Portland Observer
Jackson claims
State
wins
-W
-
Great Values!
Jackie Jackson, Grant H i’a splendid
sprinter proved to everyone that she ia
the State’s top sprinter. The tiny, 95
pound tiger destroyed the field in Satur
days A A A Track and Field Championship
held at Springfield's all weather track.
Despite a light downpour Jackie burned
the field in both the 100 and 220.
Jackie went undefeated during the
regular season in both sprint races, but
during the City Track Meet was upset in
the 220 causing some people to believe
she couldn’t double at State.
However, this thought was quickly
dismissed as the swift junior completely
dominated the field in the 220.
Thursday, June 1, 1978
Page 5
E
3
MAYTAG
ö
S
NEW ENERGY-SAVING
WASHER
»30 LESS
Jackie also ran a strong anchor leg on
Grant's winning 400 relay team. After
receiving the baton Jackie made up 10
yards to nip Medford at the wire.
Jackson tied Sunset's Terri Wierson as
the top point getter for the girls meet by
winning two events plus the relay.
than any other
Large-tub Maytag!
EXTRA-LARGE CAPACITY
Depandoble hoovy duty construc
Grant junior Jackie Jackaon takes first in the 100
tor» AH fobrtc cycle selections En-
followed by Freda W alker of Jefferson who finished fourth.
ergy-sovm g operation. Long life
quod
coot
softener
pump
steel cobinet
dispenser
Fobric
Tough poly
Underwater lint filter
Self
cleaning porcelain enomel wash
S p o r ts
Stock No 14 oeo
T a lk
basket
ASK FOR S M IT H S PRICE
—
Ron Sykes,
S;»orts Editor
O .K., conceded, now that the Seattle
Supersonics will replace the Trailblazers
as champions of the NBA. Seattle by
taking game three in Landover and
leading 2 1 after Sundays thriller should
win their next two at home where they
haven't lost in 22 consecutive games.
John Owen of the Seattle P .I. who, in my
estimation, writes some very objective
columns on the Sonics, recently wrote the
following: Certainly, nobody is going to
accuse Lenny Wilkens of being a fool, so
he is hardly going to assure you this
morning (Monday morn) that the NBA
championship trophy will soon be arriv
ing in the Queen City. And by the time
the Observer hits the streets Seattle's
dream of yesteryear will be a reality.
John writes, “S tart the celebration and if
I'm wrong, sue me."
There'll be no
•lawsuit, for sure.
•
And if game 3 was the key contest in
' this championship series (and it was) then
Dennis "the menace" Johnson may
emerge as the key figure in the play-off,
and that is even more preposterous than
the concept of a team going from a 5-17
record rallying behind a new coach and
riding his vehicle all the way to the top of
the NBA.
Dennis Johnson, at 6'4*’ has certainly
emerged as one of the top defensive
guards in the NBA. Johnson went head to
head with Lionel Hollins, who is probably
the top all-around guard in the league,
and more than held his own.
Then in the Denver series he complete
ly shut off the human jumping machine,
David Thompson.
The Sonic guard may not be solely
responsible for the fact that Washing
ton’s Kevin Grevey . . . who scored 27
points in the play-off opener . . . hit only
one of fourteen shots in Sundays game.
But when a player who opened the season
as a forward sees seven shots batted
away in one game by a rival guard, his
confidence (Grevey’s) may suffer just a
bit.
But examine further the Grevey-John-
son match up,
A high school All-American out of
Hamilton, Ohio, Grevey accepted a scho
larship to Kentucky, a school with a
basketball reputation and heritage se
cond only to UC LA . And at one time
years ago probably out ranked UCLA.
Grevey was player of the year in the
Southeastern Conference as a sopho
more, the SEC's leading scorer as a
junior, an All-American his senior year
and became the Bullets’ first-round pick
in the 1975 draft.
Dennis Johnson also played a bit of
basketball in high school. “A bit" aptly
describes it.
In his senior season at
Dominquez High School in Compton,
California, Johnson averaged . . . by his
own calculation . . . approximately 90
seconds of playing time and 2.1 ppg.
Obviously, there was no thought of a
college scholarship for Johnson.
So what did Johnson do? W ell, how
about working for 12.75 an hour as a fork
lift operator, and playing basketball in his
spare time.
A 5'9" guard in high school, Johnson
began to grow as fast as the skills he was
acquiring in playground basketball.
His reputation was growing, too, and
after a year he was able to turn in the
keys to the fork lift, and to accept a
scholarship to Harbor JC where, in one
game, he scored 39 points, pulled down 14
rebounds and blocked six shots.
Two years later he was playing for
Pepperdine's conference championship
team, he was 6'4", and had acquired the
nickname of "Airplane."
It has been w ritten that the Sonics
were able to acquire him after that junior
season because Johnson had declared
himself in the “hardship” draft.
Actually he wasn't coveted that highly.
He was the second player taken by
Seattle in the second round and in the
NBA's view his status was the same as a
graduating senior, because of that year
sitting on the fork lift.
A t the start of this, his second year,
Johnson's statistics were beginning to
resemble those at Dominquez High
School, up until the day when Wilken's
became the coach. Fred Brown was in
the midst of an eight-game medical leave
due to an injured knee and that certainly
influenced Wilkens' decision, to give
Johnson a starting role the evening of
December 2nd.
