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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1978)
OCTOBER SPECIAL The Blazers closed out their pre season with a lackluster 122-109 defeat at the hands o f the Phoenix Suns. But the saddest fact o f all is that they’re heading into their seuson opener with only nine unin- tured players. Maurice Lucas, Bobby Gross. Larry Steele. Dave Iw a rd z ik and the recalcitrant Bill W alton. To say the least Portland does have a problem For the past two months the Blazers medical problems have received more flak than a W W I I b- 59 flying a solo mission over enemy territory. As if things weren’t already bad enough it »as learned that ail pro forward Maurice Lucas will be lost to the club for three to four weeks with a fractured finget on his shooting hand. Rookie Mychal Thompson, the number one pick in this years draft, will be thrown into action much sooner than anticipated by his club. “ Mychal is going to be a definite factor in this league, but it’s going to take tim e,” said a bemused coach Ramsay W ell with the current injury situation and the sudden defection of M r. W alton, suddenly that ume is For sure Mychal can play but realistically he’s no Maurice Lucas and without the best forward in the NBA. Maurice Lucas and the premier center. Bill W alton . . . then Portland's chances are slim as those o f an opossum on the Dan Ryan ex pressway during the 5:00 rush hour. W hat happened to all the bally hoo given to the Portland rookies earlier? It was said that they were so great that it would be difficult to make a cut Some thought that some regulars would possibly go. A p parently that was just so much idle talk and with the deadline for trim ming the roster to eleven rapidly ap proaching it seems that pre-season play suddenly turned a difficult problem into a very easy one. It seems now that only two rooks will remain. Thompson and Ron Brewer Clem Johnson and W illie Smith will probably go to the newly organized Western Basketball League. Clay Johnson and Keith Herron being released outright. Keith Herron could be an N B A player, and at 6 '6 ” would be ideal for a swing man. “ H e rro n .” Ramsay says, “ needs to hone down his play a little .’ ’ That he's too much in the run and gun / "C . • »PORTS HOUR FgS JOE’S PLACE The Yankees bats were silenced until Reggie Jackson’ s tape measure blast 430 feet into the Dodger bull pen. Reggie continues to show the world that he's the p re m ia "m oney p la y a ” in M a jo r L eague baseball. «01 N X Alberta I V i\ W i l l DRAFT YOU FOR O N IY 15< Coll: 2 8 8 -8 7 6 8 M y prediction: The Dodgers will win the first two . . . with New Y ork coming back to take the Series in a dramatic come from behind just as they’ ve done all year M V P for this year: Reggie Jackson for the Yankees and Dave Lopes for the Dodgers. Days: Sat., Sun., LM on. For moro Information SHOP The reason the Yankees will lose the first two games is that the inef fective Jim “ Catfish’’ H u n te is sche duled to start in Wednesdays game. I f manager Bob Lemon changes his mind, then the Yankees will win in six And will return to New York 1-1 instead o f 2-0. no takers Which is probably true again this year. season chance I// ,, r.- by B iil Schaefer P O * ELL a *, o M ARKET When Cal Poly completed its 56- 20 massacre o f Portland State's football team last Saturday night in San Luis Obispo, one could almost bear a sigh o f satisfaction all the way from Sacramento The sighee would be Bob Mattos, coach o f Sacramento State which the previous week was humbled by Mouse Davis' Vikings. 63-7. Mattos was not at all pleased when, in the dying moments o f the PSL' game, Davis reinserted his first defensive .mu in a bid to stop Sacramento’s touchdown drive which was being engineered by the second unit. “ Bush,” was M attos’ description of the episode. mento State, trailing 63-0 at the rime, finally did score. " I t showed me that Mouse doesn’t have any cool at a lL " M attos said. “ 1 really don’ t know why he did it. Maybe he got a little greedy and was frustrated by a bad start — losing two games so early in the season I don't know w hat the reasons are but something like that is bound to catch up with you eventually.” “ Eventually” was last weekend for Portland State. The Vikings surrendered 622 yards via rushing and passing. The bottom line is that Portland State w ill be going to no post-season this year. The Mountain Bar Cup, given annuaRy to the winner of the Portend T im ber»-Seattle Sounders game, won this year by the Sounders in a 3 -2 o v e rtim e victory, is presented to Sounder coach Jimmy Gabriel and team captain Mine England by Lenny Wilkens Last week in this space we discussed some o f the problems sports officials w a e encountering this year — they have been guilty o f making insen sitive remarks to players as well as displaying poor judgement on crucial calls, particularly in the National Football League. But because these failings w a e spawned