Portland Observer Thursday, April 6,1979 Page 7
Sports Talk
Who
Killed
Martin
Luther
King, Jr.?
by Ron Sykes
Sports Editor
Hoping io add another pennant
und world series flag to their impres
sive pile, the New York Yankees will
open their 1979 season Thursday in
Yankee Stadium . The defending
champions w ill send their Cy Young
Award winner Ron Guidry against
Milwaukie’s Mike Caldwell. It will
he interesting to see how New York
manager Bob Lenon uses his super
star o u tfie ld e r and controversial
Reggie Jackson. It has been rumored
that Jackson would be used
primarily as a designated hitter, a
role Jackson abhors and has said
numerous times that i f he's em
ployed only as a DH he’ ll ask to be
traded. Jackson, as we know, is an
athlete who holds his head as high as
anyone. And I, for one, admire his
insistence on being treated w ith
respect, that is, respect fo r his
abilities.
Reggie Jackson is not the world’s
greatest outfielder, but then neither
is he the worst. Jackson is a well-paid
Black athlete o f above average in
telligence and in some circles that’s
not accepted too readily.
The press has been particularly
hard on Reggie.
i When he’s going bad they give him
louds o f negative publicity and when
he’s hot they seem to ignore him or
focus their attention to other areas.
The two big stars in today’ s game
is Jackson and Boston’s Jim Rice.
Rice, after negotiating his 1979
contract, is beginning to feel some of
the same pressure and resentment by
his team that Jackson has endured
for years.
When Rice signed a restructured
and extended seven-year contract for
$4.9 m illion, the Red Sox were a
group o f very unhappy young men.
Carl Yastremski, reportedly hit the
ceiling. The veteran o f eighteen years
thought he should be paid more than
young Jim Rice.
Yastremski, Captain Carl, is a tre
mendous baseball player and has cer
tainly paid his dues, but no way
should he believe his talents are any
where close to that o f Rice.
Yaz got almost as much as he
requested, he wanted a two year con
tract extension for $700,000 a year,
and settled for $500,000 per annum.
Rich Burlison, Carlton Fisk and
Fred Lynn, then took their cases to
the press for airing. They repeatedly
cried out about the inequities o f the
pay system and always using Rice as
the measuring stick.
Now i t ’ s okay, I guess, fo r
players to bargain for as much as
their agents can acquire but why
knock one o f your teammates
openly? Maybe the Red Sox are
trying to use Yankee tactics. The last
couple seasons the Yankee’s had that
added ingredient that the Red Sox
were lacking. Dissension, resent
ment, and a wealthy Black superstar.
Boston can now boast about all of
these, with qualities like that the Red
Sox should fight the Yankees again
for the A L East Crown, and perhaps
win it.
The State’ s best prep athlete is
probably Byron H ow ell, 6’ 3 !4 ”
junior from Central Catholic.
Howell last year emerged as the
premier prep sprinter in the State by
amazing everyone with a 10.3 for 100
meters. Byron later went on to cap
ture the Class A A A 100 and 200
meter titles.
Byron also started on the Central
Catholic varsity as a freshman and
drew raves from opposing coaches
because o f his tremendous speed and
leaping ability.
Howell played football and was
the top wide receiver on the Ram
varsity.
Byron gave up football this year
after being convinced by Maurice
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Black leader.
10 P.M. Sunday
Mychal Thompson contributed greatly to the Blazer's 106-102 victory
over the Seattle Supersonics Tuesday night with 5 blocked shots and 17
points. (Photo: YasukoOiyi)
Lucas that basketball was his game
and ro llin ’ with the ex-Minnesota
and not to risk serious injury by con
star. Thom pson gives P ortland
tinuing to play football.
something they’ ve needed since the
Whether this advice was good or
defection o f Bill Walton. Thompson
bad we’ ll just have to wait and see.
can rebound and block shots and
But it should be said that at 6’ 3 '/$”
that has been the difference against
Howell w ill be no shoo-in for the
the league leading Sonics. Mychal
NBA. I f the young man stood, let’ s
had five blocked shots and seventeen
say 6*7” or better than one could
much needed points. To raise an old
more easily understand Lucas’ s rea
cliche “ when the going gets tough
soning. But the w orld is fu ll o f
• • . the tough get go in g .’ ’ And
6’ 3 !4 ” leapers, and maybe Byron
believe me Mychal is tough — as wit
shouldn’ t completely close the door
nessed by his crucial play Tuesday
on football.
night in beating the Sonics 106-102.
