EYEING SHRINE TOURNEY - Some of the top slowpitch softball teams in the Carolinas will
be in Kings Mountain this weekend for the second annual White Plains Shrine Club Classic.
Discussing the tough, 16-team field, left to right, are Carl Champion, Kings Mountain
Shriner; Artie Shoemaker, tournament director; Lee Skidmore, sponsor of the Skidmore Con-
struction team of Gastonia, and Mick Candler, Skidmore coach.
Shrine Softball Classic
Set Here This Weekend
The second annual White
Plains Shrine Club Softball
Tournament and Barbecue Sale
will be held Friday through Sun-
day.
The softball tournament,
featuring some of the top teams
in the Carolinas, will begin Fri-
day at 6:30 and continue
through Sunday at City Stadium
and Deal Street Park.
A late addition to the 16-team
field is Howard’s-Western Steer
of Denver, N.C., formerly
Howard’s Furniture. The team
has been organized for 27 years
and has won seven world cham-
pionships in different levels of
competition.
The team features pitcher
Don Arndt, “Mr. Softball” of the
slowpitch world. He is 49 years
old and has been playing softball
for most of his life. He is
slowpitch softball’s all-time
home run king.
Other key players on the
Howard’s team are Rick Sherrill,
Tim Rhinehart and Russell
Bradley.
“There will be no better soft-
ball played in North Carolina
this year than what you'll see in
the Shriners Classic in Kings
Mountain this weekend,” pro-
mises Artie Shoemaker, tourna-
ment director.
In addition to Howard’,
Shoemaker has lined up two
other national champions and
three state champions, plus
many other teams that are an-
nually in the running for the
state championships in North
and South Carolina.
Gastonia Heating, which won
the National Open Champion-
ship last year, is the defending
Kings Mountain champion. Led
by shortstop Tim White, the
MVP in the national tourna-
ment last year, David Johnson,
Buck Buchanan, and others, the
Gastonia team will be tough to
dethrone,” but such teams as
Howard’s,, Fab Master’s of
Greensboro, Loftis Roofing of
Greer, S.C., and Blanton’s
Barbecue of Fayetteville, will be
trying hard.
The Fab Masters team was
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runner-up to Gastonia Heating
both at Kings Mountain and for
the North Carolina State Open
title last year. The Greensboro
team would like nothing better
than to whip the Gastonia club
and get some revenge in Kings
Mountain this weekend.
Loftis Roofing is the defen-
ding South Carolina Open
Champion and also won the
U.S.SS.A. national champion-
ship last year.
Blanton’s Barbecue is a
newcomer to the Kings Moun-
tain field but will field a power-
ful ballclub. Blanton’s recently
defeated Howard’s-Western
Steer for the champinship of the
Wilmington Azalea Slowpitch
Classic. One of the team’s top
performers is Mickey Morrison,
who once played for Champion’s
Landscaping of Kings Moun-
tain.
Others in the field will be
LeeRoy’s Frame of Hickory, the
N.C. Class B defending champs;
Southern
Charlotte, the defending
Charlotte City League champs;
Skidmore Construction of
Gastonia, a long-time Gaston
County power; Hudson Sports
of Lincolnton, the defending
* Lincolnton City League champs;
Electro-Ade of Spartanburg,
Carolina Merchants of Gastonia,
the 1983 Gastonia Industrial
League champs and fourth place
finishers in the Class C. World
tournament; Baucom’s Nursery
of Charlotte, Keller Associates
of Charlotte; and some local
teams.
Action will get underway Fri-
day at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at
noon and Sunday at 1 p.m. Sun-
day’s championship round will
be dedicated to J.D. McDonald,
a former Pharr Yarns player
who was the first North
Carolina player. inducted into
the ASA Softball Hall of Fame.
A special seating section will be
reserved for McDonald and his
former teammates and
McDonald will throw out the
first pitch to start the champion-
ship game.
