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. 1973 sani anj QVOl' Thursday, October II, 1973 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. PAGE THRU t II" iOS6 HERALD SPORTS Mounties Meet East Gaston On Road By TONY TOMPKINS Some recent unusual twists in the world of sports; The New York Mets are in the baseball playol'ls and the r;evv York Jets football team has lost its two starting tiuartorbacks. And after the Mels 1973 in jury problems | :o boot. What else can happen? No one knows the answei to that except old man Fate. j East Rutherford Downs KM 27-12 Kiserr Surnmey, East Defense Humble Mounties I 1 ootball has just started but the first collegiate bas ketball book has just hit the newstands. It is entitled! "Super Sports-Collegiate Basketball Issue” and it gives a complete analysis oi all college teams. It lists the top lOU 1 fieshmen, the major college sophomores and the pre-all-, american selections. j I was a little bit stunned to see that North Carolina placed six men in the top 100 freshmen, something no other school did. I also know that Bobby Jones, Tom Mc- Millon, David Thompson, Tommy Burleson and Len Ei-; more are all on the all-american list. On the NAIA All-American prospect list are Lloyd Free of Guilford, and John Drew of Gardner-Webb. It looks as if we are in for a big surprise of some very exciting basketball this year. North Carolina is be ing talked about as NCAA championship material along wuh UCLA and N. C. State. 1 hope that the NCAA champ ionship can come to the ACC this season, no matter who wins it. There are some very exciting clubs in the league and I don’t foresee any runaway by anyone. I highly recommend the book, as I am sure you sports fans will enjoy it very much. ****** I got bi’aver last week when I decided to predict 18 games. 1 didn’t do too badly, as I got lucky and picked 14 right and only 4 wrong for a .778 percentage. Now, this brings my season record to 54 right against only Ib losses lor a .771 average. That isn't too bad, even lor a sports editor, but I am going to try to get over the 80 percent level. | If I can stay away from all of the upsets, I just! might have a shot at it. Here goes for this week. ' EAST RUTHERFORD OVER R. S. CENTRAL: This one will be a toughie, but I’ll take East in a thriller. ; SHELBY OVER NORTH GASTON: The Lions should; take this one in a breeze, but watch it. ! BESSEMER CITY OVER CHASE: This one will settle : last place in the SWe, so I'll stay with the Yellowjackets. I CHERRYVILLE OVER LINCOLNTON: The Ironmen j will be mad this week after the narrow loss to Burns. • CREST OVER BURNS: The Bulldogs will try to make! a game of it, but the Chargers are too lough lor them. | KINGS MOUNTAIN OVER EAST GASTON: Coach I Jones will make East pay for last week’s mistakes. The j Mounties will be back. ASHBROOK OVER MYERS PARK: Something tells mo I’m making a mistake, but I’ll trust the Green Wave one more time. HUNTER HUSS OVER SDUTH MECKLENBURG. Huss is at home and that is just enough edge for this thriller. First place is at stake. VIRGINIA OVER CLEMSON: This will be a goodie, but 111 have to stick with the Cavaliers. TULANE OVER WAKE FORES'!: The Gamecocks will score with ease in this one. NORTH CAROLINA OVER KENTUCKY: The Heels aren’t dead yet, so L’ll pick them in an upset over Ken tucky. MARY'LAND OVER N. C. STATE: The Torps will nip the Wolfpack in a thriller. The Pack had its moments a gainst the Tar Heels, so I look for a let down this time. GARDNER WEBB OVER CATAWBA: I’ll have tc stick with the Bulldogs altho they probably won’t bi favored. ALABAMA OVER