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Williams makes Portland debut
by Ultysses Tucker, Jr.
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extra hard because the Clippers are
the worst defensive team in the NBA
and besides, he has no role models . .
When questioned about his ad
justment to the NBA, Freeman said,
“ It’ s been tough on defense because
I played zone for four years at PSU,
and it's affected my playing time a
great deal. H aving fo u r veteran
guards ahead o f me does not add to
my cause, but remember I ’ m only a
rookie,” he added.
“ I ’ll just be patient, pay my dues
and be ready when the man calls
upon me.”
About his four seasons in Port
land, Freeman responded by saying,
“ It was good to come back to the
city that paved my future,” he said.
" I felt real real good out there, I miss
the positive vibration from the people
here.”
By this time the locker room was
almost empty, Swen Nater returned
to inform his teammates that it was
pouring down rain. Freeman laughed
and said, “ Welcome to Portland,
there’ s no defense for i t . . . ”
“ He’s going to be a great player in
the future,” said Gene Shue, head
basketball coach o f the San Diego
Clippers. Shue, was commenting on
Freeman Williams, the former two -
time N C A A scoring champ from
Portland State University.
Williams, the eighth player chosen
in the 1978 college draft had played
only nineteen minutes all season until
he erupted for twelve points in the
Trailblazers’ recent 119-98 drubbing
o f the Clippers.
“ I t ’s not like 1 put him in there
because he played in this city,” said
Shue. “ Our guards were flat and we
needed a lift, 1 told him to play good
“ D ” and to hang tough."
What does the future hold for the
talented young Williams?
“ Freeman is a good person and he
tries damn hard, as soon as he
develops the defense that’s needed in
this league, people w ill hear about
him ,” said Shue.
Williams, at 22 w ill have to work
Official Notice of NAACP Election!!!
Novem ber 19.1978, 4:00 p.m., Bethel A .M E. Church,
N.E. 8th and Jarrett
The Nominating Committee must submit a report at this
meeting. A t thie tim e additional nom inations for officers
end E xecutive C o m m itte e may be made BY W RITTEN
PETITION SIGNED BY THREE OR MORE MEMBERS IN
GOOD STANDING, providing nominee has given written con
sent.
D ecem ber 10. 1978, at 4:00. Annual Meeting and ELECTION
of Officers. Hughes Memorial Methodist Church, 111 N.E.
Failing.
John H. Jackson, President
Doris Hayden, Secretary
Portland Branch NAACP. 2752 N. W illiam s Avenue, Portland. 97227
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Ron Brewer (10) of the Portland Trailblazers dodges a San Diego Clipper
player during the Trailblazers' 119-98 victory over the Clippers.
(Photo: Ultysses Tucker, Jr.)
Sports Talk
by Ron Sykes
‘
Oregon Duck football is alive and
lucking. To paraphrase an old phamp-
leteer in lime o f trial: “ These (for
the Ducks) are the games that try
men’s souls.” That’s the way Tom
Paine m ight have described the
season to date for an Oregon team
that is 1-8, yet has been ahead in the
fourth quarter o f the last six games,
only to lose five by a cummulative o f
just fourteen points.
The Ducks in the past have been
mere palsies for most Pac-8 schools.
Not so this year and the future cer
ta in ly looks b rig h t fo r a young
Oregon team.
And remember when the Ducks
lost the great cornerback and
perhaps their best athlete Ken Page .
. . Well, he was the one man that I
said they could ill afford to lose.
Then went on to say that Oregon's
program was not strong enough to
suffer such a loss and still survive,
and be competitive. Oh! How wrong
1 was. Last year's theme (Oregon’ s,
“ On the horizon” is certainly true
this year.
Not only did the program lose
Kenny Page, but remember the name
. , . Andrew Page? Well, he’ s the
great young frosh Quarterback that
came to Eugene so highly touted only
to fa ll v ic tim to a shoulder
separation that knocked him out for
the year.
The challenge o f breaking through
and finally becoming a good football
team is there.
“ it w ill be good.” said linebacker
W illie Blasher, “ to return to the
camps and know that we were part of
the beginning o f something big.”
Some have said that Oregon is
only a couple players away. That just
might be true and if so they’ll only
need the return o f the "Page” boys.
And remember, too, that the Ducks
are operating without a true quarter
back. Mike Kennedy was injured and
his back-up quit the squad leaving
the burden on Tim Durando, 6 'I ” ,
196, Junior who began the season as
a defensive back.
Looking at Oregon’ s two-deep
roster the Ducks are in good shape
losing senior starters in both offense
and defense. Both cornerbacks Rock
Richmond, 5’9” , Junior and Jerome
C ovington, 5’ 8” , Sophomore are
returning.
The free safety, M ike Nolan is
backed up by 6*2” , Freshman
Wilson Pica. Only at strong safety,
patrolled by Jim Johnson and Kenny
Bryant, w ill the Ducks lose with the
starter and backup.
The defensive u n it, which is
Oregon's strong point, loses just three
starters in Johnson, W illie Blasher,
and m iddle linebacker Bruce
Berkley.
Oregon’s losses have been tough
and with any luck the record could
very easily be 6-3 instead o f 1-8, »
The scores to date: Colorado 24,
Oregon 7; Southern Cal 37, Oregon
10; TCU 14, Oregon 10. Now just
have to believe that the Ducks could
whip TCU nine times out o f ten.
Other scores: Wisconsin 22, Oregon
19; C a lifo rn ia 21, Oregon 18;
Brigham Young 17, Oregon 16;
Washington 20, Oregon 14; WSU 7,
Oregon 31; and U C LA 26, Oregon
23.
