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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1976)
sanaani New Olympic system renews U.S. efforts The U.S. Olympic basketball team made its long awaited debut in M ontreal Sunday a fteno o n and showed consider •h ie power. Better yet they completely dominated the highly regarded Italians. Ita ly , though considered by some as a possibly gold medal winner along with the U.S. and Russia, was never in the game with tRe speedy Americans. The U.S. jumped to an early lead and continu ed to build it. Adrian Dantley, the former Notre Dam e star, peeled off 90 pounds while training for the Olympics. The trimmed down athlete appeared quicker and didn’t seem to lose his effectiveness inside. The Blasers. I ’m sure, had their reasons far not selecting M r. Dantley. but whatever they might say he can't do the one thing we all know that he can do is play basket ball. In the past the U.S. has been handi capped by not having it’s team together long enough that they can perform as • well oiled machine. Other countries have a national team that play together Timbers defeat Whitecaps T he Portland Tim bers rebounded from a bad first half to beat the Vancouver Whitecaps, 2-1 Sunday a t Civic Stadium. The w in ended Portland's four game los ing steak, and extended the Tim ber's win streak over the Whitecaps to five straight. A crowd of 17,466 watched the game, the first Tim ber home contest to be played entirely in sunshine. A t the outset it appeared the game was going to be another fru strating effort for the Tim bers. W ith leas than five minutes gone in the game Vancouver's Tony M cAndre headed the ball into the goal off of H orst Koaopel's free kick. M cAndrew out ran and out jumped tw o Tim bers to get his head on the ball. A fte r th a t goal the game slowed down to an incredibly alow pace. F o r Portland, it was the worst soccer they've ever played a t borne. F o r the firs t tim e in the Tim ber's tw o year history they were roundly booed. T h e T im ber offense was practically non-existent. Despite playing so badly they had possession of the ball far fourteen minutes, compared to Van couver's six. The second half waa completely differ ent. A t 38:36 Vancouver’s Stephen He take tripped Portland’s John Rogers in the penalty box. N eil Rioch took the penalty kick, and the game was tied. Portland then put the pressure on. and were rewarded at 22:07. when Tony Betts scored. I t was Betts' fifth goal of the season, and came on assists from Rogers and Chris Dangerfield. Vancouver had tw o good shots after that, one from Wolfgang Suhnholi and Bobby Lenarduxxt Lenarduzxi, a de fenseman, surprised everyone by racing up the field w ith the ball. Nobody from the Tim bers was on him. and his shot missed going in by inches. Portland's Malcolm Sm ith had a goal disallowed on an offside call. E a rlie r in the game Smith missed a wide open shot from tw enty fe e t Several altercations broke out in the second h a lt Vancouver's Bill W oof was thrown out of the game for kicking Betts, and Portland's Hank L io tart and W hite- cap goalie Phil Parkes received cautions for fighting. For the Tim bers it was a rew arding afternoon. The big crowd waa impressive, considering the poor record the club has at the end of two-thirds of the season. The Tim bers Bad News Bears type turn around may have been some sort of sign that they haven’t given up yet. Portland's next home game is August Irving team stopped During the summer it has been said th a t a young man's fancy turns to girls. But when th a t young man is a boy his attention turns to baseball July 16th m arked the opening of the D is tric t I state L ittle League championship. The team Ir a n Irv in g coached by F ra n k Jones and Bill T aylor entered w ith high hopes and expectations. Irv in g entered the first game against W ilshire park and quickly distroyed it's opponent behind the pitch ing and hitting of J e ff W illiams. Young W i l l i « in« betting in the third inning drove a 2-1 pitch into left field tor a tw o ran homer, »-zd the Irv in g all-stars were never hesded. In Irv in g ’s second game against always tough Rose C ity, Coach Jones decided to go w ith Anthony Pulm er and it was evi dent on this day young Pulm er just didn't have i t H e struggled for four innings, giving up six basehits and one home run before being relieved by E ric Bouton in the fourth. Bouton pitched three strong innings allowing Rose C ity no hits or runs. Many believe th a t if Bouton had started - the outcome would have been d iffe re n t W ith the defeat of both Irv in g and Sportsmen we can only look forward to next year. 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The U.S. team, this year, really moves the all and shows all out hustle. A t times it resembles Coach H a rte r’s "Komelasee" basketball. The U.S. is favored along with Russia. Yugoslavia and Ita ly for the gold. And if our team continues it's brilliant play and consistency, we should have little steel epetetlng tehlet semplete, ■ntmei hweitel, h m m s s « pedst et t, >IM. trouble. TOO tA TI TO CLASSIFY NEWTZ Building Supply Discount Center all our girls’ Is, coats.
