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Herald Sports By DICK WOODWARD Questions, Questions, And Questions How many times have you atlondcd a sport ins • *i11 with someone only to have them spend the greatei pan ol the time asking questions? Well, to those ol u> " n< claim to have a working knowldge ot the major spoils which arc in existence today tlootbal! baseball. and nas ketballi it n quite * frustrating experience t«. tr\ '*• a *eu minutes to accomplish something that has taken years '< formulize. For instance, I rememlter once in college I marl* the mistake of taking a date to a football game who had attended verv few and knew almost nothing of the rules, goals, etc. Well, to say the least, it was a hectic afternoon but as I surveyed the situation and cam** to the conclusion that there are many, many spectators who attend gam* * and miss some «»f ih«* finer |x»ints which, it understood would enlighten the individual considerably. Baseball Presents Intricate Problems Over many a cup of coffee, baseball is regularly dis cussod. It is discussed in barber shops, pool rooms, on »h.* lawn after church services, at work, and during a \aried number of other social functions. It is the l nited States national pastime. As soon as the weather warms, and things begin to come alive, sports minded people begin to react to lh»* climactic change and focus their attention on baseball, whether it Ik at the high school level, the college level, or the professional level, i ms «*oius in. Toronto to Miami and from Boston to San Diego. News *»( world moving importance is shaken from the headlines to make room for "Berra Becomes Manager of 'i ank*vs . or "Mickey Mantel’s 535 loot Homer". Baseball - the Amer ican gam** played by Americans in an American way. Not many fans know the inside of a baseball office. How players art* signed, how they are traded, and other finer |x>ints of the game which work to make the game more interesting. The average tan hears that his favorite shortstop has been ••sold", or "traded", put on waiver. *»> fanned-out. but these baseball terms may confuse on who is not well schooled in the game itscll. You may hear that a new catcher will be optioned out for more seasoning, that a rookie lias been plated on ihe draft list. *<r that their star pitcher has been selected in the draft. Yet very few know just what transpires to complete a baseball deal. The Purchase Or Sale Of A Player When a player is bought from another club the deal is I generally made by telephone nr telegraph and written eon ! firmation is required to complete the transaction. Let s j take as an example Jimmy Hall is sold to tilt* t’levelan I ! Indians by the Minnesota Twins. Aftei telegrams or 1**1 - ■ tors are exchanged the club selling the player. Minnesota ! in this casi*. prepares a set of three "outright assignment" | papers and sends them already signed to fb.» (•’ ** ’-nd 1 club. They in turn sign them, send one copy back to Min j nesota. keep one for their own files and toward tne ore; n I nl along with the check for the entire amount of purchase I to the National Association headquarters. They will send ( the purchase price on to the office of the President of the American League, w ho then mails the check to Minnesota. This procedure usually takes from three to five days, and is sometimes handled much quicker. So quickly, this js the procedure whiee clubs follow each tint** a player is bought or sold. Option Of A Baseball Player When you hoar someone make the statement that a : particular player has boon optioned to another team, this may present you with the question as to the exact mean ing of the term “option”. The term option merely means ; to loan. When a particular player proves that he should ; bo sent to a lower league classification, say trom the ma ; jor leagues to AAA. which is the first division below the majors, the major league team completes arrangements for