Page VA-MIRROR-HERALiD—Thursday, August 11, 1977
Babe Riithers Will Get Automatic Berth
KM To Host *78 Regionah
Kings Mountain will host the 1978 17-18 year old
Southeastern Regional Babe Ruth baseball
tournament.
Local BR officials were notified of their ac-
cq;>tanoe this week.
The double-elimination tournament, featuring
the state champions from several southern states,
will be played at Lancaster Field next August.
As host team. Kings Mountain will draw an
automatic bye In district, area and state play and
will advance straight Into the regional tour-
9PORT9
nament. North Carolina will also be represented
by a state champion.
Charlotte’s 17-18 year old all-star team won this
year’s regl(mal Tuesday night In Huntsville, Ala.,
and will play In the Babe Ruth World Series In
Kentucky later this month.
Next year’s regional here will give KM Its third
regional representative. Five years ago, the 18-15
year old all-stars won the state title and played In
the reglonals in Florida, and three years ago the
18 year old all-stars won the state title and played
in the reglmials In Alabama.
Ihat 18 yesu: old team, which Included many of
the same players that last week won the state 16-
year-old title, finished third In the reglonals.
Although the tourney Is a year away, local BR
followers feel good about Kings Mountain’s
chances of winning the title. Not only will KM
have moot of the players that {flayed on last
week’s state champlcnahlp ie-yearK>ld team, but
will also have the better players off the current 17-
18 year old team.
B R officlala also {xflnt out that the opiwrtunlty
of {flaying in the regional tournament will give the
KM players a lot of ex|>osure by major league
scouts. All of the major league clubs will be
represented here.
’nils wlU be Kings Mountain’s first attempt at
hosting a regional tournament, but the town has
hosted several district, area' and state tour
naments.
Kings Mountain youth baseballers have played
In only one Wortd Series, the 1966 Teener League
All-Stars finishing third In the imtlonal tourney In
Hershey, Pa. KM went to the Babe Ruth program
a few years later when the Teener program
folded.
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IN 49th YK AR - I. C. Apple, 79 year old official,
la In hla 48th year as an umpire In the Amateur
Softball Association. Apple will be calling balls
and strikes t<mlght when the 82-team state church
league softball tournament begins at City
Stadium.
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Kings Mountain’s
youth footballers are
practicing each day
from 4-6 p. m. at City
Stadium, and any
youngsters Interested In
playing may come out
for the team by coming
to practice and seeing
either Chartes Bums or
Jimmy Littlejohn.
Kings Mountain will
be sponsoring three, and
{XMslbly four teanu. In
league action this fall.
Plans are now to have
both a light and heavy
pee wee team, plus
junior midget and
midget teams.
liftlejohn will be In
charge of the pee wee
Austin
Leading
Tourney
TWO Kings Mountain
High School golfers
were battling yesterday
for the championship
of the first annual
Cleveland County
Junior Oolf Tourna
ment.
The 86-hole event was
being {flayed at River-
bend Oolf Club In
Shelby.
Darrell Austin Jr.
went Into the final 18
holes as the leader,
having shot a 76 In ’Tues
day’s opening round.
Heible Beam was one
shot back at 76 and Usd
with Shelby’s David
Cash.
The winner of the
tourney gets an
automatic berth In the
Cleveland County Oolf
Tournament, which
attracts the top amateur
golfers In the area.
prognun and Bums will
head up the junior
midget and midget pro
gram.
All teams are
des{>erately In need of
more players and also
need equipment back
from Isurt year. Any
players or former
coaches who have any
type of practtce or game
equipment that has not
been returned are urged
to return It as soon as
possible.
Practloe will continue
dally throughout this
month and regular
season action will begin
In early September.
Seventy-nine year old
I. C. Apple will be one of
the umpires tonight
when the annual State
Church League softball
tournament opens at
three Kings Mountain
{»rks.
Apple, who'has been
officiating for 49 years.
Is the oldest, but one of
the best, softball um
pires In North Carolina.
Apple will be um
piring tonight at City
Stadium, where action
begins at 6 p. m. City
recreation director Roy
Pearson, who Is director
of the 82-team tourna
ment, said all Kings
Mountain senior citizens
are being Invited to the
games.
At the same time
Apple Is overseeing the
action at City Stadium,
there will also be a full
slate of games at Deal
Street and Macedonia
parks.
El Bethel of Kings
Mountain, the District
iHihio champkm.viWUl be
^ playing at 6 p. m. at
Deal Street against the
District 21 champion.
That team will come
from the Albemarle
area.
Second Baptist
Church, the city cham
pion and host team, will
not play Its first game
until Friday at 7 p. m. St
City Stadium. They will
play the District IS
champions.
Apple, who has a park
In Oreensboro named In
his honor. Is one-half of
the only father-son
unq>lrlng duo to ever
officiate In the Worid
Tournament, which
they did In Onclnnattl In
1968.
And that’s not A{>ple’s
only distinction. He’s
been honored by almost
every sports
association In the state
for hla services to youth,
officiating, and
recreatlan.
Apple served as
NCASA um{flre-ln-chlef
until 1978, has served as
an honorary consultant
to NCASA since ’78 and
currently serves as
district commissioner In
OuUford County.
"I don’t know what I
would do If I couldn’t be
out there with the
youngsters,” he says. "I
just feel better when I’m
out there on the field. I
feel Involved.”
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EARLY DRILLS — Kings Mountain youth
footballers are shown going through some light
drills at City StauUum. Practice Is underway from
4-6 p. m. every weekday and youngsters In
terested In coming out for any of the teams may
do so by coming to practice and seeing coaches
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