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( Gambled and Lost—Bales .KM LOSES TO CHASE IN LAST 18 SECONDS FIRST HOME GAME SLATED THIS FRIDAY WITH E. RUTHERFORD The winning catch/ Chfcse end Gary Cobb catches the pass from Gary Hamrick, quarterback to score the first Chase touchdown with only 18 seconds left on the scoreboard. (Photo by Steve Martin) KM Country Club Golf Championship Championship flight — In the ^semi-finals Jake Cooperd efeated John Houzer one up after 19 holes, and Luther Joy defeated iJm Ly brand one up after 18 holes, ake Cooper and Luther Joy will play sometime within the next two weeks. 1st flight — In the semi-finals, Charles Neisler defeated Dick McGinnis, and Dr. Charles Moore defeatedMike Ballard one up aft er 20 holes. Dr. Moore and Char les Neisler will also meet within the next couple of weeks. 2nd flight — In the semi-finals Carrol Ledford defeated Joy Pat terson four up with 3 holes to go. Also, Bob Smith defeated Dick Maxey one up after 18 holes. In the finals Bob Smith defeated Carrol Ledford four up with 3 holes to go. ■ 3rd flight — In the semi-finals Boyer Murray defeated Ray Holmes three up with two holes to go. Wood Wilson and Bob Lowe have not played their match yet, but Boyer Muray will play the winner of that match for the 3rd Flight Championship. Sliznnastics Course Starts Thuisday Last Thursday a meeting was held at the Kings Mountain Na-. tional Guard Armory concerning j' the new Slimnastics course slated i for the Kings Mountain ladies. 1 At least 15 persons were need-' ed to conduct the course. How ever, there were some 40-odd women at the meeting which will enable them to hire Mrs. Betty Wilson from the Gastonia Rec reational Department to teach the course. It was decided that the ladies would meet at the Armory at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday evening. There will be a charge of 50c per person at each meeting to cover expense of the course. Lad-1 ies will wear loose pants or shorts [ in order to have freedom of j movement. There is still plenty of time to 1 get enrolled in the class and keep yourself slim and trim. All, interested ladies please contact Elmer Ross, Kings Mountain Recreational Director, at the Rec reational Department. GW At Lees- McRae Saturday j BOILING SPRINGS — One of Region 10’s most intense rivalries will be resumed at 2 p.m. Satur day as the Gardner-Webb Col lage Bulldogs take on the Bob cats of Lees-McRae College. The game will be played on the campus of Lees-McRae at Banner-Elk, N. C., and will be broadcast by Radio Station WA DA, Shelby. The Bulldogs are unbeaten in two starts while Lees-McRae bat tered the East Tennessee Uni versity Frosh 26-6 last week fol lowing an earlier 6-6 tie with Chowan College. ,| Coach Harris pronounces his club healthy and sound follow ing the 25-23 win over Furman j University’s Frosh and a wide; open, offensive battle is expected from both clubs in Saturday’s tilt. Gardner-Webb should be able to rely upon the services of San-; dy Crickshaks, the fine point-1 after-touchdown kicker who was sorely missed last week. Fullback Phil Hamilton will miss his third | game due to hand injury. Backfield Coach Ken Sanford has scouted the Bobcats in both their games and calls them “quick, aggressive and much im proved over the opening game with Chowan.” He said that Coach George Litton’s squad opened up its slo-T offense with more passing in its victory over East Tennessee, using Joe Wiley jund Tom Stanford as cogs in ’ the aerial weapon. Fifteen lettermen are back at Lees-McRae from last year's 6-4 season as Coach Litton berins his sixth season at Lees McRae. He was formerly as assistant j coach at East Tennessee State. Overall the Bobcats are small, j quick, possess a good punter, ; good kickoff potential and alsoj | work spli' ends into their of | fense. Gardner-Webb kept its Span gler Stadium slate clean with opening wins of 51-0 over Caro-1 lina Military and 25-23 overl Fur- [ man. Now its road games for the next two weeks facing Lees-Mc-j Hae and Chowan in what are1 Homecoming games for both op-1 ponents. ' , « Leading the G-VV offense has; been Lynn Matthews, Jimmy j Rogers, Ted Luckadoo, Ronald Pennington and David Gibbons. 