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Pat Murphy’s Three ID Passes Tame Lions 19-7 Herald Sports BY GARY STEWART \ * i Midgets Shine Many midget ballplayers in the Kings Mountain League are showing much progress and potentialities of becoming fine high school athletes. WAYNE MULLINAX. brother of Mountaineer end Bill, has led the scoring and ground gaining for the first place West team in all their games so far. Coach Bob Hus sey looks forward to having him on his ninth grade team next season, I'm sure. deeper Howard and Mark Goforth, also of West, have hit the scoring columns very often. Also Ross Springer of Grover, Ted Wright of North, and Steve Phillips of East hav» shown much progress. All High School Teams Tame Lions The Kings Mountain Mountaineers, ninth grade, .i\"s, and high school, have tamed the Golden Lions of Shelby in 'til, the first being the ninth grade Little Mountaineers in their first game of the season. CHIP CRISP Irom two yards out scored a touchdown and kicked the conversion as the Little Mounties downed i the Shelby ninth graders 7-0. The defense was credited with a big part of the win. not allowing the Shelby boys to cross the Mountaineer 2.'>. JV's — Last Thursday The Junior Varsity, led by sophomore halfback Philip Wright, tamed the Shelby JV’s, the first time Shelby has! been beaten in two years, last Thursday night. Wright scored from one and Li3 yards out on power sweeps and kicked one conversion in the JV's ld-7 win. Tommy Burns and Philip Russ were offensive standouts, along with quar terback Tommy Finger. PHILIP BUNCH saved the game tw ice for the JV’s by stopping long runs by Shelby boys inside the ten-yard line. The detense lightened up and held Shelby, not allowing them to score but once. Other defensive standouts were Chuck\ Gladden and Gary Devenney. Big Mour.+ies — Tamed Lions The high school team, led b\ the passing of quarter back Pat Murphy, stopped the Golden Lions Friday night. 19-7. Murphy passed complete nine times out of ten at-1 . tempts, three for touchdowns. | KM Rich!! Has Gold i The Mountaineers are wealthy? They ' have struck GOLD. THIS GOLD has been the talk of the town lor the past week. Kieh.ml Gold, that is. Gold caught six of Murphy’s nine passes, carrying two of them into the end /.one for touchdowns. He has scored five times this season. j Defense Praised!! • J Tho Mountaineer coaches praised their defense for I tho work it did against the Lions. Although the Lions • out gained the Mountaineers on the ground, the defense : receives much credit tor the win. Hubert McGinnis, Gerald Carrigan, and Lyn Cheshire ; were responsible lor throwing the Shelby boys for big : losses, George Plonk. Steve Grigg, and Jay Powell were I highly praised by the coaching staff tor the work they did. STEVE BAKER and RONNIE RHEA were responsible • for the biggest part of the Mountaineer ground gaining. Rhea appeared “headed tor pay dirt" several times but Lions managed u» block his path, baker made the only pass interception of the game. An unidentified Kings Mountain lad should be praised for recovering the Shelby tumble that led to the Mounties' first score, but no one, even the coaches, seem to know who the boy is. MOST PEOPLE around Kings Mountain seem to think that the Mountaineers are on their way to conference CHAMPIONSHIP. BIT the coaches still sav, "THE TOUGH GAMES ARE YET TO COME.” , II. 111 mil. I 1 J1IJI! lil.llllJIlUJIlMf JJIIilillUIUllll Homocoming game this Friday should prove to bo one of the most exciting of the season. Rutherfordton. only one-hall game behind the Mounties, is naturally going to be fighting hard to beat Kings Mountain. MAX BEAM, head R.S. mentor, seems to think that if his boys don't beat the Mountaineers, then nobody will. He reports that I.ineolnton's line is so big and tough, that Kings Mountain w ill "have to pass” it they expect to beat them. "Bt r. Kings Mountain will boat them. No quarter back in the conference can stand up to Murphy.” he says. MOl NTAINEKR COACHES say that Belmont is the “dark horse in the Southwest Conference. Belmont travels to Shelby to take* on the Golden Lions this week, before Playing host to the Mounties next Friday. JIMMN \\ RIGHT. Mountaineer end w ho was injured in the Mooresx ille game, might see some action this week. He will definitely be playing against Belmont. winnors ,his «eek? Let s predict MOl MAIN over Rutherfordton, East Rutherford ('hon>ville ovo,‘ Stanley, and BELMONT over I^’P'c would say, “You’re sticking your neck \VA\ out by predicting Belmont over Shelby.” but I like to stick my neck out some times. ..