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Herald Sports By DICK WOODWARD Green Crosses Palm (er) Once Again Green greens, gn'i'n fairways, greenbacks, and green with envy dominated the weekend of golt from ihe Augus ta National Golf Course as Arnold Palmer did it again by copping the coveted Masters litlc with a tour round . total of 276. six strokes ahead of defending champion. 'Jack Nicklaus and surprising Dave Mur. who finished •. with runner-up rounds of 282. Palmer made golfing history by becoming the first i to win four Masters tournaments, and the even years •have been good to him. having copped the crown in ’.">8, j '60. 62. and ’64. ; Palmer, who has 20,000 in greenbacks as a result of * winning the Masters, has still another green back to add •to his collection. The tournament-winning green coat, i which Nicklaus presented to the new champion. Palmer’s four round total, 276, was just two strokes off the all-time low which was set by Ben Hogan in 19f>.’t, and four strokes lower than Nicklaus ’63 winning score of 286. Palmer completed the first leg of the so-called grand slam of golf, which includes the U. S. and British Opens and the U. S. PGA. the latter being the only major crown Palmer hasn’t won. Palmer reeled-off an opening round score of 69 Thur sday to move into a five-way tie for the lead after 18 holes, and came* storming back Friday with a second round score of 68. which put him four strokes out front. Ilis third round score of 69 ran his lead to five strokes, and his fourth-round 70 brought his winning total to 276. second lowest score in Masters history. Palmer summed up the tournament by saying that it was probably the most exciting victory he has ever had. Power Shakes Power In Twins Title Try With the beginning of a new baseball season, veteran first baseman. Vie Power, is faced with the task of landing a starting berth for the Minnessota Twins. Power, who is beginning bis 11th season in the majors, has been an out standing performer for the majority of his ten seasons, but the over-abundance of potential home run hitters who dot the Twins starting lineup, has Vie faced with the task ot landing a starting position With the blossoming of Belmont's Jimmy Hall into an outstanding center fielder, the management of the T wins is laced with the problem of what to do with all of the power hitters. Rookie, Tony Oliva is expected to play the outfield for the pennant-chasers this year, along with hard-hitting Harmon Killebrew and llali. This omits Bob Allison from the outfield lineup, but he has been working at first base during spring training, and just may find a home at the initial corner. Power won the Gold Glove Award as baseball’s out standing defensive first baseman for the sixth straight season in 1963. even though it was not his best year. The Puerto Rican, with a flair for catching pop flies one-handed, accumulated a fantastic fielding record of .981) for the season. He committed only 12 errors during the en tire season, but even more phenominal is the fact that he has bettered that mark six times previously. For his car eer, so far. Power has a fielding average of .992 and a bat ting average of .287. With averages like this, it is hard to realize that there is a possibility that Power will lx* used as a utility infielder. So, even if Allison starts the season at first. Power would be reinstated quickly if Killebrew. who is nursing a repaired knee, should falter. And too. Hall will be bat tling the so-called “sophomore jinx”, and may find the road a little rougher this year. The ’6.” Tw ins led the league in almost every saltistic except w on-lost percentage. They led in runs and homers, hits, total bases, team batting average, and runs-batted-in. Only the 19(51 Yankees ever hit more homers (240) in baseball history. N. L Mourns Death Of Hubbs, Umbricht With all