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KINGS MOUNtAiN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, June 3, 1965 >egion Juniors Lose Opener To Gastonia, 9-6 Juniors Split Two'Game Sirie3 With Newton; Lowery Fans 16 — ,uuto. MUtt "»* r® wMiw vnice (inira-oaBeman;, joa M< >s throws out the first pitch to oiiicioUy open the Daniel (shortstop), Bob Manor (second - base- 1965 Kings Mountain Little League baseball sch man). Cool Wilson (first-baseman) and Roy Peo edule. Behind the Mayor is his infldd, from left rson (catcher). Summer Recreation Program In Full Swing The summer recreation prograrn for Kings Mountain is now in fuii swing with the opening of the swimming pools, Littie League and Teener League schedules and the Legion baseball program. City Park opened Saturday with a street dance high lighting the event that night. Little League and Teener baseball teams opened their regular season play Tuesday night with a double.header and the Legion baseball team began regular season play Tuesday night at 8:00, playing host to Gastonia. Coach John Gold's Juniors played five pre-season prac tice games and came out with a 2-3 record with wins over Newton and Charlotte Post 380. Their losses were to Cher- ryville (twice) and Newton. Their biggest win was against Newton, 16-2, and their poorest appearance was at Cherry- ville when they lost 9-0. So far, the Legion team has played two extra inning games, winning one and losing one. The boys lost 7-6 to Newton in 11 innings and won 6-5 over Charlotte here Sat urday night in 10 frames. Bell In Early Hitting Spree Second-baseman Mickey Bell, who has been the Kings Mountain high school and Legion’s leading hitter for the past two seasons, is showing signs of having his best Le gion baseball season this year. Bell led the KMHS hitting parade this spring with a .405 batting average, and through the first five Legion games he has collected 12 hits in 17 times at bat for a tre mendous .706 batting mark. He has scored six runs and has collected 10 singles and tw’o doubles, plus he has three runs batted in and one stolen base to his credit. Bell has four errors. Five other boys are hitting at a high clip and, if they can continue their hitting in regular season play, will give Bell some rough competition for the season’s batting crown. Probably the busiest Legion player :s shortstop Rich ard Gold, who is second on the hitting list with a .455 mark with 10 hits in 22 times at bat. Gold leads the team in the double and triple department with five doubles and one three-bagger, however, he has made the most errors, five. He also has the most stolen bases, three, and leads the'™"®- Bur-Mil-Kiwanis Take Early Lead In LL Standings Mayor John Henry Moss toss ed out the first ball Tuesday af ternoon to begin the 1965 Little League schedule. The Mayor throw a perfect strike to catcher Roy Pearson while his infield Oarl Wilson (first Bob Maner (second Willie Grice (third and Joe McDaniel looked on. And then Bur-Mil and Kiwanis took respective 9-1 and 5-3 wins over the Jaycees and Squad to take an early lead in the league standings. The remain ing teams, the Lions and Opti mists and Parkgrace and Police play tonight, with the first game getting underway at 6:0. 0 BURJMTI JAYCEES Bur-Mil pitcher Mark McDan iel got his season underway on the right foot as he hurled a neat one-hitter and struck out eight Jayews batters. The Jay cees’ only run came in the second inninig, when se(»nd - baseman Mike Hope scored after being hit by a pitched ball. Hope stole sec ond. and came around on two consecutive wild pitchee. Boyd ^hipman collected Jaycjees’ only hit. BurlMil scored one run in the second, three In the fourth, and five in the fifth on only three hits off Jaycee pitcher ILarry Putnam. Keith Ramsey, Melvin Carroll, and Timmy Oliver col- Ictcted the three Bur-Mil safeties and Jcrfinny Bridges scored two The Otis D. Green Post 1.55 A merican Legion Juniors split a ,wo-game e.'diibilioa serieo with -Ve .vlon Post 16 Thursday an-.l Friday n;.,;hts, the locals wiiinint here Thursday and gettln,!; .lip ped 7-S in 11 innings a. X.