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Charlie Burns To Coach KMHS Jayvees
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aAYVEE COACH — CharUe Barui, ktng-ttme anc-
ceaatul midget coach here, has been named Jayvee
lootbaU coach at Kings Mountain Hl^ School. Bums
coached the KM midgets to a S4tfa place ranking In the
nation In 197S.
By GARY STEWART
Sports Editor
Charles Burns, All-
Oonference guard at Kings
Mountain High In 1960 and
’61 and more recently a
successful midget coach In
the Optimist Club program
here, has been named
jayvee football coach at
KMHS.
New athletic director
Dan Brooks made the
announcement today,
noting that Bums will also
help out with the varsity.
"With a limited number
of teaching vacancies,
we’re finding It hard to find
coaches,’’ noted Brooks.
"Charlie really wants to
coach and that’s a big part
of the battle.”
Burns, who has coached
midget ball here since 1670
and In ’76 coached the local
team to a 34th ranking out
of over 20,000 midget
teams In the nation, says
he’s "tickled to death"
about being named to the
KMHS staff and views his
iq>comlng Job as "an op
portunity and a
challenge."
Many of the players that
starred on Burns’
naetionally-ranked team of
’76, which finished 8-2-1
overall, will be
sophomores suid Juniors
for KMHS next fall.
Burns’ Jayvees, like the
varsity, will run several
variations of the I-
formatlon.
Burns says he first
began thinking of
becoming a football coach
his senior year In high
school, when he helped
lead the Mountaineers to a
0-1 record under the late
John Gamble.
“My senior year,” he
recalled, "I had two study
halls and I spent them In
Coach Gamble’s office.
We’d go over game films
and Just talk about footbsill
all the time. That’s what
got me Interested.”
Coaching Jayvees won’t
be an entirely new ex
perience for Bums. In 1062,
he was a volunteer
assistant to coaches Bill
Cashlon and Fred Withers,
helping coach the Little
Mountaineers to the South
western Conference title.
The same players he
coached then moved on
and helped the varsity win
back-to-back titles In ’63
and ’64.
Burns won the coveted
Fred Plonk Blocking
’Trophy and the Area 3-A
Lineman of the Tear
Awards his senior year and
also was a stsurter on the
Southwestern Conference
team In the Lions Bowl
game In Forest City .The
SWC edged the North
western Conference 14-18
aided by a Burns pass
Interception.
Burns was little (166
pounds) but was loud. He
ranked among KM’s best
linemen In an era when
langs Mountain was the
the king of Southwestern
Conference football.
Bums, like most suc
cessful coaches, feels
success comes through a
lot of hard work.
"I think a coach has to
realize that the boys
weren’t bom knowing how
to play football," he says.
"He has to be shown. It
takes a lot of patience and
hard work.”
Burns will give up his
midget duties, but says he
will remain a member of
the Optlmtat Club and help
out In any way he can.
Cloninger Hurls Ho-Hitter
Juniors Host Shelby
In Area 4 Opener
Kings Mountain’s
American Legion Juniors
open regular sesison Area
F^ur play tonight at 7:30 at
Lancaster Field against
Shelby.
The Juniors play three
games at home this week,
meeting Morganton
Friday and Hickory Satur
day.
Coach Robbie Moore is
expecting a much-
improved team over a year
ago.
Post 166 geared up for
tonight’s game last
Thursday with an
exhibition game In
Belmont against a
powerful Post 144 outfit.
Belmont scored six
unearned runs In an 8-6
victory.
"We didn’t hit the baU as
well as I thought we
would,’’ noted Coach
Moore, “but I was really
Impressed with our pit
ching. Dwayne Lawson
worked four Innings,
Jimmy Lutz three and
Jerry Swlnk one and they
didn’t give up a walk.”
Kings Mountain
collected only seven hits.
Including two each by
Steve Deal of Clover and
Chris Atkins of North
Gaston. Post 166 played
without the services of last
year’s MVP, Mike
Jackson, but he should be
In the lineup tonight.
Kings Mountain scored
three runs In the first In
ning on four walks and a
single by Deal and added
single mns In the sixth,
seventh and ninth. Post 166
collected four of Its seven
hits in the ninth and left the
bases loaded.
Jeff Cloninger of the
Kings Mountain Redlegs
hurled a no-hltter Friday
night at Sims Legion Park
In Gastonia sis the Reds
blanked the Gastonia
Cardinals 6-0 In a Senior
Babe Ruth League game.