its color, excitement, and glamour, the nat ional league will be shy two players this season. Ken Hubbs. the sensational second baseman of the Chicago Cubs, lost his life during the off season in a plane crash, and Houston Colt pitcher, Jim I’mbricht, lost his battle with Cancer on April S. Tragedy struck down one of baseball's brightest young stars when KKN Hl’BBS. 22. was killed on February 13. in a crash of his own light plane. No one will ever know what happened in those final seconds of life for Hubbs when he was clutching the con trols of his single-engin Cessna plane that crashed on an ice-covered lake in Utah, but the s|K>rts world was sad-; dened by the loss of such an outstanding athlete. Then* was never a lad ter man under presure than Hubbs, and that pressure wasn't something he experienc ed only after he became a major leaguer in 1962. He was voted rookie-of-thc-year in 1962. and he will be long remembered in the baseball world. JIM UMBRICHT was not what one would call an out standing baseball player during his playing days, but he was described by his doctor as being "one of the most courageous men I've ever met", following Umbroeht s death April 8. The 33-year old Umbricht had undergone surgery on his right leg last March, and his apparent recovery was evident as he saw considerable duty during the season last year. Umbricht. a bachelor, was a graduate of the Univer sity ol Georgia, and a member of the Bulldogs’ baseball and basketball teams. Big Jim. a native of Chicago, who grew up in Decatur. Georgia, had only a modest carrer in the Big Time. His over-all totals showed only nine victories and five defeats, 88 games and less than 200 innings pitched. But what he lacked as a pitcher, he made up for in courage. One of the biggest thrills of his life was the "Most Courageous Athlete" award presented to him last Jan uary by the Philadelphia sports writers at their annual banquet. In rememberance of Umbricht, the Colts will wear black armbands throughout the season. So; although the opening of another baseball season brings much gaiety, glamour, and happinness- we still will remember with deepest reverence tne passing of tow competitors who made the game a little brighter for all KM Nine Falls To Shelby, 6-1; Third Loss Little Mounties Register Two Wins Box Score Kings Mtn. (18) Sprouse. rf Cash. s<! Mcdlin.e Wright. 2b Gladden, 3b Ramsey, If Goforth, p Hamrick, tb lluntslnger. ef II 0 AB R 4 2 3 2 0 1 2 2 5 I 3 2 3 1 5 2ft 3 4 4 1 4 1 3 0 2 TOTALS South Gastonia (2) 34 IS 11 Brasil, rf Stone. e Holland, rf Lewis, lb Goble. 3b Sanders, p Troutman, ss Boone. 2b Fisher. If AB R H 3 ft ft 3 e o 2 0ft 2 0ft 3 ft 0 2 1 I 2 I I 3 0 ft 3 ft ft TOTALS WI -Goforth I P-Sanders 23 2 2 Score By Inn’ngs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 KM 2 3 6 2 5 0 0 Gastonia tl ft ft 0 2 ft ft Box Score Kings Mtn. (3) Goforth, rf Conner. 2b Medlin. c Wright, rf Cash, ss Gladden, 3b Sprouse, p Ramsey. If Hamrick, lb AB R II 2 ft ft 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 1 1 3 0 1 2 ft ft 1 1 ft 1 I ft 3 0 0 TOTALS Shelby (0) 21 3 2 Peeler, ef Elliott, p McDaniel, ss MeCurry, c Runyans. 2b lones. 3b Lut/. If Champion, rf Allen, lb AB R H 3 0 0 3 0 1 3 ft 0 3 ft ft 3 ft 1 3 0 0 3 0 ft 3 0 1 2 0 0 TOTALS 26 0 3 a. Lloyd, p relieved Elliott in 5th. WP Sprouse LP-Elllott Score By Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 KM 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 S ft 0 ft 0 ft ft ft Blackett, Plonk Registei Hiqh Scores For Year The season's scoring leaders for the 19»53-fil Men’s Bowling League were announced this week by Furman Wilson, league statisti cian. Albert Brackett posted high scores in two departments for the year. Brackett copped the high single game score for the year with a 159. and had the best season's average. 