PAGE 8, KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1972
KMHS
Football
Practice
Begins
For 1972
Sports Mirror
Photos
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KINGS MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
September 1
Bessemer City
Home
September 8
Chase
Home
September 15
East Rutherford
Away
September 22
South Point
Away
September 29
CherryvUle
Home
October 6
R-S Central
Home
October 13
Shelby
Away
October 20
Crest
Home
October 27
Burns
Away
November 3
Llncolnton
Away
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Optimist Pee Wees Begin Football Practice Monday
by Tony Tompkins
Dover Textiles won the cha
mpionship of the District 23
slowpitch softball tournament
last Saturday night by beating
Champion Landscaping No.
Two by the score of 7 to 5.
Champion’s had earlier beat
en CherryvUle Pythians 14 to
8 and then beat Dover Textiles
by a 23 to 13 score before los
ing the final game. Both teams
now advance to the area tourn
ament which started Tuesday.
Mike Bumgardner was named
the Most Valuable Player and
he also made the all-tourna
ment team. Others who made
all-tournament were Johnny
Phillips of Ellenboro; Jerry
Shoenfelt of J. C. Cowan; Nor
ris Eaker. Roger Beck and
Mike Bumgardner of Dover
Textiles; Gary Dysart of Hill
side Social Club; Bill Nash
and Bill Abernathy of Cherry-
ville Pythians; andGeneCon-
ner and Rocky Goforth of
Champion’s #2.
Ellenboro won the team sp
ortsmanship trophy.
The Area Tournament start
ed Tuesday night in City Sta
dium with the following pair
ings:
6:30 - Dover Textiles vs.
Harden Mfg.
7:30 - Clyde’s Quik-Stopvs.
Gastonia Heat and Roofing.
8:30 - B. R. Smith vs. Craft-
spun.
9:30 - Champion’s #2 vs.
O.G. Penegar.
There will also be four games
on tap Wednesday night start
ing at 6:30 and the tournament
will run through Saturday
night. Champion’s #1 is the
host team this year.
The local Industrial League
is trying to wind up their reg
ular season schedule and it
looks as if it is going down to
the wire again. Champion’s
#2, Carolina Throwing and
Craftspun are fighting it out
for the top three spots, and
also the seedlngs In the league
play offs, which are scheduled
to begin Friday, August 11th.
I made an error in identifying
a Kings Mtn. Little Leaguer
sliding into second base in a
picture we ran last week. We
printed his name as David
Robinson but, it really was
Tim Riddle. lapologizetoyou
Timmy. Tim plays shortstop
and Is a real fine ballplayer.
Watch for a preview of the
Kings Mountain “Mountaine
ers" football team next week.
Also, be on the lookout for
information on local softball
tournaments in this area. See
you next week.
INDUSTRIAL RESULTS:
Dicey 5-4 Gastonia Knit
Ctiampion’s #2 8-7 Duplex
Spectrum 11-10 Dicey
Craftspun 20-0 Oxford
Champion’s #2(F) 7-0 Oxford
Craftspun 19-3 Mica Mine
Gastonia Knit 8-4 Duplex
Craftspun 13-1 Oxford
Gastonia Knit 5-4 Spectrum
Oxford (F) 7-0 Dicey
Car. Throw. (F) 7-OSpectrum
Spectrum (F) 7-0 Oxford
Gas. Knit (F) 7-0 Mica Mine
Car. Throwing 9-6 Dicey
Duplex (F) 7-0 Mica Mine
Craftspun 7-5 Champion’s#2
LNDUSTRIAL STANDINGS:
Champion’s #2
Car. Throwing
Craftspun
Duplex
Gastonia Knit*
Dicey
Spectrum
Mica Mine
Skidmore’s*
Oxford
Won Loss Pet.
3 .880
4 .846
1 .840
9 .640
4 .500
4 .462
7 .370
1 .192
2 .185
3 .148
* - Season Ended
WOMEN’S CHURCH
RESULTS:
Bethlehem 28-11 0,Grove#2
Buffalo 11-1 El Bethel
Macedonia 15-4 Temple
Buffalo 17-5 0. Grove #2
Buffalo 42-3 Temple
Oak Grove #1 16-2 El Bethel
El BeUiel 16-11 Temple
WOMEN’S CHURCH
STANDINGS:
Won Loss Pet.