-wten Friday night. FIRST GAME Scuthpi,,i’ Seerlcy Lowery pitched a four liitter and fanned 13 to lead the iocals to a 13 2 opening win. Kings .M.ninlain batted around in two of the in ni.ng.s and slugged three X'eu ton pltchei s for 20 hits. Newton was jetired three up. three down in (ho top of the first ind Ronnie Rhea lined a single to begin the bottom half. Ri'.er stole second and went to third or a single by Pat Murphy. Richard Gold was issued a walk to load the bases and Rhea scored when cleanup man Mickey Bell walked. Murphy and Gold scored on a single by Claude Pearson and Bell and Pearson came in on a double by first-baseman Hu'cert McGinnis and the next three KM batters were retired in order. The score, 6-0. K'M rallied for another run in the second inning. Murphy reach ed base on an error, went to sec ond on a sacrifice by Gold, took third on a single by Bell and scored on a sacrifice fly. McGin nis added a single in that inning. The locals were held scoreless in the third but scored runs number eight and nine in the bottom of the fourth. ^11 singl ed to lead off the inning and went to third on a double by Pearson. Bell scored only sec onds later on a passed ball, Pear son going to second. McGi nnis walked and Faulkner sacrificed ■:oth runners. Medlin reached »...o base on an ciror and Pearson Rescue j scored on a sacrifice fly by Low ery. Rhea filed out to end the inning. - baseman), ■ baseman), - baseman), (shortstop! The lo.als scored thi-ir f .i)l L:•..handci' seven ru:is with a si.!,.' :; j,! -ii w ,;rkcd ihc the tiltii, foui' iji tile a’ :l was tr. ; ,wo ';i till! .'iglitli. im. i.u; (im.-'f JuiKiiiy Yum. las', few inmiig.i J h:i Gold clenicil Ills benrii, o.'i.'t-;)! for tlio pitch.:,, and Ihji.. y.; collected nl.te tilts in the loit; Iramcs. D.ouhlcs by R cho d Gold and L’hiick Glndficn highlighted ihoi'c final innings. Notvicn rco:'o(t it.s two run i i' :hc s.'veolh inning as a o' a dojhle, a hue on ImlJs, a sin- tie and a KM error, Larry .Siiorill st.a-,Td on ;h'- hill f ;r Niwton ord was taggC with the lose He hi:r!cd 2' : in nings befe e giVng way toOleni’ Withers, with Wilhers tor-s'n.g for 2i“;i frames and Bobby Wills- nant hurling the final throe. Lowery went the distance for ' the locals, giving up onl.v four hits, five bases on balls, and ' striking out 16. Lowery was one- for-three at the plate and hatted j in two runs. Every KM starter collected at | least one hit with second-base- i man Mickey Bell giving a four- j for - five performance. Claude I Pearson was three-for-four and drove in three runs and Hubert McGinnis was two-for-four with , two rbi’s. Four boys collected a hit apiece for the losers. ' SECOND G AME i It took Newton 11 innings to | do it, but the Post 16 boys took ; a 7-6 win from the locals on Fri- i day night. Newton’s final run I was a resul. of four walks and | two sacrifices. Kings M"untain outhit Newton 11-8. Righthander Mickey Adkins started on the hill for the locals and worked eight innings befoie P ii i 1 i ji G: iddci, lii.cc ; ni.ng V.'ltll ill,' ■(: c- y .sioGi d -or . ion and v.-o; !;cd li-. e .Smith lai-ie In !„ liu:l t::.- f na .Uid was aw:.;(icd (;;.•> w':.'.. Newton to a 1 0 lead ii li'.o I'.i's; innin;,' w:th (wo single: and xvo ti.-'-'d.-.-i ,:-e. Sc.r i.-'. caseman Jobitny Mo-j.se sin.-^l:'.', .0 Ic.id:,!'.’ ill.’ ;tli ; of t!v- lies, e ' nt to spco:’d rai a sing', i).) Ihi i-.-cmoii M 1... .Mi-Ucc, teol .h'r'l on a pa-.r-.'