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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
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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
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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!
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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.’’
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Bucky has som e stron g feelin gs
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faces and one o f the youngest rosters
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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. A g g ressiv e
ness on defense allow s us to run the
ball Rebounding is paramount in the
way you start your break Those two
things m axim izing the long pass ra
ther than dribbling the ball up We
can't grind it out in the half court the
way we did it last year ."
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