The Sonics beat the
Celtics in Boston, DJ scored 24, and has
been a starter since that time.
This transformation mirrors that of his
team.
M aytag WASHERS from
M aytag DRYERS from
$238
$3 1 8
(Stock No. 14-001, not shown)
(Stock No. 15-001, not shown)
»•»•«¿■bl« M i y l i i WRINCER WASNIRS la Slack
- MAYTAG ] | | ^
î Power Module "
• Dishwashers^
MAYTAG
Big Load Dryers
SATO
•2 6 % mote capacity • Exclusive
low-temp, stream-of-hea drying
• Multi-cycle selection • Fast,
efficient energy-saving operation
• Efficient drum size • Unique
air-ride drying system
Sale Priced!
MAYTAGi
COME TODAY
w e g iv e y o u m o r e .
Rhonda Reddit's effort was not f
in the mile relay.
I as her Sooth Eugene team failed to win
Byron Howell runs
(Continued from page 1 col. 6)
ui ¿crest, then Byron could probably be a
world class sprinter. A t 6'3”, Howell has
tremendous power and long, smooth
strides."
Bryon Howell just might be the best
prep athlete in the state and he's only a
sophomore. As a basketball player this
year Howell had twelve slam dunks.
Byron has played on the varsity since his
freshman year.
Howell first competed in track at St.
Charles Grade School, and showed
enough potential to raise the eyebrows of
several high school coaches in the metro
area. Young Howell came to Central
Catholic after first enrolling at arch rival
Jesuit and leaving when Coach Carregan,
who recruited him. decided to move on
to the Junior college ranks.
During the summer Byron will partici
h o m e fu r n is h in g s
pate in the Golden W est track meet in
California, a meet which annually attracts
the top high school spikers in the nation.
Howell, 6’3", sophomore will undoubt
edly, if he desires, set many track records
in the State of Oregon in the next two
years.
EASY
TERMS
30th and S.E. Division
234-9351
Shop 9 to 9 Tuesday thru Friday
Saturday 9 to 6
(Closed Sunday and M onday)
Super Shopping Centers
Help Lower yoer
Timbers crush Guatemala team 5 - 0
Cost of Living . . .
by Richard O'Toole
Brian Gant, playing at his preferred
position of midfield, returned after a
three game lay-off to score the first of
five goals as the Portland Timbers
crushed Deportivo Galcasa of Guatemala
in an international exhibition soccer
match Saturday.
Tim ber Coach Don Megson replaced
Gant, who had started eight of the first
ten games, with Ike Makay before the
game with the Cosmos. For the next two
games Gant was a spectator.
On this night however Gant was all
player as he got the Timbers scoring field
started with a header taken from striker
Mike Flaters' fur post cross at 12:31.
Of the pressure Gant commented, “I
felt it a bit. My touch was off because I
haven't played recently. I was uncom
fortable in the first half.
I normally
Clyde
vie« with
wouldn’t think twice about making 20
6 yard passes. I just do it, but tonight I had
and the second from Elaon Seale.
to concentrate on everything.
Coach Megson had injured Timbers
Stu Scullion scored second, taking a
Clive Charles, W illie Anderson and Gra
volley from Clyde Best and sending a shot
ham Day take the night off and regulars
to the lower left corner of the net.
Clyde Best, Pat Howard. Jimmy Conway
Tim ber Mike Flaters kept the 6,715
and Mick Poole played only the first half.
fans alive in the second half with two
••••••••••
header goals. Both goals were the result
Playing in front of over 100,000 empty
of corner kicks. The first from John Bain
Y our n e a rb y Fred M e y e r Super S h o p p in g C enter is fille d w ith "P e o p le -P le a s in g ”
services to m a ke yo u r s h op ping m o re p le asa nt. W id e , spacious aisles, frie n d ly
h e lp fu l clerks a n d u n d e rco ve r p a rce l lo a d in g a re just som e o f the "P e o p le -P le a s
in g " services to you. P lus...everyday lo w prices on thousands o f item s yo u use a nd
need e v e ry d a y h e lp lo w e r yo u r cost o f liv in g .
Because w e re open 9 a .m . to 10 p.m . d a ily , in c lu d in g Sunday, you can shop
w h e n you WANT to, n ot w h e n you HAVE to. C om e in a n y tim e and "fu n s h o p in a
p le asa nt, re la x e d atm osphere.
.
O lm it
P a r k
N.E. Killingsworth a» Uni
on
.
In te r s ta te
N . Lom bard at Interstate
P e n in s u la
of the baU.
I Photo: Debra Mishlerl
seats in Pasadenas' Rose Bowl the Tim
bers defeated the LA Aztecs 4 1 Monday
night. Elson Seale sent a cross to Clyde
Best at 21:56 for the first goal. Later
Seale broke away from defender Colin
t.larke, ran 30 yards before sending the
Timbers 4th goal past Aztec keeper Bob
Rigby.
6 8 5 0 N. Lom bard
Plenty of Free and Easy Parking
O pen 9 am to 10 pm d a ily , in clu d in g Sunday.
I