!l il and s.'o- .d \\li;'n Pecler’.s -T.'oicid c Wa h-sot'd l.y the FIM rr.A ’..esc n-ian. '! '.e !. -Mis tied ii u.o in ;hr •secoici but N .vtn’i jumped a head 3-1 in tiie third, i'.'e.vion' three ru.is were sc .refl a.s a re suit of a triple, and two more KM errors. Kings Mountain scored one more run in the fourth and the score stood at 3-2 until the top of the sixth when tlie locals went out ahead 1-3. Gold reached base on an error stole second, vven( to third on ? single b.v Bell, and stole home Ic tie the game. Bell .swiping .sec ond at the same time. Peursoe and McGinnis filed nut an'l Bell crossed hore when Tony ' eigh’s grounder was thrown away at first base. Nesv'ton lied it back im in the bottom of the sixth and went a- head 6-4 in the seventh. Their sixth inning run was a result of a double, a KM error, and a sin gle and their .seventh - inning runs were results of two singles and a dou' le. Kings Mountain scoi-ed one run in the eighth and tied the being lifted for a pinch-hitter in j game in the ninth. Doubles by the top of the ninth. Adkins gave i Richard Gold in both innings up all eight of the opponents l provided the punch and Gold hits struck out four hatters and i scored the run in the eirhth and walked none. ' (Continued On Page Six) A team in runs scored, nine. He has three rbi’s. Third in hitting comes first baseman Hubert McGin. nis, who has eight hits in 19 at bats for a .421 batting mark. The big 210-pounder leads the team in runs batted in with six and has two doubles to his credit. . Hubert pulled the juniors by Charlotte Saturday night with a single in the bottom of the tenth Inning to score Richard Gold from second base with the winning run. Hu bert’s single in the eighth inning drove in the tying run, also. Pat Murphy is hitting in fourth place with a .316 bat ting average with six hits in 19 times at bat. Pat has scor ed three runs and is carrying a remarkable 1.000 fielding average. He has not made an error so far and made only one boot in high school this past season. Claude Pearson is 7-for-23 and has a .304 batting mark and leftfielder Ronnie Rhea is 7-for-24 and is hitting at a .292 clip. Pearson is runner-up in runs batted in with five, and Rhea is runner up in stolen bases with two. Lowery— 18 Strikeouts In 2 Games Seerley Lowery, a member of the 1965 Southwest Con ference all-conference team, was impressive in the two pre-season games that he appeared in as he struck out a total of 18 batters in 12 innings. He worked the first three innings of the juniors’ open ing game with Cherry ville and was tagged with a loss (10- 6) but came back strong to send 16 Newton Post 16 batters back to the bench via the strikeout route and give the lo cals a 16.2 first season win. Lowery gave up only nine hits in the two games (four against Newton), allowed only four runs to score (two earned), and walked only five batters. Bill Mullinax pitched one of the best games of his high school and Legion career Saturday night against Charlotte and came out atop the Post 3^ boys 6-5. The win evened his pre-season won-loss record at 1-1. His 10 strikeouts against Charlotte increased his two-game total to 11 and the four hits he allowed left him with allowing only six for the two games. Mickey Adkins of York, S. C., hurled eight innings at Newton last Friday before being lifted for a pinch-hitter In the top of the ninth inning. Adkins failed to win the game but was not charged with the loss as the contest went 11 innings before Newton managed to edge the Post 155 boys 7-6. Adkins has also worked 12 innings and is also holding an impressive record. He will certainly be a big help to the locals this season. The Legion team opened its Area IV schedule here ^'^'jesday night against Gastonia and has two more home 'ueld in the first round of play. ; host to arch-rival Shelby Saturday night, ill play Bessemer City Tuesday night before ad for four games. RESCUE—KIWANIS Luther Hicks and Chuck Car penter each tossed three-hitters but the Kiwanis pulled out a 5-3 victory over Rescue Squad in the nightcap. The KlWanis scored two runs in the first and three in the third and the Rescue