his leadership we will have a successful campaign. He suc ceeds a group of outstanding chairmen including Luther Hodg es. Terry Sanford and Cliff Blue. Personally, an-l on behalf of the handicapped of North Carolina. I am grateful to Vic Bubas." Bubas succeeds State Sc.iatoi John R. Jorda-. Jr. of Raleigh as Easter Seal Chairman. As chair man. he will sign thousands of letter to North Carolina folks seeking contributions to the So ciety. He will make radio and television ap|>earances and speak to various groups on behalf of the handicapped. The 1964 Easter Seal Campaign will he during the month of March. The youthful coach, 37 year old Bubas. is a native of Gan-. Indi ana. He graduated from North Carolina State in 1961 where he was a leader in student activities and captain ol the basketball team. Bubas served two years in the Army with the Tirst infantry Di vision prior to entering college. After graduation, he served as head coach at the Wolfpack freshman and then assistant under Everett Case. In 1939. he became head coach of the DuRce Blue Devils. Bubas is ma'iied to his child hood sweetheart, the former Miss Totlie Boldt o* Gary. Indiana. They have three daughters San day. 13; Vicki. 10; and Karen. 6. Boyd Loads Compact In Doable Win Compact ported its 8th and 9th victories of the season Friday and Tuesday nights with a 57-29 victory over Green Bethel Friday night, and a 61 • S3 win ovei Washington High of Waco at Compact's gymtorium Tuesday night. The junior varsity made it a clean sweep for the Cobras with two wins also; a 366-16 win over Green Bethel and a 60-35 win ov er Washington. Miles Boyd paced the winning Cobras in both wins scoring 18 points against Green Bethel, and netting 17 Tuesday night against Washington. Charles Jones, an 8th grader, paced the JV scoring Tuesday night with 18 points as the Baby Cobras posted their highest score of the season. Compact journeys to Edmund Emory of Tryon for a double • header Friday night. far too few to take carp of the Davidson students, college fam ily. and the regular fans who wished to see the game." Dr. Scott said. The Duke Da' idson game is not to be telecast generally in the Charlotte area because of a pos sible cutnflict with the North South Double Header basketball games set for Charlotte Colise um. February 14-15. Mountaineer Cagers Crush Cavaliers By 85-67 Count 1 Sports Quiz 1. Prior 10 this year's foul straight victories. when waa the last World Series to ho won by a loam in four Ramos? 2. Then* at- very fow football : statues and memorials, hut those i ' Omtmitlitie* have them. For I whom are they dedicated? tat Laurinm, Michigan ■ thi Carlisle. IVnnsylv,;-, t to) Voss. Norway 3. Before Wilt Chamberlain •cored his 100 points, who held the record for most points in one NBA game? I When did -Toe Louis announce his retirement as undefeated heavyweight boxing champion ol the world? o. Only one college hnskerball player letl major-college scorers three years in a row ibest aver age'. Who was he? 6. Who was ihe first man tc swim across the English Chan nel? The first woman? 7. Mow did Floyd Patterson win his first heavyweight champion ship? Who did he beat? S. This coach took two differ ent schools to the Gator Bowl football game in successive years. Who was he? 9. The highest price paid for a thoroughbred tact* - horse was SI,2ol.2nf>. What horse? It). Loyola University of Chica j go won the National Collegial? . basketball title in 1963 with just I one senior in its lineup, hut h« was an All-American. Who was he? 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In Thursday night's action, the KM All - Stars gained the lead in the standings with a 77-52 win over Lithium, as Bulk's lost to the Mountaineers. 53-47. The Bum blers defeated the Hawks. 46-4U in Thursday's other game. Jim Davis collected 27 point] for the KM All - Stars to lead hi* team to the 77-52 victory in Thursday night's third game Boone netted 14 for ’he losers. Leroy Styers scored 16 points lor the Ramblers, which defeated the Hawks. 46-42 in the Thursday night opening contest. Richard White led the losers scoring wi*h 15i The Mountaineers, led by Tom my Barrett's 34 poiats, dropped Bulk's from first place In thi standings with • 53-47 upset win Robbs scored 18 for th« James from. Tuesday night Belk's moved back into a tie with the KM All Stars with a 53-43 win over the front runners. James Robbs pac ed the winners with 18 points ad Jim Davis contributed 14 for the losing Ail-Stars. The Ramblers outlasted the Mountaineers. 