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The barbecue sale will get
runderway Saturday at 10 a.m.
‘beside City Auto and Truck
:Parts on Highway 161.
Tickets are $30 for a whole
shoulder, $3.50 for a plate and
$1 for sandwiches. Tickets may
be purchased from any Shriner,
or at City Auto and Truck Parts,
Champion’s Construction,
Home Federal Savings and Loan
and Linwood Restaurant. For
delivery of tickets, call Carl
Champion’s office at 739-9511.
A full line of concessions will
also be available at both
ballparks. Hamburgers, hot dogs,
popcorn and drinks will be
available, and White Plains
Shrine Softball Classic T-shirts
will also be available at
reasonable prices.
. All proceeds from the softball
tournament and barbecue sale
will be given to the Shriners
Hospital for Crippled Children
in Greenville, S.C. The Shriners
raised over $8,000 last year.
All: patients at Shriners
Hospitals and Burn Centers are
treated at no cost to their
parents. Anyone who has or
knows a child who needs treat-
ment in these areas should con-
tact any member of the White
Plains Shrine Club.
Area Anglers
In Tourney
Nearly 250 fishermen, in-
cluding many from the Kings
Mountain area, have registered
to compete in the third Carolina
division event on the Red Man
Fishing Tournament Trail Sun-
day at Clark Hill Lake.
Twenty of the top 24 anglers
in the Carolina Division point
standings will compete. Leading
the way is first place Bruce
Ellison of Spartanburg, S.C.
Among the other competitiors
are Dwight Morgan of Gold Hill
and Joe Wise of Cherryville.
Morgan won the first Carolina
event, held on Lake Murray near
Columbia, S.C., and Wise won
the second event held recently at
Lake Norman.
The fishermen at Clark Hill
Lake will be vying for about
$9,375 in prize money, with the
winner earning about $3,125.
Cash awards will go to the top
10 percent of the field.
Other area participants in-
clude Chris Bumgardner of Bel-
mont, Steve Cody of Shelby,
John Davis of Shelby, Charlie
Foster of Kings Mountain, Bill
Grier of Mt. Holly, Keeter
Hamrick of Kings Mountain,
David Jennings of Dallas,
Johnny Jones of Belmont, Rick
Lamountain of Shelby, Jesus
Loaces of Shelby, James
Osborne of Grover, Larry Pear-
son of Cramerton, William
Phillips of Shelby, Mike
Seawright of Kings Mountain,
Gary Smart of Kings Mountain,
Ronald Walker of Shelby, and
Bobby Winn of Shelby.
The fourth Carolina Division
tourney is scheduled for June 10
on High Rock Lake near
Salisbury. Entry deadline is May
30. To enter, call or write Opera-
tion Bass, Route 2, Box 74-B,
Gilbertsville, Ky. 42044.
Telephone (502) 3624880. En-
try fees for the one-day events
are $50, and a fisherman must
join Operation Bass. One hun-
dred percent of the entry money
is paid back as cash awards along
the trail”
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Belmont :
In the triangle across
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Sissy McClellan
825-5712
, At the new city limits on
West Franklin Avenue at
Shannon-Bradley Road in the
median strip.
Contact:
Contact: Lou Fuller
Bessemer City: 864-2780
At the City Cemetery on Lowell:
13th Street and also at
the Vantine Cemetery on
Virginia Avenue.
Hilda or Otto Gunst
629-4224
At the Lowell-McAdenville
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Contact: Contact: Billie Taylor
824-4489
Cherryville:
At the corner of Pink and
Church Streets and also
beside the cemetery along
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McAdenville:
At the Lowell-Mc/.denville
exit of I-85 near the bridge.
Allison Decker
824-4481
Contact:
Irene Beam
435-6778
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Cramerton: At the new underpass.
Contact: Rev. Cyrus Frazier
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Ranlo:
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824-3461
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Ethel Pasour
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Contact: the railroad tracks.
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