1 Gibbons, a real spark plug hali- ' back, plunged for six yards per[ carry against Furman after miss-1 ing most of the first game with: injuries. He caught a pass for a TD in the first game and caught j; two passes for nine yards each | against Furman and intercepted. a Furman aerial. Dennis Martin, quarterback from Shelby, continues to direct! an offense which has accounted; for 66 points in official play and also accounted for 62 points in a scrimmage with Western Caro lina’s Frosh. Rogers, who ripped j off 12 yards per carry against Carolina Military, was held to one and one-half yard per carry against Furman. Senior Duke tackle Bob Lasky is a strong candidate for All-Aca demic honors in the ACC and na- j tionally. A biology major, he has a 3.8 average. With an amazing stroke of breaks, good plays, and plain old fashion good luck, the Chase High Trojans broke a 0-0 tie bail game in the final 18 seconds to reign victorious over the Kings Mountain Mountaineers. With only 41 seconds showing on the scoreboard, and Kings Mountain in possession of the ball on their own 36-yard line, the Mountaineers decided to run the bail on the fourth down in stead of punting. However, this proved to be the turning point of the ball game as Chase broke through the powerful Mountie line and took charge of the ball and the ball game. Chase scored their first touch down by talking to the air. The first pass was good for small yardage, however, it was the sec ond pass that really set the stage for the show. A Chase pass was deflected by Kings Mountain full back Philbert Smith and it fell into the awaiting arms of end Gary Cobb of Chase inside the Kings Mountain 10-yard line. Cobb went on to score eon the next play as he received the pass in the end zone. Chester Melton added the boot to the ball and Chase led 7-0 with only 14 sec onds left in the ball game. Chase kicked off and Kings Mountain downed the ball on their own 48. With only one sec ond showing on the scoreboard, Kings Mountain still gambling with the win or tie, quarterback Wayne Mullinax threw a pass intended for Joe Cornwell. This is where the topping goes on the cake. Jimmy Jamerson, Chase end, intercepted the Mullinax pass and ran it from midfield for the touchdown. Melton again kicked the PAT to give Chase a 14-0 victory over Kings Moun tain. When asked for a brief assess ment after the game, Chase coach Bob Bush said, “Defense won the ball game.” “Defense had to do it, he continued, Spen cer was out for them, and we had three backfield regulars out of action.” Coach Bates of Kings Moun tain only said, “We gambled and they beat us. We went for the win instead of the tie.” Upon inquiring about Stanley Brown, who was injured on the last play of the game, a touchdown play, Coach Bates says, “Ironically enough the touchdown was al ready made when Brown got hurt.” However, after a recent interview Coach Bates says that Brown is “just fine.” Up until the final minutes the game was mainly a battle of the defenses. The ball was kept mainly between the 30-yard lines of both teams. After a pretty good showing at the start of the game when both teams made a first down the first time they got the ball, neither team could sustain a drive deep into the opponents territory. In the first quarter the only passing done was on the Trojan team with quarterback Gary Hamrick throwing two, both of which were incomplete. However, the second quarter was much more exciting. It started *vith a 15, yard penalty against Kings Mountain. Then Chase quarter back Hamrick threw a pass to Joe Stewart for a two .yard gain. The next pass was incomplete and forced Chase to punt. On the second down Kings Mountains Philbert Smith gained nine yards to pick up the first down. After a one-yard loss and an incomplete pass Kings Moun tain punted. Two plays later Chase was penalized 15 yards and was forc ed to punt, also, the next time Chase got possession of the ball they fumbled. Kings Mountain recovered the ball and tried to push their way for the first down, however, they ran out of downs trying and had to punt. That is how the first half ended, with both teams rocking back and forth across the field. How ever, Kings Mountain quarter back Mullinax took to the air in the last minutes of the first per iod but completing none of the six passes. The second half was where Kings Mountain got their first real chance to get on the score board. Kings Mountain forced Chase back to their own five when they punted to their 17 and with penalties and losses they forced the ball dead on the five. The passing difficulties of both quarterbacks Mullinax and Ham Kings Mountain end Rick Finger picks up yards as Chase half* back Mike Mason rushes in for the tackle. (Photo by Steve«Martih) MOUNTAINEER GRAPH The Mountaineer Graph will be presented each week to let fans know who does what* Also, it should be good competition for the boys. , . Ball Carrier Ross Springer Rick Finger Joe Cornwell ^hilbert Smith Dennis Smith Charles Easley Wayne Mullinax i Clark Mauney Times C rd. Gained Loss 1 1 4 8 18 3 15 2 12 8 24 29 64 3 39 6 0 0 0 0 2 10 13 3 NG 12 8 24 29 62 -7 26 3 Avg. 12.00 8.00 6.00 3.44 3.44 •2.33 1.73 1.50 I Kings Mountains Wayne Mullinax catches a pass from quarter^ back Charles Easley early in the first quarter. Mullinax later re placed Easley at the quarterback position. (Photo by Steve Martin) rick carried on into the second half. Mullinax, who is usually i seen at the halfback position, had a lot of trouble throwing the ball I as most of his passes were in complete. The receiver, however,1 , lias a lot to do with it as their receiving needs some improve ment. Kings Mountain picked up a! i