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,/ kursday, June 4, 1970 THE KM^S MOUHTAM HCftAM), KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. HERALD SPORTS After Losing Three, Juniors Host Hickory Dana Saivis In Third Year As ' Golfer, Already In low Seventies ; For a young man who has been playing the sport only three years, Dana Sarvis Is taking great strides in the game of golf. The Kings’Moutain High junior recently finished fifth in the 89-man Western North Carolina High Schools Act- » ivities Association championships at Cowan’s Ford Country ^ Club and he’s already averaging in the low seventies. ,;L Dana shot an 85-76—161 in the association finals and ■^tJOi/ihat represented his highest score of the 1970 season. HiS I low was an even par 36 in a nine-hole match against Lin- I colnton at Kings Mountain Country Club. Ironically, in the same match that Sarvis fired his par round, Lincolnton’s Steve Suttle scored a hole-ln-one. Sarvis was medalistin evey match but one for the ( Mountaineers and it was no surprse when he was named the I most valuable golfer at the annual KMHS spring sports ; banquet last Friday. Sarvis plays only golf at KMHS, but he’s also an out standing ba.seball player. He pitched the Kings Mountain Babe Ruth All-Stars to the state championship last year. Dana came up through the little league ranks, playing for Max Bolin’s Optimist Club team. He was a member of the all-star team and was an all-star two straight years in pony league play. t • • Fomei KM Cage Stai Mitchem Now Stalling Wth Phan Yams Ken Mitchem, who helped Kings Mountain High School turn out several outstanding basketball squads, is \ now doing his thing with the Pharr Yarns Reds softball V team. I Ken, a rising sophomore at Pan American University where he averaged 16 points per game in basketball, is a rising young star in the .softball field as evidenced by his showing in the Azalea Tournament In Virginia Beach, Va., last weekend. Ken lashed out 17 hits in 24 times at bat, a .707 aver- ♦ . age. and copped the tournament's home run trophy as the , iif|L Jleds won the tournament over Canton, Ohio. Mitchem cracked seven home runs and hit one over 350 feet. Mitchem, who played high school and legion baseball here, had never played against slowpitch softball until three weeks ago when he joined the Reds in their own Dixie Classic Tournament. Ken, said Reds Coach Doug McDonald, is now ghttltig the hang of the sport and McDonald predicts big things for the 6-2, 200-poundcr in years to come. At Virginia Beach, the Reds came back from the loser’s bracket to win the double-elimination tournament. After losing to Canton, Ohio, 21-10, in the quarter-finals, the Reds whipped Empire County Sports of New York in the semi-finals, then whipped Canton twice in the finals. ^ Butch Adams of Pharr Yarns was named the tourna- irtent’s most valuable player. He hit .777 for the tourna ment with five home runs. Seven Reds players, including Mitchem, Adams and Hunter Huss High basketball coach ed Mac Richardson, were named to the 15-man all- tour nament team. Florida State, Minus Gold, Wins District Three Title In Gastonia Florida State’s Seminoles, long a power in college baseball, captured three straight victiries to win the NCAA District Three baseball tournament last weekend in Gas tonia. The Seminoles, coached by former Wake Forest men tor Jack Stallings, defeated East Carolina 2-0, Maryland 10-1 and Mi.ssissippi State .5-4 to cop their fifth District t Nfhree event and advance to the College World Series Kvhich begins on June 12 in Omaha, Neb. Florida State w’as left out of the District Three field last year when Kings Mountain’s Richard Gold led the Sem- moles in most hitting and fielding departments. Gold, a fkst-team All-American, set nine all-time records at FSU He graduated last year. The Seminoles had appeared in Gastonia the previous Seminoles in hitting in the 1968 event, hitting .475. Coach Stallings and his charges might have been mif fed over t he selection committee’s choice of