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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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by B iil Schaefer
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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