111. Clarence Plonk and Richard Bridges ti««d fot the high line set score of the year with 3K8 scores. Plonk led the first half of the season's line set scoring with <1 •1S2 high, one pin ahead of Ranny Blanton who r died a 381. Plonk also rolled the high single game score of the year. 174. hut the score was not official since troth the 171 single game score and the high line set scort? of 3^2 were rolled the same night, and only one high score was a lowed be cause of a league rule which stat <>d only one hieh score i>or night could he officiary entered inh the records. Men's Bowlinq Action Complete The final matches of the 1963 •M Men's Bowlins League were oomnleted with Tignor & Russell finishing in the Xo. l position fc*r the siH'oml half of the season standings, eight games ahead of the second nlaoc Plonk Oil Com pany. The Bo.> Herndon team, which finished aton the first half of the season standings, broke a tie with Dve Construction for fifth place with a 3 to 1 decision over MrCinnia Fum*ttire f>ve Construction was blanked hv T5** nor & Russell. 4 to 0. Plonk Oil defeated O iling Heating 3 to t in the night’s other action. Rannv Riant ut led ihe Tignor A Russell soorin« in the final 1 regularly scheduled s e a s o n 'i Gastonia Falk To Locals, 18-2; Shelby Too, 3-0 The Little Mountaineers posted two victories this week to bring their season total to two wins agains? only one defeat. Friday afternoon the locals trav eled to South Gastonia and over whelmed the Gastonia nine, 18-2. with the entire Kings Mountain team seeing action in the game. The Mounties wasted little time in assuming the lead with two runs in the first inning, three in the second, six in the third, and seven runs in the fourth and fifth innings, before Gastonia con id register on the scoreboard. Gastonia scored two unearned runs in the fifth inning as Coach Bob Hussey cleared the KM bench. Tommy Goforth pit -lied a two hitter to gain the win for Kings Mountain, with Philiip Wright ind Gofor'h leading the hitting with three hits caeh. Sanders -,uf fered the loss for Gastonia SHELBY CAME The Little Mountaineers shut out visiting Shelhv at City Stad ium Friday afternoon. 3-0. to av enge an earlier Shelby win. 6-4. Danny Sprouse twirled a three hit shutout at the visiting Lions in registering his first victory of the season, and added to the King-- Mountain cause with one cf the three KM runs. Back-to-back singles by Phil lip Wright and Phillip Cash open ed the KM second inning, and Wright scored after Chuck Glad den reached firs: base on a field er- choice for the first Mountain eer run. Pitcher Sprouse walker, stole second, and scored on a throwing error by Shelby short stop. McDaniel. The locals added another run in the fifth inning as a result of two Shelby errors. Sprouse was the winning pit eher. and.Shelby's Ralph Elliott, who |iifcm«d a ftne game as he allowed only two hits, was the loser. Tltc Little Mountaineers travel to Lincolrtton for a game Thurs day afternoon, and return home Monday afternoon to host Cherry ville. Oates-Henderson Increases Lead In Women's Race An error in reporting lost week stated that the Women's League terminated the regular schedule of matches this week. The Oates • Henderson Shell team has not clincher the Wo men's title as reported last week, but is currently six games ahead of second place McCurdy Clean ers. Three weeks of competition remains on the schedule Tuesday night's action enab led Oates-Henderson Shell team to move closer to clinching the Women's League title as the the front-runners defeated Kings Mountain Drug 3 to 1, and second plate McCurdy Cleaners split a four game match with Fulton’s Department Store. Griffin Drug downed Kings Mountain Moose. 