43-34 as Charle I Camp set the winner's scoring pace with 12 points. Barrett net ted 12 for the losing Mountain eers. Lithium won its fifth game of . the season in the night's fina 1 action with a 54-46 win over the last place Haw’ks. O’Brien and j Franklin shared high scoring j honors for Lithium with 12 point : each, and Pat Murphy coppet , high scoring honors for the ganx j with 17 for the Mountaineers. STANDING W L Pet 9 4 .60 9 4 M 7 « .53! 5 7 .41! 4 8 33: 4 9 316 Ail-Stars Belk's Lithium Mountaineers Hawks Gold Sets Pace WHh 24; Gills Lose Hurd Tilt Junior guard. Kicltaid Gold, .scored eight of Kings Mountain's ' first ten pointr. Tuesday night, and added It; more during the course of the game. as the Kings Mountain hoys unleashed a soor ■ iilg borage a t)»•> King* Mountain 1 high school gymnasium. to down Hast Rutherford. 83-67 in a high I scoring fn*e-for-all wihch saw 92 touls railed. 91 eprsonals and 1 j tech n leal. Tlte Hast Rutherford gtrls won the o^tening contest, Kl-29 for their third conference win against no defeats, anti bring the Ca\ al ettes season record |,i s wins and I) losses. In the ojsuier. the Hast Rut her ford lassies wasted littie time in disposing of the locals as the vi sitors moved out i.ito a 23 3 first quarter lead, nntl added ] I more in the second quarter to take a commanding. V 14 halftime lead. The visitors ! Linked the locals for two and a half minutes irr the first quarter, and led. ItM) before the Mountain'.*! tes could register on the scoreboard to nake it Id 1. Throe Fast Put her ford players hit in double figures with Jane Riggerstaff leading the way with .31 points, and Joir Hutchins and I.inda Melton collecting ten each. John Howard led the Kings Mountain scoring with 7 points. Becky Webster collected fi and Joyce Rolin managed only 3 fni the losers. The boys game started off slowly blit a seeond quarter out ■ burst carried the local lads in their highest rooting output of the young season. Kings Mountain led 13-10 after one quarter of play. The scoring pace quickened during the second period ns the locals ripped the nets for 27 points anil the visiting Cavaliers were unable to find the range and scored rtelv t; points. Kings Mountain led .-.t halftime, 10 lfi. Tlte third period was a re|>eaf performance for the locals a< Ken Bunlcowski pacts) the scoring drive fot King:- Mountain with > points as an additional 27 points were scored by the Mounties. and the KM lead vss increased to »TT 31 as the fourth quarter .vegan. Coach Ibm Parker cleared his l*ench in the final stan/a. Fast Rutherford scored 3d jtoints. is of which were scored from the foul lihe and the locals register ed IS. Gold hit seven of fourteen from the floor, and ten of fifteen from tiie free throw line, to lead the KM scoring with 24 points. Runkowski hit nine of thirteen shots from the floor for p points', and Mike Ballard missed scoring In double figures by one point, hitting three of eight from the ' floor and thro. of eight from the charily line. Phil Luckadoo led the FR Continued On P>uj, J f 'HIGH SCORCH — Richard Gold. Mountaineers junior forward, ted the KM scoring with 24 paints in Tuesday night's 85-67 win o»?t Easi Rutherford. GIRLS Kings Mountain (29) F Ifuffstotler ltOl.il Webster lira viler I low.ird Ramseur P r G G G Ramseur 1 Subs: Rufi 3. Russell l. Lynn Lowerj', li ’am. Willku.is. E. Rutherford (64) K liij»:B*rstaft 31 F Summitt 10 F -Melton 10 G -Hutchins 2 G—Smith 1 (» C M>k Subs: Alber"ine 7. Landis 1. l*ji ton 2. Early. Kdgerton, Tone> Tedder. Dow ney. Sonvls. Score by Quarters: 12 3d KM 3 9 KK 23 It Halftime score: K. Rill her ford 39 K BOYS Kings Mountain (85) G Gold \V. Goforth liallnrd 1 20 Mtn. ll 21 G \V. Goforth -1 C ll.ill.ird 9 K Btin!.o*vski is F Coo'; S Suhs: Cloninv'cr. s. Leonard " Hell I. Gr'irtes 2. Cooper 2. P > well 1, M. Goforth. S. Goforth. Van Dyke. E. Rutherford (67) G • Mayse 9 G—Mnthenv 3 C Powell s F Luekadoo 19 F Davis 7 Subs: Griffin 9. Coffey 2. By: I 2. Gamble 3. Haynes 1, Smith Score by Quarters: 12 3 4 KM 13 KR 10 Halftime Score: K. Mtn. -10 E. Rutherford 1(5. 7 27 t r, 13 3*7 mam ^veouK^ Men's SUITS and Sport COATS ONE GROUP 25% (NT • Suits • Sweaters Shirts REDUCED UP TO • Sport 51% MEN'S ( BOTS HEAVY COATS SAVE 25% NOW All Mm-i PImM Wool PANTS 25% OFF * » ■■ 1 GROUP OP Danlax awl Knox HATS */» OFF ASX ABOUT OUR MONOGRAM SERVICE — WE MONOGRAM COATS. JACKETS, and SWEATERS — FREE MONOGRAM WITH EVERT PURCHASE OP A LONDON FOG COAT OR JACKET! PACTS ‘Formal Wear For All Occasions' 1S9 W. St i