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A nother one bites the dust.
M aury W ills, longtim e Dodger
great, was fired a week ago by the
Seattle Mariners. Wills, one o f two
Black managers operating in the
m ajor leagues, had a 6-18 record
this season. “ Wills was given ample
o p p o rtu n ity ,” said Don O ’ Brien
Seattle’ s General Manager. No way.
M aury W ills took over last
August 4th and Billy Martin, Dick
Howser or Jim Frey could win with
the talent given to Maury W ills to
manage. O’ Brien claimed that Wills
d id n ’ t have the club going in the
right direction. True. Reaching this
sorry array o f talent to win ball
games would be as easy as teaching
a herd o f elephants to ballet. No
matter what is said. Black managers
must produce miracles right away or
else face the ax. Maury is gone and
one has to wonder how long before
San Francisco’ s Frank Robinson
w ill fo llo w . W hite baseball
managers go from club to club, but
Blacks seldom re-surface once they
are given one chance.
Seattle fired the wrong person.
Why wasn’ t the General Manager
fired? This franchise got started all
wrong. Someone in the hierarchy
thought the Kingdome would be
much the same as the Astrodome in
Houston. So they went out and got
speedy players who could pop the
ball through the in fie ld fo r base
hits. However, they were wrong.
Seattle's Kingdome is just the op­
posite. Balls fly out o f there with the
greatest o f ease. Each year more
home-runs are hit in the Kingdome
than any other stadium. And Seattle
management built their club around
singles hitters. Now who’ s to play
fo r that clossal mistake? You
guessed it. Maury Wills. A ll Maury
asked upon accepting the job was a
chance. T hat’ s one thing he never
received.
They came, they saw and they
conquered. One by one they arrived
like so many gun fighters from the
wild, wild west. Only this time, they
carried pool cues instead o f six
shooters. But the end results were
the same. It was a giant shootout
much like that o f the O.K. Corral
battle.
This one, however, was held at
the C leo-Lillian Social Club. The
participants started d riftin g in
around 2:30 p.m. There was “ Bits
driver S m ith,” “ Post o ffice Ron­
nie” “ Black H a ro ld ” and ’ W hite
Harold,” the baddest players on the
East side o f the river.
A ll came w ith quiet confidence
and high hope. And unlike the
shootout at the O.K. C o rral...this
one had spectators. Oh, they kept
their distance, but they were out in
droves to cheer on th e ir fa vo rite
gunfighter. And like that great
western battle at O.K., these mighty
contestants began to fall one by one.
Two scratches on the eight ball and
“ Post Office Ronnie” was the first
to fa ll. Then “ Bus D riv e r” and
“ Ben” Ruthley hooked up in a
match that most thought to be the
crucial match o f the day. Both con­
testants were highly ranked and it
was “ Gentle Ben” who fell. Four
hours later, after the smoke cleared,
it was the man fro m T ri-M e t
emerging as the winner.
The
P ortland
Trailblazers
announced recently that Dave
T w ardzik would remain in the
organization as a color man on
Blazer radio broadcasts and also
serve in com m unity-relations.
T h a t’ s great that they’ re helping
their own. (former players)
But what about L loyd Neal,
Herm Gilliam, Shalin Halimon, Ed
M anning and a few other men o f
color? Neal certainly gave his all to
the organization and was well liked
in the com m unity. Just have to
wonder why nothing was created for
“ old bottom.”
FRYER BREASTS
GRADE A SPLIT
Darryl Motley, the great one from
Portland, is currently batting .380
fo r Omaha in Class A A A ball.
From all reports, D arryl is on his
way to the big time. And w ith KC
struggling at 6-16, it just m ight
come sooner than expected.
Oregon Duck fans should keep
new year’ s day open on their calen­
dars. Yes, the Ducks are that good,
and after viewing their spring drills
this w riter feels that the “ Roses”
aren’ t too far away. This team is
loaded, not ju st in numbers, but
q u a lity players. Should be an in ­
teresting fall down South.
Houston continues to impress in
tllfeir NBA quest. And doesn’ t
Robert Ried own L a rry Bird?
Despite their hum iliation Tuesday
night, look for a seven game series.
Who would have dreamed this rag
tag bunch o f m isfits would battle
the mighty Celtics this hard...
CUDAHY BA R -S THICK SLICED
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Dick Bogle
Some o f this and some of that this
week.
Justice was rendered in the
decision by Police C hief Bruce
Baker and Commissioner Charles
Jordan when they exonerated Cap­
tain C orky H ulett o f any wrong
doing in the case we wrote about
some length last week.
That much relieved Hulett is back
at work now, assigned to the police
training division. That action
brought a few smiles to a lot o f faces
at Second and Oak that hadn’ t had
any reason to smile for some time
lately.
In case you didn’ t see last week’s
column, H ulett had been charged
with taking a pair o f scales from the
Special Investigation Division o f­
fice. The scales were of the type nar­
cotic dealers use to measure
quanities o f dope and had an ap­
proximate value o f $23.00. Hulett
said he had merely taken them home
to weight some silver he wanted to
sell and then had forgotten to return
them. Two deputy chiefs asked for
his resignation or they would
proceed with a disciplinary hearing.
