Thur» J u n .2 1 , 1979 (S«< J) SANDY (O r . ) POST
M u ll sl « tv
Mountain Festival
busy with sports
Bombs away—
here comes the
3-point play
i w l i n g t o u r n e y s la t e d
I ale professional howlers
n across the country w ill
for shares of a Ifto ooo
*e this week in Portland
the Professional Bowlers
rotation makes a sum
r tour stop for the second
y of Roses i >pen at Timber
ies.
Iniong the lop bowlers
pected to be In the fight are
wler of the Year Mark
th. Medford's Marshall
Im an;
W ashingtonian
ly Earl Anthony; always
orful Ernie Schlegel, who
t week listed Vancouver,
ish as his hometown after
ng "U S A ” for some
ie. and veteran Nelson
rton Jr.
The lanes are located at
Southeast 40th and Halsey in
Portland, onstreet parking is
expected to lie m inimal, as it
was last year
p m in the lot on Pioneer
Boulevard across from the
Sandy post office. Special
races and the championship
heats will begin at 7 p m .
Th^rp w ill lie a heavy
accent on sports at the 1979
Sandy Mountain Festival
Sporting events of many
kinds are on the agenda and
are open to participants of all
ages
by MAHK FLOYD
Sports Editor
World War III may be well on its way.
If so, the bombs may start dropping as
early as next year. Or. at least they’ll be
fired as early as next year
if past
performances are any indication, only
about 25 percent of the bombs will be
dropping.
The battleground will be the basketball
courts of the National Basketball
Association The ammunition for the battles
will come from NBA coaches and general
managers who took the first step in
reinstating the 3-point-play last week. The
overall vote was 30-12 in favor of the novelty
shot.
The 3-point play was the biggest thing the
defunct American Basketball Association
had to offer, except perhaps for colored
basketballs And even though it is a rather
playgroundish rule, the 3 point play is sure
to stir up some excitement which the NBA
feels it needs.
The NBA rules committee will be
responsible for deciding exactly what
constitutes the 3 point shot but in the ABA.
three points were awarded for shots longer
than 22 feet from the corner and 23 9 feet
from straight away.
Basketball aficionados who try to
downplay the importance of the 3-point play
should re-evaluate their thinking The 3-
point play will have a definite effect It may
even propel Lloyd Free into the MVP
position Then again, think of how many
more rebounds Moses Malone will get off
Hick Barry ’s 25 foot misses.
For the most part, offensive — and
defensive
strategies will not be changed
all that much The ABA proved that There
were a few that gained their fame with the
3 pointer, such as Louis Dampier, but for
the most part, play went on as usual.
The difference will be down the stretch,
those last two minutes of the game. A team
that trails by a few points can get back int
he game a whole lot quicker shooting 3-
pointers, especially if the other team is
matching it basket for basket.
No longer would teams ahead by three
points be able to play matador defense and
concede a basket so that they could win by
one point.
The 3 point play is kind of like the 2-point
conversion in the old American Football
League. It was there all along but nobody
really took advantage of it until late in the
game.
Of course, there are a couple of guards in
the league who already shoot from the 3-
point range. Free and teammate Handy
Smith could conceivably add another five
points a game to their scoring average —
and another 10 points to the team’s total.
Other teams would not be so lucky.
Portland has only fair shooting guards, so
coach Jack Ramsay is not pressing for the
rule change But as badly off as Portland is,
consider the plight of the Washington
Bullets.
The Bullets have been haunted for two
seasons by the no-guard syndrome. The 3-
point shot would be non-existent at the
Capitol Center unless Elvin Hayes or Bob
Dandridge were to shoot them.
There has already been a lot of talk about
the change, so perhaps the NBA is making a
wise decision Building up interest in
basketball has been its main goal this
season.
The 3-point-play. It shouldn't change the
iverall strategy of basketball greatly, but
there could be a few new wrinkles Watch
for Free, Smith, Calvin Murphy and Fred
Brown to fire a few bombs next year and
watch for Moses Malone to wait and scoop
them up Some things never change
Let World War III begin.
The Sandy Jaycees and the
City of Sandy Recreation
D epartm ent
are
co
sponsoring
a
so ftb a ll
tournament July 6-8. The
invitational
tourney
w ill
follow
ASA
rules
—
registration information can
be obtained by calling 668-
5569.
One of the more unique
events is the snowshoe
baseball game Ju ly 3.
Believe it or not, the players
w ill be required to wear
snowshoes while they play
but relief w ill be near beer
w ill be provided for all
participants The teams w ill
lx* comprised of whoever
brings along snowshoes The
game is scheduled for 6 p m
at the lot across from the
LDS church on Bluff Road
The Almost 10-Kilometer
Run w ill be held for the first
time July 7 The run, which is
open to competitors of all
ages, w ill originate in the
parking lot of Paola's Pizza
Barn Runners w ill leave the
The Bike Derby is also lot at 10 a m., run down
Highway 26 to Orient Drive;
scheduled fo r Ju ly 3
follow Orient to Kelso Road;
Youngsters ages six to 12 will
run down Kelso to its
be competing in feature
intersection with Bluff Road,
races
and
a
bicycle
decorating contest beginning go south on Bluff until Hood
at 10 a m. at the Upper Street and follow it until they
reach H eritage Square.
