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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
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GENEVA’S
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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
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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.
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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
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