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w e Portland Observer Thursday, August 31, 1878 Paga 5 No problems with Oregon State recruiting by B ill Schaefer A M B A S S A D O R 'S CHOICE: U .N . Ambassador Andrew Young to presented a trophy for hto winning ways on the tennis court at the recently held Ebony Tennis Classic sponsored by Budweiser Beer In Houston, Texas. Pictured from left to right: Reverend Prentiss Moore; comedian Dick Gregory; Henry A. Brown, marketing executive of Anheuser-Busch; Texas State Repreeentatfve Al Edwards; and tournament judge Herbert Provost, Texas Southern University coach, w ho lost his match to Ambassador Young, 8-2. It was the tenth annual classic, and attracted over 460 players from Black colleges around the country. Lu’s Higher Ground seeks Slow Pitch title by Sieve C arr Remember Joe Gilliam , who once had such a promising career in the N F L as a quarterback for the Pitts burgh Steelers. Well Jefferson Street Joe, as he was named in his heyday, was attempting a comeback after a lengthy battle with drug problems. Joe quite the semi-pro Pittsburgh w olf pack due to unreconcilable d if ferences with the coaching staff. team outside the borders o f Illinois. The Chicago Bobcats, behind two- time Most Valuable Player and A ll- American catcher, W illie Simpson, seek to defend their 1976 and 1977 titles and add a tenth N a tio n a l C h a m p io n s h ip tro p h y to those already on display. The Bobcats are jo in e d by six other Illinois teams, with contingents expected from Arizona, California, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, M in nesota, Wisconsin, South D akota, Missouri, Indiana and Colorado. Tournament activity begins Friday night at 6 :30 p .m . A riz o n a tim e follow ing a 2:00 p.m . draw, with eight games scheduled opening night. Games continue at 8:00 a.m . both S atu rd ay and S unday w ith the champion to be crowned Labor Day evening. L u ’ s H ig h e r G ro u n d makes a return appearance at the National 16-lnch Slow Pitch Tournament this year, hoping to better its twentieth place finish last year and in 1976. The P o rtla n d based clu b , which wound up third in 1975, opens play Friday night at 9:45 (Arizona time) against one o f seven teams from Illinois. This y e a r’ s fo u r day d ouble- e lim in a tio fl to u rn a m e n t is being played in Prescott, the first time the event has been conducted west o f the Mississippi River. A full field o f thirty-tw o teams from across the nation will b eon ah- for the tourney, each hoping to walk away w ith the coveted first place trophy that has never been won by a The last few days o f August are d iffic u lt ones fo r sports editors around the state. There’ s nothing much going on locally. King football is still some weeks away. American Legion and Little League baseball are behind us and the P o rtla n d Beavers and o th er p ro fessio n al baseball teams in Oregon are having difficulty keeping anybody awake. T his “ pause” in the n o rm a l stream o f sports activity is the only explanation I can think o f for The Oregonian to run a story under a th ree-coium n headline last week purporting to show chicanery on the part o f Oregon State University in its dealings with a prospective football player. It was, to coin a phrase, much ado about practically nothing. The gist o f the non-story was this: a former assistant football coach at OSU was quoted as saying that he and the university were guilty o f misleading B ill G w in n , a q uarter back from Beaverton High School, on the matter o f an athletic scholar ship. The form er aide, Rob A d o lp h , suggested th at O S U ’ s interest in Gwinn was perfunctory at best and th a t the u niversity kept him “ h ang ing ” in case tw o o th er preferred quarterbacks fo r whom scholarships were available were not signed. Both eventually were signed shortly before the deadline for such things, leaving Gwinn up the creek w ith o u t a p ad d le, so to speak. (G winn subsequently paved his way to the University o f Oregon on a baseball scholarship.) Basically, that’s the story. From this, the w rite r in fo rm s us, a “ promising” football career was end ed on the one hand and “ serious” questions involving O S U ’s recruiting practices were raised on the other hand. W hoa, Charley. Let’s back up a bit. W hile G w inn and A dolph were n egotiating, G w in n was studying scholarship bids from several other schools, including Idaho State and Wyoming. So his desire to play for OSU wasn’t that all consuming. Look at it this way. You want to buy an automobile. You go to five or six dealers. You see one car you like better than the others. But you don’t buy it right away. Maybe one o f the other dealers will come up with an offer you can’t refuse. So you keep on shopping. Meanwhile, the dealer whose car you like sells it to somebody else. Y ou discover th a t’s the one you really want after all but it’s too late. The car is gone. Gwinn was shopping for a college. Maybe OSU was his first choice but he e n te rta in e d bids fro m o th e r schools as well. A re we to believe he wouldn’t have accepted a scholarship elsew here to p e rp e tu a te his “ promising” career i f it was in his best interests to do so? The point is that O S U had just as much right to protect itself in this situation as did the player. As for the question o f who was left hanging, there is the interesting issue o f who was the hangor and who was the hangee. It was absurd to suggest that the incident raises “ serious” questions about O S U ’ s recruitin g practices. Nothing illegal or even unethical oc curred. The university showed an in terest in an athlete and he in turn showed an interest in the university. It didn’t work out. The most unfortunate aspect o f the story was th a t it called in to question the integrity o f O S U head coach Craig Fertig. W hile there have been tim es w hen F e r tig ’ s philosophical approach to football might be subject to criticism, he is probably one o f the most honorable individuals in college coaching. Nice guys m ay fin is h la s t, in L e o Durocher’s im m ortal words, and i f the Beavers bring up the rear in the Pac 10 football race this fall you’ll know Durocher had fellas like Fertig in mind. B uy a Certificate of Deposit at American State Bank and W e il Give You This Color TV: 19" Magnavox solid state color TV Interracial group promotes Ali-Spinks contest There is much more to the rise o f the new South than the election o f the first southern President in this century. 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