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8 y N V » e e e * * » e * * » * * ^ * « » « .* < » » ♦ » / ✓ «• rrrtr» » « M V »»»* * • * * * • • * « * • * » » * « » * » • > Thur».. Aug. 31. I 9 7 t (Swc. 1) SANDY (O r« ., POST— 13 stu ff shots A Bad year for sports by MAKE KLOYI) history of the game when he is healthy, but he’s not healthy very often. In fact who’s to say if he w ill ever play again? Yet the city of Portland hasn’t flooded with the tears of disconsolate Blazer fans Blazermania w ill live on The Portland Timbers certainly can’t be categorized as spoiled superstars, but unless the management gets its act together and gives the team what it’s worth, it w ill be the Timber fans that suffer. The Timbers finally have the com bination of a good coach in Don Megson and several good, young players who hold hope for the future. Without proper compensation for their efforts they may all pack up their bags and head back to England, and who would blame them? Will Billy M artin be able to survive the 1980 season if Jackson and Stein brenner are still with the team? Who knows? But there was a time when personality clashes took a backseat to the pennant race. And Marvin Webster — he's leaving the team that didn’t give up on h im ; the team that gave him the chance to come back after most teams thought him washed up following his bout with hepatitis. It w ill be interesting to see the kind of reaction Webster gets during his first performance at the Seattle Coliseum in a Knick uniform. Webster w ill play for the Knicks at an estimated $500,000 a year, and you better believe that the fans are going to get stuck footing the bill in the near future. Maybe its the Knick fans who should boo and hiss when Webster come out on the court. We can thank Pete Rose for salvaging the summer. Whether you liked or disliked the man, he did something very positive for sports, something that Webster, Walton and others haven’t done for quite a few months now Why not get sports back on the fields where it belongs? Otherwise Portland fans may have to go to England to see the Timbers play and the only court that Bill Walton w ill see is the one with nine judges for referees. This has been a strange, and in many ways disappointing, summer for sports Other than the record hitting streak of Cincinnati Red Pete Rose, it seems t.iat all the big news has happened off the field of play. First there was the case of Portland Trailblazer Bill Walton who asked to be traded because of an apparent dislike of the team’s medical practices. Another local team, the Portland Timbers, made as many headlines with its dispute between players and management over salaries as it did advancing to the semi-finals of the North Am erican Soccer League playoffs New York Yankee manager Billy M a rtin resigned under pressure following two years of squabbles with owner George Steinbrenner and star rightfielder Reggie Jackson However, Martin was rehired only a short time later to the Yankee helm, effective for the 1980 season And finally, this week, Marvin Webster of the Seattle Supersonics left the team which he led to within one game of the National Basketball Association Championship for the bright lights and big bankrolls of New York City and the Knicks Well, who cares? I t ’s about time the athletes and management gave some consideration to the folks who are paying all the bills, and I ’m not talking about network television. It is the fans who ultimately decide the financial success of a franchise and a lot of them are getting sick and tired of today's pampered superstars. Maybe they should all go on strike instead of the players. Oh, Walton may (or may not) have a le g itim a te grievance against the Trailblazer organization, but if a full grown man in the public limelight can’t or won’t speak for himself to the fans of the team, then he must not have a whole lot of respect for them Jack Scott. I mean Bill Walton, is one of the best basketball players in the < ■ • - ix*- Staff photo New channel for steelhead in Still Creek A NEW CHANNEL was blasted on this section of Still Creek southeast of Zigzag. The U.S. Forest Service was overseeing the operation which removed a natural harrier that restricted the upstream migration of winter run steelhead. A survey revealed that there was two or three miles of good Japanese netters set date The best three-out-of-five game match, the third match on a nationwide tour, w ill be held at 7:30 p m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 in P o rtla n d ’s Memorial Coliseum. It is sponsored by the United S ta te s V o lle y b a ll Association. Sandy soccer team promising For the first time in its history, Sandy High School w ill have an official league soccer team. Despite the fact that Welsh has never seen any of the Pioneers’ opponents play, he feels good about his team ’s chances. The most popular sport in the world got its start at Sandy four years ago as a club sport, according to coach Lon Welsh. ‘ ‘I have a lot of confidence in these guys and they have a lot of confidence,” Welsh said. “ We’re good — these guys have worked hard since last year and they’re out here because they like the game. “ We just played pickup games against schools in the area — Gresham was nice enough to play us several times,” Welsh said. “ We had to get our own trans portation, our own uniforms and our own goals. “ We pretty much just scrounged for everything,” he added. “ We’ve got eight or nine seniors who are very ex perienced, they’ve got the desire and they’re con fident,” he added. “ And they’re also bigger and in better shape than last year.” Some of the players Welsh is counting on are center half Jeff H ill (“ he’s our runner, moves all the tim e” ), Mike Maples ( “ he’s our leading offensive player” ) and Greg Skelton, who Welsh says is one of the most dedicated players he has. Now that the school has sanctioned soccer, things are looking good for Welsh’s team. Go?>' Have been set up on the field next to the football stadium, the Pioneers are in a league and more athletes are turning out for the team than before. Sandy w ill not be playing in the Coast-Valley district, since not all of the Coast-Valley teams play soccer. Only Forest Grove and Estacada are fam iliar names as Sandy opponents; others in the new league include such teams as North Clackamas Christian and Columbia Christian. Decathlon slated The sixth Annual Pete Ruef Memorial Decathlon, sponsored by the Tri-City Chamber of Commerce, w ill be held Saurday, Sept. 16. The decathlon, which is open to anyone 18 or older, is limited to 130 participants. Registration deadline is Sept 15 at the Chamber of Commerce office at 703 John Adams St., Oregon City. The ten-event program begins for the men at 7 a m. with nine holes of golf at Oregon City Golf Course. Other events are free-throw shooting, 100 and 440 yard dashes, field goal kicking and shot p uttin g at C la c k a m a s C o m m u n ity College, horseshoes and lunch at Clackamette Park, bowling and pool at Glad stone Lanes and Tri-City Bowl, and a 50 meter swim at Oregon C ity ’s municipal pool. If you cannot swim there w ill be archery at CCC as a substitute The women's events vary from the men’s in that they hit seven-irons at Clackamas Com m unity College at 8 a m., throw a softball and kick a soccer ball and then continue with the other events I Participants w ill need to fu rn ish th e ir own tra n sportation between events For further information, contact the Chamber of Commerce office at 656-1619. spawning area above the solid rock barrier that the steelhead could not reach. Rocks as large as eight feet in diameter were blasted and five feet of rock and gravel were removed from the bank to clear the way for the channel (far right). The Pioneers may also have an ace up their sleeve in Walter Lazzarini, a foreign exchange student from Ravina, Italy who Welsh says looks very good. The team opens against Jackson on Sept. 8 in Port land. The Japanese women’s national volleyball team, 1976 Olympic champions, w ill appear in Portland this fall in a special international match against the U.S. national women’s team. The Japanese team will em bark Oct. 2 on a p h y s ic a lly - d e m a n d in g United States tour with their first exhibition match in Alaska. During the following 30 days the team w ill play 28 matches in m ajor cities across the country. The American team is Sandy passes on sale comprised of women from around the nation and has been in intensive training the past several months at the Olympic volleyball camp in Colorado Springs. Adm ission passes fo r Sandy High athletic events are now on sale in the main office of the school. Fans may purchase passes The Portland match w ill be preceded by an h our’s workout by both teams and by fo rm a l welcome CCC names coach ceremonies led by the Consul General of Japan in Oregon, Jiro Nishikawa. Tickets w ill be available at the Coliseum box office or through regional USVBA commissioner Tom Becic at 224-8390. Rich Taylor, 28, has been named soccer coach at C la c k a m a s C o m m u n ity College, according to athletic director Chuck Hudson. Taylor, who previously coached soccer for two years in Australia, is also men’s tennis coach and a physical for football, volleyball or all sports, according to athletic director Mike Kostrba For more information call 668-4151. education in s tru c to r Clackamas. Those wishing to play soccer at Clackamas may contact Taylor at 656-2631, ext. 291. The team w ill begin d rills for the 1978 season on Sept. 18. 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