What I'm saying now is wait until
next year for the Ducks. Coach Rich
Brooks has recruited some talented
people and with the offensive unit
losing just three players and a sturdy
defense returning it should be in
teresting next year in Eugene.
Who won the draft? M r. John
Rowe, sportswriter for the Bergen
County Record writes — the big
winners — with two blue-chippers. .
. appear to be Portland and Atlanta.
This may not have been the most
talent-laden college draft o f NBA
history, but like any other draft there
were winners and losers.
The biggest winner was Jackson
High School o f Miami, which had
four graduates from its 33-0 state
championship team drafted.
Mychal Thompson, the No. 1 pick
in the draft, played for Jackson, as
did Osborne Lockhart, a teammate
o f Thompson’ s at Minnesota who
was taken by P h illy in the sixth
round; Cecile Rose o f H ouston,
picked by the Nets in the fifth round;
and Charles Thompson o f Houston,
tabbed by Phoenix in the sixth
round, all fo u r are natives o f
Nassau, the Bahamas.
Only the 6’ 10” Mychal has made
it, and what a prospect the young
Thompson appears to be.
ECKANKAR
H ow ard Cosell recently was
quoted as saying sports “ is the single
most c o rru p tin g in flu e n ce ’ ’ in
American society. Cosell complained
that owners o f sports teams wheel
and deal without any regard for the
fans or lives affected with financial
gain the controlling motive for the
owners.
Say what you w ill about Cosell but
Mighty M outh is absolutely right, in
this instance at least. Dozens o f
examples can be sited, among them
teams’ insistence that athletes per
form when physically incapable o f
giving their best and unjustified in
creases in the cost o f tickets.
For a while it appeared that this
win-at-any-price attitude was about
to filter down into the Oregon high
school ranks. I ’ m talking about the
wrangle in the Metro League caused
by the cancellation o f the Sunset-
Aloha football game because o f a
measles outbreak at Sunset.
Instead o f doing what was right —
that is, declaring the game a forfeit
in favor o f A loha, psychological
panic set in, efforts to reconcile the
game were frantically made. A for
feit might deprive Sunset o f an op
p o rtu n ity o f playing in the state
championship series, the school’ s
macho element insisted. Unfair, they
protested.
The failure to recognize the d if
ference between what is right and
what is fair is a sad indictment o f the
people involved. Why would it have
been “ unfair” to declare a forfeit?
Neither team had anything to prove.
Both were unbeaten. So why even
consider playing the game under the
prevailing circumstances?
Field Underwriter
283-5012
The New York Life agent in your
community is a good person to
know.
But where, one must wonder, was
the community interest in the well
being o f the students afflicted by
measles at the Sunset school? A half
dozen or so were so ill they had to be
hospitalized. It is doubtful any o f
them will be attending the state tour
nament. Or that they even care.
As things worked out, both Sunset
and Aloha, the two high schools in
volved in the measles outbreak, ad
vanced into the championship series
opening this week. But i f Sunset
missed out would that have been
such a disaster? I f that proved to be
the greatest disappointm ent ex
perienced by the players in life, they
would indeed be very lucky.
I f there is going to be wheeling and
dealing just to satisfy the appetite o f
sports fans and some coaches, let it
exist on the professional level where
the sports ta il, in the fo rm o f
television, has been wagging the dog
for years. Unless athletics in high
school can be justified as an integral
part o f the education process rather
than an entity above it, let’s forget
about them.
What it may take, in the long run,
is the specter o f a series o f ballot 6
type measures in which the voters
may have to choose between having
to dismiss sports coaches or math
teachers. That would give everybody
a chance to examine their values.
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Robert F. W illia m s, Black na
tio n a lis t and fo rm e r exile, w ill
speak in P o rtla n d th is week.
Williams, who was president o f the
Monroe, N orth Carolina NAACP,
was charged with kidnapping during
civil rights activity in 1961. Realizing
he had no hope o f a cq u ita l, he
escaped to Cuba and then to China.
After ten years, he returned to the
U.S, to fight the kidnapping charge.
Charges were dropped by the state.
W illia m s is the a u th o r o f
“ Negroes W ith Guns,” and while in
exile published the newsletter,
“ C rusader.” He w ill speak on
minorities in China on November
13th at 7:30 p.m. at Portland State
University Lincoln Hall, Room 75.
On November 14th the topic w ill be
the relationship between China and
Black Americans, 7:30 p.m. at Port
land Community College, Cascade
Campus A u d ito riu m . The visit is
sponsored by the U.S.-China Friend
ship Association and the Portland
State University Black Studies Cen
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Portland hosts welterweights
Steve Chase newly crowned North
west Jr. Welterweight Champion,
undefeated in ten fights may be
taking too big a step November 21st
at Jantzen Beach Ice Arena — when
he takes on Las Vegas’ Jr. Welter
weight sensation Eddie Nuno — also
undefeated.
Fred M cN ally, Portland Boxing
Promoter said he had trouble with
both camps signing this one. Chase's
management didn’ t want him to be
in so tough a fight follow ing his
g ru e llin g ten rounder w ith Jose
Talam antez last m o n th . Both
fighters received a standing ovation
at the end o f the title fight. McNally
further stated that Nuno’ s manager,
Tony Mora wanted it stipulated that
this be a title fig h t — Chase’ s
management refused. The Portland
promoter finally signed the fight.
Chase and Nuno are both eying
Leroy Haley’ s rating. Both fighters
want a crack at Haley, also from Las
Vegas. Haley is the Nevada Jr.
Welterweight Champ and his rating
hovers among the top ten in the
world.
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Because rearing its ugly head was
the state tournament, that’ s why.
The all-powerful, all-important state
tournament. Just the thought that a
team might somehow fail to qualify
for the post-season championship
was enough to send otherwise
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