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Page 6 Portland/Observer Thursday, July 5, 1978 Jessie Owens: story 'Jesse Owens' winning four gold medals and the treat ment at the 1936 Olympics was the most im portant sports story of the past 75 years, according to a nation wide poll of sports writers and broadcasters recently com pleted by P ep siC o la Company. The poll was conducted by Pepsi-Cola as part of it’s 75th Anniversary celebration. It’s objective was to determine the ten top sports events of the past three-quarters of a century. The ten winning events in the PepsiCola Sports Poll were: 1) J e sse Owens' 4 Gold Medals and treatment ’36 Boombattle seeks Block owners by Jay Claborn Jesse Owens' winning four gold medals and the treatment he received at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has been named the most important sports story of the past 75 years in the Pepsi Cola Sports Poll, a nationwide survey of sports writers and broadcasters. Owens is shown here during one of the heats of the 200-meter run at the 36 Olympics. The Pepsi Cola Sports Poll is part of the company's 75th Anniversary celebration. Olympics: 2) Roger Ban nister's 4-minute mile; 3) Bobby Thomson's '51 series Home Run; 4) Mark Spitz Wins 7 Gold Medals “72 Olympics: 5) UCLA Basket ball Dynasty; 6) Don Lar son’s Perfect Series Game '56; 7) Tied, Ali-Frazier Fight and Jets Upset Colts Superbowl III ‘69; 8) Babe Ruth's 60 Home Run Record; 9) D em psey Tunney Long Count Fight; 101 Roger Maris' 61 Home Run Record. Five runners-up were the second Louis-Schmeling fight (1938 in 11th position); Colts- Giants sudden death NFL title (1958) and Bobby Jones' Golf Grand Slam tied for 12th position; M ets 1969 World Series victory and the first Super bowl game (1967) tied for 13th position; 1972 Olympic Israeli Massacre in 14th position; and Jackie Robinson's breaking the color line in baseball (1947) came in 15th position. Baseball was the sport which figured most often in the balloting with 444 refer ences. Baseball was trailed by football (319), track and field 1275), boxing (224), basket ball ,206). swimming ,881, golf (73), horse racing (25), hockey (10). auto racing (8), tennis (5), w restlin g (4), skiing, boating, chess ,2 each) and soft ball (1). Jesse Owens was the ath lete noted most frequently by the sports experts with a total of 112 mentions. Owens was followed by Roger Bannister (105), Bobby Thomson ,93). Babe Ruth ,90). Muhammed Ali ,82). Joe Frazier (74), Jack Dempsey »66), Don Larson (61) and Gene Tunney (60). “Boombattle is the rough learned that I had been told which will give us the initial est and most entertaining the truth. Black citizens exposure we need. We expect sport in the world!” have a better chance to to establish more than 200 The speaker is Franklin coach and to become fran franchises throughout the J efferson , Black inventor, chise owners than they do in world. A dozen leagues will world champion athlete, busi any other sport. I have be organized and a world nessman, sports promoter, advanced rapidly in the front championship team will be and a young man destined to office and now own options crowned each and every year. become the Lamarr Hunt of which could put me in con Plans are underway to beam the exciting new sport of trol of the corporation. Ath all league and world cham boombattle. In less than two letes with ability advance pionship battles to the world years Jefferson has worked accordingly. The athlete via closed circuit TV. We his way from the bottom to who shows coaching ability are confident that our dozen executive vice president of gels a chance. A Black or more subsidiaries will be the Denver based Boombattle promoter with the money to financial bonanzas. Fat’s Off. Corporation, owner of the buy a franchise gets the deal. a revolutionary new reducing patented and trademarked I'm working to make boom m ethod used by boom sport of boombattle. Jeffer battle the world's most popu battlers, will be on the son is also the world cham lar sport . . . a sport con market within a month. Mini pion boombattler in his class. trolled by Black Americans. Boombattle. a toy replica of “I participated in all sports "If we can duplicate what competitive boombattle, is while in high school and has been done in basketball being developed and will be co lleg e .” Jefferson said. and hockey, and I'm confi on the market before Christ "Boombattle is in a class by dent we can do much better, mas. Equipment and other itself. Even the casuality boombattle will be a billion boombattle products will be rate among boombattlers is dollar property in less than on the market soon and