Portland Observer, August 18, 1962 Page 7
Sport Talk
spears firs t am ong paers
Those piles of letters that will un
doubtedly be pouring out o f U lf
Spears’ high school locker are an in
dication tli.it the young man has ar
rived. I he recruiting season, basket
ball's version of fraternity rush, will
loon be in full swing again, and U lf
Spears will be a big part o f it. And
Ipng before the weekend visits,
bump ms and so on, Spears, a three-
year star from Benson High, w ill
have heard from the likes o f Wash
ington, Washington State, Oregon
and Oregon State.
I A 6 5 forward who can go up and
depoisit a lob pass in the basket
quicker than one can say "D r. J ,"
Spears is the finest all around player
in the State of <)regon.
The product of Benson High and
Coach Dick (.¡ray just finished a
to u r w ith the now famous Dunk-
Kings of Seattle I he team was com
prised o f the best prep players in
Oregon and Washington On their
Schedule were some strong teams
fro m the Eastern seaboard. They
played all star teams Irorn both
Philadelphia and Chicago and the
nationally ranked Power Academy,
a school that produced Kareem Ab
dul-Jabbar. Spears leads the team in
both scoring (23.5) and rebounds
(13), w hile usuaging, 3 blocked
shots per garC-
As if tha
enough, Sp<
enough t o p
has such q
Aaron Mitchell and
Son Plumbing
by Ron Sykes,
Sports Editor
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o f his TV paycheck Io Trevor Ber
bick and Reynaldo Snipes. Thomas,
a last minute substitute, beat up ter
rib ly on seventh-ranked James
'Quick' I illis. And Thomas only got
his chance when Berbick became ill
and not to be outdone, Snipes de
clared he w ouldn't accept a battle
w ith anyone other than the sick
man.
So Don King, up the creek w ith
out a paddle, called in young Fink-
Ion I homas who was 10-0 and
ranked number 15 by the WBC. It
look P in klon eight rounds to de
stroy I illis who began to tire badly
alter the fifth round. With a victory
over I illis Thomas could vault clear
up to number four, a ranking cur
rently held by Greg Page. Remem
ber Page was a decisive loser to Tre
vor Berbick. There appears to be a
great deal o f unrest amongst the
heavies M ike Weaver, Tex Cobb,
Reynaldo Snipes and Larry Frazier
have all pulled out of major fights in
the past three months. Frazier,
ranked number 14, actually walked
out of Madison Square Garden just
minutes away from fight time. And
it ’s hard to remember the last time
anyone has been able to get Mike
Weaver into anything that resembles
a fight ring.
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