Virginia Tech last year, for they walked off with this yeaPs event This was one of a few times that a team has' gone undefeated en route to the title. Good pitching, hitting, defense and speed carried FSU to the title. Righthander Gene Ammann hurled a two-hltteh on opening day to whip East Carolina and its ace right hander Ron Hastings and the Semlholcs stole a record eight bases in their championship victory over Mississippi State. Mississippi Slate battled through the loser’s bracket after dropping a .3-2 opening day tilt to Maryland. The Bulldogs avenged that loss, however, by whipping the At- Iftntic Coast Conference champions 8-4 in the semi-finals. CElfTRAL TftOPHy WtNNfell6 — «« M— are Kim Bumgardner. tltvid Cdrroil. Btiieli) (PHbfe by Isaacc Alexcinder) ROPHY winners —•Tfie fltm Vviiiig men pictured above won tro phies lor othietic achidtn&fliffltti (if CMftU Jttifor High Awords Day. Left to right ■" “ David Bell and Kenny Farris. Thompson Flips As Earnhardt Wins At Concord ?;'V 55 .■4- » -4/, Champion’s Team Is Second In Tournament The Champion’s Landscaping softball team finished second in the Iva, S. C., Memorial Day Tip- Off Tournament over the week end. Louigi’s of Rock Hill won the event whipping Champion’s l7-9 in the title game ftfter the Kings Mountain team 'had earlier won a 14-8 decision. Champion’s evened the tourna ment With vtceories over Guthrie Motors (13-'12) and felzer Bears (13-6) before losing to Louigi’s by 13-1. 'That loss threw Champion’s Into the loser’s bracket amd they had to play three straight games on Sunday afternoon. They whip ped the host Iva Pop Tops tlM5 4nd Youigi’s 14-8 before losing the title game. .Four member^ at the Cham pion’s team made all-toumament. They were Bob McMahan, who hit Gebi t With four 'home runs, jbrge Pittman, Whd hit .500 with two homers, Ronnie Payne wno Hit .086; d«a RdHftle Wltfte'tS. Othtr "toil Hltteri for Cham pion's included Dickie Burgess, WHo hit .092, aiid Riji BUr^ess and Kennjt Quinh, who each hit .500. In the, six igames, Champion’s sdorM 03 runs, had 94 hits and had tbaih batting average of .459. Monday nighl, thampion’s de- feateQ B. R. Smith Homes of Gastohlh .16.3 as 'Withers collect ed 4:for4 and Quinn and Pittman had 3-for-4 eadi. edtUlday flight the Kings Mduhtaiif thdin triaVels to MioAd- enviKe to play the PHarr Yams Reds. . ddSibhes of the ■ Champion’s team are Jim Guyton, Tony Tom- klhSj dime *Wgitoqr and Glenn Mobley. Hord Hurls No-Hitter, VFW Takes First Place Ricky Hord of the VFW iBabe Ruth 'baseball team opened Ihls 1970 season Friday night by hurl ing a noihit 1-0 victory over Try- on. Hord. a sophomore member of this spring’s Kings Mountain High team, struck out 14 batters dhd walked only one in 'hurting Don Smith's team to victory. In other opening night action at 'CTty Stadium, David Catroll, who hurled lor Central Junior R gh this spring, pitched South- well Ford to a ’7-5 victory’ over Mi^uney Mills. In Monday nUht action, Maun- ey rebounded vdth a 2-1 vtdtorj’ over Tryon and VFW bombarded Southwell 144 to take over sole Make-Up Race Carded possession of first place. Frankie Stokes, who played on thd freshman team at KMHS this ^ing after a brief stint with ■ the varsity, hurled Maun- ey’s victory while Bill Parker went all the way in VFW’s big ■win over Southwell. Bibe Jluthets will play dodbie- headers each Monday and Thur*- daF, unlfes tlte gatheg conflict the|Ajnerloan Legion team. ; <• STANDINGS Tfetmaa ' Wqb Lest Pet yiFvV' 2 0 1.000 Maiihey 11 .500 Southwell 1 1 .500 Tryon 0 2 .000 In 'onight FOREST CITY, N. C. — “Radi R«;n, Go Away ....’’ Will most llitely be the song the HRA is singinr for the remainder of the 1970 season, and it will be most particularly the song the assoc iatiOn will be sirighg 'rtiursdaj- night in Spartanburg wHeii tHe men try to stage a make-up race fr>r one scheduled last Tuesday. The HRA crews will stage the second of five 1970 commiSnelits at the Piedmont Interstate Fair ground Thursday night at 8:00 p.m. The big event, which is in ot-sirvaneo of Memorial Day 1!)70, will feature three classes of top drivers, dll of iWhbm will pick up double points for their ap- p-'araiK.t and efforts Thursday n ght All drivers appearing at the one-half mlW flit dirt track Tliursday w M be making a bid for the lop apot In an attempt to unseat Spartatiburg’s Chuck Piazza from his "cdhimander’s scat.” Drivers naVe it in for Piazza for the Simple reason they’ve all had to eat so much of his dual all season. The Spar tanburg driver Hks claimed dirt mile dirt tracks of Rulherfoiia County (at Forest City) and at the Shelby Speedway. It is tUegal to 'photograph In coior -U. S. paper -money. TWBlVb Indian reservations co ver more than a million acres. Bulldogs Sign Standout IC Cage Peiiormer BOILING SPRIXGS — Lyn Dugger, an outstandinr Tennes see prep school basketball star, has signed a grant-in-aid to at tend Gardner-Webb College. Dug ger is Just completing his fi-osh- man year at Hia-wassec .lunior College Madisonville, Tonnessce. Dugger is a graduate of I lamp ton, (Tenn) High Seliool wliere his senior year tlie te.am tvin thirty-six and lost four. ’i'iie yonng basketball star made the A'll-'East Tennessee team and high game of 33 points. He per sonally av^eraged l(i.5 his senior year which was marred by an early season injury which held him down to a seven points per game tlie first hall of the sea son GardnemWebb Cage Coach. EJddie Holbrook, was quite im pressed with Du^er’s record an ' His possibilities. “Lyn is one of the most dedi cated players we have ever re cruited,’’ said Holbrook. “He is a good slrong guard w tli good shooting range lie should greatly bolster our outside game, fie lias the unique ability to lead his teammates.” Dug.ger is a gra<iinte 'from the same high school in which the Bulldogs recentl.v recruited sev en fool Kenneth Long. Long just graduated from high school and ■win enter Gai-dner-V/obb this Fall. CONCORD, N. C. — Ralph Earnhardt eased home with the victory but \etcian Speedy Thompson stole the headlines once again in tlie Supersports stock car racing featui-o at Con cord Speet .vay Satuiday night. I Earnhardt Mr. Con.sislcncy ol I the American Racing Assoeia i tion, made another in a long 1 n ^ of visits to victory lane at tht | .ralf-milo clay track. He capture i he 40-lapper in a 1909 Camaro | Thompson, the old pro frorr Charlotte who has -won quite e | ew times himsell this season ! made the race the rfiost specta- - cular ol the season, flipping his j new' Camaro end over end arid . on the front stra ghtaway. Hr ; was taken to a Concord hospita' j lor observation hut was released | on Sunday morning, ; The states of Thompson’s Cam - aro for this weekend’s A.R.A doubleheader remains uncertain, j The Supersports and rookie ; Chargor drivers will compete In I two six-event programs, at '■ ICpeedworil on tlie Metrolin? I Fa’rgrounds in Charlotte on Fri day night and at Concord Speed way on Saturday night. “That was i1k» wildest ride I've ever seen anybody take on one of our tracks,” said promote: John Gaskey of the Thomnaor crash. “Tm really thankful ho wasn’t hurt, for it sure looked ba' 1 at first.” Thompson was runnin.g tliird at the time df the accident, try- ng to gain ground on Earn hardt and Johnny Jlillcr, who were battling for the lead. As he came out of the fourth turn, Speedy went high and sudden!' found himself flipping into the air. Earnhardt and Thompson had earlier taken heat victories. Charlie McB-i'ie captured the Charger feature, -with JeiTy Wal ler second. The programs nn Fr day and SaCu-rday will begin at 6 p.m. with practice, and the first heat will follow at 8 o’clock. A special race has been .sche duled at Speedworld on June 17- witli proceeds from a six-event ’ard going to the Nevlns Vooa- ticnal Training Center :n Char lotte STARTtfR — Tim Echols, one of the leading hitters on the Kings Mountain High baseball team this spring, is a starter in the outfield for the Post ISS Juniors. Post 155 hosts Hickory tonight at 7:45 p.m. GOSPEL SING Mhlview Baptist church will sponsor an “all night singing” of