Grades School track
Ribbons and prizes w ill be
One of last year’s most awarded and each runner
popular events, the arm w ill recieve a T-shirt. All
wrestling competition, w ill proceeds w ill be returned to
be repeated this year Action the Mountain Festival.
w ill begin at 7 p m July 6 in
The final sporting event
Pioneer
Square- entrants
should c a ll 668-5900 to scheduled w ill be the Long
Rifle Rendezvous July 7-8.
register
Contestants w ill use muzzle
loading rifles in a number of
Also on July 6 is the Pet
different events. A variety of
Rock Race The fo u rth
annual event w ill begin at 3 prizes w ill be awarded.
Boring course
sets junior golf
M ountain
View
G olf
Course s junior program gets
under way Thursday for boys
and girls aged 10-18
Photo by K im Smith
All-star netter
Fame Jensen move» Into position on the net during the State-
Metro All-Star volleyball match at Lewis and Clark I ollege.
Jensen and Sandy High teammates Julie Colt and Jeanne
Duff were a vital part of the Metro team which blasted the
State team in three straight game».
P a rtic ip a n ts
w ill
be
schooled in their golfing
skills by club pro6 Jack
Beaudoin and Stuart Smart
Juniors who elect to join the
course s juniors club w ill
receive six w eeks of free golf
lessons Registration begins
at 9a m There is a small fee
Further information can
be obtained by contacting
Mountain View at 663-4869.
Satch— the greatest pitcher of them all
would play in the big leagues. I would have said you're
out of your mind They didn't want no coloreds then
Had to eat out of the back door But I don't be mad. I
jes pity 'em. If they had it to do all over again, I don't
believe they would.
"A t the same time, we ain’t all that far If I get on a
plane and there are four seats and I sit in one of 'em,
won't nobody sit there less'n they have to. They’ll
circle the plane 15 times before they’ll finally sit there.
Shows how bad a condition we re in And I ’m talkin'
about right now- Today. ‘Course. I'd be lyin ’ if I didn't
say they get real different when they find out who I
am.”
unfortunate but beside the point
The argument carried some weight in the days when
ballplayers in "Negro leagues might be said to be
"unproven.” In the light of w hat s happened since, the
only thing that might be said to be unproven about
them was how much better they were than the white
The grand old game of baseball and its chroniclers
almost needed smelling salts not long ago when one
pitcher worked in 13 straight games
What would they say of one who pitched in 169
straight games*’
Everyone gasps at the fact Hoyt Wilhelm pitched in
1.070 games lifetime
What would they do over someone who lost track
after 3,000?
So. Walter Johrwon struck out 3,503 hatters in his
career What about a guy who struck out that many in
three years'1 The same guy who went around the
country with a sign: "Guaranteed to strike out the first
nine home town batters or your money back0
The modern ballplayer complains about the ar
ones
Just imagine Henry Aaron. Willie Mays, Roberto
Clemente. Bob Gibson. Reggie Jackson, Rod Carew
and Richie Allen in one league, and we rest our case
The weight of the evidence is that Satchel Paige did
what he did in a bigger league Besides, every time he
hooked up with a barnstorming, white big-league team
he usually struck out 17 or so a game
I caught up with this patriarch of the pitch the other
te) 1979, Los Angeles Times Syndics te
Jim M urray is a columnist for the Lœ Angeles Times
day at lunch
I asked the venerable right-hander what he thought
of Mike Marshall pitching in 100 or so games a year " I
was in 169 straight." snorted Satchel "Won all of them
In 1953 They had turned me loose from Cleveland and
from St Louis that year They had took me in the big
leagues when I hadn't started a game in 15 years and 1
pitched two shutouts. 1 got old but my arm stayed 19.
What did be think of today's hitters’ "Josh Gibson
was the greatest hitter w ho ever lived He couldn t play
in those hallparks with the roof on 'em He would have
hit 'em through the roof
Would he like to be pitching today? "A in ’t seen
nothin' changed The plate s the same The ball's the
same You got to pitch strikes is all They used to plant
two bats six inches apart and I d throw it between em.
Across the label Mr Ted Williams wouldn't hit nothin
but strikes These players today w ill hit anything
" I f anyone had told me in the 1920 s that coloreds
bv J IM M l KRAY
duousness of travel His longest trip is 44 hours by jet
He travels in air conditioned comfort, dines on steak
and lobster If he's a star, he makes upwards of 2tio
grand a year Even if he's not. he stays at the best
hotels, gets chauffeured everywhere W hen he retires,
his pension can reach $2.5OUa month and more
worked for less money a day than these guys get in
meal money’ That he went around in a three wheeled
bus. a ir conditioned only when someone broke a
window’
You look at the record book and it says that Leroy
Paige, a right handed pitcher, won 28 major league
games, struck out 290 m ajor league batters, and had an
earned run average of 3.2. What the record book
doesn't tell you is that Paige was almost as old as
hasehall when he did these things A dubious birth
certificate shows he was 48 in his last full season in th«’
m ajor leagues 1 say. "dubious” because there are
those who remember walking to school with Satchel
Paige in the year it says he was born
There are those who say the Paige page in baseball
history shouldn't count, that the big league is the
standard of prowess in baseball, and the fact Satchel
didn’t get in one till he was at least 42 or at most 48 is
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