Mychal Thompson, Portland’s #1
draft pick o f a year ago, has really
come on strong since Jack Ramsay
decided to insert him into the starting
lineup to replace a slumping Bob
Gross. Portland is 11-2 and ‘ red, hot
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Behind the Wall
Larry Baker 43502!,
O.S.P. Correspondent
Every Black com m unity has a
Black rose — but very few contain
the rare talents o f this Black woman
— in Albina or at O.S.P. While the
prisons o f Oregon continue to
become over-crowded with Black
faces, Rose Boothe is one o f the very
lew Black community leaders who
participates with her people each
week in group discussion under the
State M ental Health A lc o h o lic
Program. She and her husband,
Tom, executive with American State
Bank, volunteer endless hours visit
ing many Black prisoners' families in
Albina and assist them in any man
ner they can. Rose Boothe has
become ‘ the’ Florence Nightingale o f
Oregon’ s Black community. Con-
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no appointment needed
Come in at your convenience
Julius D. Snowden 11380/3
Poetry Editor
PARK FREE — Any Park n Shop Lot
HOURS: Weekdays 8:30a.m. to 5p.m .
Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
gratulations to Mrs. Rose Boothe,
chosen Black community leader o f
the year by the Black men and
women incarcerated in prisons and
jails in Oregon.
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Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, Dentist
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APRIL 1979
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF EXODUS
Mrs. Rose Boothe leads alcohol workshop at O.S.P.
A LONELY CELL
Green walls, thirteen bars and a sixty watts light.
Seven-nine bolt holds the front on tight.
A solid wall between the cells,
Brings loneliness,
A sink, a stool and a gray cement floor.
A six foot bunk, used many times before
A m irror, one and one-half inch tall
Shows a reflection o f a face with no expression at all.
DON'T QUIT
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will.
When the road you travel seems hard and all uphill.
When your funds run low and the debts are high.
You want to smile, but you have to shy.
When your cares are pressing you down a bit.
Kest if you must but please don’t quit,
l ife may be hard, when tossed and turned
As each and everyone w ill sometime learn.
Oon’ t give up i f the pace is slow.
Success is found by the hardest blow.
You can even learn to wait if the night comes down,
How close you were to a golden crown.
ccess is failure turned inside out.
silver throne on a cloud o f doubt.
>u never can tell how close things are,
hen they seem so close, but yet so far
So stick to the facts when you’ re hardest hit
Never give up and don’ t you quit.
by Charles Hutchinson 937914
Two shelves to store all personal belongings
Mostly letters.
1 ell the stories o f each and every day
And things not gettin’ better.
Emptiness is the contents that fill this room,
Occupied by sadness and gloom.
But once in a while, a little cheer w ill come
Followed by uncontentment which to run from.
When w ill this end, this terrible cell
The cold nights.
When all I can hear is the continuing chatter
o f lonely men.
The only time that I am free.
Is the early hours o f the morn
And then this is terrible too
I try to sleep but waken to familiar walls
Hard bunk bed, tear stained pillow.
This terrible replacement for my life
I pray to God let this lonely cell
Not meet the End.
by Charles Hutchinson 437914
THE BETTER WAY
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me, than merely
show the way.
The eye's a better pupil and more willing than
the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples always
clear.
And the best of all the preachers are the men
who live their creeds.
For to see the good in action is what everybody
needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you'll let me see
it done.
I can watch your hands in action, but your
tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise
and true.
But I'd rather get my lesson by observing what
you do.
For I may misunderstand you, and the high ad
vice you give.
But there's no misunderstanding how you act
and how you live.