gospel music Saturday night be ginning at 7:30 p.m. Special miis Ic will be by the Chambers Fami ly the Bridges Family and I he Melody Singers. ON DEAN'S UST Miss EMith J. Bridges, of Kings Mountain, was amonij 186 Lenoir- RHyne college students named to the dean’s list af Lenoir-Rhyne college for the spring semester. She IS a rising senior. Busy Month For Rescue Squad Cleveland County Rescue Squad roported a busy month of activi ties during the month of May. Volunteers reportedly made 56 trips and traveled approximate ly 1,873 miles with liours spent on duty and trips estimated at 636. The group made two blood re lays to Kings Mountain hospital, answered calls to 18 wrecks, a train-car accident and took 10 out-of-town trips including two to Gastonia Memorial hospital, two to Chapel Hill, and t'.vo to a Charlotte hospital. The group also provided an ambulance to the Charlotte World 600 car race for ihrec days. Cyprus has only one doctor per 1,400 persons. SOiTib of the long-time race fdn* have rumored that someone iwill get Piazza Tliursday night b«au«b the “odds are against' Piazza’s winning another race this season. One thing’s for sure, those dirt drivers are tired of seeing nothing but Hazza’s heels .and they’re out to get him. Thur- .sdaY just hiay be the day the “k ng” will be depOsff.l. Following the ’Hiairsday night aMalr at ffpartanbur^' the HRA will move to Rutherford County fdr tirt 8 pm. three-class FTld&y nlfrht show; theh to Shelby Sat- uraay night at 8 pm. for another three-class .dirt show, and back to Harris Sunday afternoon for a tHree-ciass race at the 'HaVris SpeetHvay. FridaY it kuthetfoi-d Courtty Piazzi took the vtetbry, \Vlth Dati WarTck df Belwood and Cart Smart df Rlckbry taking 2nd and 3rd. SheUjy’s Saturday ttrogrim was raihed out; but Sunday, Hart ris odgbd out its pi'ograln under the threat of rain and it was asphalt drtVer Boh Pressley of AsheVilii Ih tint, Ibllowed by a strong Fnttoh Hdtnphifles of Shel% add Sttidt lUliott of Shel by ift 2hd knd Srtt fla-ceS. Hobhy winrtew Wfere LiSlle MoKlnHVy of dese. RooWes -were Btfl Ruppe and Larry Petty of Gaffney tps- pectively. Turkey is about twice the size of California. At ChenyvUle iatuiday, Back Home Tuesday The Otis D. Green Post 1.5.3 Juniors, losers in their first three .irst round contest, stay at home or llie:r second straight game toniglil (Thursday), playing host to undefeated (40) Hickory. Coach Warren^ Goforth takes his cltarges to Cherryville Satur day ni,;-ltt and Post 155 returns to City Stadium next T.esday to lost Henrietta. Post 155 also still las a makeup game with Mill •(prings. The local Juniors dtopped their first three to Morganton (31 >, ;-'oi-est City (11.5) and Shelby iS-2). in tlial order. Shelby stop- .jed Post 1,53 Tut'sday night at Jliy Stadium beliitid the four lit pitching of righthander Bany- •Vi-ight. Poor hittmg and fielding has lurt the Kings Mountain nine lius far Riglilliamier P-’hby Eth- idge luirled a fine here ipening nirlit agai; n- 011 only to come ' diort end of a 3-1 s Etliriiige one of onl., vet- •’rans on the Kings .VPnmtain , team huric'd again Tuc.sday n gilt' against Shelby and errors I tnd poor hitting s.iiport again d to Iris downfall. Eiliri<ige, in fact, plated KM's only two runs with a bases loaded single in the fifth inning. Shelby .iumpetl to a 5 0 lead, then scored three more unearn ed runs after Ethridge's uvo-iun bingli. Ton gilt's fore, Hickory, won he first round Area Four title last sunmier but was eliminated by Gaston Post 23 for the play- ■ rf championship. Gastonia later lost out to Rd.van County, t) .