3 to 1 in the other Tuesday night match. Jenny Oates continued to roll high scores fo Oates-Henderson as she pasted a single game high of 99 ind a three game line set score of 284 to pace her team to a 3 to 1 victory over Kings Moun tain Drug. Janet Burns copped high -soring honors for the losers and led the match scoring for the night with a 108 single game high and a line set score of 310. Griffin Drug maintained its No. a position with a 3 to 1 win over Kings Mountain Moose with Brenda Biddix pacing the win ters with a single game high of 1'ifv coupled with a three game line set score of 306. Mary Adkins led the losers with a 1117 single game high and a 270 line set score. Fulton's Department Store bat tled second place McCurdy Clean ers to a 2-2 tie with Pat iiermdon rolling a 122 single game high score, high for the match. She also led her team's line set scor ing with a 303 total. Margaret Wilson and Lib Gault paced the McCurdy Cleaners scoring with scores of 119 and 328 respectiv ely. STANDINGS: Oa'es-Henderson 8t McCurdy Cleaners 75 KM Moose 68 KM Dru^ 61 Griffin Drug 57 i Fulton s Dept. St 36 Dl =f £ ^ ^ 8 BOWLING CHAMPS. Pictured above are the Men's Bowling League champions for 1963 64. The Tignor & Russell team (above) won the second half of the league race, and the Bob Herndon team (below), finished first dur ing the first half of the season. The two teams will meet Monday night in a best-of five series to determine the champion for the year. The members of the winning teams are: (Top photo. 1. to r.) Bill Ware. Richard Culbertson. K. E. (Red) Morrison. A1 Hend erson and Ranny Blanton. (Bottom photo, first rom 1. to r.) Clyae Culberson. Bob Hern, don. and Ronnie Culberston. (Second Row 1. to r.) Micky Robinson, and Tom Gamble. Sports Spectacular To Feature Atlanta "500" Sunday Afternoon ATLANTA. Georgia — Fred Lorenzcn’s record-breaking Allan ta 500 victory, his third in a row. and the excitement of Atlanta's wildest stock car race, will be Matured on the CBS-TV Sports Spectacular coast to coast Sun day afternoon The fifth annual Atlanta 500. which attracted the largest sports attendance in the history of Geor gia a week ago. was captured on video-tape by five CBS cameras working from strategic locations around the hugs mile -and-a half high-banked Atlanta Internation al Raceway. A spectacular mid-air flip by USAC’s former national stock car champion Paul Goldsmith, thrilled the 70.000 spectators, along with car demolishing crashes involving Fireball Rob erst and David Pearson: Jimmy Pardue. Indinapolis winner Par nelli Jones. Indy driver Jim Hur tubise and European roail racer Dan Gurney; and Da re I Dierlnger The Atlanta 500 race will dc but the LBS summer aeries of Sports Spectacular when It re turns to its 30-minute format this coming Sunday. 5 to 5:30 p.m. ESI. During the race, Lorcnzen was clocked as fast as 147’- miles an hour in his 1904 Ford. His re cord-breaking speed, in spite of four caution flag slow-downs be cause of crashes, was 134.116 mill's an hour for the 500 miles. Golf Team Wins Lincolnton Match The Kings Mountain high school golf ii>am posted it* first victory of the season Monday afternoon by defeating Lincoln ton. 6 3 at the Kings Mountain Country Club Golf course. The golfers dropped a match to East Rutherford Tuesday af» ternoon, 7*3-4's. A re-match with Shelby is scheduled for the Country Club I course Thursday afternoon. KM Tigers To Hold Tryents This Week Tryouts for the 10*>4 Kings Mountain Tigers baseball team will be held at the Davidson Park Thursday and Friday after, noons in preparation for a pre season practice game which will he held at the Davidson site Sat urday afternoon at 3:0f). All interested candidates art urged to attend the Thursday and Fridav practice sessions. The Tigers will be a member of the Gastonia League this year, and will be aiming to better last year's fourth place finish. The practice game with Black sburg. S. C. Sa'urda.v afternoon will terminate the three-days of activity. Wallace Wins Race