At first H ulett resigned, then
charged his m ind, went fo r the
hearing and was cleared one hun­
dred percent.
There’ s a new organization in
Oregon which I ’ m sure we are all
going to hear a lot from . I t ’ s the
N o r th w e s t
E x - o ffe n d e r s
Association.
Right now its main concern is the
abolishment o f state supportive
programs for inmates coming out of
prison.
A handsome articulate Black
man,
W illia m
Jennings,
is
Association president.
He says, “ We’ re set up on a
model sim ilar to Alcoholics
Anonymous, helping people with
similar problems.
The group helps ex-cons with a
class in goals and objectives;
emergency referrals fo r food,
clothing and housing; job readiness
workshops and help in preparing
job resumes.
The Association went to bat for
Kurt Angelone. Angelone had just
finished treatment for throat cancer
while out o f ja il on his own
recognizance on charges o f parole
violation and auto theft in Califor-
nia.
Multnomah County district judge
Irving Steinbpck gave Angelone a
th irty day extension o f his release
but when those thirty days were up,
he ordered Angelone back to jail to
await extradition to California.
The Association provided much
support to Angelone and his new
wife during the th irty days he was
out and appeared with him in court
during each hearing.
I t ’ s just May and already we are
beginning to hear the phrase “ long
hot summer" bantied about.
I guess not talking about it won’ t
change what is going to happen,
l et’ s hope everything stays mellow
during the hot months, but it cer-
taintly won’ t surprise me if the op­
posite was to happen.
Even though the overall un­
employment rate fo r the mo ,th
remained at seven point three per­
cent and the overall teenage rate
dropped slightly to nineteen point
one percent, the unemployed rate
fo r Black teens, age 16-19, is the
highest since December thirty seven
point three percent.
A special spot fo r Malcolm
By Ullysses Tucker, Jr.
The fifty fifth birthday o f one of
the greatest Black leaders ever to
walk the face of the earth comes at a
time when the nation is sick with
racism and hatred.
El H a jj M alik El Shabazz
(M alcom X) celebration o f birth
stands clouded by the fact that 28
young Black youths have been killed
in the C ity o f A tlanta. It stands
clouded by the rise of para military
organizations like the KKK, the
Nazis, and other conservative
groups bent on the destruction o f
Black people and who openly recruit
police and boy scouts.
It also comes at a time when the
unemployment rate among Blacks
has trip le d since 1968, and the
Ronald Reagan budget cuts threaten
to cut more jobs and services fo r
those who need it. The nation’ s
unemployment o f young Blacks has
progressed to the point where
youths are just hanging out in the
streets without skills, motivation to
excel, low education, broken
dreams, and what "Newsweek ”
magazine termed as "R iot age.” We
as a country are living in some bad
times - and M alcolm is probably
turning over in his grave. The ghet-
toes scattered around the nation are
like M t. St. Helens, just bubbling
and waiting to explode.
Currently, there is a generation of
rio t age youngsters growing up in
this country who know very little
about Malcolm X and what he stood
for. They know nothing about him
because most were too young to un­
derstand what was going on around
them, and because they were
educated in a system that suppresses
knowledge about a power person
like Malcolm.
Makini Harris, one o f the original
founders o f the Black Educational
Center o f Portland, a private, non­
profit insitution that’ s dedicated to
teaching students about their
A frican past and great Black
leaders, spoke recently about what
Malcolm X meant to her.
“ I have a special spot fo r
Malcolm in my heart because I grew
up in Harlem and I can remember
when he was assassinated in 1965. I
lived about six blocks from the
funeral home where his body was,”
she said.
“ The significant thing for me was
that Harlem closed its bars the day
M alcolm 's
body
was being
eulogized and buried and Harlem
doesn’ t close its bars for anybody.
To me, even though I was very
young, I knew that this man was
somebody special. I think that the
media did not portray that enough
to the people throughout the United
States, to give the sense that Harlem
recognized Malcolm as a Fighter for
the rights o f Black people.
“ I get a warm feeling when I
think about Malcolm X and when I
hear his speeches. He was a down to
earth brother. He spoke to us and 1
think he did it eloquently.”
The Black Educational Center is
in the middle o f pledge month and
they need your community support
to keep individuals like M alcolm ,
M artin, Tubman and Vessey alive
and kicking. Community members
are urged to call the Center and give
their donations I f it were not for
institutions like the BEC, and for
founders like M a kin i H arris and
Ronnie Herndon as well as others
who have the same philosophy, the
sp irit o f these freedom fighters
would die.
In the name o f M alcolm , “ the
Black man in the ghettoes has to
start correcting his own m oral,
educational, material, and spiritual
evils. The Blackman needs to start
his own programs to inhance his
education, rid drug addiction,
p ro s titu tio n , drunkeness, and
Black-on-Black crimes. The Black­
man must lift up his own sense of
values...”
One thing that legislation can
never do for Blacks is to give us self
respect; it starts from the heart. The
sooner the better. C all the Black
Educational Center at 284-9552 and
make a pledge. Happy Birthday
M alcolm and pray fo r our sick
country!
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