Oak Grove #1 9 0 1.000
El Bethel
Macedonia
Buffalo
Bethlehem
Oak Grove #2
Temple
.600
.600
.500
.444
.222
.111
The Kings Mountain Optimist
Pee Wee and Mighty Mite foot
ball teams will commence
practice Monday at 6 p.m. at
the Deal Street Park. Coaches
Jimmy Littlejohn and Charles
Burns are expecting over 100
boys to be present for the in-
Iti^ practice.
The Pee Wees (boys age 10-
13 weighing 100 ibs. or less)
will have several regulars
from last years team return
ing and both coaches are ex
pecting to have a strong team.
Some of the players returning
from last years 4-6-1 team
are; Ronnie Wilson at Quar
terback, Bunky Robinson and
Richard Vandyke at tackles,
Steve Laughter, Chris Hol
mes, and Jeff Prescott at
ends, Tim Whitaker at Guard,
Bryon White at center, Bobby
Bridges, a scrappy guard
from last year’s team will try
out this year for the offensive
backfleld, and Jim Baity, ade-
fensive linebacker last year,
will also be in the offensive
backfield. There will also be
several boys moving up from
last years Mighty Mite Team.
The Mighty Mites, coached by
Joe Cornwell, will also have
several starters from last
years team returning and
should have a strong team.
Both teams will run primar
ily from the wlnged-T and ex
pected to have a well-balanced
running-passing game. Ga
mes this year will be played
on Tuesday night and a sch
edule will be released at a
later date.
All boys Interested in play
ing on this years team should
contact Jimmy Littlejohn at'
739-4965 or Charles Burns at
739-3665 or Roy Pearson at
the Community Center before
Saturday.
KM Little
Leaguers
Lose
Kings Mountain Little League
lost in the Area 2 game agai
nst Concord with a score of
4-0. They managed 4 hits.
Ronnie Wilson was losing
pitcher. Jerry Dean Jackson
had 2 of the 4 Kings Mountain
hits.
This will end their season.
ONE MINUTE SPORTS QUIZ
1. What was the score of
the Dallas-All Star game?
2. Who won baseballs’ All
Star game'’
3. Who won the first Evert-
Smith tennis match'’
4. Who is Clarence Parker?
5. What club owns quarter*
back Pat Sullivan'’
Aisvirs to Sports Qiii
1. 20-7. Dallas.
2. The National League,
4-3.
3. Chris Evert. 6-3. 6-3.
4. Former Duke footballer
in Hall of Fame.
5. The Dallas Cowboys.
The Reason
"Was her marital trouble
incompatability’’’
".No. just the first two
syllables.”
Right
Tourist: "What are those
church bells ringing for. my'
lad'’’’
Urchin: "Cos somebody’s
pulling ’em!”
Just About
Doctor—This medicine I
left for the baby is all gone.
What’s become of it’ 1 hope
you didn’t give it all to that
baby.
Mother—No. In order to get
baby to take a spoonful of
it his dad had to take one
and I had to take one and
littie sister and big brother
and Aunt Sue all had to take
one.
Freddy In Running For Thursday’s Sportsman
Prize-Cherokee 200 Rescheduled
Spartanburg’s Chuch Piazza,
piloting the BUI Davis-buUt
Camaro, bids for his third
victory at the Shelby Motor
Speedway Thursday night at
the Cleveland County Fair
grounds. Action bei^ at 8
m
Birthday
BUly Gene Ramsey II cele
brated Ids first birthday Fri
day, July 28th.
Billy is the son of Mr. artd
Mrs. BUI Ramsey of Kings
Mountain.
Around 20 of his friends
helped him celebrate at a par
ty Friday at his home at 2000
Midpines.
BUly Is the grandson of Mrs.
Onlce Ramsey and Mr. Marion
Jackson.