>... j • it 111 Tignor Now Fifth In Men's League Tignor & 1‘usscll won four games from Hilling Healing Monday night in the men's Bowling action, pulling them from sixth to fifth place, and dropping Hilling into a tie for third. Harold Barber copped Une and ; *et honors (or Tignor. rolling a t 13u line and a 351 set. Kurmati I Wilson rolled a 122 high line and ■ a 34."» high set for the losers. ,) Clyde Culbertson won three | gainer from Plonk OH. Although IJteir total pins were the same. Culbertson defeated Plonk lu a “frame overtime " to give him the extra game. Clyde Culbertson rolled a 129 lin«> ami a 362 set for the win ners and Clarence Plonk rolled a 1'W high line and a 364 sot for the losers. Boh Herndon split a (our-gtunc series with Griffin Drug. And Tig nor rolled a ITS high line and Bob Herndon had a .176 set for Herndon. Steve Rath bone rolled a 133 high line and Randv Blan ton had a 342 set for Griffin. STANDINGS Team w > Ivde Culbertson Plonk Oil Bob Herndon Wiling Heating Tignor & f^uiwll Griffin Drug 28 23 22 23 Ut 17 L 16 19 22 22 27 .636 .636 .568 .300 .300 .406 .386 "If We Can't Beat KM, Nobody Can." RS Coach "Wo have everything to win and everything to lose.'’ said i Coach Max Beam o( the R.S. Cen tral Hilltoppcrs. "If we can't . boat Kings Mountain, nobody | , i,n ' The Rutherfordton head men tor says tha: in will bo going all out to defeat the Mountaineer' because if the Hilltoppcrs lose. ‘‘We ll be out of lin k.” he stated . "Even a tie wouldn’t help us I any. bo« a use if we don't beat I Kir.j- Mountain, nobody will.” There arc 27 boys on the Cen j trai squad, and all of them, in I eluding only four sophomores. arc* anxious to finish "in front" l in the Southwest Conference. The Rutherfordton defense is I well balanced, hut as the head man stated, “the defense* has to in* good, or you won’t win any ball games.’’ Starting at the end posts for the Hllltoppcrs will be 145 pound senior George Helton and 155 pound senior W> man i’arton. Harvey Moore and Forrest Coone will !k tin tackles, and Terry Hines and Alan Kdwards will he the guards. David Allen. 150 pound se nior, will be at the cen ter Spot Jack Huss, 170-pound seni'-r. will b»* at the quarterback post, and halfbark-. Buddy Green and Mark Gilbert, along with full hack Donald Owens make up the remainder of the backfield. Halfback Buddy Green is Cen trals leading score r and fullback Owens is the leading ground gainer. Rutherford:on has a record <>f 5-1-1. They were beaten by Marion in their first game of c season and lied by Fast Ruther ford. They have a 4-0-1 confer ence* record, one-haif game be hind the Mount uneers. STARTING LINEUPS (Rutherfordton) Pos. LE LT LG C RG RT RF. < ti LH RH KB Class 4 LE LT LI I P’.aver George Helton Harvey Mo , ' Terry Hines David Allen Allen Edwards Forrest Coone Wyman Partun Jack Huss Buddx Green .Mark Gilbert David Owens (King? Mountcin) Richard White I Gerald Corrigan Steve Grig 1 4 i C Hnhi'rt McGinnis t RG RT RE ‘JB LH RH FB George Plonk l.yn Cheshire Jimmy Cloninger Pat Murphy Steve Baker Ronnie Rhea Pat Hord 4 Wt. I 15 1011 1 45 150 170 100 150 ISO 150 190 ISO 17. 