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Portland Observer
Thursday, May 6, 1976
Timbers win Portland opener
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by Ron Sykes
by Brad Small
The Portland Timbers opened their
1976 home season Saturday the same
way they ended last year's home sea
son. against St. Louis in a downpour.
When it was over the Timbers were the
victors, 3-1.
A crowd of 22.147 braved the wet and
cold to see the fight marred contest.
The Timbers were much more ag
gressive and organized than they were
in their previous gam e in S eattle's
Kingdome. Without the big striker in
the middle, the Portland offense this
year is much more spread out. The
wings and strikers kick the ball around
until an opportunity presen ts itself.
Now that they've gotten to know their
teammates better, there is more preci
sion in their passing. In the Seattle
game, passes were going way too far
and were off the mark.
Newcomers Ike McKay and Malcolm
Jim Cumbes blocks a goal.
Smith were impressive in front of the
one into the right hand corner of the
goal, but were unable to score. It was
net. but not before Betts and Chris
up to team captain Pat McMahon to get
Dangerfield
had scored one apiece for
the first goal. Winger Paul Hendrie
Portland. St. Louis had only a couple
centered the ball to McMahon, who
other good chances, the best being a
rifled a header past diving S t Louis
shot
that hit the crossbar.
goalie Len ' James'' Bond. Bond was
Two scuffles broke out in the second
kept busy all night, as was the rest of
half, the first one between Portland's
the St. Louis defense. The Stars were
Brian Tiler and the Stars' Danny Va
obviously tired from their loss in Van
ninger. Both were ejected from the
couver on Friday, and played rather
game. Shortly afterward a fight broke
sloppily. Defenders John Carenza and
out that emptied both benches. St.
Roger Verdi were cited often for fouls.
Louis' Gary Rensing and Pat McBride
Portland goalie Jim Cumbes was un
were booted, as was Portland's Mc
occupied most of the night, so the only
Mahon. who was cut on the head.
entertainment the crowd got from him
was one of his booming, length of the
Besides scoring once. Dangerfield
field kicks. The kick was almost con
picked up an assist on Bett's goal, and
verted into a goal by Tony Bette, but he
was named Offensive player of the
got tangled up and lost control.
game. Hendrie picked up two assists.
Cumbes has been getting a lot of
Portland's Ray Martin was named de
practice trying to stop penalty kicks,
fensive player of the game.
and Saturday’s game was no exception.
The Timbers' next home game is this
St. Louis midfielder Alan Trost blasted
Saturday against Dallas.
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Wilkes at forward and Clifford Ray.
Golden States' main ingredient is to
getherness, they function like a well
oiled machine and totally as one unit.
Nevertheless, Rick Barry, the Warriors'
only acknowledged star, confessed this
season: "This is not a great basketball
team by any stretch of the imagination."
What it is mainly is a team with a lot
of good basketball players and one great
one - Barry. Jameal Wilkes states,
"the attitude is not who does it. but
does it get done."
northwest hoping to reach slave terri
tory in the U.S.
For more than two months La Ami
stad zig zagged across the Atlantic
Ocean, ending up near Long Island. The
Africans were taken into custody there
by the U.S. Coast Guard brig, Washing
ton, and escorted to New Ix>ng, Con
necticut, and charged with murder and
piracy.
News of the capture spread through
out the states. In the interest of his
re-election, President Martin Van Buren
tried to have the Africans turned over
to the Spanish Government. But Lewis
Tappan, a wealthy silk merchant and a
number of others risked money and
reputation to support the Africans in
their three year fight for freedom
through the courts.
The case reached the U.S. Supreme
Court in 1841, when Tappan persuaded
ex president John Quincy Adams to
take the case, even though the former
chief executive was then 73, ailing and
had not argued a case in thirty years.
Adams won, and a year later the group.
Friends of La Amistad, was able to
return the 39 surviving Africans to
their original home.
Friends of La Amistad continues to
day. working to chronicle Biack history
in America through the support of lead
ing American Blacks throughout the
U.S.
Following the Cutty Sark Interna
tional Trophy Race, La Amistad will
take part in a massive parade of sails
with the other competing ships, July
4th, in New York called Operation Sail
1976.
Al Amistad and its crew will then sail
along the eastern seaboard and along
the Gulf of Mexico opening its archives
of Black history to the public at major
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Its southerly neighbors are obliged to
concede that action and suspense are
the hallmark of Grambling football, but
the Tigers are also guilty of a suffocat
ing adherence to form in the annual
National Football League draft.
Eight football players from Grambling
were selected in the recent NFL draft
of college stars.
Only two schools - Ohio State and
Nebraska with twelve choices each -
had more selections than Grambling,
which ranked third this past season in
active pro players among the nation'»
universities and colleges.