his transform! on an option basis to a club in a lower | classification who can use the player and give him the ; opportunity to play and to learn as he does so. Some play* I ers are sent out on a recall basis, that is. thev can be re ' called within a twenty-four hour period, and others are I sent to lower classification for the entire season. Players may be optioned to leagues of equal classification or to : lower leagues, but never upward or within the same lea gue. Finer Points Of A Typical Baseball Game With the coming of a new season, and games being : televised each weekend, there are always terms list'd In the baseball announceis which tend to confuse the average spectator. A situation which sometimes arises during the progression of a baseball game is trying to determine which pitcher gets credit for ihe win or loss in a close ball game. Let's take for an example an extra inning game. Sup pose that the Cleveland Indians arc plavtng the New York Yankees and the score is tied in the tenth inning with Cleveland batting. The leadoff batter singles, moves to second on an infield out. and moves on to third on a wild pitch. The next two batters walk to load the bases with only one out. The Yankee manager decides to change pit chers. and the relief pitcher comes in to pitch with the bases loaded, and walks a run across and the Indians win. Who gets credit for the win. and who gets credit for the loss. Although the relief pitcher was responsible for the winning run scoring as a result of walking the batter to force in the run. he is not credited with the loss because the three runners who were on base at the time he came into the game were the responsibility of the pitcher whom was relieved, and therefore the pitcher who allowed Ihe winning run to reach a base safely is res|>onsible for the run and suffers the loss. On the other hand, if the reliel pitcher had managed to retire the side without a run scoring, and the Yankees had taken the lead and won the game, he then would have been the winning pitcher. Another interesting facet of the game is in determin ing whether or not a given hit ball is scored as a hit or an error. In mose instances this is a fairly simple deduction, | but occasionally it presents quite a problem. Each base ball game in assigned an official scorer, who is responsible for determining the final official score, which is entered : into the record books. At Ihe local level, the official scorer is usually designated by the home team coach, and the final tabulations are determined by the official scorer. The importance of an official scorer is much more important during a basketball game than it is in baseball. There is no set rule to follow in determining wheather a given hit ball is a hit or an error, but certain stipulations do prevent the official scorer from making a drastic mistake in cal dilations. A good examnle of this is a ball which is hit back to the pitcher and glances off his glove and the run ner reaches first base safely. The ball can be classified as being “too hot to hand la”, and the batter is given f bit, or the official scorer, it ROLL-OFF CHAMPS. The Tignor & Russell team defeated the Bob Herndon term, three games to two, in the bestof-five series to de termine tho Mai's Fowling champion for 1963 64- The two teams won the right to meet in the final roll off by finishing first during the first and second half of the season's stand ings. The Tignor & Russell team, pictured above, won the match alter the teams had tied a; two games each. The winners posted a tctal score of S21. eleven pins ahead of the losers. The team members are: (L to r.) Bill Ware. Richard Culbertson. X E. (Red) Mor rison. At Herndon, and Ranny Blanton. Goforth Twirls No-Hitter For Little Mounties; Win Streak Moves To Five Oates-Henderson Loses Six-Garee Bowling Lead With two >vooks remaining h the Womens Bowlin.; Leagic rate, the Oates-Fcnde son She* 11 leads the it • bj slim three games The load lead « is cut f s \ in thret games Tuesday nigh* as K'lif Mountain Moose downed th league-leaders. 