more than triple that in any should gross millions an ten years. We are currently other sport. Boombattle working on a TV series nually. started several centuries as a pirate death gam e and, though it isn't as fatal now as it was then, it is the d ea d liest of all modern sports. In a recent contest between Denver and Mil waukee, seven of the twelve battlers ended up in a hos pital. Fortunately I've re ceived no serious injuries in more than 200 rough battles. Sports writers say I'm too rugged to get hurt, but I let the record do my talking.” Jefferson continued his praise of boombattle: "The most attractive part of boom battle, to me at least, is the opportunity it offers Black Americans." The perpetual smile on his handsome face turned deadly serious. "When Sergeant Iaiwrence is shown lieing presented the George I was recruited into the Washington Honor Medal by Captain J.W Molfetl. Inspector sport of boombattle I was Instructor of Company M. 3d Battalion. 23d Marines, San told that the sky was the Rafael. California. limit. Naturally 1 had reser vations and the usual wait and-see attitude. I soon Peking Opera plays CHARLEY’S 8 2 5 SW B ro a d w a y B a g g ie S h irts b y F la ir o f C a lifo r n ia E x c lu s iv e ly a t C h a r le y ’s $13 .-1 5 .0 0 H ave 2 2 7 -6 0 5 2 your Birthday Party Free B renda a n d H a ll Jones (rig h t), fro m S a g in a w , M ic h ig a n , visit B rother W illia m Jones w h ile re la x in g at G e n e v a 's w ith Laverne H udson. GENEVA’S 4 2 2 8 N . W illia m s The first major Peking Opera troupe to play the United States comes to the Portland Auditorium for four performances. July 11, 12, 14 and 15. Peking Opera, which goes back 2000 years to the acro batic and wrestling plays of the Han Dynasty, is a com bination of Chinese classical music, ballet, tumbling, folk tales and historical incidents. Forty-five academy-trained dancers, acrobats, singers and musicians comprise the cele brated Hong Kong company peforming here. The Peking Opera pro gram, selected especially for optimum appeal to American eyes and ears, consists of four century-old operas, and comes complete with elabo rate costuming and symbolic makeup. A festive, colorful extrava ganza, the Peking Opera runs Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday nightly at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the perfor mance, a N orth w est Re- Heart victims sought The Oregon Heart Associa tion announced recently that a state-by-state campaign has been launched to find an estimated 11.5 million Amer icans suspected of having undiagnosed high blood pres sure, and to get them under effective treatment. In Ore gon, this could total 100,000 persons who do not know they have high blood pres sure. High blood pressure is a major factor in heart attacks, strokes and kidney diseases. In recent years, scientists have developed many drugs that can control most cases of high blood pressure when detected. Also, treating even mildly elevated levels of blood pressure can be effective in reducing the risk of stroke and other major complica tions. leasing p resen tation , are available at the Meier & Frank Ticket Office and the usual outlets: Lincoln Sav ings, Stevens and Son and the Auditorium Box Office. PCC registers Students planning to enroll for fall term at Portland Community College may pre register now through August 3, for a registration appoint- ment time. Preregistration entitles a student to a specific appointment between August 27 and September 14, which is prior to open registration. Appointments are assigned as applications are received, so the sooner a student pre- registers, the earlier his ap pointment. Counselors are available throughout the summer at all college centers to help a student plan his program or decide on courses which will meet his individual needs. Call the PCC operator at 244-6111 for assistance. Oregon Guard selected « Oregon's Adjutant General, Colonel Richard A. Miller, announced recently that the Oregon Army National Guard has been selected as one of 16 states to pilot a ninety day test of a new enlistment option for Non Prior Ser vicemen, starting July 1. The option, referred to ns the REP 63 (3x31 Enlistment Option, will permit nonprior service personnel to enlist for six years with the option of serving three years in an Army Guard unit and three years in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) Control Group for Annual Training only. The purpose of this test is to determine if there would be any significant increase in the number of enlistments as opposed to the straigh t six year enlistment program of the Reserve Forces. The six year