This year’s draft marked the second
consecutive year that Grambling has
had a player taken in the first round of
the draft. Grambling's defensive bark,
James Hunter, picked by the Detroit
Lions, was the tenth player selected.
Last year the San Diego Chargers tab
bed defensive tackle Gary "Big Hands"
Johnson in the first round.
The G Men's Junius "Buck" Burhanan
was the first player selected in the 1962
American Football League draft.
In 1972 two G Men were chosen on
the first round defensive end Richard
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Hunter, who played both offensive
defense, is expected to be used as a
defensive back and kick return spe
cialist with Detroit.
Sarnie W hite, the second leading
scorer in Grambling's history with 46
touchdowns, was picked in the second
round by the Minnesota Vikings.
Richard St. Clair, a native of Cleve
land, was taken in the fourth round by
the Cleveland Browns, and tight end
Ron Singleton was chosen in the same
frame by the San Diego Chargers.
Wide receiver Dwight Scales was a
fifth round choice of the Los Angeles
Rams and middle linebarker Robert
Pennywell was carted off in the sixth
round by the San Francisco 49'ers.
Offensive tackle Bobby Simon was
selected in the ninth round by the
Houstin Oilers and offensive guard Art
Gillians became a tenth round selection
of the Denver Broncos.
At least three other Tiger players are
expected to sign with pro clubs as free
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has been done as evidenced by their 59
wins and only 28 losses. l«ast year the
Warriors astonished the world
com
pletely dominating the formidable Bui
lets. Everyone including myself look
ed upon their marvelous achievement as
a mere fluke.
So after destroying
D etroit and now threaten ing to do
the same to Phoenix only one question
comes to the front, "Can they now do
what only two teams in the history of
the NBA were able to do?" My answer
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Former slave ship eaters race
A former slave ship, I ji Amistad, will
sail with an all Black crew in the Cutty
Sark International Trophy Race this
summer commemorating the American
Bicentennial.
A major portion of the Black com
munity has been reluctant in its enthu
siasm for the Bicentennial, but l,a Ami
stad, a 137-year old schooner that
doubles as a museum of Black history
has received large support from Black
leaders in the U.S. La Amistad there
fore becomes a project of major signifi
cance in the two-hundredth birthday
celebration of the nation.
Thirty-nine young Blacks between the
ages of 15 and 26 will sail La Amistad in
the final leg of the race which includes
QUESTION: I've often seen in the
86 other vintage sailing vessels from
box scores the term "team rebound” can
you explain this to me?
tw enty countries representing every
continent. A total of 3,000 young people
ANSWER: A team rebound is when
wili sail from London to Bermuda to
the ball touches the floor before actually
Newport, Rhode Island, in what will be
being controlled by a player. When this
the largest race of sailing ships in
happens it's credited as a team rebound.
history.
The ships will race for the Cutty Sark
International Trophy, to be awarded
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following a vote of the competing crews
UCLA might lose the services of to the one which most encourages in
All-American Richard Washington and ternational understanding. Crew of the
Marques Johnson via the hardship route Russian four masted windjammer, Kru
but things don't look too bad down zenshtern is the most recent recipient of
the Trophy.
south.
The significance of La Amistad to
REASON: Coach Gene Barton has
allegedly signed some of the first preps American Blacks began in 1829 when 52
in California, including Dorsey High's Africans were loaded aboard the ship
for transport to slavery in eastern Cu
co-AlI-City player of the Year, James
ba.
Ironically, the ship's name means
Wilkes: Lynwood High's Darrell Al-
turns; and Redondo Beach High's Gig "friendship," in Spanish.
When out at sea, the Africans revolt
Sims.
ed against the crew, killing all but two,
whom they let live for their navigational
knowledge. The Africans knew only
that returning to their homeland re
quired sailing into the sun so they
steered during daylight.
At night,
however, the wily Cubans steered
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The Golden State Warriors defending
champs of the NBA will find their
chances for repeating a very difficult
one. Only two teams - the Boston
Celtics and Minneapolis Lakers
have
won two or more titles in a row since
the NBA was formed in 1946.
The
Lakers did it twice, winning in 1949 and
1950 and again in "52”. "53" and 1954.
The Celtics also did it twice, when they
dominated the league after the emer
gence of Bill Russell, from the mid
1950‘s until the late 1960's. The mighty
Celtics ran off eight consecutive league
titles -- one of the most amazing team
accomplishments in pro sports. Only
the UCLA Bruins can match off this
complete dominance of a team sport.
Since then only one other team has
won two championships that being the
New York Knicks winning in 1970 and
again in 1973.
So then the question arises, “Why
can't the Warriors repeat?" They cer
tainly have the players no other team
ran boost such an abundance of talent.
They have but one superstar - in Cap
tain Rich Barry, but many talented
players, such as: Phil Smith and C.J.
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