■ eventual state champion. Hk'kory fields a veteran team, spark.d by David and Robbie 'Villiams, and p tcher Chuck (unday. Hickory Shelby and ■•'’orest City are all unbeaten in 'Western Division play while Gas- •on Post 23 and Charlotte Post 9 are unbeaten in the Eastern Division. Harold Hord New President Of BR League Harold Hord has been named president of the Kings Mountain Cabe Ruth League. Hotxl. who is employed b.v Winn Dixie at Akers (denter in Gastonia, succeeds Roy Pearson, who resigned from tlio post so that he could take the job as district commissioner. As President of the league H'Ord will work with the co-aches in -matters of scheduling, pick- wouid also hear any protests, sliould they arise. Fo-vr teams are entered in this year’s BR race. Tryon joins three I< ngs Mountain teams, VFU', Mauney Textiles and Southwell Ford. Coaches a;' the teams are Don Smith, V'FW: Bill Grissom Southwell; and Mike Smith and Rooky Goforth, Mauney. Kings Mountain’s all star team won t.he state Babe Ruth title last spring. An auto is stolen every minute •Some flowers are unisexual. ' of the day. Third Annual G-W Cage Camp Regins lune 7 BOILING SPRI.XGS — The Third Annual GardnerWebb Col- liege Basketball Camp lor -boys inine throii4ih seventeen years of age will open its first session June 7, accoi-ding to Coach Ed die Holbrook, carrip director. Two of tlie country’s outstand- ng college coaclieSy Dean Smith, j University of North Carolina, and Bucky 'Walters, Duke Univ ! erslty, wiil dead a long list of 'professional, college and high school coaches and a'.iilctes who will be on tlie camp staff. Larry Brown, former UNC star and now with the Oakland Oaks of the American Basket- i ball Association and Bob Verga, ! of the Carolina Cougars, will I head the professional stars. Sev |eral nationally known college ! stars from universities in North j and South Carolina will also [ Work witli the boys during the j two camps. i The first session will begin I June 7 and continue through ! June 12. The second session will I begin June 11 and run thtough jjvne 19. Cost for boarding camp ers will be $70.00 per week and I day campers will pay $23.00 per ; week. Tho.se wishing fur.her inl.'orm- ation should contact Eddie Hol brook, Gardner-Webb Coihgc j Boiling Springs N. C., 2S017 - V'ofv i'-tt*' Deacons And Wildcats To Play In 1971, ’72 LEADOFF BATTER — Danny Hartsee. a 16-yacnr>«ld OttHtMERtt^^teReL bdts In the Wnfi i»sttl8ii iot the Kings Mountoin Juniors. Hartsoe bad one of KM's four hits off Shelby Tuesday night la on 8-2 leein VVLN'STON-SALI-M N. C. - Wake Kore.st athlitii. dii-e.''toi- lene Hook.s announ.cd today hat the Deacons ha\e sigr. d a wo-year football rmtra'.-t wit!' lie D.ividson Wildvats lo seivr IS tho nth game iK rin,j Ihe 1971 inrt 1972 seasons. Both games aga nst the Wild ■nts, 1969 Southern Confereticr •h.ampions, will be play. ,I in Win -ton-Saloni and will oper. the sea :on for the De.Tcons, Tlie 1971 game is scheduled for Sept. 11 with the 1972 opener set Sept. 9. Hooks also announced that th 11th game has been added for tlir Deacons tlirough 1979. The Dea cons wiil play Richmond in 197,5 and 1971, Kans.as Slate in 1975 and 1976, Puniue in 1977 and 1978 and the University of Goof g a in 1979. “We are delightr i that w. have been able to reach an agroi' ment for a two-year series with Davidson,” said Hooks. “Wo have enjoyed a fine relationship with Davidson In all sports and feel a fooMaall series between tlie two institutions will be very attrac tive.” Tlie adlilion of i' '’’Idcats will give Waite I''o:(' -ne James during 1971, s n Groves Stadium ..i- •hide: Miami i.Scpt, .I:..a Oct 16); Duke iN'ov, ; and Joulh Carolina iNov, 20). Games iwa.v include: Vir.ginia Tecli -Sept. IS); Marvlan.l lOct. 2i; N. C. Stale lOct. 9i; North Car- 'lina (O.-t. ?5t; Clemson (Oct. '10); Mary i.Nov. 6'. ”1 think tlie two-game series with Davidson should 1:0 a good local attraction,■’ sad head feel ’tail coach Cal Stoll. "There ^pe a lot of Davidson supporters in the area and they will be happy to see their team play. ‘‘Witli Davidson's remwrd em phasis ot foothall, we expect them to lie a highly ccn-i"otitive football team,” he added. -Wc .are looking forward to the series.” I In mak r.g tho announeemi nt, I Hooks also stated that several of the details of the vames against Riclimotid, Kansas Stati. Puidvo jand (Georgia were to be worked I out. ■'niis season- the Deacons’ 111th game will be at the Univer- |sity of N^vasKa, Sept. 12.