program will still re main in effect. Test results will be evaluated at the end of each 30 day period to determine results. Colonel Miller stated that the Oregon Army National Guard has an authorized strength of 6,446 officers and enlisted members and is cur rently at 6.020 members, 93.39 percent of authorized strength. Oregon was chosen as a result of it's outstanding increase in strength since January I. 1973 while oper ating in a voluntary Army concept. II«' also stall'd that "The citizens of Oregon can be proud of the record of our A rm y and A ir National Guard units and members in their support of not only the Reserve Readiness Posture but of the many and varied community activities in which the Guard is participating in daily." 287 * 2887 If you steal $300,000 from the mob, it’s not robbery. It ’s suicide. I ANTHONY QUINN • YAPHET KOTTO ACROSS 110’" STREET” Iliiilnd Artistit Portland Manne earns Freedom award Sergeant Richard D. Law rence, U.S. Marine Corps, currently serving with the Inspector Instructor Staff of Company M, 3d Battalion, 23d Marines, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve unit in San Rafael, California, received a George Washington Honor Medal Award for his Armed Forces letter on Freedom Has A Price. Each year Freedoms Foun dation at Valley Forge spon sors an essay category for servicemen and women on active duty and for those serving in the reserve com ponents to encourage men and women to think about and to speak up for Free dom. This year marked the 24th Annual National Awards program by the Freedom Foundation. Sergeant Lawrence's award winning essay read in part: "The price that I feel must lie paid in terms of Freedom is that every American must first realize that “Freedom Lost is Seldom Restored". Sergeant Lawrence is a resident of Portland and is a 1966 graduate of Grant High School. He attended UCLA in 1970, and now he and his wife, Barbara, currently re side in Larkspur. California. •» Disabled eligible for Tri-Met discount Certified disabled citizens will be eligible for reduced fares on all Tri Met buses, the Tri Met board decided recently. Those persons who are certified disabled by the Social Security Administra tion through the Oregon Vo cational Rehabilitation Divi sion and issued Medicare cards will join those 65 and the legally blind among Tri- Met's honored citizens who may ride for 10 cents less than the full fare, according to General Manager Tom King. Africa beckons Black travellers Look at a world map and Dahomey, once the center of you will discover that Dakar a great African kingdom. is closer to the eastern Just outside the capital of shores of the United States Cotonou, there's a stilt house than Paris. But Dakar, the village of lake dwellers called modern capital of West Afri Ganvie to explore. Canoes, can nation of Senegal, seems rafts and dugout boats create far more remote and exotic the traffic jams here. to most Americans than any Lagos is the capital of place in Europe. Nigeria, among the largest Exotic, yes. Remote, no. and most populous nations of Air Afrique's new 14-day Africa. It’s National Mu “W est African E scapade” seum contains one of the tour jets to Dakar in six best collections of the con hours to begin a journey tinent’s art. Especially in through centuries as well as teresting is the Oba'a Palace, countries. built in 1704 by Portuguese After visiting the city’s slave traders. im portant IFAN Museum, The Ivory Coast's great colorful native markets and l»ort of Abidjan, located on a mosques, the program moves handsome lagoon, is next, to Accra, the sophisticated, followed by monrovia, capital English speaking capital of of Liberia, a nation founded Ghana. The chief sight here by former American slaves. is Christiansborg Castle. But The tour is priced at $899 there's lots more. plus ten percent additional From Ghana, it’s off to for taxes and service. It includes round-trip air fare from New York, deluxe or first class hotel accommoda tions, two meals daily, trans fers and sightseeing. De partures are sc h e d u le d monthly. For a broader look at Africa, there's the "Escapade in East/W est Africa” pro gram. Twenty-nine days in length, it includes visits to all of the nations named above as well as Ethiopia and Kenya on the opposite side of the continent. It is priced at $1,899 plus ten pe-rcent additional for taxes and service. For more information on Air Afrique's Escapade tours, see your travel agent, or write Air Afrique, 683 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. HOURS: Mon. - Sat. STARRING: 7:15 p.m. Sunday • 3:45 Krrnd. Sykes. 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