3 to 1. and M Curdy Clenneis blanked King Mountain Drti" b‘>. Griffin Drug rr. u -d to with ’ one gam" of Kings Mount Drug, wh h is t m rently ,n foui1 plate, .vilh •» ? to 1 deers n < cellar-dwelling I'niton's Depart ment Store The KM Moose " I \ -t \ ovi Oates-Henderson was ted by Pr Panther, who rolled a sin?’ game high score of <**;. > oup! with a thrc-jg imr I n ' v of 277. I* to Oates pa. ed the losers scoring with a si gle ante high of 117 and a Pne set score of 317. '-nth scores be: *g h: ?h for the m.it> 1). Lib Gault pared the M. ’;i dv Cleaners team to a 1 to 0 shutout over KM Drug to keep the s ond plare lean - opi . a!i > : nil move to within throe games of the leaders with t gilt ame . re maining on the s 'hedu’e. Fault' 112 single '"I • • It and hue - score of 3** • led all scoring for the match, tarv i Burns r .lied i lift sing!*' ■ 'me hi 'h. and a lint sot score of 3.03 for the lo-ers. Griffin Drug moved to within one game of roi»rth pi i s* with a 3 to 1 victory *vei Fulton’s De partment Store. Lmi ■< Dover t opped single game h' ;ii seorin, honors forth" winners with n 112 score, and Dessie Loftin with ;i single ;;ipt" ti’ "it of dS| arid a line set s ole ot 2*3 Standings: Oatos-HonrtiTson MoC\ird> - KM Moost* KM Drug Orff fin PriiK KuItonY, Doot St or Won »X»S! PCt. Sf> vj .603 7<* 57 .580 71 65 .522 61 75 .448 6rt 76 .145 '. 55 80 .411 Ki*Mw Mountain Team Fnters Softball Leoffae Carolina Tlirowtng Company of Kings Mountain has Joined the Gastonia slow-pitch softball I a put* for the 1!H1 season, if was announced by team manager. J. 1). Hammet: Wtilnrsilaj. The league, which ion - ists of five teams from Gastonia anil the Carolina Throming entry. will have regularly scheduled games throughout the summer months, with games being played on .Wednesday and Friday nh hts. •AVe have an exceptionally fine infield and good pitching on the team this year”, reports Ham mett. “Aand the local fans are in for exciting play if they attend our hi-weekly :ame*”, he added. The Kings Mountain entry in to the league opens the season tonight (Wednesday) at the Firestone Mills park at 7:00 I’ M., playing the Sunshine Uniform team of Gastonia. A Friday night game with Carter Traveler gest underway Friday evening at fi:00 P M.. with a third game to be pla\cd next Wednesday night at 7:00 against the U. S. Rubbo 7:00 against the U. S. Rubber i entry. Members of the Carolina Throwing team include: Pa\ id Sips. James Clark. Harvery Whit aker. Al Champion. Gary Smat. Joe White, Tommy White. Don Barrett. Charles Queen and John ■ i Cain. I The ten-man team, which con l. • m >. >i».t — Mace raje p, oud • ly dr play., a W'2 pound Bass, vsrhi':: he caeght at Lake Mon tonia April 14. Grace Page Neb T/t Pound Bass Mrs. < Ji a< • I age landed a 71-. p .;>d h, - las-t Tuesday after t oon •vhi!“ fishingat f^akr Mon Ionia. Mrs. Page reported lhal the -h \v;i- to. .! with <1 No. l» K : -'!e 'aw Hook. which isusually used to catch t.ream and other all ('■ !hi fish measured t • i‘.T -four r dies in length. Hie I; ■<■ t -I h. which is one <1 the I > zest iish to ever lx* . a: Montonia. was landed und *0 in theafternoon as ;.s. p-ige and Mrs. Paul Hen it- I:-. were fishing oti the north of the lake near the dam. An ordinary cane pole, and the • ver popular earth worn consti tuted t!ie i t kle and bait for the p .«• eat eh. and Mrs. Page said :'tat she could hardlv believe that it happened i t her. “I have liecn i fishing for a number of years. 