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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
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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
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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.
Joe Cejka recommends
the Sandy Post as
a sales tool__
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