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Paga 6, Portland Obaarvar, January 30,1966 Q & £ ,* * • II'» January and (he PG A lour is underway and the best Black golfer in the world has picked up just where he left o ff, on a winning note. The go lf er is C alvin P eete and his gam e is hitting it straight d ow n the m iddle. K oi w eather seem s to he C a lv in 's thing because when he tees it up on those beautiful hot weather courses that the P G A sch ed u les. C a l’s rep for hitting fairways and greens causes the other pros to come prepared. The P h o en ix O pen was the first victim for Calvin this year He opened the first round with a sizzling 6$ and m atched that score the fo llo w in g d ay. T he P h o en ix C o u n try C lub course is a par 7 1 ,6 ,7 2 6 yard layout and Calvin brought the course to its knees. With those tw o scorching rounds behind him , P eete started the third round w ithout a bogey on his card, but an apparent allergy attack to his • SPORT TALK • SPORT TALK • eyes caused Peete to play for nothing worse than a bogey because he could barely see. Peete later told to u rn a ment o ffic ia ls he w as having d if f i culty with his contact lenses, declined to be interviewed and sought out an o p to m etrist. H is eyes were tearing practically all day and he wiped his eyes repeatedly. W ith all that d if fi culty, the man still only shot a I over par 72. The third round ended with Peete two shots behind Doug Tewell who put a 6 ) o f his own on the leader board. H alfway through the final round. Calvin had regained his form and was one shot ahead when Doug Tewell ran into a triple bogey 7 on the 14th hole, where he hit his second shot out o f bounds. As every golfer knows, trying to get into the clu b h ou se with that good score can often lake you out ol your gam e and rh yth m , and th a t’s what happened to Peete With a four shot lead Peete suddenly found him- Athletes nominated for Owens Award NEW YORK - Track and field stars Carl L ew is, Edwin M oses and D aley T h o m p so n , d ista n ce runner Joan B en oit, gym nast Li N ing and swimmer Michael Gross are the final ists for the Fifth Annual Jesse Owens International Amateur Athlete Award. The award will be presented at a for mal dinner o n February 6 , at the W aldorf-Astoria in New York. The aw ard, w hich is named after the legen d ary O lym p ian w h o w on four gold m edals at Berlin in 1936, will benefit the United Stales Olympic Committee and the Jesse Owens M e morial Foundation. "Each o f these athletes exemplifies the spint Jesse Owens showed through out his lifetim e’’ said Herb Douglas, founder o f the award and vice-presi dent o f S c h ie ffe lin & C o m p a n y , a subsidiary o f Moet-Hennessy. Lewis becam e the first track and field athlete since Owens to win four k ! CARL LEWIS gold medals in one Olym pics. Lewis captured his golds in the 100 and 200 meters, the long jum p and the 4x100 relay. M oses, who won the Jesse Owens International Amateur Athlete Award last year, won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-ineter hurdles, and stretched his record w in n in g streak to 109 The winner o f the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 O lym p ics, M oses has not lost a race since 1977. Thompson won his second consec utive Olympic dccathkx,, a leal achieved only by B ob M ath ias in 1948 and 1952. T h om p son has not lost a d e cathlon he has been able to finish in six years, and has won every major title open to him: O lym pics, World C h a m p io n sh ip s, E uropean C h a m p io n sh ip s and C o m m o n w ea lth Games Benoit, the w om en’s world record holder in the marathon, won the gold medal in the first Olympic Marathon for women. The 5-foot-2, 105-pound Benoit clocked 2:24:52 and defeated silver m edalist G rete W aitz by one minute and 26 seconds. Li Ning, a native o f China, d om i nated the m en ’s gy m n a stics at the O ly m p ics, w in n in g six m ed als. In individual events, he won gold medals in the floor exercise and the pommel horse, took silvers in the rings and the vault, and w on a bronze in the all- around. He won another silver medal by leading C hina to a secon d place finish in (he team competition. Gross, a native o f West Germany, won two gold medals, two silvers and set tw o sw im m ing w orld records at the Olympics. In individual events, he w on the 200-m eter freestyle and the 100-m eier b u tterfly , settin g w orld records in both, and finished second in the 200-m eter b u tterfly . H e led the Federal Republic o f Germany to a seco n d place fin ish in the 2x400 freestyle relay. P rev io u s recipien ts o f the Jesse Owens International Amateur Athlete Award were Moses in 1984, track and field stars Mary Decker in 1983 and S eb a stia n C o e in 1982. and speed- skate Eric Heiden in 1981. self scrambling to hold on. A putt from the fringe was needed to save par He missed the fairway on 18 but got to the green in regulation and tw o putted for his par and held onto his 2 shot lead and 181, (XX). L o ca lly . T he L eisure H our G o lf Club, w ho is a member o f the W est ern States Golfing Association, which propelled P eete o n to the n a tion al golfing scene, has a tremendous junior g o lf program for buys and girls. In fact, Bill Dickey o f Phoenix, Arizona, has