Squad scored two in the first and one in the second. Carpenter led the Kiwanis hit ting with a single and a dot/ble, Bobby Byars had a single, and Roibert Johnson had a triple, Daryl Bridges a double, and Mike McDaniel a single for the losers. Team Bur-(Mil Kiwanis Jaycees Rescue Squad Lions Optimist Parkgrace Polico STANDINGS W L Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 .000 1 .000 0 .000 0 .000 0 .000 0 .000 Strikeouts Blank Mountaineers 3-0 The Strikeouts took a three game decision from the Moun taineers Monday afternoon to stretch their Junior League lead to seven games. The Strikeouts hold a 13-2 record, while the Al ley Cats and the Rebels are tied for second with 6-9 marks and the Mountaineers bring up the rear with a 5-10 record. In action Monday. Keith Fite posted a high line of 96 and Mike Plonk roll^ a 270 set for the Strikeouts while Andy Haskins was high for the losing Moun taineers with a 106 line and a 286 stt. Tommy Blanton and Mike Gra ham of the Alley Cats posted the high games of the season so far but their team failed to win but one game over the Rebels. Blanton copped the high line record with a 131 and Graham came along and rolled lines of 80, 126, and 118 for a 324 set, which is the year’s high. Keith HuUender rolled a 120 line and a.306 set lor Uia winners. Juniors Edge Charlotte 6-5 In Ten Innings Hubert McGinnis lined a 2-2 pitch single to c-entei-field in the bottom of the tenth inning Sat urday night to give the Post 155 Junior team a 6-5 win over Char lotte Post 3S0. The single came with two men ! out and two runners aboard. Richard Gold crossed the plate with the winning run. Ronnie Rhea singled to begin | the bottom half of the first and scored an out later on a single by Gold. Gold was safe at second on an attempted steal when the Charlotte catcher threw low. Mickey Bell singled and Pearson reached base on a fielder’s choice but McGinnis and Tony Leigh struck out to end the inning, the locals leading 1-0. Charlotte’s first nine men were retired in order by Kings Moun tain pitcher Bill Mullinax. The fourth-inning leadoff man struck out but took first when the KM catcher failed to hold on to the third strike. The runner stole second, second - base.Tian Gregg Porter walked, and the bases were loaded when a bunt was booted by Mullinax. The runner scored from third when Charlotte fii-st baseman Ed Adkinson’s bunt was errored. The next two batters struck out but a walk allowed one more run to score. Charlotte stretched its lead to 5-1 in (he fifth as a result of two RM errors and d )uble, a single 1 and a sacrifice fly. With one out. I shortstop Skip Fodel reached ' base on an error and Porter was | safe on an error. Both runners I advanced on a sacrifice fly to ; deep centerfield by catcher Ran dy Richardson and both runners | scored on a double by Adkinson. ! Adkinson crossed the plate sec- , onds later when leftfielder Rob- ! ert Perry singled. Kings Mountain scored two I runs in the bottom of the fifth to dra(w the game nearer at 5-3. Gold hit a triple to deep center- field to lead things off and scor- ^ ed two outs later on a single by i day’s and the Pony Hubert McGinnis. Leigh reached | playing on Monday’s ft-’; ‘MC mi I BIG CATCH Pictured above are some Kings Mountain fisher men showing off 107 King Mackerel which they caught while aboard Captain Basil Watts' boat at Southport last week- end. Pictured ore (kneeling) Jim Yatbro and standing, left to right, Coptain Watts, Herman Blalock, Broadus Herndon. Hal Morris, and Gillie Falls. Thiid Annual John H. Moss Award To Be Given At Rotaiy Banquet The third annual John Henry Moss Award will be presented to the Kings Mountain high school baseball team’s Most Val- Negro LL, Pony League Coaches Announced The Davidson Recreation Cen ter begins its 1965 Little League and Pony League schedules this week with the Little Leaguers playing on 'Tuesday’s and