1 and the largest fish 1 had caught sists of nine regular |>ositinn P \ers id one "short-fielder”, will he spearheaded by the tight defensive infield which consists uf Clark. Whitaker. Smart, and White. Sipes is expected to bol -or the mound staff, with Queen anchoring the offense and defense, operating behind the plate. il unmet! ui i-s all fans to sup port the Kings Mountain entry. Thursday, 9-0; Cherries, 10-2 Tommv Cofort h pitched a no litter at Lincolnton Thursday afternoon and struck out 17 Lit tle Lines at the Little Mountain or- \vr n. 90 for the fourth vie ory in a row fo the locals again , only one defeat. Goforth issu ’d five walks, and the Mnuntics •rtmmitted four errors, but second >ase was as far as a Lincolnton >ase runner was able to advance. Leadoff hitter Danny Sprouse dngled for KM to open the game tnd stole second base. Nelson ’onnei grounded cut to the pit *hrt. and Roy Medlin doubled to lrive in the go-ahead run for he locals. Tin Mounties ad tod six more uns in the third inning on only >ne hit. a single by Phillip Cash, ’rocto:, the Lincoln.oil pitcher walked five KM batlirs and the Lincolnton defense committed four errors during the six-run KM third. The eight and ninth KM runs came in the fifth and sixth in nings with Sprouse and Cash leading the hitting attack. CHERRYVILLE GAME Fridav afternoon Danny Spr ouse posted win No. 2 as ire pit ched the Little Mountaineers !o a 10-2 decision over Cherryville to extend the KM winning streak to five games. Tin Little Mountaineers took the early lead with a run in the top half of the first inning as Roy Medlin singled Tommy Go forth home. The locals added another in the third inning, three in the fourth, three in the fifth, and two in the seventh, with Phillip Wright and Ham rick setting the pace. Cherryville scored two runs in the fifth inning as a result of two hits, a fielder’s choice, and a base of balls. up until then was about twelve inches in length and weighed a round a pound", she related. She gave a great deal of credit to Mrs. Hendricks, who came to her assistance and hel|>cd land the fish. "We grabbed the fish and ran up the hill all the way to the road before stopping". Mrs. Page said. "Because we were a fraid that the fish may get a way", she smilingly added. The fish is in the process of be ing mounted, and will he display ed in the Page home upon com pletion in July. It was <|uitc an experience for me", she added “But if I fish f.’om now on. I won’t iieas lucky again", she concluded. 1 i THANK YOU PLONK OIL CO. lor Your Sponsorship In The Men's Bowling League For The 1963 . *64 SEASON TEAM MEMBERS STFVE RATHBONE — GENE TIGNOR RODDY HOUSER — PAUL WARE CLARANCE PLONK KM Downs Chase, 5-3; Loses» To Belmont, 9-2 Tuesday KM Five-Run 5th Edges Chase For First Local Win Kings Mountrin rail! si for five ! in< in tfv* fpth in.iin ; t« *vin .. com** ■ (font-behind decision over Chas«* Friday mght.5-3. the Moun taineers fust >outiiwcst Confer ence victory against three 1c fi*ats. chase* st« nils 0 4 in confer ones* |»lay. Tims* KM etrors, anil two Chase hits in the third Lining pul the visitors in front. 3-0. Warren Goforth, starting pitcher, was re lieved by Seorlry Lo.very with two outs in the third. Lowery struck out Terry Walk.*; to end the inning, and proctssled to strike out the next three hatters to lace him. Ronnie Mauney started the Chase third inning with a sharp sir.glr down the left field line, and stole second as the pitcher, Terry Powell struck o*n for th • first out. Al ert Radfmd reached first on a fielder's choice as ho grounded to th< pitcher and Go forth elected to go to third with his throw in an effort to nab Mauney. The throw was wide of target and all hands were safe. P >uf» Tate singled Mai m > home, and Radford took third as KM left fielder. Ronnie Rhea let the hall get h\ nim. Danny Hawkins scored Radford with a single to light field, and Tate scored the third run as Louis Cook. KM catcher, commuted the third KM error on a passed hall Chase starter. Terrv Powell, kept the Mountaineers in check for fmi rinnings. scattering three hits. Two Chase et rors and a single by third baseman Pat Murphy ac counted for the first Kings Moun tain run in the home imir of the fifth inning. With runners on sec ond and third, and no outs, Pow ell was relieved on the mound by Peeler. Shortstop Richard Gold greeted Peeler with a double to sr ire two more KM runs, which ti«*d the score. Mickey Lei I reach ed first on a fielder’s choice, and Gold scored from third after ad vancing from second on an error. Bell stoli' second and scored the fifth run of the inning as Cook singled. Seeriey Lowery gain*si the vic tory for Kings Mountain, his first of the season, and Peeler suffer ed the loss for Chase. Box Score Belmont (9) Keener, If Crawford, 3b Armstrong. ss Sugg«. 