155 208 ISO 200 175 175 158 170 175 RKHAHO GOLD, Mountaineer defensive end end offensive standout in seventh game, is shown afctve putting a step to Shelby's David DePricst. Jay Powell (left) and Ben Grimes (54) look on. (Phote by Tommy Plonk). Bance Henderson Coach Of Oregon School For Deaf Quarterback Bob Olson comes up to i)'.;' Mr of scrimmage, looks to c:ihe; side to make cer tain everyone is ready and then nudges the •enter when he wants the snap. He calls no signals. He and six of seven starters are deaf. They play for Oregon State School for the Deaf in the Cas o 1- ._'ht-man high school football league with such schools «i> Triangle Lake, Wostfir and Mohawk. Olson calls his play in sign language. It would seem that, because the players can't heat the signals to determine when the ball is snaped, that the Panthers would be bothered with offsides penal ties. Not so. "We could take a chan e on offsides." said Coach Ranee Hen derson of Kings Mountain. Yes, the coach of the team is Ranee Henderson, a native of Kings Mountain, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Henderson. His wife, the former Betty Ledford of Kings Mountain, is wot king on her master’s degree at Oregon State. Besides coaching. Henderson tea: in s 12th grade English, 10th grade history, and two seventh grade classes. TOUCHDOWN—Bill Mullinax. Mountaineer end. is shown above catching one of Pat Murphy's three TD passes in Friday's game with Shelby. Two unidentified Lions have Mullinax covered, but he still manages to make the snab (Photo by Tommy Plonk). Compact Downs North Wilkesboxo 16*0 For Third Season Victory The Compact Cobras won their third victory of the campaign Monday night by whipping North Wilkes boro 16 0. James Hood. Charlie Crocker, William Kennedy, and Pete Adams ac counted for the Cobra markers. Halfback James Mood scored on a 35-yard run in the second quarter. Pete Adams kickt>d the extra points giving Compact an H O kad at halftime Fullback Tommy Adams pass ed 30 yards to end Charlie Crock er in the fourth stanza for the other TD. William Kennedy ran for the extra points, giving Com pact a 16-0 win. k'iist-unit quarterback Miles Boyd attempted four paases and completed two for a total of 40 yards. Johnny Thombs attempt-1 ed five and completed one for ten yards, and fullback Tommj Adams attempted 2 and com pit ted one for 30 yards. The defense showed much prog res-; against North, as re por ed by head coach John Bla lock. Linemen John Moore.- Bert Smith. Garland Edwards. Buford Pressly. Rodney Byars, Sherwood Moore. Henry Manning and Law rence Wilson were defensive standouts. Compact will play its home coming game Thursday < tonight • at 7:30 against John Chambers of Cherryville. The parade will begin at 5:00. The Compact and John Chambers high school bands will be the main feature of the event. The game will take place at City Stadium Murphy To Gold Key Play In Mounties Seventh Win CottfiHUtil From Page One Hold gained one yard (o the eight and baker was slopped on ! the It. Hord quirk-kicked the i hall on the third down. It was fumbled by the Slielhy receiver and Kings .Mountain recovered on the 44 with lite last two mi ’ mites of the first half rapidly ticking away. Murphy passed t o Richard ; Gold on the Shelby 49 and anoth er pass to Gold saw the Moun taineers on the 2t> with a tiist down. Two more passes to Gold an dthe Mountaineers led 6-tt. An , offsides penalty against the Mountaineers forced the extra point attempt to he attrinped from he seven-and-a-half. Gold decided to pass for the extra point, hut the attempt failed, ami the score stood. Thirty-nine sec onds were showing on tile clock. Hunnic Waies kickoff went 59 yards to the Shelby one. but Pruett ran 30 yards before down ed on the 31. Vaughn picked up the first down on the 42. Pruett picked up six yards to the 4S and Baker intersepted Self's pass on the 23. The first h3lf ended DEFENSIVE STANDOUTS—Pictured above are (left »o right) Lyn Cheshire (tackle). Hubert Mc Ginnis (center), and Steve Grigg (guard), who were defensive stars in the Mountaineers* 19-7 whipping of Shelby Friday night. AH three boys are seniors. George Wilson Home After Two Yean Of Japanese Baseball Toni George Wilson. Kins* Moun tain native, has retired from pro fessional baseball after 19 out standing seasons. Wilson has been playing for the Xishiiotsu Lions of Fukufka, Japan for the past two seasons. Wilson left Japan two weeks ago. and has been in Kings Mouniain 11 days. He resides on Goforth Street. He staled that he was fortunate to see the opening day of the Olympics in Tokyo. Wilson began his professional baseball career with the Boston Red Sox organization in 194ft. After a slay in the minors. Wil son joined the Chicago White Sox in '52. He played for the White Sox two