Page 10 Portland Obaarvar April 16, 1961
Sports Talk
By Ron Sykes, Sports Editor
something special. For me, he was
my first hero. Joes’ s reign, 1937-
1949, took place in very different
times for Black Americans; a Joe
Louis was the one man that all could
look up to and cheer. And what Joe
did was just as proud; Joe struck
out against “ Jim Crow” in the only
way he knew best...his fists.
Born Joseph Louis Barrow on
May 13, 1914, Joe won the title by
knocking out James Braddock in
eight rounds. Joe would defend his
title 25 times more than any
heavyweight champion ever.
Some w ill say that Joe Louis was
the greatest heavyweight ever to lace
on a pair of gloves, others will argue
that Muhammad A li was the
greatest, but all in all, they are two
different athletes, from different
times. One should only judge them,
as hopefully history w ill, that they
(A li and Louis) were the greatest o f
their time.
Rest your body Joe, but your
memory will always remain with us.
The “ Brown Bomber” is gone,
and w ith him the hearts o f many
Americans both Black and white.
Louis was pronounced dead at
10:15 A.M . (PST). Louis reportedly
died in his Las Vegas bathroom ,
despite all efforts by his therapist,
Noel Larimer, to revive him.
Black people throughout America
w ill mourn Joe because he was
U niversity distance runners ex
pected a good test last week when
the Duck track and field team took
on Auburn. What they got was a
clean sweep from 400 meters to
5,000. The Tigers distance corp in
cluded runners which guided
Auburn to a fifth place finish at the
NCAA cross country meet.
Oregon’ s crew o f Rudy Chapa,
Greg Erwin and Mike Friton took
up the challenge and as usual won
everything. The Ducks are to track
as OSU to basketball. Oregon is
p e re n n ia lly one o f the top dual
teams in the country. And i f there’s
a weakness, its been in the sprints.
This w ill no longer be a problem .
Earlier this week, coach Dellinger
received a letter o f intent from
George Kallott from St. Catherines,
Jamaica. George is the 1980 NCAA
200-meter champion at C entral
Arizona College. He has times o f
20.83 fo r 200 meters and 10.40 in
100 meters. A long w ith fo o tb a ll
wide receiver Mark James and top
sprinter, Larry Bradley, the Ducks
appear to be on the way to greater
heights.
Dwight Robertson, fo o tb a ll
tailback, has made good progress
and now appears on the verge o f
becoming a world class hurdler.
Robertson had to lose 20 pounds
for track. He played football at 205
and now is down around 180, and
th a t’ s no easy task. D w ight has a
wind rided 14.0 and when the
weather breaks could be down
around 13.9. There’ s another star
on Oregon’ s horizon in sophomore
David Mack
M ack, the Los
Angeles dandy has run 1.46.6 fo r
800 meters and 3:44.8 at 1500
meters. In three meets this year, he
has won at 400, 800 and 1500. When
the 1984 Olympics roll around, look
for David Mack to be there.
Politics
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the two additional west side dis
tricts, including Mason's.
Legislators proposing the one-
district policy are Representatives
K afoury, Bauman and Priestley.
Bauman presented a plan that was
bordered by the 1-5 freeway, 33rd
Avenue, the Colum bia River and
Fremont. This plan has been rejec
ted.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove - This group of Pacific Univer
sity students are at their snack bar table ready to hand out green rib
bons as a rem inder of the children of A tlan ta. They are m em bers of
Pacific's C ultural Ethnic M in o rity Student Union (C E M S U ) and are
(fro m le ft s tan ding ) Lance Giles. A n d rew K irklan d , M ich ael Rhue
b o tto m , V a llice Fow ler, Phillip Sherm an, Di Di D aniels, and Bryon
Crudup (seated). They w ill continue this project until the situation in
A tlanta is resolved. CEM SU reports that the green ribbon project has
Legislative Research designed a
district that would involve the
maximum number o f Black resi
dents and still follow natural com
m unity boundaries. This district
would have 43,532 residents - 45
percent Black, 46 percent white, and
9 percent other races. This plan in
cludes the Boise, H um boldt, Pied
m ont, W oodlawn, King, Vernon
and Sabin neighborhoods and part
o f Concordia, Irvington and Eliot -
roughly the area served by the
Northeast C oalition o f Neighbor
hood Organizations.
Mason’ s plan assigns ap
proxim ately 20 percent Black to
district 8. Since district 9 and 10 are
not yet drawn the number is not
determined, but in those combined
districts there are 87,283 persons in
cluding 15,911 Blacks, (about 19
percent)
As tempers flare, so does insen
sitivity. W hile the legitim ate need
lo r an optim um opp o rtu n ity for
Black participation is discussed -
gripes about districts fo r Jews and
Southeast Asians are made.
The involved legislators, as well
as others who are interested, w ill be
invited to discuss this issue with the
public at a meeting to be held on
Tuesday, A p ril 21st, 7:30 p.m .. at
King Neighborhood F acility. The
meeting is sponsored by the Obser
ver, the Urban League o f Portland,
the N A A C P , the U nion Avenue
Business Boosters and several ad
ditional organizations.
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Saturday, April 18, 9:30 A.M.
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• Stan Peters, President
Portland Police Association
• Captain B. McCabe
North Portland Precinct
• Norm Monroe
Urban League of Portland
• Reverend John Jackson
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
• Bob Lamb
U.S. Justice Department
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