2b Biddix. rf Lowing, lb Barkley. <• Beam, «’f Adkins, p a ■ Hope n rr.\LS AH R H h 4 O 2 C 4 2 10 3 2 11 4 12 2 4 2 10 4 110! 4 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 O 0 0 32 ;» H 4 a ran for Adkins in Itli. Kings Mountain (2) Murphy. 3h Gold, ss Beil. 2h McGinnis. Ih Rhea. If Cook. «• Person, rf fluffs ticker, cf a-C. McGinnis Black. p b-Goforth. p TOTALS AB It II F 4 0 0 1 4 2 11 4 0 2 II » 0 (> 2 3 0 fl 0 ;t it o l 2 II 1 1 2 <1 I) 0 I II I I 1 II I) I) 2 0 0 1 30 2 5 S a.singled for Huffsticklor in 6th b-rellowr Black with one out in 4th. Score By Innings 12 3 4 5 « 7 0 0 10 10 0 1 0 2 I 2 3 X KM B Chevrolet* Post Wins At Gastonia It was certainly a “Chevrolet Day" at Gastonia Fairgrounds Speedway Sunday. Daniel War lick of Shelby won the 50-lap feature, followed by Dougc Coop er of Gastonia and Max Goodwin of Rock Hill, both driving Ohevys. Louie Cunningham of Gastonia was the first Ford to |>lace fol lowed by Eddie Mac McCarter of Clover in a *55 Chevy. Johnny Gardner won the first heat and Jim Vandiver took the second heat. Parks Stiles of Gastonia won the 20-lap amateur race in a '50 Ford. Another big program has been liniHi up for this Sunday includ ing a 100-lap feature for the mod ifieds. No amateurs will partici pate in this Sunday’s race due to the fact that there will be a X. C. Amateur Championship held at Union County Speedway. Belmont Turned KM Errors Into Runs For Win Kings Mountain suffered ti« fourth conference loss ol tin* sea son Tuesday night at Belmont as the Red Raiders rapped tvv.. KM pitchers for eight hits and took advantage of eight Monti taineers errors to imst a 0 2 wit Belmont took the lead in tin first Inning after the Mountain »ers failed to score in the open ing hall of the frame. Shortstop Richard Armstrong singled to left field with two out. stole sec ond. and scored on Dannv Suggs single. Tommy Black started on tl ■ mound for KM. and was relieved with one out in the fourth innin by Steve Goforth with Bel mot: i leading, t l The locals tied the score in lie top half of the third inning as .1 result of two Belmont errors Richard Gold reached first aafctv as second baseman Suggs errored a routine ground hall, and Mick ey Bell bounced hack to the pit cher who threw wild at first base Kold was off with the pitch and scored all the way from first base The KM lead was short lived however, as Belmont scored two runs on two hits, a walk, and at error. The winners cushioned the lead in (hr fifth and sixth in nings with two and three runs respectively. Danny Suggs hom ered for Belmont in the sixth with none on. The second KM run came in the fifth inning. Kichurd (add hit an inside-the-park heme run with two outs to complete the K.M scoring. The Mountaineers tavel to Kutherfordton tonight tWedne> dayt for a makeup game with the Hilltoppers. and remain on the road Fridav night with ■■ game at Lincolnian. Some 25 to 15 modified cars are cxpeeted to return for hdat races and the lOtt-lap whirl around thef quarter mile track getting under " Wity promptly at 2:15. MEN’S STORE LIGHT VEMHTS Summer in our light weight slacks for real style and comfort. Gig color choicel ■ays Styles from ] S3.7S to 11095 Itai's Styles from SCSS to n\M LADXSS* SPOKTSWEAB By !AT - BAT - BRADLEY - CATALINA PAGE’S MEN’S STORE 113 W. MOUNTAIN ST. PHONE 739*5531
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