first down the first time they! had the ball in the second half! ■ as halfback Dennis Smith gained] 8 of the ten yards rushing. How ' ever, they couldn’t seem to ralley to come up with the score and - they had to punt and Chase took] I possession of the ball. i Quarterback Hamrick for Chase' 1 carried the ball for them the ' next three times as he gained - nine yards but was forced to i punt on the fourth down. Kings Mountain took the ball and ran through the strong Chase defense to pick up an oth er first down to the Chase 22 with Dennis Smith again con tributing 5 yards to the cause. They gained to the 16 but seemed to just give out as they were forced to punt when they lost the ball on downs. Kings Mountain again went to the air in the fourth quarter. Mullinax completed four out of seven attempts to give them only one first down. Chase also at tempted a few passes and it proved to he fatal to Kings Mountain as they went on in the last seconds to win the game 14-0. Kings Mountain is at home Friday night as they play East Rutherford in the new stadium for their first home game. STANDINGS KM 7 125 First downs Net rushing Passes Passing yardage Fumbles Fumbles recovered by 1 Passes intercepted by 1 Penalized 65 Kings Mountain 0 0 0 29 0 East 6 51 4-14 5-11 49 1 0 1 30 0 0 Chase 000 14 14 Kings Mountain Mens, Ladies. Mixed, Bowling League Results Ladies League In Ladies League bowling ac lion this week we find Drewes Tax Service- over Oates Shell Service 4-0, Tignor Construction Company over Plonk Brothers 10, and Griffin Drug Company over the American Legion ladies 3-1. Betty Hullender bowled the high set for Drewes Tax and also the high line with 337 and 114 | respectively. These scores helped j Dre wes to achieve a 4-0 win over ] Oates Shell Service. In the game between Tignor Construction and Plonk Brothers, | Barbara Miller rolled a 281 set i and a 100 and a 101 Edna Bowen ; backing her up with a 276 set I and a 100 point line. Another high scoring game was between the Griffin Drug Com-' pany and the American Legion. Pat Panther rolled a terrific 330 | sot and a 120 line to make her second in the nights actions with i Betty Hullender high scorer. Also, Becky Barnett had a high set rolling a 306, followed up by j Eib Gault with a 305 set and a | 130 line. Both ladies are on the j American Legion team. | Men's League The Kings Mountain Mens, Bowling League played Monday: night. We find that the team ol! A. Brackett came out on top with a 4-0 win over Plonk Oil. A. Brackett had the high set1 with a 424, also he had the high line of 166. His team passed the I 1700 mark Monday .night as three; other players bowled into the 300’s. In second place Monday night j was the team of Dilling Heating, Company. Bob Herndon was high scorer with a 413 set and a 154 line to help bring Dilling Heat ing to a 3-1 victory over the team of Randy Blanton. Total score for the team was 1646 with four players scoring over 300 points each. , The team of Richard Cuioert son and Stroupe’s 66 battled to a tie with two wins each. Of the two teams, Randy Culbertson was the high scorer with a 343 set, for the Culbertson team. Al-I at so, the other players scored in the 300's and high 200’s. The team of Stroupe’s 66 cannot be undersold however, all but one of their players scored into the 300’s and only missed their last , win by 7 points. Mixed League The Kings Mountain Mixed j League met last Thursday night' as the teams of Randy Blanton: and Bob Herndon each won 3 and lost only one game. The Ranny Blanton team won ! their three games from the team ' of Ronnie Culbertson with Ran ny Blanton helping the cause j with a 371 set and a 132 line. Also, Jenny Oates scored a 317 set to assist them in winning. Bob Herndon’s team won their three games from the team of Clyde Culbertson. However, the high score for the Herndon team was by Bob Herndon himself with a 314 set. The Clyde Culbertson1 team rolled over 300 points each j in every set but still couldn't seem to upset the Herndon team., The only set the Culbertson, team won from the Herndon team! was the third set which they won with a 402 to a 378 for the Hern-i don team. Brown—Player 1 Of The Week Stanley Brown, tackle for Kings I Mountain, has been named Play er of the Week by Bill Fulton of j Fulton’s Department Store. He will receive a Van Heusen Permanent Press shirt, compli ments of Bill Fulton. Brown played a great ballgame Friday night against Chase. How ever, he was injured on a play with only seconds left to play. According to Coach Bill Bates, Brown should be able to play against East Rutherford Friday night. Duke assistant coach Stan Fris son still holds the school record for the most touchdown passes caught during a career. Crisson pulled down 10. Herald S po r t s By STEVE MARTIN Herald Sports Editor Will The A L Let Finley Move? Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas Cilv Athletics, is attempting to move the Athletics to Seattle by mid October. Joe Cronin, American League president, was reported ly asked by Finley to call a meeting in October to con sider moving the A’s to Seattle. However, when personally asked about it at the hear ing of the Athletics dispute with Finley, both Finley and Cronin denied it. However, only three days later at a news conference it was established that Finley had already requested per mission from the American League to move the Athletics to Seattle. Supposedly, officials will meet at the October conlerence to consider the request. Almost immediately after this news was published, Finley notified the Kansas City city manager, CareJton Sharp, that he has no intentions of keeping his options on the Municipal Stadium. He has two four-year options. That should be enough evidence to let the people know that he doesn’t intend to be around for very long. If he did intend to stay around, why close.on tin1 options to the stadium? The day alter the city received a telegram from Fin ley stating he would not renew the options, Cronin stated that following the World Series, a meeting of the American League would be called. He did not say what the1 purpose of the meeting would be but il is almost certain that it con cerns Finley’s request to move the A's. No one has really been surprised because of Finley’s desire to move because fans have been talking about it several months ago. But what actions can the American League lake? First of all they can allow Finley to move to Seattle, but that would leave Kansas City without a base ball team, which would really hurt. Secondly, they can say no, and Finley would have to stay in Kansas City. The third and only other solution would be to work out a solution through an expansion program. For those of you who haven’t heard or read about the players’ dispute with Finley, it all happened when Lew Krausse was fined $500 for rowdyism on the flight from Boston to Kansas City and then suspended for what was called insubordination. However, the dispute is almost over now so apparently Finley wants to move out of Kansas City to get the club name changed. Although it has never officially been announced by the club, it is known by most people that Krausse never lost any money. The fine was withdrawn. However, he did lose some from his pay while he was suspended. Kaline And Freehan — MVP? Since the Most Valuable Player Award usually goes to someone who plays in the series for the pennant, A1 Kaline and Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers really have their eyes open. The Tigers haven’t won a pennant since 1945, but this year they are solid contenders. Kaline is finishing his 15th year with Detroit and Free hand his 5th. They are two legitimate Tiger contenders for the MVP award. By favorites Ai Kaline would get the award because he is the sentimental choice of the American League. Ka line won the league batting championship before his 21st birthday, he is now 32. In recent years, however, he hasn’t been covered up with honors in the past few years. Freehan is a different type person than Kaline. He played defensive end at the University of Michigan at one time and is highly respected in the league. It was noted that the team would be nothing without him and a lot of people would like to see him receive the MVP award. How ever, the main difference in Freehan and Kaline is that Freehan is younger and stronger than Kaline. Freehan holds one record that I imagine he would just as soon not have. He has been hit by the ball more than any other Detroit player. The previous record was set by Hall of P'amer Heinie Manush who had been hit 17 times. When asked why he was hit so much he said, “Lack of mobility.” Frozen Baseballs? A lot of pitchers will swear to you that the White Son freeze their baseballs to take the life out of them. How ever, the true story has been announced. It u'as true that they did not freeze the ball as many pitchers and players charged. They merely stored them in a dark, damp place and let them mildew’. The moisture would cause the boxes that the balls came in to rot and fall apart because of the moisture. Some of the balls stay ed in the underground storage place as long as five months. After taking the balls out of the storage place they w’ould put them in a new box and no one was the wiser. Pretty neat, huh? That isn’t all that the Red Sox did to help their cause. They would have a man in the center field scoreboard with a pair of high powered field glasses and he would steal the signs from the catcher and relay them to Manager Al Lo pez via a small flashing light. Also, they have a pitcher that is wired for sound. Wild isn’t it? Yes, pitcher Early Wynn had an electronic receiv er in his cap so that Manager Al Lopez could talk to him on the mound. t If more ball clubs start using these methods it may be a game of spy vs. spy instead of team against team. >
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