Thai's- ~ Leaguers and Fri- uable Player at the annual Ro tary Club baseball luncheon at the Country Club Thursday, June '3, at noon. The Western Carolinas League President first gave the award in 1963, when it went to ace pitcher Barry Gibson, a southpaw who led the ’63 team to the South west Conference championship.s. ' Since then it has been an annual ! presentation. I Mickey Bell, leading Moun- ; taineer hitter in '64 and '65, was ! the receipient of the award last I season. Ho posted a .383 hatting I average in '64 and hit at a .405 clip this year and was essential base on an error, Medlin w^alked, ! day’s .. and McGinnis scored when Mul- ; All games will played at the success of the club both linax was issued a walk. ' Davidson Recreation Center with | KM made It 5-4 in the seventh I the first game getting underway ” ' with Tony Leigh scoring on an at 6:00. unearned run. I Den D. Adams and Benjamin Clyde Sukeforth, manager of the Gastonia Pirates of the We.st Bell doubled to lead things off ■ Brown serve as the Commission-! Qm curolinas League, will be the ■ ■ ‘ ■ er and Assistant Commissioner, i guest speaker. Sukeforth, former Leaner Porter Is tlie secretary, i major league player ancl coach, William Manning the assistant Ijs currently guiding liie Pirates ‘•ecretary, Jake Crocker t h e | atop tlie WCL standings. treasurer, and Charles Stephens I the reporter. | Charles Smith, George Thombs, ' Nonal Young, J. C. J.amerson, | and Hilliard Hunterwnll serve as , the auxiliary policemen and Mrs. j Katherine Jamerson, Mrs. Sally M. Adams, and Mrs. Benjamin Brown will be in charge of the I ffonUnued On Page £ * in the bottom ot the eighth for KM and scored an out later on a single by MoGlnnls. Neither team failed to get a man passed second base in the ninth and the game went Into an extra inning. Charlotte was retired three up, three down in the top of the tenth. Pat Murphy filed to cen- terfleld to begin the KM half and Richard Gold was awarded first base via four balls. Bell singled, putting runners on first and sec- Continuea On Pvma £ SHELBY GAME The American Legion base ball game between Kings Mountain and Shelby, regular ly scheduled lor Saturday, June S, bos been re-scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, at 8:00 at City Stadium. MCGINNIS COLD ^1 LOWERY STANDOUTS — Pictured above ere three Post 155 Legion Juniors who have been stand outs in the early season games. Hubert McGinnis (top) leads the team in runs batted in with nine and it was his 10th inn ing single that gave the locals a 6-5 win over Charlotte Sat urday. Richard Gold (middle) leads the team in doubles with five and stolen boses with three, and Seerley Lowery is the mainstay on the pitcher's meund. Lowery hurled a four- hitter and struck out 18 to lead the locals to a 16-2 win over Newton Thursday night. Culbertson, Dye Leod Moose Win Ronnie Culhertson loilcd a 145 line and Johnny Dye added a .359 sot to lead the Moose Lodge team to a 3-1 win over Clyde Cul bertso-n Monday night in Sum- mei- Mixed League action. Oulherf.son added Fnes of 118 and 92 for a 355 set and Dye had .dngle games of 105. 116, and 138. Clyde (Tulbertson led the losers with a 126 line and a 349 set. The win inci-eased tlie Moose Lodge lead to three games. Dilling Heating and Clarence Plonk split a four-game series '.vith Dilling winnin.g the fir;:, game and total pins and Plonk taking the second and third games. To-n Gamble pared Dill ing Heating with a 124 line and a 324 set and Richard Bridges had a 121 line and a 357 set for rtie Plonk ‘earn. STANDINGS! Team W L Pet. Moose Lodge 10 2 .833 Oarence Plonk 7 5 .583 Clyde Culbertson 5 7 .416 Dilling Heating 2 10 ,167 INclde Giles' Icmer Begins r our-Run Ninth Gastonia pitcher Dickie Giles hit a homo )’un in the top of the ninth inning to break a 53 t c and stai't a four-run (last.on.'i rally to give the Gastons a G-3 win over Kings Mountaiii Tjes- day night. The game was the first regu lar Ai'ea IV contest loi' ooth .ca.Ts. Post l.