FLORIDA: The Crimson Tide ali the way. U.S.U. OVER AUBURN: The Bengal Tigers will be too tough foi the Plainsmen of Auburn. GEORGIA OVER MISSISSIPPI: Georgia will dot all of those i’s this time around. OKLAHOMA OVER TEXAS: The Sooners will make the Longhorns very sad. NEBRASKA OVER MISSOURI: The Cornhusken could get upset in this one, but I doubt it. MONTANA STATE OVER WEBER STATE: A fan asked me to pick this one. Okay, I'll try it, at least one time anyway. Well, that’s it in the predicting business for this week. Let us watch and see how they come out. Why doiVl you sit down and try to out-pick me. You just might do it. **«**« At the ball game last Friday night, a lady and her husband came up and gave me a very nice conipliment concerning sportswriting. Now, 1 know that this doesn 1 happen too often to a sportswriter, so it did make me feel very good. More important was the fact that a lad.\ did take time to sit down and read this column. That really surprised mo. I have always had the assumption that women didn’t care that much about sports. For one time, I am happily wrong about that aspect. It is very nice to have the lo cal ladies supporting in the sports world. **«#«* I also wrote about the people backing the different teams in the city, such as the three Optimist teams, the freshman team, the junior high team and the varsity high school team. Well, I must say that as I covered the different games this past week, I was very pleased that .so many Kings Mountain people turned out to see the various games. It is a warm feeling to know that you have the back ing oif the entire, town when you happen to be down on the field. I must also commend the many fans and par ents for their patience and understanding with the teams, but most of all for their loyal support and belief in these young men. If you missed the North Carolina-N. C. State game on TV this past week, you missed a good one. These Big Four battles are really something else. The World Series will take over Tuesday. ^.ryfffdgwn youra//^^ The Kings Mountain Herald's Want Ads Pay The Kings .Mountain .M.>u.ntuin- oe.s 01 Coacli Booby Jones play ed host to the East Rutherford High .'avaliers in beautilul John Gamble Stadium and went down to defeat by the upset score of 2'( to 12. It marked the fir-st con- fereiKe loss for the Mounties and left their .season won loss mark at liiree wins and two lasses. East was led by quarterback Gary Kiser and luilfoaek Tony Summey. East, who hud been soundly beaten by Shelby and Bums, looked like the ix>werhouse that they were supijo.sed to be. Inc ctmoination of their bruising ground game and their ability to iialt the .Meunfaineers through tire air, gave them their well de served victory. QuarterbacK Kiser led the Ea.st rushing attack with 96 yards in H carries, while scoring on a brilliant 44 yard touchdown run. Kuuoack Summey adried 86 yards in 21 carries while scoring three louchdow'ns on runs of 12, 1 and 1 yards. The Ea.st rushing game netted them 253 yards on the ground. The Mountaineers were led in the rushing department by hall- baik Tony Falls, who carried the bail 15 times for a total of 69 yards. Falls scored on a 4 yard touchdown run. Chuck .Austin also scored for the .Mountaineers on a 46 yard touchdown run. k vital statistic in favor of East was theii oeing able to hold the .Mounties to only 2 comple tions in 2U attempts through the air. East also hit on 2 of 4 pas.ses. Ea.st kicked off to the .Mounties and the K'.M lads started on theii own 38 yard line. Kings Moun- ta.n failed to move t.he oall and punted to East. East slartch on their 31 and promptly made two first downs, carrying the ball to the KLM 46 yard line where Kiser . liit the middle of the line and fumbled. Big Carl «o.seboro fell on the ball on KM’s 44 yard line. On the ne.xt play, a fumble on : the handoff gave the ball right oack to East on the K.M 41 yttrd line. On third down and five, KLser completed ti pa.ss to end Dennis Tarleton on the KM 27 ,01 a lir.st down. Summey gained five yards and Kiser addtvi an other fir.