months before being track'd to the New York Giants, where he played the re mainder of the ’52. ’53, and part of the '54 season. lie played for Minnesota, 3-A. in '55 and was brought up to the New York Yankees in '5ft. Wilson was born in Cherryville and attended Ashley High school of Gastonia He didn't play high school ball but played American Legion baseball in Gastonia. His professional career was shorten ed three years because of mili tary service. He played football in the Army. After his professional tour end ed. Wilson played for almost eight years in South America, before going to Japan in 63. Japanese baseball is made* up of tv. leagues, the Central and the Pacific, each league includ ing six teams. Wilson played in the Pacific League. His team, of which he played first base, won the- pennant in '63 hut finished fifth in 'ft4. The Lions lost the Japanese World Series in seven games in '63. Wilson's .429 batting average was the highest of any one per son in the Series. He hit four home runs in the Series. This past season. Wilson hit at a clip of 285, socked 27 hom-: era. and had 76 runs batted in.. The Pacific League plays a 190-1 game season, while the Central League plays 1-lrt The Japanese home run record is 36 in 140 games. sot by a member of the Central League last year. The Pacific record is 32 in on*? season. Wilson reported that he likes Japanese baseball better than U. S. "It is easier to play in Japan because the playing days are much longer.’’ he said. Spring training in Japan is 14 weeks w’hile in America it is only six weeks. Wilson spent his spring train ing days this past season with Yankee second baseman Bobby Richardson, and Carl Rrskine. and Don Demeter. "Many ex-major leaguers com* to Japan to play." Wilson said. Some of the many playing in Japan now are Daryl Spencer. John Logan, and Ken Aspromon te. Wilson gave his views on some of the actions that have been taken in the majors recently. He - -’id that lie did not think that the St Louis Cardinals should have traded pitcher Larry Jack son to the Cubs for outfielder Lou Brook. Regarding the Yankee firing of manager Yogi Berra, he stated that it was probably because Yogi was too easy on his play ers. He doesn’t think it was be cause Berra couldn't get along with the players "He has just as much respect for his plavers as they have for him." Wilson added. On the other hand, he thinks that Johnny Keane willj make the Yankees a good man- j ager. "Keane can do a good Job with any club.” he said. Wilson reported that there is no grass on the Japanese in fields. "It is very exciting to play in Japan.” he said. Although he set no records in Japan, he said that he was high ly impressed with its baseball. Wilson had a 3-A career bat ting average of .320 and homer- . ed 246 times, which ia a record.! Mountaineer Gridgiaph SCORE First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing Passes Attempted Passes Completed Passes Had Int. Fumbles Lost Punts Average KINGS RUSHING: Baker Shelby 7 Rhea {lord Gold Putnam Murphy PASSING: Murphy Gold RECEIVING: Gold Baker Rhea Mullinax IK 6 10 6 3 3 Alt. 10 1 KM 19 14 163 129 11 9 0 1 4 32.3 MOUNTAIN T G L Net A eg. 4 59 3.3 52 S.7 - 25 11 196 21 6 2 1 1 4 40.0 63 32 25 12 11 4 Con 9 0 Caught 6 — 11 — 4 ip. Int. Yds — 129 2.5 2.0 3.7 1.3 RUSHING: -Self Lynch Wright Pruitt Vaughn Southard PASSING: Self RECEIVING: De Priest Mitchell SHELBY T G Yds. H3 21 20 5 8 4 8 9 7 1 64 39 32 30 28 3 1 L Net A eg. — 64 8.0 38 32 .30 28 3 9.5 4.0 3 3 4.0 3.0 Att. Comp. Int Yds. 6 2 1 31 Caught Yds. 1 21 1 10 KM JVs Hand Shelby Pint Lost In Two Yean The Kings Mountain JV's hand- j ed the Shelby JVs their first loss in two years Thursday night, with sophomore halfback Philip Wright accounting for all the Mountaineer scoring. Defensive end Philip Bunch was responsible for breaking up two Shelby touchdowns around the five yard line. Both runs wm lor ■ jmitM. Ilw MhhUm j r with the score 6-0. Waic's second kickoff was taken on the 20 and he was drop|>ed on the 22. Pruett pick• ed up six yards, and Wright rac ; od to the 2s. Self carried nine yards for a first down on the 37. Halfback I,arry Southard pick 1 ed up three yards to the JO and j Pruett was tlroppitl on the -II. Halfback Lem Lynch broke loose and raced |s yards before being dropped on I h e Mountaineet eight. On the next play Self rac , isl into the end /one. tying the score. OePriest kicked the con version, and Shelby led 7 -6. Hu haul Hold returm>d Addis’s j kickoff to the 3S. an is yard re i turn. Baker was thrown for a four-yard loss, and Murphy picked up three hack to the 37. ; Murphy passed to Ronnie Rhe^^ on the Shelby II fur the fir^H down. Honl gained two and Mut^^ phy one, putting the !