Kemper Open
To Be Shown
CHARLOTTE - With
the $300,000 PGA Tbur
Elvent, the Kemper Open,
being held In Charlotte,
WBTV, will prominently
feature coverage of this
exciting tourney with spe
cial reports, a film on last
year’s action, and live tele
casts of the final two
rounds.
WB’TV Sports Director
Jim ’Thacker will be on the
scene to report highlights
of the day’s action each
night beginning Monday,
May 29th. ’These "Kemper
Open Reports” will be
scheduled Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday nights at 11:36 p.
m. Tuesday night at 11:60
p. m., and Saturday and
Sunday nights at 11:30 p.
m.
On Saturday, June 3rd at
3:30 .p. m. WBTV wlU pre
sent a film entitled “The
Kemper Open 1977: 10
Great Years.” Flashbacks
to great shots and great
winners from past Kemper
Opens are the background
for the exciting highlights
of last year’s 10th anni
versary Kemper Open, In
which Tom Welskopf
fought off a strong
challenge from George
Bums and BUI Rogers to
win the $60,000 first prize.
Immediately foUowlng
the film, from 4:00 tU 6:00
p. m., CBS and WB’TV wUl
cover the third round of the
tourney, suid, on Sunday
from 4:00 untU 6:00 p.m.,
wlU bring' you the final
round.
'ITie Redlegs scored four
runs In the first Inning, and
that was aU Cloninger
needed to post his first
pitching win. The victory
gave the Reds a 3-0 record
for the year.
Clonlnger’s performance
was aided by a defense
which turned In three
double plays, one by Mark
Schuman and Rick
Chapman, the other by
Cloninger and David Ray
Robinson and the third an
unassisted DP by Bruce
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Neisco
Wins 14-10
Neisco slammed seven
extra base hits Friday and
defeated Champion’s
Landscaping 14-10 to run
Its lltOe league record to 7-
1.
’Todd Cloninger blasted
two home runs, Walter
Cooper had three doubles
and ’Tommy Batchler two
doubles to lead the plate
attack. Johnny Yarbro had
two singles and Cloninger,
Randy Whitaker and Mike
Homesley had a single
apiece.
Randy Whitaker was the
winning pitcher, working
four Innings and fanning
six. Batchler pitched two
Innings and fanned two.
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The Redlegs collected
elgjit hits. Including two
each by Steve Lancaster
and Schuman and one each
by Cloninger, Jimmy Hall,
Bryon White and Tim
Whitaker. Lancaster and
Schuman had triples, and
Lancaster, Schuman,
aonlnger and Whitaker
had doubles.
The Redlegs won their
second game of the year
Wednesday night at
Lancaster Field, defeating
the Kings Mountain
Dodgers 3-0 behind the
one-hit pitching ol
Robinson.
Robinson had a no-hltter
going until the fifth, when
Sellers beat out an Infield
hit.
The Reds collected seven
hits. Including two each by
Robinson and Hall and one
each by Whitaker, Lan-
csuiter and Jody Deaton.
"I (eel like the ml
program Is very Impoi
to the high scl
program,” he says. ’
little boys learn hov
take the bumps
bruises. ’The Pop Wa:
program Is thorough at
as safety Is concern)
Burns has spent his
money attending foot
coaching clinics
Brooks pointed out 1
that kind of dedication
assured him Burns
qualified to head
Jayvee program
"I’ve gotten sort
addicted to clinics,” n(
Bums. "You can pick u;
much from them. Sine
didn’t go to college th
how I’ve gotten my foot
education.”
Burns says 1
anxiously awaiting July
when the Mountalne
begin pre-season dri
The Little Mountalne
will open their sea
exactly a month la
against Burns.
"It’ll be like a i
ballgame to me," he si
"I don’t know wh
coming out and I (k
know anything about
teams we’ll be playing. 1
I’m going to be optlmls
We’ll give It our best she
THE SCHEDULE
AUGUST
31 — Bums
SEPTEMBER
7 — Ashbrook
14 — at R-S Central
21 — at Shelby
28 — Crest
OCTOBER
6 — Open
12 — B. Gaston
16 — Malden
26 — AT N. Gaston
2 Pieces of (’hicken, jmUitoes, jinivy anil i
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Area boys and girls are
reminded of the free foot
ball clinic scheduled (or
July 10-11 at Kings Moun
tain High School.
’Thw clinic Is open to all
persons ages 10-14 and will
begin at 9 a. m. each day.
You are to bring a light
lunch. Drinks will be
provided.
Dan Brooks, head coach
at KMHS, wUl head up the
coaching staff. Also
helping out will be his
assistants, local youth
coaches and area college
players.
Any persons Interested
may contact Dan Bagwell
or Charlie Burae.
from a
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