-t down on the Moun taineer 13 yar line. Then Kiser iddcd one, oefore Summey broke „tl tackle for 12 yards and the I'.ast touihdown. Rodney .Mc Cracken’s conversion attempt .\us bloi-ked by David Bell. Tlie .Mounties took tlie ensuing kickoff on the 15 and ran it bark to tlieir own 30 yard line. .4 Ea.st Rutlierford 15 yard penalty lot ansp.rtsmanliki^ conduct gave the KM lads a first down on their /wn 49 yard line. Three phiys later, with third down and si.x to go, quarterback Chuck Austin .aked a pitchout and rambled 46 yards for the tying touchdown. .Itst'ooro’s conversion attemot .va.- wide to the right. i There was no more scoring un til the second quarter wiien Dan- ,iy Luckadoo intercepted .4u.stins | pass on the K.M 44 yard line. .Juarter-oack Gary Kiser prompt ly broke off tackle and raced down the le.'t sidelines for a 14 yard ttttchdcwn run. This tiime, .Mc.J'ackcn split the uprights and East led 13 to 6 and that is the way the hall ended. The third quarter belonged to the Mountaineers as they kept the East attack battled up mast of the time. The big break of the .luarter came when East was forted to punt from their own 25 yard line. The ipun't traveled a mere seven yards and the Moun ties took over on the East 32 yard line. It took the .Mountain eers only eleven plays to reach pay dirt this time, with Tony Falls sweeping around the left side for the touchdown. The con version was no good and East still led 13 to 12. As tlie fourth quarter began, the Cavaliers continued their drive to tlie KM goal. They start ed on their own 29 yard line and it took them 16 plays to reach the end zone, where Tony Sum mey bulled his way into the end z;.ne from one yard out for the tcuclidown. McCracken was true again on his conversion attempt and the iCavaliers led 20 to 12. Flast then kicked off to tlie Mountaineers eight yard line ■where Tony Falls took it back to the Ea.st 47 yard line. Tony al most broke the run-back for a touchdown. On second and nine from the East 46 yard line, Aus- tiin drcipped back to pass and this time hiilfbiick Bobby Smith step ped in front of his intended re ceiver an<l interce|)ted the pa.ss. Smith ran it back to the Kings Mountain 15 yard line before be ing tackled. Halfback Doug Whit aker rambled all the way to the one yard line on ithe next play. Then, Summey broke off tackle The Kings .Mountain J Duck- pins) .Mixed League, currently bowling in Kannapolis, continu ed last week with so.me very in teresting re.sulLs to report. Bob Herndon’;i team defeated John Diiling’s team 3 to 1 in league play. Bob Herndon's team diieated John Diiling’s team 3 to 1 in league play. IBob Herndon had a game high of 118 and a 327 .series, while Jiimes Heirndon ■chijtped in with a 308 series. Jenny Oates led the Dillir'.g team with a game high of 135 and a 357 series. John Dilling also had a 310 series. Jim Hardy’s team turned ba.k Rod Hcu.ser’s team 4 to 0, with the entire Hardy team each bowl ing a 3(X) series. Rod Houser led his team with a game high of 134 and a 364 series. Ronnie Cul bertson led the Hardy team with a game high of 136 and a 320 series. Steve Rathbone twith a 3020 .series), Judy