Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, April 22, 1971, Image 8

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    PORTLAND/OBSERVER Thursday A pril 22, 1971
Bowling
Petrie shares NBA’S
rookie honors
Top Keglers
By Pleasant Session
Vans Mortuary scores a 2-1
win over Pig n Bun for league
Championship
in
Tigerett
league Interstate Lanes. Maxine
Dyton was top Keglerette with a
532 series.
Leonard Hill found the range
for a 609 as he and team mates
sweep three at Jantzen Beach
lanes.
Women 200 game 500 series
Minnie Brown....................... 361
Maxine Dyton...............510 -532
Hazel Polk...................203 -521
Juanita Hutchinson...............311
Ann Holland................. 200 -510
Helen Todd................... .204
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Men 225 game 550 series
Leonard H ill...........................609
John (moose) Mangum........ 375
A1 Washington........................ 572
Les Johnson..........................367
Bob Bedford..........................360
Baseball
Pacific
Coast
Northern
W L
Eugene.................... 5 6
Spokane.....................5 6
Tacoma..................... 4 5
Beavers................. 4 7
Southern
Tucson.................. 7
Salt Lake C ity .... 5
Hawaii................. 6
Phoenix.............. 5
4
3
4
6
League
Division
Pet GB
455 -
455 —
444
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364
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PCC scores
BOWLING
in volleyball
with
Marion Ladewig
Portland Community College
players scored well throughout
a very hard-played U n ite d
States Volleyball Association
regional
tourney
in Seattle,
winning
second place in the
tourney for the second year.
A fter playing two games each
against a number of teams from
Washington, Idaho, and Oregon
PCC came up against M ult­
nomah Athletic Club of Portland
fo r the championship.
MAC "overcam e" PCC after
each team had won a game tak­
ing the deciding third game 15-12
after a see-saw situation which
put PCC ahead6 -2 ,MAC backup
9 -9 , and then 14-12.
As the bowler approaches the
Grant Davies is the
PCC
foul line, her speed should increase
coach.
gradually. Today’ s bowler is in her
third step. As she starts her four­
th, her left foot and the ball should
move with lively speed toward the
line.
Hesitating this point, pro­
vides unsatisfactory results.
Division
635 —
625 1/2
600 1/2
455
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ameda Theater
A 3000 N.E. Alberta
a
You cannot produce a smooth
release from an upright position
The ball w ill probably be
thrown out too far, which takes
spin and subsequent action at the
pins.
At the release the left
knee should be comfortably bent
(illustration). This smooths the
delivery and puts the bowler in
good position to pitch the ball
out only six inches or so past the
foul line.
Delivery is enlarged upon in the
33 - page booklet "Championship
Tips for A ll Bowlers." Togetyour
copy, send 20f and a stamped, self-
addressed envelope tome, Marion
Ladewig,
c/o The
Portland
Observer.
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2 Academy Award nominations
Best Actor —Best Actress
THE GREAT
White Hope
Starring
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Geoffrey Petrie
A smooth release means
bent knee
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Geoffrey Petrie, only
the
second guard InNational Basket -
ball Association history to score
more than 2,000 points in
his
firs t season, shares the NBA’ s
Rookie of the Year honors with
Dave Cowens of the
Boston
Celtics.
The Portland T ra il Blazers*
brilliant Princeton product and
Cowens from Florida State each
drew 36 votes in balloting among
sports w riters and sportscasters
Pistol Pete Maravichof Atlanta
was third with 21.
It was the first tie for top rook­
ie honors in NBA history.
In­
formed of his award, Petrie said,
"N aturally, I ’m really happy.lt’ s
a
great way to end your first
season."
Then the 6-4 guard quickly add-
7i
ed, " I must give a great deal of
credit to our coach, Holland Todd,
who stuck with me in a lot of tight
games.
If there was any one
person who helped me more than
anyone else, ItisRolland Todd.”
P etrie, the flrstdraftchoice of
Portland last spring and
the
eighth choice overall in the first
round of NBA selections, finished
with 2,031 points— an average of
24.8 a contest.
PORTLAND
BEAVERS
HOME GAMES
BEAVERS
VS
SALT LAKE*
kPRIL 23,24,25,26,2;
BEAVERS
vs
PHOENIX
APRIL,28 THRU MAY 2nd
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He was the seventh rookie ever
to hit the 2,000-m ark in the NBA
but only the second guard. The
other
was the Big ( 1 - Oscar
Robertson.
Said Coach Todd of P etrie ’s
selection, "Geoff wants to be the
best and I think lie will be.
He’ s
the kind of playei who can turn a
game around. He’ s a tremendous
individual and a
tremendous
player."
Todd noted P etrie’ s tremen­
dous improvement in shot selec -
tion" as the season progressed
skills.
"Significantly, "
said
Todd,
“ Geoff gave up the ball more often
and with more signlf lcane than any­
one else on the club."
Bearing this out are P etrie’ s 390
assists — a total Just two short of
the thlrd-hlghest for a rookie
in
NBA history.
And Petrie, who led his team in
assists as well as points, earned
more assists in road games Qian in
home games against exactly half of
Portland’ s 16 opponents.
The person most responsible for
selection of P etrie in Portland’ s
firs t col lege draft is Stu Inman, di­
rector of player personnel for the
Blazers.
Asked what led most significant­
ly to the choice Inman gave
a
number of reasons but said,
"No
one I talked to would bad rap him on
anything."
"The more background I receiv­
ed on Geoff," said Inman, " the
more he just kept going up and up in
our estimation of him. In fact,
it
scared me a little . We started to go
higher and higher on everyone’ s
list. I ’ ll never forget the long 30
second before we could make the
choice."
That’ s Geoffrey P e tr ie - Who
with Cowens of Boston shares
Rookie of the Year Honors in
the
National Basketball Association.
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