Newspapers / The Kings Mountain Herald … / Feb. 16, 1972, edition 1 / Page 7
Part of The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1972, PAGE 7 ^ i > I i: I 4l) ^ ^ Jpg ' 4. - ^ I j KINGS MOUNTAIN HIGH GIRLS IN ACTION AGAINST CHERRYVILLE ABA To Draft Under Classmen The American Basketball Association has managed to '‘leak’’ word to the press that it plans to draft under classmen this year. The ABA always managed to “leak” something to re porters. Last year about this time an ABA official took a Charlotte reporter by the nose and led him to a motel room, where by coincidence they found league President Jack Dolph's briefcase open and contracts signed by Ho ward Porter and Jim Mc Daniels. The reporter huffed and puffed and wrote a copy righted story about his dis covery. So here we go again. The ABA will sign underclassmen. The game of basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference will suffer. Without question, some pro team will attempt to sign Robert McAdoo of UNC and Tom McMillen of Maryland, Virginia’s Barry Parkhilland NC State’s Tommy Burleson ^)d David Thompson will also prime prospects. It’s hard to fault a college kid, who has the ability to put a round ball in a round hoop, for signing for huge sums of money. After all, a merger might soon come and the money won’t be there. Putting it simply, if someone offered you a million dollars, would you decline in interest of pursuing an education? O f course not and most of these college basketball play ers won’t, either. But now we must ask, where it is going to end? It’s doubt ful that the professional team could continue to spend mil lions on untested talent. And sooner or later, the pros are going to reach the saturation point. You can’t continue to give rookies no-cut contracts and have room for more play ers. For a lot of reasons, I don’t like the idea of professional teams raiding the colleges like a bunch of pirates. It’s going to continue, however, until a merger comes and the fans had might as well get used to it. U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin has a :)int when he says a young )an ought to be able to make oney for his talents, if he so desires. Some coaches. North Carolina’s Dean Smith and Marquette’s A1 McGuire, seem to agree with Sen. Er vin. McGuire will no doubt lose his awesome junior center Jim Chones to the draft. He knows it, accepts it, and feels that Chones should take the big pay day. “When someone offers a kid ' hundreds of thousands of dol lars to sign a basketball con tract,” McGuire says, “you can’t in good conscience tell the boy not to sign. They can become financially secure for life. I’ll help Chones get the best deal available at the end of this year and will encour age him to come back to school in the off-season to get his degree.” Smith also knows that Mc Adoo, also a junior, looks very good to the pros. Like McGuire, Smith will help Mc Adoo get tlie best deal avail able. In North Carolina, the Car olina Cougars find themselves in an impossible situation. They would like to have McAdoo. If the Cougars don’t take the Tar Heel jun ior, another team will. But the Cougars have a re latively small following in this state, and UNC has an army of loyalists, A lot of people are going to be angry if the Cougars take McAdoo FROM Chapel Hill. That, in my opinion, is un fortunate. McAdoo is going in the draft. That’s a fact. His home is Greensboro. He attends school at the state university. Why shouldn’t he have a chance to play pro fessional basketball at home, where he most likely would like to be? The ABA, struggling to keep alive, is in a mess. But the Carolina Cougars shouldn’t be penalized more than other teams. If they have the long green, they should get Robert McAdoo’s name onacontract. Maryland’s Lefty Driesell took a movie camera and a film home with him the other night. He knew the ending in advance and wasn’t expecting to enjoy it. I t was the film of North Carolina’s 92-72 victory over Lefty’s Terps. “You toow somethng,” Lefty said. “We didn’t play a bad game. They blitzed us for three minutes in the first half and for two minutes in the second. Except for that, I thought we played very well.” Writers love to point out the feud that exists between Lefty and UNC’s Dean Smith. But Lefty is quick to heap praises on the Tar Heels. “They’re great teams,” Lefty says. “It’s very hard to get them out of their game plan because their players have such great poise.” *** Monte Towe, the stubby little guard of the North Car olina State freshman team, was touted for college ball by Dick Dickey, one-time Wolfpack AI - American. Dickey predicted all along that Towe could make it as a collegian despite his 5-7, 140-pound build. Towe now looks like he has the potential of a varsity playmaker with a freshman team which has won 10 of II games. Cinnclnnati’s Pete Rose, who paid a visit to the Car- olinas, said that he agrees vompletely with Roberto Cle mente of the Pirates on the turf at Baltimore Stadium, which the Colts share with the Orioles. Grumbled Rose: “There is no way for a visit ing outfielder to do any good there. Playing bounces on that field is like trying to catch flying goldfish. The turf is awful.” Brian Adrian, whowas pick ed as a future “superstar” of offensive basketball when he