Hardy (with a 323 series) and Jim Hardy (with a 319 series) helped in the win ning cause. Albert Brackett's team turned back Ranny Blanton's team 3 to 1. Betty Hullender had a game high of aOO and Harvey Hullen- der had a 277 series to lead the Blantcn team. Betity Wells had a 133 game high, as well as a 331 .series and .41bcrt Brackett chip ped in with a 353 series. STANDINGS c L iA TEAMS Brackett’s Hardy’s Herndon’s Houser’s Blanton's Diiling’s GBL Tech To Spcnsoi Police Class Cleveland County Technical In stitute will Ijegin a 'vasic 161- hour Police Science tiaining pro gram on Monday night, October 15, at the Civil Defense building at old Oak .School in Shelby. The program is de: igned for new po licemen an<f police reserve from all over Region C \.'ho liave been employcxl since Marcli 15. 197.3. The ba.siv course is mandatory for all such personnel by June 30, 19- f "1. The course will b<‘ held each Monda.v, Tuesday an 1 Wedne.sday evenings from 6 to 10 p.m. Clar- sc.s will he .suspended for Christ mas Holida.vs and New Year af ter Decemlxn- 19, and will resume on January 7. .4pprove,l law enforcement of ficials and other .stale pors<tnnel will rerve ns inr-tnators for thi.s program. Other p<MSons inteiest- od in this basic i-rogram should contact nearest law enforcement agency or p'olice chief for permis sion to onrotl in this program. There will he no registration fee for the course >ince law en forcement classes are exempt by State regulations. DENNIS HOGUE Mountaineer linebacker is looking forward to this Friday's game with East Gaston. Optimist Teams Split With Mount Holly The Kings Mountain Optimist teams came up with one win and two lo.sses against the Mount Holly teams last Thursday night in the City Stadium. Joe Cornwell's Junior Pee Wees were l)eaten by Ihe Mount Holly juniors by the score of 25 to 6. .Myron White got the Kings Mountain touchdown on a .53 yard run. The Pee Wees of Coach Jimmy Littlejohn registered the only win of the night in turning hack the Mount Holliy Pee Wees by the score of 19 to 11. Young Jody Deaton was the offen.cive star of the game, as he scored on runs of 41 and one yards for touch downs. Eugene Odums also .scor ed on a 24-yard run and Barry Linebergor scored a conver.sion point. Johnny Ross and Tony Smith were outstanding on de fense. Thes King.s .Mountain Royal lost tlieir first gtime ol the se.i son to the .Mount Holly midgets and it was also the first time tliey have h«Mi scored on this .sea son. The final score was 11 to 0. The Royals were outplaye<l by the bigger Mount Holli, oys and they kept bottled up for most of the game. Tim Whitaker, RtKiney Deaton and Jeff Putna.-n led the offense while Larry Smith, Glen Cai roH and Bn by Bridges led the defensive charge. All thitH) teams will play in Belmont this week. COACH BOBBY JONES Renews an old friendship with East Gaston Coach Dick Thompson and hopes to get his team back in the win column. Southwestern Conference STANDINGS CONF. OVERALL POINTS TEAMS W L T W L T FOR AGS’T South Point 5 0 0 6 0 0 253 51 Shelbv 3 0 1 O I I 100 47 KINGS MOUNTAIN 3 I 0 3 2 0 69 35 Crest 2 I I 3 1 I 120 53 R. S. Central o 2 0 3 3 0 111 123 East Rutherford 2 2 0 3 2 0 80 67 Burns 2 2 0 3 2 0 57 74 North Gaston 2 3 0 2 3 0 60 74 East Gaston 2 3 0 2 4 0 23 131 Cherryville I 3 0 2 3 0 58 73 Bessemer City I 3 0 1 4 0 15 70 Lincolnton 1 3 0 I 4 0 12 82 Chase 0 .0 0 0 6 0 33 176 for his third touchdown of the night. Once again, McCracken .split the uprights and the score read East 27 and Kings Mountain 12. It will probably be rated as one of the big upsets of the ycungSWC sea.S(.n, but East link ed every bit tlie contender for the league championship. Austin attemipted a total of 20 pas.ses in the game and complet ed only two of those for a t(;tal of 3tl yards. He missed on the first fourteen attempts, but sev eral of them slapped througii iris receiver's hands. The .Mountaineers will travel to East Ga.ston this week and cn.