>a!l on the 11. Murphy passed to Hold on the 35. but was short of the first down. Hol'd plunged thtough the line, picking up the first down on i tile 34. Baker raced to the 30. but a I penalty set the Mountaineers back 15 yards, the ball on the 45. j Hood offensive blocking gave ! Gold time to race to the end /one and Mui phy hit iiis target for another touchdown. McGinnis kicked the conversion and the Mountaineers led 13-7. Pruett took Ware’s kickoff on the three and raced 25 yards be fore being tlropped on the 2*. Pruett gained two yards and Wright raced to the 33. Lynch was thrown for a one yard loss and Pruett punted once again. Baker took the punt for the Mountaineers on the 33. and via dropped in his tracks. Baker picked up four yards to the 37 I and Rhea broke loose and was stopped on the Shelby -11. a gain of 19 yards. Baker picked up one and Rhea : raced seven more yards to the j 36. Baker picked up the first down on the 33. Gold ran to the I 29. and the third quarter ended at that point. Rhea gained five more yards | and Gold picked up the first I down on the 22. Honl raced t<^^^ the 1.5 and Gol divas stopped ot^^ft the 14. llonl picked up the firs^^ down on the ten, with goal to go. Gold rai-cd to the six. and then picket I up two more yards to the four. Gold was thrown for a lost on the five, and Murphy passed to end Bill Mullinax for the third TI). Richard Addis blocked Mc Ginnis’ conversion attempt and the Lions trailed 19-7. Terry Goode took Ware’s kick off on the 15 and raced to the 31 before downed by the Mountain eers. Offensive holding put the Lions back on their own 16. with a first and-25 situation. Pruett puked up one yard to the 17 and Self raced to the 30. hut was still nine yards short of the first down. Self passed in complete to Lynch, and Pruett was forced to punt, his punt downed on the Mountaineer 40. llord picked up one yard to the 11 and Baker gained seven more, putting the ball on the 48. Rhea broke loose again, picking up the first down on the Shelby 36 Pete Putnam replaced I*at llord at fullback, and Putnam l>ieked up six yards to the 2s. Baker picked up the first down on the 2T». and it looked like the Mountaineers were on their way again. Rhea gained two yards to the 23 anti Putnam raced three more to the 20. Murphy fumbled anti • 'hip Clonlnger recovered for thet Lions on the 15. * Lynch picked up the first down on the 27. Self fiassed incomplete anti Wright raced to the 35. Sell picked up the first down on the 13. but was thrown for a four yard loss on the next play. Self passed to DePriest on tut Mountaineer Id, and a first down. Self passed incomplete and then was thrown for a loss on the Lion’s 17 The game ended at point with the final score 19-7. Pat Murphy anti Richard Gold were offensive stars for the Mountaineers Murphy, after missing his first fiassing target, completed nine straight passes, and Gold scort*tl two touchdowns, running his total to 30 points scored in seven games. Hubert McGinnis. Gerald Car rigan, anti Lyn Cheshire were among the defonsive standouts for the Mountaineers. Richard Addis, Chip Cloninger. Sam Crawley, Don Turner, and Lem Lynch were standouts for the Golden Lions. Shelby now has a conference record of two wins and three losses. The Mountaineers, 4-0 In conference play, play hast to second-place Rut her ford ton Fri day In their Homecoming tilt. won 13-7. Tommy Burns and Philip Russ, along with quarterback Tommy I Finger were other offensive standouts and Coach Bates re parts that Tommy Dover, Philip Bunch. Chucky Gladden, and Gary Devenney were among the
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