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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1966)
4________ THE GRANTONIAN________ November 4, 1966 Roger Wood enters World Barrel Jumping championship by Mike Hoffman Senior Roger Wood has com bined 5 years of ice skating, 2 years of hockey, miles of run ning, and 8 months of prepara tion into qualifying to represent the West Coast in the World Barrel Jumping championships. Grossinger’s Country Club in New York’s Catskill mountains hosts the 17th annual event, and Roger has high hopes of becoming a World Champion on De cember 17. Barrel jumping is a sport in Generals gamer state meet berth by running to second place in city by Mike Cochrane entire race, but Squires poured Tomorrow Grant, Marshall, it on in the final stretch to edge Madison, and Cleveland will rep Taylor and Purpura with a time resent the city in the State cross of 12:58.5 seconds. Taylor and country meet to be held at Wil Purpura finished second and third respectively as each post lamette university. Corvallis high school is ed the identical time of 12:59.0 the heavy favorite to repeat seconds flat. “They just go out and as champions. The Spartans, compete against each other. who took the state title last I think that’s what makes year, have 6 of last year’s them tougher,” commented top 7 runners back. Marshall Coach Dan Fran Earlier this season in a meet cin on his two aces. at Wilson, Corvallis defeated Rounding out the top scorers both Marshall and Grant, which seems to dim the city league’s for the G-men were Kirk Breese, hopes for an upset. A-l action is 13th; Bruce Bromely, 20th; Ardy Ison, 21st; Greg Shukart, slated to start at 10:15 am. Last Friday, the Generals 45th and Bill Francis, 50th. Chuck Kinsey won in the “A” came close to capturing the division as the Generals scored city cross country title, as Marshall high school edged an admirable 17 points to stifle the second place harriers all other competitors and win the city title. Following Kinsey 66-71 at Wilson. Senior Kevin Munson paced was Greg Edwards, second; Mike the Generals’ attack as he placed Dunn, third; Doug Dahlstrom, ninth out of a field of over 70 fifth; and Steve Tryer, sixth. At the junior varsity level runners. His time was 13.42 sec John Hamilton and Pete Erikson onds for the 2,5 mile course. Close behind Munson was Bruce ran first and second to lead the McCormach, who finished tenth Sergeants to victory. Their victory was not as easy with a time of 13.44 seconds. Outrunning teammate and as the “A” team. Marshall, field last year’s city champ Tom ing a strong team, nearly beat Taylor, Steve Squires scored the JV’s, as they scored 39 points an upset victory as he won to the Sergeants’ 37 point total. The remaining finishers were the individual title. Steve Gerrard, fourth; Bob Wil Both Squires, Taylor and Cleveland’s Gary Purpura were son, fourteenth and Bob Smythe, closely bunched throughout the sixteenth. Continuing the winning ways were the frosh as they showed their supremacy by scoring 32 MOD JEWELRY points to second place Wilson’s is different, 61 points. Tim Myers finished first for distinctive and attractive the Privates, but was closely fol “GEM JACOBS" 284-7161 lowed by Steve Crane who placed second. Dan Johnson placed eighth, Pat Daggett tenth and John Othus finished elev Chuck's Barber enth to complete the frosh scores. / JI Shop We’ll cut your hair With utmost care Children, too, we like to see Charlie Brown 2302 N.E. BROADWAY OVER 100 NEWLY ARRIVED BIRTHSTONE RINGS All Stones - Wide Selection of Styles from 9.95 Boys’ league golf meet to be at Broadmoor Boys will have the opportunity to display their golfing prowess tomorrow, when the fourth an nual Boys’ league golf tourna ment tees off at Broadmoor golf course. Starting times have been re served from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and the low scorers will receive certificates. Spectators are wel come, according to Boys’ league president Paul Farnham. which a man on skates attains a high rate of speed and attempts to jump over barrels placed on the icfe. The barrels are placed on their sides, not standing erect. Roger has cleared 15 bar rels, and 17 is the world record. When Ken Lebel jumped those 17 barrels he traveled 28 feet, 8 inches in the air. A 17-year-old senior, Roger was trained by barrel jumper Bob Slayton, who was 8th in 1963. Free ice time is provided for him to practice every day at Valley Ice Arena, Beaverton, where Slayton is assistant man ager. Youngest ever to compete in the championships, Roger was chosen for his “out standing accomplishments at such a young age,” ac cording to the National Winter Sports Association officials. Roger’s accomplishments are startling when compared to the average development of the past and present champions. Past champions have cleared 12 bar rels at 17; 15 by the time they were 23 or 24. Roger has gone 15, and hopes to clear 16 before ROGER WOOD grimaces as he soars over 16 barrels, a new personal high, at Valley Ice Arena, where he practices daily. Seventeen barrels is the world record. he leaves December 12. He will fly to New York and stay at Grossinger’s for 10 days, all expenses paid. Speed skates are used in bar rel jumping, and a protective helmet is worn, for speeds ih excess of 50 miles per hour are reached over the barrels. In long distance jumps, they do not land on their feet, so a protective padding is worn for landing. Competition will be covered by television and theatre news reels, including the American by Mike Hoffman Broadcasting company’s “Wide Entertaining the slimmest of title hopes, the Generals will play World of Sports.” Wilson on the Lincoln field tonight at 8 p.m. Lincoln needs a victory over Roosevelt to clinch a tie for the city league title and a state tourney spot, due to their previous victory over the Generals. If the Cards are upset by the winless Teddies and Coacii Wolf’s forces win, they will gain the state A-l quarterfinal berth against Hillsboro. Tonight’s game must not be taken lightly, for the Trojans are no powder-puff team. Their beefy line is led by all city defensive end Ed Messinger and 265 pound Frank Bowlby. Sporting a 4 win, 3 loss record, the Trojans are tied with Wash ington in league standings. They got there on the running of half backs Jim Briggs, Steve Peterson and Chuck Loeffel, according to Coach Stan Stanton. Quarterback Scott Park and Loeffel are able passers and end Chick Preston has caught a touchdown pass from both of them. Defense has sparked Wilson on numerous occasions, headed by Bowlby and Don Sitko. The Trojans recently intercepted 5 passes to top Marshall, and Sitko has a 55 yard touchdown on a steal to his credit. In their last outing, the Trojans were topped by Beaverton, 13-7, to run the Metro league record to 8-2 over city opposition. 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