notified our club that he has made arrangements for college scholarships to any Black college you choose if you can make the golf team C lub m em bers M arcus Polk and Byron "D ude” Kelly are on Benson’s golf team and Marcus is a top candi date to take the individual best in the city th is year. We a lso have Kevin Newbornc at Grant who might have something to say about that With the cost o f college tuition now, investing in som e g o lf clubs for your y o u n g ster might pay som e huge dividends later. Western Stales also has scholar ships for non g o lfin g high sch o o l sen iors My daughter received on e last year when she started college. I he on ly requirem ent to receive this scholarship is to be a member in good standing in The Leisure Hour G o lf Club Jerome Polk is our President, and if you need or want more infor m ation, contact him at 283-1755 or contact me at the Portland Observer The Leisure Hour G o lf ’C lub has also sent out a ch a llen g e to other local clubs to match their sponsoring o f on e P en in su la Park W restling Club member for the season Leisure Hour’s check is not in the mail — it has been received! * J a n . 28 B oys P IL s ta n d in g s W W ilson.............................................. 9 Grant................................................. 8 Jefferson.......................................... 7 Roosevelt.......................................... 6 Marshall....................................... 4 Lincoln......................................... 4 Franklin.............................................3 M a d iso n .......................................... 2 ( leveland...........................................I L 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 G irls P IL s ta n d in g s B oys P IL re su lts. J a n . 23 B enson 76. Roosevelt 68 ( leveland 58. L incoln 43 Jefferson 71, fr a n k lin 50 (iraní 76. W ils..n6l Marshall 66, M a d iso n 51 B oys PIL re s u lts . J a n . 25 Benson 82, (levelan d 52 Wilson 81, franklin 39 Roosevelt 77, Grant 60 Jefferson 66, Madison 53, OT I incoln 42, Marshall 37 W L Wilson.............................................. 9 Marshall.........................................7 (irant.................................................7 Lincoln........................................... 5 Cleveland.......................................... 5 Madison............................................ 4 Franklin.............................................3 Jefferson.......................................... 2 B en son .............................................. I Rixisevclt...........................................I 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 1 G irls P IL re su lts. J a n . 25 Cleveland 71, Benson 37 Wilson 61, franklin 48 Grant 105, Roosevelt 39 Jefferson 45, Madison 43 Marshall 35, Lincoln 26 Moses Malone: From high school to big tim e flo w m any basketball fans know that Mines Malone was the first play er ever to go directly from high school to the big leagues? Ask A ssistant Coach and S cout, Morris " B u ck y’’ Buckw alter o f the P ortlan d Trail Blazers. He helped sign him Buckwalter in 1974-75 coached the Utah Stars o f the old A B A . At the tim e, M oses M alon e w as deb atin g whether to play for Utah or play at the U niversity o f M aryland. M ary land arranged a loan in which Moses would receive a new Cadillac Bucky recalls the story "I d o n ’t want you driving around in a shabby ( adillac,” he told M oses. " W e want you in a Mark IV and we arc going to put a phone in it for you. Moses paused for a second and asked if he could have a telev isio n set to o . W hen he said that, I knew we had h im ,’’ Bucky said. "Moses signed the next day." S o m etim es Bucky gets n ostalgic about th o se old A B A days. He re members the days o f the red, white and blue balls, and players like Charles Govan and Ron Btxmc. Professional basketball has become more sophisticated in rect nt years and the selection o f the most outstanding players has become more scientific. On the road a gixxl part of the year, he looks for players who are tenacious and have the ability to play well at hom e and on the road Research is an important part o f identifying the best talent to draft. "W hen I focus on som eone, I think the Blazers will be interested in drafting,” Bucks said ’’I talk to his parents, coaches and players he’s played with and I go back as far as high school and talk to his teachers to get a g o o d p rofile. You have to know the complete person.’’ FREE FREE I POST TIME I FREE WED , FRI 7:00 PM SAT., SUN 130 PM USE THIS COUPON FOR FREE ADMISSION I I TO ANY AREA DURING THE WEEKS OF 1/21 fî V2B M OSES MALONE K e a e r v a O o n a . G r o u p I n f o r m a t io n ( 5 0 3 ) 2 O 5 -9 t4 g ^ I I 5 AT DELTA PARK Bucky has som e stron g feelin gs about this year's team With six new faces and one o f the youngest rosters in the NBA, he knows that to become successful it will take a lot o f work. He believes that, "The Blazers started well because we were running the ball and we were rebounding. Our strengths are our ability to run the floor and (Xir quickness. Our defense got to the point where it was too passive, but in the last few gam es, we were m ore aggressive on the b all. 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