Page 12 Portland Observer, December 3, 1981
Sports Talk
by Ron Sykes, Sports Editor
The Jefferson Democrats opened
their 1981-82 basketball campaign
by downing the Sweet Home
Huskies 60-45.
The Demos were led by senior
guard Michael H o rn bu ckle ’ s 22
points.
However, Jefferson coach Bobby
Harris could hardly be pleased with
this lackluster win.
H ornbuckle’ s deadly outside
shooting kept Jeff in the game dur
ing the firs t h a lf and enabled the
Demos to take a slim 25-22 lead at
the half.
S. Mitchell, plagued by fouls the
first half, came o ff the bench with
six th ird -q u a rte r points and the
Demos were never again in serious
trouble.
But this Jeff team will be in seri
ous trouble during the season be
cause once again the Demos are
missing the big man inside. The tall
est man on J e ff’ s roster is senior
center Chris Holliday, who stands 6-
3. Three-year starter M ike Horn-
buckle should be the top scorer and
rebounder at a mere 6 feet.
The Jefferson guards, except for
Hombuckle, are missing the outside
shot, and their speed is question
able. They w ill surely miss senior
guard Kenny Johnson, who is out
with a broken ankle.
Jefferson w ill make their sixth
consecutive visit to the Annual State
tournam ent, but only because
they’ re in a very weak division.
As usual the Demos are well-
coached and play a good team
game. Harris’ influence will help.
The University o f Oregon Ducks
were beaten by the Cal-Irvine Ant-
eaters in the ir home opener, but
don’t feel sorry for the Ducks. This
was an experienced Cal-Irvinc team
led by 6-8, A ll-A m e rican Kevin
Magee. A ll Magee did last year was
to finish th ird in scoring (27.5),
fo u rth in rebounding (12.5), and
second in fie ld goal percentage
(.671). On top o f all this he also was
most valuable player in the Pacific
Coast Athletic Conference.
Magee was unstoppable inside
where he scored 29 tough points be
fore fouling out with five minutes
left in the second half. Cal-Irvine re
turned seven seniors, w hile the
Ducks can list only two seniors on
their entire squad. Oregon is young
for sure, and w ill lose a few games
this year from lack o f experience.
Oregon started Jerome Williams,
6-8, Jr., and John Greig, 6-7, Sr., at
the forwards. Freshman Blair Ras
mussen, 6-11, at center, Fred Co-
field and Gary Gatewooc, a pair o f
6-3 sophomores, at guard.
The Anteaters were hotter than a
firecracker during the firs t h alf,
shooting a torrid .727 and building a
17-point lead.
The Ducks scratched and clawed
back within two several times during
the second half only to fall victims
to their own mistakes. By season’ s
end this squad w ill beat a few peo
ple.
Calvin Natt is fast becoming the
work horse o f the Blazers. Against
Utah last Friday he scored 23, Tues
day night against Denver he had a
team leading 28 points and 13 re
bounds. He’ s currently the club’ s
top shooter at .573, he is second on
the club averaging nearly 10 boards
a game. A ll this from a man the Bla
zer brass spent the entire summer
tryin g to trade. Can you believe
that? Well, believe it. Jack Ramsay
came w ith in a hair o f destroying
Calvin’ s confidence as he did both
Maurice Lucas’ and Lionel Hollins’
in the past. Remember that playing
time is all Calvin lacked last year.
Now he’ s getting it and now he’ s
producing.
Joe Montana had to throw 39 times.
That. Dickey says, is far too much.
Can you imagine someone com
plaining about success? Especially
since these same forty-niners were 6-
10 just a year ago. Dickey thinks
that teams that are lopsided toward
either the pass or the run do not very
often do well in (he playoffs.
How quickly we forget. The fo r
ty-niners should enjoy this year o f
success, because it ’s certainly been a
long time coming.
Perhaps someone should tell Jack
Ramsay why B illy Ray Bates per
forms so well in the playoffs. The
answer my friend is not blowing in
the wind, it’s called playing time.
Cuba lost its Central American
boxing title to the Dominican Re
public by a single point, and instead
o f taking the defeat with honors, the
press gave the fo llo w in g explana
tion: Cuba sent what we (Cubans)
might call a second-class team and
in some divisions it was third class.
