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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.
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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. Long regarded as agarian in
nature, the emergence o f the new
south features southern prominence
in in d u s try , com m erce, sports,
entertainment and every aspect o f
America’s business complexes.
A fter grappling for centuries with
its racial dilemma, there are signs o f
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