At Gastonia Track GASTONIA. N. C. Larry Wal lace of Charlotte, N. C. driving a '56 Ford won th< second feature race that he has ever won at Gas tonia Fairgrou. ds Speedway Sun day. Behind Wallace was Jimmy Clark of York. S. C., “Bunk Moore <»f Indian Trail. N. C. and Johnny Gardner and Dan Arrants of Rock Hill. S. C. Bob Seymour won the first heat with "Bunk" Moore taking the second heat. Jimmy Furr of Charlotte, N. C won the 20 lap amateur main event. Bo;» Seymour was forced out of the main went because of mechanical trouble. For the first 35 laps it was really hub-to-hub and bum per-to-bumper for Boh Seymour. Larry Wallace, Bunk Moore and Jimmy Clark More dueling of the same is expected this Sunday for a big 50 lap feature and two heats plus a 20-lap feature lor the amateurs. Some 25 cars are expected a long with the same number of amateurs. First race gets under way promptly at 2:19 pun. The Boston Red Sox defeat 9d the Pittsburg Pirates. 5-3 in the lint World Series base ball game, which was held in 1903. The first Series winner was determined by a best-of - nine series. KM Errors Big Factor; Goforth Loses Second Kings Mow tain dropped its third conimvtlvp Southwest Con ference gane Friday afternoon. 6-1, to undefeated Shelby. The vi siting Lions look an rarly one run lead in the first inning and were never horded a; pitchers Don Patrick and Bill Champion limited the Mountain<>crs to only three hits. Shelby leadoff batter Charles Peeler doubled to left tenter field to oj»en the game, and scored one out later on Mike Street's single, but Kings Mountain starter War iw Goforth got eleauup hitter Gary Wilkie 01. a pop up to the se ond baseman, and struck out left fielder J«h- Phillips fo end the inning. Starter Patrick kept the Moun taineers in chcik until the fourth inning when second ba-a-man Mic key Hell walked to open the homi half of the inning. Cleanup hit ter llulM'rt M«Ginnis singled to left center fiekl for th-- first KM hit of the day, and wiih i unn> * on first and second and no outs, catcher Louis Cook mnv<*ri the runners up with .1 sacrifice buns Claude Pearson grounded out to the third baseman for the second out. hut left fielder Ronnie Ifhea followed with » sharp single to left field whirl. si-orcd Bell and moved McGinnis to third. Rhea took second on the throw in from the outfield. Patrick was still in trouble as h * walked KM's Carri gan to fill the Im-ki-s. hut relief pitcher Bill Ohnmoion came in and struek out Warren C.oforth to halt the Moi.ntainee> rally. Two hits, ane two KM errors in the Shelby third inning allow ed the t ions to lak** a 2-0 lead. Goforth and t'hambon settled down to a pitching duel in the fifth and siMh innin • > with nc.th Continued on page 3 Box Score AIR M 3 3 2 1 n it o o 3 o 3 1 2 a i l E n 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 I) 0 t SHELBY (6) Pooler. cl Wilson, ss Stn-rl, rf Wilkie. II) l Phillips. If Fraser. 2l» ; Pniili. 3h Bankston. <• : Patrick, p l Champion. >» TOTALS 30 6 7 0, KINGS MOUNTAIN (1) AB R Murphy, 3h Gold ss Bell/2) McGinnis, lh Cook, c Pearson. cf Rhea, If Carrigan. ri a (’. McGinnis Goforth, p a Lloyd TOTALS 2fi 1 3 7 a struck out for Carrigan In 7th Score By Innings: 1 2 3-1 5 6 7 H «» 0 0 0 1 0 n i 0 o 2 d 0 :f (i l 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 :t 1 3 E 1 1 0 1 0 0 It 0 1 1 i Shelby 1 n 1 0 0 0 4 KM 0 0 0 1 O 0 0 FOR THE LADIES Van Heusen BLOUSES $4.95 up Matched Sport Clotho* Sots By lay-Ray Bradley MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS • DACRON # COTTON DRESS SHIRTS - All Colors. Sloes. And Stylos From Which To Chose GOOD LINE OF MEN'S SHOES FLORSHEIN A CROSBY SQUARE SUMMER PANTS — THEY'RE COOL Dacron A Cottons - Dacron 4 Wool Good Selection Of Salts PAGE’S MEN STOKE “Formal Wear For All Occasions” PHONE 739-S531
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