-e again, another tough battle will be expected. STA'nSTICS ER KM First Downs 15 8 Net Yards Ru.shing 253 128 Net Yards Passing 18 30 Total 5ard.-; 271 158 Passes Attempted by 4 20 Passes Completed by 2 2 Passes lnterce])ted by 2 1 Fu.mbles Lost by 3 1 Punts 3-22 6-32 Y’ards Pcntilizcd 24 25 SCORING BY QUARTERS: 1 2 3 4 Total E. Rutherferd 6 7 0 14—27 Kings -Mtn 6 0 6 0 12 SCORING SUMIARY: ER—TT)—Summey 112 yard run) K.M TD—Chuck Austin (46 yard run) ER-TD—Ki.ser (44 yard run) PAT - McCracken K.M—TD—Tony Falls (4 yard run) ER—^TD—Summey (1 yaid run) PAT - McCracken ■ ER—^TD—Summey (1 yard run) PAT - .McCracken Falls Tapped Playei 01 Week ■Mrs. .lean Cohb, Trailer No, 3, Kings Mountiiin .Motor Court, is our first place winne)- this week in the Herald's weekly foot all contest. Jean mis.sed only one game (The KM game) and came ihe closest to the tic-br<’ak- er by picking a total of 32 points. She wins first prize which is a $15 check. Glenn Wells of 2123 New Hope Road, Gastonia, won the second I lace money of $10 by correctly picking twelve of thirteen win ners. Tire tie-breaker caused him to finish in second place as he predicted a total of 25 points. The battle for the thiid place piitx* of $5 'Wa^ very holt' con- testei by 14 diffeient people. It I fina' j came down to tw*(> (teitple. Kenneth Roark of 710 Bridges Dri> e and Fotey Cohh, the hus band of the first place winner. These two will split the f”'' third place. Another contest is in this, w'oek’s edition of The Herald, so you will also have another op portunity to join this week's money winners. Just fill out your ballots and return them to The Herald bv noon I'riday. Y'oii could verv e.-isi'y he the next winner of the grid contest. Last P'ridav’s contest scores apoear on this trage toda'C. Keeir in mind that von ran r'n- t"r eolv cnee. Enti-ies for next -Tarres shoii'H ' e in this office by noon on Friday. r"T TO F^'T 4’.f i® OflO of rrjT»AA’i»'-7 of fho T\ J?. fooi irdn«5*r- mer''ial res'a'Tant sates rt-mb'es' I'etwe.-n 19.59 and 1999 and ! imniinled to about .^21.5 billion in ;1971. notes Mrs Rnhv ir-zle. ev. ' tension eonsurner paai'Vetin*^ ee--, ! nomist. North Carolina State ' University. Cobbs. Wells. Roark. Cobb Contest Winners For the second con.seculive week, an outstanding |«u'forni- anct' on the gridiron ha.s earned junior Tony Fall.s the honor as Player of the wot'k by Fulton’s Department store. 'ITie fleet junior halfback sciir- e<l one of tire two Kings Moun tain touchdowns on a four yar;l run off left tackle. He also re- tunuKl a kickoff foi- 45 yards and led the Mnuntjuneei-.s in ru.shing with a total of 69 yards in 15 carries. I'ulton's Department .Store will present a gift to Tor- and the store will continue to honor- an outstanding player each week daring the fooihall .season. g --i ^ • lid •>;<sr4z I w LAST FRIDAY’S RESULTS E. Rutherford 23 12 K. Mtn. Shelby 34-0 East Gaston Crest 34-6 Bessemer City R.S. Central 33 12 Chase Burnr 13-7 Cherryville North Gaston 19-3 Lincolnton South Point 27-19 Lenoir N. C. State 28-26 N Carolina Purdue 27-7 Duke Texas 41 0 Wake Forest Texas A.&M. 30-15 Clemson Maryland . 38-0 Syracuse Gardner Webb 36 6 George town. Ky. Warriors May Be Best oi The New Additions The I-;a.st Ga.ston Warriors jus' may b<r Ihe best team of the threi new members of the Southwes .3-.