The old man can still dribble...
FABULOUS MARQUES HA YNES
Globetrotters playing
here Wednesday night
Few American athletes can expect to be
recognized away from their own country.
Harlem Globetrotter star and all-time basketball
great, Marques Haynes, is as popular in Paris,
France as be is in Paris, Texas.
Last year Haynes was invited to be a guest in- .
s true tor at an international coaching clinic, held in
conjunction with the Amateur Basketball Cham
pionships in Yugoslavia. “If a popularity contest
had been held, reported one ' ■ international
coaches in attendance, “Marques would have won
by a landslide.”
But popularity is nothing new for Marques
Haynes.
When Marques was establishing himself as
basketball’s first super-star, Babe Ruth was still
hitting home runs. Today, as Hank Aaron becomes
the first player to approach Ruth’s record, Marques
is still going strong.
Although he looks virtually the same as he did the
day he graduated from Oklahoma’s Langston
College, Marques won’t admit how old he really is.
“I won’t say how old I am,” laughs Marques, “but
I will say I am the only active player who has played
competitive basketball in the thirties, forties, fif
ties, sixties and now in the seventies.” The
Globetrotter standout, who will be in action with his
Trotter teammates Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. in
Mac Court, was playing high school basketball in
the late thirties and has played college or
protessiutuu ball every year since. After travel »c „
couple million miles, and playing thousands of
games in this country and around the world, Haynes
can look back on a myriad of memories and ex
periences
x 6uess tne greatest thrill for me has been the
opportunity to be a kind of first hand observer of the
type of social changes that have occurred in thin
country in the part few years.
“In many cities the Globetrotters were the first
group to play in an integrated building, because we
wouldn’t play any other way,” Marques says.
“Because we were a Black team, we often spent
nights sleeping in the car and eating cold sand
wiches. And not all those nights were in the Smith.
Today, if we eat cold sandwiches, it is because we
want to eat cold sandwiches. But instead of just
reading about such change, I feel fortunate to have
actually taken part.”
Although everything changes in time, it is nice to
know that in at least one area, the world of
basketball, one thing remains constant.
That is the uncanny ability of the original Mr.
Basketball, Marques Haynes.
Duck City chess
The Duck City Open, a five-round chess tour
nament, will be held at the Eugene Hotel Jan. 13 and ,
14.
Registration is from 8a.m. to 9a.m. Jan. 13.
Fees are $3 for adults, $1 for eighth grade and
under. There are a total of seven prizes, a trophy
and $15 for first, and class trophies and a chess book
to the highest scorer in the B and under classes, plus
a special prize of two tickets to the Oregon-Oregot
State basketball game few the highest scoring
teugene-Springfield resident.
For further information, call Dave Jones at 688
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Women’s sports
Winter schedules for the
Oregon women’s athletic
program have been released. The
University’s Leighton Pool will
once again be the site of the
Northwest Women’s Swimming
and Diving Championships,
beginning Feb. 23.
The swimming team has
scheduled five home meets, in
cluding the Oregon Dolphin
Championships the first week of
February. The opener is in
Portland with Portland State and
Washington State Jan. 18
BASKETBALL
Jan. 17—Portland AAU at
Oregon. Jan. 26—Oregon College
of Education at Oregon, 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 27—Southern Oregon *B’
team at Oregon, 10 a.m. Feb. 1—
Oregon College of Education at
Monmouth, 6:30 p.m.
SWIMMING
Jan. 18—PSU, WSU at port
land, Jan. 23—PSU, OCE at
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BOWLING
Jan. 18—Oregon State at
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