>5 plays host to Bel mont tonight (Wednesday) at 8:00. Belmont was ^ v..- tor over Bessemer City in Us opening game Saturday. Southpaw Seerley Lowery started on the hill for the locals and held the oponents hitless in the first four frames befoi'e giv ing up two safeties in the fiflh, two in the seventh, one in the eighth, and three in the ninth. Gastonia shortstop Steve Cul bertson reached base on a KM error to begin the ball game, stole seconil, and took third on wild pitch. Lowery walked num^ her two batter Doug Lanham atid Culbertson scored when second- baseman Tony Hill reached base on an error, Lanham going to third. Hill stole second and cleanup man Willie Gillespie walked to load the bases. All runners advanced on a wild pitch, catcher Leonard Mor gan was hit by a pitched ball, first - baseman AI Culbertson Ururk out. and the runner scor ed from third on a sacrifice fly by third-ibaseman Ronnie Smith. The next batter struck out to end he top of the first, with Gas- mia leading 3-0. Kings Mountain tied it up in he bottom of the first with Pat Murphy and Mickey Bell collect- ng safeties. Murphy led off with 1 single to centerfield, and Nol- on Conner, playing in the place jf Ronnie Rhea, struck out foi- out number one. Richard Gold vas issued a base on balls and Murphy -cored on a double by 3ell. Claude Pearson fanned for out lumber two and both Gold and lell scored when MdGinnis reach- h1 base on an error. Tony Leigh truck out to end the inning. Neither team managed a score n the second frame but KM •ame in to take the lead in the lotlom of the third. (Glold led off he inning with a single through he middle, took second and third | m wild pitches, and scored on a '■ingle by Hubert McGinnis. Mc- linnis went to second on a pass ed hall, took third on a wild litch, but was stranded when •enterfielder Tony Leigh struck lUt. The locals le<l 4-3 until the top of the fifth when the Gastons tied it up on another unearned un, Doug Lanham sin,gled for he first hit dff Lowery but was forced out at second on a field- -r’s choice. Tony Hill went to tecond when a double-play ball BOX SCORE Gastonia Julhertson, ss i,anham. if fill, 2b Gillespie, i-f .Morgan, c Culberson, lb Jmith, 3b Lewis, c£ Giles, p Kings Mtn. Murphy, 3b Connor, if Gold, ss Bell, 2b Pearson, rf MciGinnis, lb Leigh, cf Medlin,'c -owery, p .Adkins, p A)B R H BI 5 2 1 0 3 2 2 0 5 2 2 -2 2 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 2 32 9 9 6 4 1 3 1 5 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 4 1 1 1 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 4 1 1 U 4 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 34 6 11 6 E- Mui phy 2, Gold 2, Lowery 2, ■Adkins, Medlin, Culbertson. DP Gold, Bell and McGinnis. HPB — By Giles, McGinnis. By Lowerj'. Morgan. SB Culbertson, Hill, Gillespie, Morgan. SAC — Gille-s- pie 2, Cull)erlson, Murphy, Low- ny. 2B - iBeil, Culbertson, Mor gan. 3B—Murphy. HR—Giles. Pitching: IP H R ER BB SO Giles (wl 9 11 6 6 1 14 xLowery ill 8 8 8 2 6 7 Adkins 1110 0 1 X—faced three batters In 9th. got away from Lowery, who was covering first. Gillespie sacrific ed the runner to third and Hill scored on a double by Morgan. Culbertson grounded out to end he inning. Gastonia took the lead aigain n the sixth as a result of two .more errors and a stolen base. Post 155 tied up in the bottom of the seventh. Roy Medlin led iff the inning with a single, was sacrificed to second by Lowery, acrificed to third by Murphy, and scored on a single by Nelson Connor. Gold struck out to end the inning. Giles broke the tie in the top of the ninth with a homer over the leftfield fence and Gastonia scored three more runs in that inning as a result o'! a double, two singles, « wild jritch, a stolen Continued On Page 6
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