\ confeience. East Gaston along with Be.ssemer City anc .North Gaston, are all formei memlier.s of the Little P'our con fei enw. Tlie head eo;rch i» a fine getn itenian jjy the name of Dick Thornjjson. Coarh Thompson h competing in his 26th season ol coaching in the prep ranks anc his .sc'cond at consolidated East Ga.ston. He loves challenges anc tlie comielition that goes with it He i.s al.so a newly elected mem ber of the Ga.sloni'i .Sports Hall of-Fanie and jii.st re.cntly coach cd Ihe West All-'-tlais to a 16-C victory over the East in Greens- ■ oro tills jrast summei'. ■'.411 of lh(> original .SuuthwesI leam.s have good fecdei’.sy.ste.ms,'' I’hompson st.ited. "I was disap- poinlo I in our tuinout this year. Out of 10,5 who signed up, only 111 came out. We’ie clown to -Id new and we want to carry .33 on Ihe varsity, whicli really dcresn’t real’i leave us very many foi the jayvees.” Leading the way at quarter- hack in 175 pound .senior Frank (’arllcin, with Tony Rodden and Max Jamieson at his backups. T'he only returning halftiack from last year is 15.5 pounds junioi Gary Biiee. Other half acks who have loolced good are Tom Phir- ckelmyer, Hrire Hoover and John Boswell. The starting full back will h<“ Doug .Smith, al though Mark Hager and Richard Ponder eoiild move up. The ends will be Scott Brad shaw, Randy Mason, Mike Hawl ley, and Mike Brown. The tackles will lie Tracey Withers, Tim I Bowman. Mike Miller and Tim Mullis. Withers weighs in at 24C | and Bowman at 205. At the guards, there will he | R'lndy .Skidmore, Phil Johnson. Steve Briekleymyer and Mark | Stepp. T'he numher one man at centei I is Gan, Armstrong and he is j ably hackc'd up by Don Fisher. The Waii'iors will basically run! from the "T' formation, bull will use the single wing some too 1 ".4ciuany, we will wind up with! four formations, hut only timc| will tell hew good they will be,’ said Thompson. Thomp.son is ably assisted '■yl former .Mount Holly coachingj standout Delmer Wiles, anc I Steve Williams and D.'ivid .Norris [ East is currently -3 in the con I ference and 2-1 overall while I Ihe Mountaineers are .3-1 in the I confeicnee and .3-2 overall. The I game will lie pla.veci at the ole I Stanley high school stdium. Gams| time -cill lie at S o’clock. Coach Tltompson expects rough lime from Ihe .Mountain I eefs and ihn.se same words alscl corns from Coach Jones of thi| Mounties. Cn-\ch Jones sai I, "East Gas I ton is a good ball club and wcl will h'ue to he rc'ady to plav.l Tiev '✓' lie and stay after thcl hall wiili good puisuil, so we wllf have our hands full. Coaeti Jones .also said that hc| wasn’t .sure if Darrell Van Dykcl : or Mikp .■ship; would be heafthvl enoirah to |ilay. Both have enl countere'l injtiries Ihe past twT weeks. Shipp is a doubtful start| "f. ON DEAN'F LIST Micliael .Slevcm Barhc’r, son ll Mr. and Mrs. John B. Barbel[ route 2. Kings Mountain, wal named to Ihe dean’s list of GasI ton college for the summer quail le.'. I.O'INC, EDC.p; The ..\merio.an worker is losin-l Ids piodiielivily edge over foil elgn '.vorkers. aec’ording to a nevl I'.ook, .lanan is m-'king the greatl esi incre.aso in prodiielivitv pel worker, while the United 's;tate| IS seventh among mtijor indusl| iia) nations. "NOTICE" ALL G.E. MATOR APPLIANCE OWNERS: For Service. Call The Folowing TOLL FREE Number: DIAL "O ' ASK FOR WX4800 CHUCK AUSTIN — Mountaineer quarterback is ready for the Warriors oitd hopes to lead his team to vltcory. Compliments: Timms Furn. Co.
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