by emotionalism or just plain blunderism they can be . . . UNION OR COMPANY DENTAL INSURANCE is cl valuable asset . . . your health an<j |k JW a p p e a ra n c e < OMPLETE t OOf’ERATlON ON A U . DENTAL INM KANCECLAIM'- R E HANDLE A U. THE DET AIES DE COM PLETIM I R< LAIN EDEtMS PARK FREE-Any Park n Shop Lot U A l ID C W wekdayw a s<t||rtb% Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, a na to » p at Dentist g.M 3RD A 3 AMHILL NT.. PURI LAND DRE DON TARE E LEA ATDR Ttl 2ND EMMHt 3RD ST. ENTRANT E In response to a request by School B oard m em ber W a lly P rie s tle y , arrangements have been made with Larry Ayers, the principal o f J e ffa - son H ig h School to have the gate u nlo cked so th a t the tra c k is available for public use until late in the evening. People from the community and students at the Cascade Branch o f the P o rtla n d C o m m u n ity College have been welcome to use the track during the day and a f t a school, but the custodians have been locking it a f t a fo o tb all practice because o f some problems with motorcycles on the c in d a track. Dr. A y a s agreed that the track should be available to the public and w ill work with the School D is tria Security Department in co m b atin g any problem s th at m ig h t arise fro m m o to rcycles. During football season, one side of the track is largely obttru aed by the bleachas that have been placed t h a e fo r seating o f spectators at fo o tb a ll games. Joggers can go around the bleachas in the obstruct ed area, of the track. overlooked as bang pan o f the human condition. But what occurred in the first game o f the A m a ic a n League Eastern Division pennant playoff cannot be dispatched so It’s Julia s new program ! N ew recipes, new delights, sam e wy delicious Julia. ^0 ■ 1*| easily. The Yankees had a runner on first base with nobody out. A sharp ground ball was hit to the Kansas C ity second baseman who pivoted and threw to the shortstop whose relay to first base completed the double play. The only problem was that the shortstop never touched second base. It was not a close truss. H e overran the bag and caught the ball at least four feet from the base The television replay showed and reshowed what happened The um pire was right on top o f the play. Yet he called the ru n n a out. And the baserunna didn’t even dispute the call. Jim P a lm a , who was doing the color poruon o f the telecast, told us those kind o f plays w a e “ giro- mies," as though the game held no more importance than a Saturday a f ternoon sandlot scrimmage. “ They (the umpires) give ’em those,’ ' P a lm a intoned. Palmer's sidekick, H ow ard Cossel, remained strangely and uncharacteristically silent. I ’ve been covering baseball games for the b a t a part o f 25 years but somewhae along the way 1 must have missed something. W'hen an umpire calls a ru n n a out w hen he is undisputedly safe and the ru n n a or his manager fails to appeal the decision, the unhappy conclusion is that the rules can be bended. And if they can be bended they can be broken. A nd if the rules are broken chaos will eventually ensue. H a t was a case when an official's credibility went up in smoke. Such an umpire does not belong on any baseball field, 1« alone one in which a pennant was to be decided. “ Gim - mies” are okay when two club golfers g a to g eth a for a $5 Nassau. But when it involves an American League pennant, the fans are entitled to a little bit more professionalism. SATURDAYS 8:30 P.M. non Educational and Public Broadcasting Service * KOAP T O S A V E O N F O O D rB IL L S "THE CHAZ Open Thursday - Saturday ** ★ * ★ ★ ★ * ★ * ★ * ★ ****** ci ». ./ W orid Series to former great J i n G illiam , went out and promptly an nihilated the travelling show from New Y ork 11-5. Davey Lopes. Dodger team cap tain and » h o was probably moved more by G illiam 's death than any player, went to work early smacking homers in his first two times at bat. style. This may well be true but with all the young man has going for himself 1 just have to believe he would be a better prospect than the veteran Larry Steele. In fact three years ago 1 predicted the trade o f Steele. This was during the Petrie, Wicks era and rumblings were going on that perhaps one or two Blazer vets would not return. W ell it turned out that Wicks and Petrie both left. I wrote in my column that who would have thought that Larry Steele would be around longer than the ever popular G eo ff Petnc W ell after making my assumption, for surely it could not be deemed any more than that, 1 was confronted in the Blazer press room by General Manager, H arry Glickm an who let me know bluntly that the reason G eo ff was gone was that just maybe Larry was not so marketable Which gives one the implication that Larry was shopped around the league with NO AGE LIMIT BETWEEN 7 P M -1 A M OVER 18 ONLY FROM 130 A M TO 5:00 A M SO COME ON OUT AND s r ,." X I D IS C O i X t X ADMISSION: $3.00 2629 N .I. Union Ave. Phone 287-4777.
