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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1975
Page
6
Ron Swaim argues MLB should cut the 162 game schedule, start over with a new commissioner, and reduce teams to six to eight per league. He contrasts with basketball and football, mocks current pacing, and cites Montreal vs San Francisco as dull. The piece also notes Nuggets prospects, Barry’s remarks, and other sports talk.
Mount Airy hosts the junior novice tennis tournament across 17 local courts with nearly 200 players aged 10 to 18. Organizer Dr Ren Lawrence cites hard work, luck, and weather as keys as round robins begin for younger divisions and singles open Monday with doubles starting today. Final rounds are set for Thursday. Friday is a rain day.
Tuesday PNB 4 Quality 2. Wednesday WSYD 12 Elks 0. Thursday Quality 5 Drapery 0. Friday Spencers 9 Elks 2. Saturday WSYD 7 PNB 0. Local league results list teams and scores across five days with WSYD PNB Elks and Spencers among participants.
Open League and Church League softball action produced upset and high scoring games. Youngs Discount Tire edged Open League All-Stars 7 to 6 in eight innings with Roger Young winning and Dennis Faw losing as Atkinson Scott and Bennett homered for the losers. Flat Rock I crushed Church League All-Stars 12 to 1 behind Ron King and Bill Pulliam with Bobby Timmons winning. Phillips Motors led Open League standings at 10-3 while Youngs beat Wilson and Company 13-5. Simmons Datson edged C. H. Hill Insurance 10-9 as Tim Hall and Jeff Cook drove in runs. Satterfields Market routed Quality Mills 15-5. New Life defeated Antioch 9-3 and Flat Rock I beat Worth Honda 10-3 as Rodney Hiatt and Ron King homered. Mount Airy Church of Christ beat Flat Rock I 7-4. Bannertown Baptist crushed Pike Electric 18-6 with Perry Bryant and Junior Sawyers homering.
Players and scores listed for Copeland Ruritan Softball at Copeland Ruritan and Pine Hill venues. Don Branch .585 Burt on Wade Key 535, Punk Southern 500, Tom Hemmings .500, Ronnie Hudson 500, Garnett Beasley 490, Robert Bateman 489, Doug Pratt 482. Data reflects local league batting averages and team affiliations.
The Mount Airy News won by forfeit Friday night in Mount Airy Little League play over the Yankees. The minor league team then tied the Elks 14 to 14 Saturday night as Phillip Matthews struck out 12 Elk batters. The Mount Airy News now has a 4 3 2 overall record.
Mount Airy Eagles dropped a 4-3 decision to Pinnacle in Surry League play as 20 baserunners were left stranded. The next day the Eagles rebounded 16-3 behind strong pitching from Ronnie Poole and power from Darrell Nichols. Junior Collins had three hits while Jim York Dickie Crump and William Venable added two apiece. The Dobson Mountaineers posted two league wins this weekend.
Flat Rock hosts an invitational softball tournament June 27 28 and 29 at Flat Rock Elementary School hosted by Phillips Motors. Teams include Plaza Exxon Winston-Salem Shugart Enterprise Winston-Salem Cockerhams Roadrunners State Road and Twin County Laundry Galax. A small admission. An October Fourth week tournament by Flat Rock Raritan Club at the same site with eight teams first come first serve. Contact Alfred Hiatt 786-8825 for information. Patrick County wins in Surry League ball taking two doubleheaders from Virginia. Includes makeup games.
Seattle Tuesday chose the name Seahawks for its 1976 NFL entry. General Manager John Thompson of Seattle Professional Football, owner of the expansion club, said the nickname was picked from among thousands of fan entries in a name-the-team contest. The Seahawks last used the name in the early 1950s with the Miami All-America Conference entry.
H K Neff Insurance captured the Salem Recreational Park Qualifying Softball Tournament in Salem Virginia. Neffs won four games posting 31 to 0 over Salem Rockies 11 to 7 over Hipodrome 14 to 9 over Owens and 13 to 6 over Hipodrome to finish undefeated Hipodrome took second Owens finished third
The Canadiaw Pitch In vitational Softball Tournament will begin Thursday with a 16 team field. Pairings drawing will be held Wednesday night at Saint Paul Elementary School. Teams wishing to enter should be present for the 7 p.m. drawing. The tournament runs Thursday through a nominal entry fee.
In the All Stars game, Bobby Timmons earned the win while Dean Rogers took the loss for Flat Rock. The box score notes Roger oung as winning pitcher and Dennis Fan as loser in another matchup with winning and losing pitchers listed as such.
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