Remember (hat this has long been
a policy o f the U.S., to send young
men into international contests to
give them valuable experience in
non-Olympic years. But never once
did U.S. officials proclaim them as
being second or third class. To win
is fine, but one should learn to ac
cept defeat with dignity. Apparently
the Cubans haven’t so learned.
B altim ore coach M ike M cC o r
mack is finally going to bench quar
terback Bert Jones.
McCormack is said to have finally
tired o f Jones’ remarks directed to
ward his teammates.
Jones, who had an on-field argu
ment with star running back Curtis
Dickey a few weeks ago, is said to
have some social problems.
Jones gave Dickey quite a tongue-
lashing after Dickey missed a block.
And how about those 49crs? San
Francisco clinched a division title
last Sunday by defeating a stubborn
N.Y. Giant team 17-10.
Despite all the good things, the
San Francisco Press is already
dw elling on the bad side. Glen
Dickey
Despite ail the good things, the
San Francisco press is already dwell
ing on the bad side. Glenn Dickey
writes: Against the Giants in the d i
vision clincher, 49er quarterback
Remember when Leonard made
his devastating move in the 14th
round to take out Hearns? Also, re
member how the judges had Leon
ard so far behind that only a knock
out could win it for him? Remember
how Hearns was awarded the same
amount o f points fo r his close
rounds as Leonard received for his
tremendously big rounds?
Okay let’s take round seven o f the
Holmes vs Snips fight to show the
injustice given to Leonard by the
fight judges. The following is how
one judge viewed the round:
Holmes is down from overhand
right. Larry up at count o f three.
Snipes rushes across ring to try and
finish champ. Holmes out o f it for a
moment. Snipes lands hard one-two
to head as Holmes holds both hands
out. Holmes seems to have recov
ered now and throws hard combina
tion to head as Snipes walks away
cockily. Holmes blocks hard over
hand right. Snipes pins Holmes to
ropes but seems too tired to do
much. Holmes throws one-two to
head then one-two to body. Holmes
bangs both hands to body. Holmes
is com pletely recovered now.
Holmes uppercuts head and throws
punch combo to head. Snipes has
Holmes on ropes and is banging
away at him at the bell.
Judge gave (his round to Snipes
by two points^ (Ed. note: Leonard
never won a round by two points
over Hearns.)
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was espenenonf motor problems. But
once he pushed the power plant to the
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Last year, the Coward-Kem per
M iller team suffered engine failure
after engine failure in the Red Lob
ster-backed BMW M - l. Cowart
searched for a reason for all his en
gine failures and came up w ith a
wide-brimmed fedora.
The hat proved to be a lucky
charm. In fact after two dismal
races (Daytona and Sebring) he won
the next six races. The streak ended
at the C a lifo rn ia track when a
slower car punted Cowart’ s machine
o ff the course on the next-to-last lap
o f the event.
He followed this second place fin
ish with a win at Portland to clinch
the Camel GTO championship with
five races still left on the schedule.
“ 1 guess you could say winning
the championship has convinced me
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Stakes-winners Deception De
cision, King H ark, Apache Lark,
and Big Cougar head a list o f eight
nominees to this Saturday’ s $9,000-
added Oregon Breeders Champion
ship at Portland Meadows.
The Breeders Championship, a 1
1/16 mile event for older Oregon-
bred runners, is the feature attrac-
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tion o f P ortland Meadows’ sixth
weekend o f racing. Added attrac
tions are the workout show set for
Saturday morning at 8 a.m. and the
second Senior Day o f the season on
Sunday.
On November 21, Deception De
cision increased his lifetime earnings
to $38,245 w ith a victo ry in the
$9,850 Portland Sophomore Handi
cap at I 1/16 miles. The N.E (Nub)
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AS CLOSE AS THEY COME—The photo finish of the week shows
a near dead heat between Cyn, scoring her second win of the sea
son. and Macho Ms.. (9), piloted by Dave Shepherd. Close behind is
Jay Gee Jay, riddeen by Shari Knapp, a junior at Jackson High
School. Veteran jockey Jorge Estrada rode the winner for trainer
Wayne McDonnell.
