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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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for years.
In the past our Olympic team was just
an all-star team, we usually chose a bevy
of all Americans, put them on the floor
and let them play. W e had a coach that
was antigrated, basketball wise, and this
further hampered our play. I t was not
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until the shocker 4 y r*. ago when the U.S.
w u upset in a controversial game with
the Soviets. This caused some serious
thinking to be done. W e had not only lost
our first game in Olympic competition
but. also, our gold medal.
JJiia Olympic team is different. We
have guys that played together, on the
same team, in college. The difference is
immediately shown in team work. 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
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