entered Davidson College three years ago, seems to have lost Interest in the game completely. He isn’t making a great effort to get a knee back into proper shape after surgery last summer. He’s all but written off the remain ing year of what was once a promising college career. •*** Gary Cooper gets reams of publicity for being the strong, silent type in Hollywood. Far more, in fact, than had he tried to read lines. Duane Thomas has made more head lines by refusing to speak than he would if he had employed Flip Wilson’s comedy writ ers. ♦♦♦ In case you haven’t thought about it, Atlantic Coast Con ference tournament will have only seven entries in March, It hasn’t eased the ticket sit uation a bit. The various schools, more competitive as a group, can't even handle their closest of kin. Trying . to get a room in Greensboro for the early March event is as bad as anything experien ced in New Orleans for the. Super Bowl. Hotel clerks suddenly become as import ant as senators. Make that the President. When Fran Tarkenton of the Giants was traded to Minn esota recently, one New York looking atNormSnead’spass- ing record, mulled, “Let’s hope Snead doesn’t get in tercepted on bis way to New York.” WHO KNOWS? 1. Define “quo warranto.” 2. What is quartz? 3. For what is Elizabeth Kenny best remembered? 4. Name the capital of Kan sas. 5. How do you determine one board foot? 6. When did James Ogle thorpe land on the Georgia coast? 7. Name the U.S. President born on February 12th. 8. What are lichens? Answers to Who Knows 1. Latin phrase meaning “what authority.” 2. A common mineral found in many rocks which re sembles broken glass. 3. For her new method of treating infantile paraly sis. 4. Topeka. 5. One board foot is a board 1 foot long by 1 foot wide by 1 inch thick, 6. February 12, 1733. 7. Abraham Lincoln, Febru ary 12, 1809. 8. Flowerless plants that grow on bare rocks, tree stumps and in waste places. GURK’S Goodyear 407 Battleground Avenue Kings Mountain 739-6456 BUKEmI JAi iUlllMMIlt ^1/ ANY U.S. CAR Trained experts will ndjtisl brakes on nil four wheels, add brakr fluid U needed and lest. Clean, inspect and repack front wheel bearings. Align front end.correct camber, caster and loe*in. Rotate all four wheels. ^Any U.S. ayle plus parts. AM S2 for lorsiort bars. KM Cag ers To Close Season Facing R.S Central, Chase Kings Mountain’s Cagers close out regular season play with games at R-S Central Friday and here against Chase Tuesday, The Mountaineers, who have won five loop games this year to qualify for the conference tournament, dropped both of its games last week while the Mountainettes won one and lost one. Both local squads were de feated last Tuesday at Burns. The girls lost 41-36 to drop Into a tie for second place with the Burns girls. The boys fell apart In the fourth period after leading the entire game and lost 60-55. In Friday’s home twinblll with Cherryville, the girls got a 20-point performance from Debra Crockett and won 52-41 while the boys fell 3 points short, 59-56. The Mountainettes were in command all the way, leading by 24-19 at halftime. They gradually pulled away in the second half behind the scoring of Crockett and Carolyn Mit- chem, who added 12 points. June Gaston was high for Cherryville with 15. The Mountaineers stayed on the Ironmen’s heels in the nightcap but Coach Allen Dix on’s charges didn’t have enough in them to pull out the victory. Cherryville led by only two points, 30-28, at halftime. Jimmy Graves scored 19 points for Cherryville and Dennis Tate added 17, Mike Thombs scored 17 and Wen dell Dawkins 10 for the Moun taineers. The two KM clubs were scheduled to play in Shelby last night. The conference’s top eight teams in both the boys and girls divisions will participate in the league tour ney at Burns beginning Feb. 24. GIRLS GAME KM— (52) Crockett 20, Cornwell 4, Mltchem 12, Cash 3, Lovelace 3, Lee 4, Led ford 2, Henderson 2, Ham- bright 1. Cherryville (41)— Gaston 15, Giles 11, Dellinger 9, Hope 2, Farris 1, Banks 1, Brown 2. BOYS GAMES KM (56) -- Dawkins 10, Crocker 6, Brown 3, Thombs 17, White 6, Wlngo 6, BU- lock 6, Hedden 2. Cherryville (59) -- Tate 17, Giles 6, Graves 19, Allen 12, R. Graves 5. KM JV’s V8- Shelby Monday KM Girls 34 Shelby 42 KM Boys 72 Shelby 69 ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ 1. Who is Jeannie Evert? 2. Who is Chris Evert? 3. What player was picked 1st in the pro football draft? 4. For whom will Pat Sulli van play? 5. When does the American League begin play? Answers to Sports Quiz 1. Fourteen-yea^old tennis amateur from Fort Laud erdale. Fla. 2. 01de^sister tennis star. 3. Walt Pulaski of Notre Dame. 4. The Atlanta Falcons. 5. April 5th (California vs- Minnesota). SHOE SIZES Shoe sizes are deter mined in numbers for length and In letters for width. The difference between each numbered size is minute—only one-sixth to one-eighth inch, but it can seem mountainous when it comes to correct fit. o (3 Ctrl Roseboro, 55, puts up a shot against Shelby Mon. Night a o □ C □ Building or Remodeling Your Home? See Home Savings & Loan Assn, for Personal Service □ o D □ □ □ 11 I 106 E. Mountain ® m a a ^ jt ^ • 739-2531 [T| . ^ - 0
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 16, 1972, edition 1
7
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75