Norton-trained three-year-old has a
victory in last A p ril’ s Oregon Derby
on his list o f accomplishments, as
well as a win in a six-furlong allow
ance dash at Longacres on May 2.
King H a rk ’ s most lucrative vic
tory was his trium ph in the 1981
P ortland Meadows M ile. Owned
and bred by Mary Goldblatt, one of
Oregon’ s most prominent breeders,
the five-year-old gelding has won
two other races in 1981 in addition
to the M ile, including the s ix -fu r
long Inaugural Handicap at Salem
August 29.
Apache Lark was victorious in a
one-mile allowance test at Portland
Meadows November 27, covering
the distance in 1:39.1. Last season,
the A .T . (Tex) Irw in-conditioned
gelding won S printer o f the Meet
honors as he annexed the $9,825
Governor’ s Speed Handicap.
Big Cougar has been campaigning
in Northern California recently, but
the one-tim e P ortland Meadows
Horse o f the Year’ s most recent
northwest e ffo rt was a third-place
finish in the $35,(XX)-added Long-
acres Invitational Marathon at I'/j
miles.
The others nominated to the Ore
gon Breeders Cham pionship are
Lady’ s A gio, Rogue L ark, Tudor
Boss, and Dobi Pay. Dobi Pay has
earned over $100,000 in his career,
while I udor Boss shares the fastest
time for a mile (1:38.1, at the current
Portland meet with Renton Hustler.
Saturday’ s w orkout show, en
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that I can race,” says Cowart. Next
year Cowart plans to move up to
(he GT division where the money is
better. Cowart now believes the rea
son for the early engine trouble was
that he was not driving the car hard
enough.
G ift C e rtific a te s A v a ila b le
The fedora seems to have solved
those problems, or at least appears
to have brought the problems to
light.
And who would have thought
that a stockbroker would fall in love
with racing? But that’s exactly what
the 39-ycar-old University o f Geor
gia graduate did after his college
days.
"Stockbrokcring and racing arc a
lot alike,” he says. ’ ’ You’ re on the
edge o f your seat all the time in both
worlds.”
Breeders Championship headlines week
by Mike Cusortelli
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Stockbroker wins Camel GTO title
Dave Cowart, like the circus char
acter who spins plates at the ends o f
long poles, manages to keep three
major facets o f his life going as one.
Cowart is a race driver who has
just won the Camel GTO title in his
Red Lobster BMW M - l; a com
mander in the Navy Reserve; and a
stockbroker for Dean W itter Rey
nolds Co.
The part o f his life that he enjoys
most now may be the racing one for
1981 has been a great year for him.
W ith but one race le ft o f the
year’ s 16 Inte rn a tion a l M o tor
Sports Association events, Cowart
has own 10 events, including a re
markable seven in a row.
To top it o ff, he waltzed to the
Camel GTO championship; the sec
ond o f his IMSA career. The title is
worth a $10,000 bonus from the
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Admission to Portland
Meadows Sunday only.
1981 Longacres jockey champion
Jody Davidson as one o f the guests.
Fans wishing to attend the show,
which starts at 8 a.m., should enter
the track through the T u rf Club-
Clubhouse entrance on the south
end. Free coffee and donuts will be
served, and a complimentary one-
day grandstand pass will be given to
each adult in attendance.
Sunday’ s Senior Day promotion
offers free grandstand admission to
all senior citizens 62 or older, or
members o f a recognized organiza
tion for retired persons.
Post time Friday night is 7:30
p.m ., while S aturday’ s and Sun
day’ s programs get underway at
1:30 p.m.
Win A Place—The first race o f
the weekend provided the largest
win and place payoffs, as Impatient
Red, ridden by Gary Stevens, re
turned $62.40 to win and $25.40 to
place.
Show—The largest show payoff
o f the season resulted in F riday’ s
seventh race as Klanoro, ridden by
Abe Castaneda, finished third and
returned $35.80 to show.
Quinella—Friday afternoon’ s sec
ond race quinella returned $270.20,
as Hogger won the race and L ittle
Rogue finished second.
D a ily D ouble—On
Friday,
Hogger (ridden by Wayne Freeman)
and Court C hief (ridden by Hugh
Wales) combined to return a daily
double payoff o f $118.80.
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