New Truck
The Bethlehem Fire Depart
ment has acquired the chassis
for a new truck for future use
according to Ralph Arrowood.
The chassis was purchased
for the purpose of a tanker
truck and bids are now being
taken for the job of buUding
the truck.
Arrowood also reported that
the Bethlehem Fire Depart
ment wUl hold a directors me
eting next Monday.
o’clock. Everyone goes home
by 11 o’clock.
Shelby’s "Stick” Elliott and
Gaffney’s Charlie Blanton are
other Late Model Sportsman
winners at the fast Shelby
track.
Under the new management
of BHW Enterprises, theShe-
Iby Motor Speedway is draw-
in the largest and fastest
field of cars in the Carolinas.
Last week 47 cars took part
for the $3,500 purse.
Freddy Smith, Carl Smart,
Ralph Earnhardt, Ralph Eury,
Mike Duvall, Heyward Plyler,
BUI Monteith, Daniel Warlick,
Kilgo On Sports
Make no mistake about one
thing. Maryland’s Tom Mc-
MUlen was an unhappy young
man when he faUed to make
the U.S, Olympic basketball
team.
Now that McMillen has been
named to the squad to replace
the quitting Swen Nater of
UCLA, he is determined to
make good.
Tom’s coach. Lefty Dries-
ell, told me; "I don’t see how
in the world they left Tom off
the team in the first place. But
in the long run, I thlidc it’ll be
good for him. It was the first
real setback he ever liad and
he’s determined to comeback
from it.”
Some of the Olympic people
told McMillen he wasn’t str
ong enough. McMUlen then
went to Houston to inquire a-
bout a special weight-lifting
program to Increase his str
ength.
"Tom has something to prove
now." Driesell says. "If he
gets strc.ig, no telling what he
could do. I’ve been telling him
that he should get a litUe me
aner on the court. He doesn’t
let people push him around,
but he could stand to be a lit
Ue more aggressive."
By the way, Maryland’s com
plete home basketball sche
dule for Cole Fieldhouse has
been sold out since late June.
Driesell has two more weeks
of summer basketball camp
and then he says he’ll start
getting ready for the coming
season. One of the counsellors
at the Maryland camp wUl be
N.C. State super star David
Thompson.
"I’m gonna watch Thompson
like a hawk whUe he’s here,"
Driesell joked, "to see if I
can’t figure out some way to
stop him next year.”
More on basketball: Acoach
at a rival ACC school says that
N.C. State’s Tommy Burleson
will Improve greatly next se
ason, now that he’s made the
Olympic basketball team. "If
Burleson gets confidence,"
the coach said, "he’il bepure
dynamite."
How long will Sammy Snead
play golf? "Maybe 'till I’m
a hundred,” answers the wor
ld’s richest hillbilly....Bob
Addle on TV’s biggest mouth;
“Howard Cosell, a legend in
his own mind...” Reports
keep circulating that the Car
olina Cougars are trying to
lure 6-10 Nate Thurmond a-
way from the Golden State
Warriors of the rival NBS.
Now if the Cougars could pull
that off, they’d be the class of
the ABA overnight.
Bennett Clontz, Tommy Ro
bbs, Jimmy Bullock, Mike
Humphries, Bob Cooper, J.C.
Eaves, Larry Pool and Walter
Mathis were other favorites
here.
A special field of hot-running
Hobby division cars will be
part of this week’s prugiain.
BASEBALL * *
By Pete Fritchie
Washington, D. C. —The
American League lost again
in the recent All-Star go but
Cookie Rajas’ homer should
have pulled it out for them.
Though the National
League is stronger, as
claimed, those two infield
hits which began the ninth
were as much luck as any
thing else. They allowed
the serior league to tie the
game, 3-3.
Earl Weaver’s choice of
Dave McNally as the Ameri
can League's tenth-inning
pitcher has become a sus
pect choice. McNally, a good
pitcher, walked the first
hatter—certainly a bush be
ginning. and the game was
decided.
Tug McGraw was a pitch
ing standout; Aaron and
Morgan were the winners’
stars.
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