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Trail Blazers re-sign free Leisure Hour Junior Golfer host the Seattle Jr. Golfers
agent Greg Anthony
A ssociated P ress
A p parently ready to jo in the A tlanta H aw ks, free agent G reg Anthony has
instead signed a m ultiyear contract to stay w ith the Portland Trail Blazers.
T h e team w ould not disclose term s o f the deal Sunday.
A nthony, 32, has served as the backup to starting point guard Damon
S toudam ire in P ortland the last tw o seasons.
H is decision has left the A tlanta H aw ks unhappy. The A tlanta Journal-
C onstitution reported that A nthony reneged on an oral agreem ent to sign with
th e H aw ks.
T h e new spaper said A nthony was to have
flow n to A tlanta Sunday to sign a two- or three-
y ea r contract and w ould have been introduced
a t a M onday new s conference.
“ W e h ad an a g re em e n t,” H aw ks G eneral
M a n ag e r Pete B abcock told the newspaper.
“ W e arrived at it 12:30 a.m. on Thursday. G reg
w anted to be here, to com pete with Jason (Terry)
for a starting job. (A gent D avid Dunn) called me
S atu rd ay and said he w asn’t going through
w ith it.”
A sk ed w hether, in his N B A or M ajor League
B aseball experience, an agent has ever backed
aw ay from an oral agreem ent, team president
G reg Anthony
S tan K asten said, “N o. A bsolutely not.”
T h e H aw ks offered A nthony their $2.25 million
excep tio n , double his salary for last season, with a 10 percent raise in 2001 -02.
A n th o n y is a better defender than Stoudam ire and his contributions in relief
w ere instrum ental for the Blazers last season. C oach M ike D u n leaw said after
P o rtlan d lost to the L akers in G am e 7 o f the W estern Conference finals that he
w an te d A nthony back w ith the team.
“W e are happy to have G reg back on the B lazers’ roster,” said Bob W hitsitt,
P o rtla n d ’s team president and general m anger. “ H e’s a strong force for us in
the b ac k court and brings success, leadership and experience to the court and
in the locker room .”
L ast season, A nthony w as one o f three Blazers to play in all 82 games. He
av eraged 6.3 points and 2.5 assists in 18.8 m inutes.
H e w as second on the team in 3-pointers m ade w ith 88.
A nthony has averaged 7.4 points and 4.1 assists during his nine-year career
in th e N BA .
A n th o n y ’s signing leaves four players in Portland w ho are free agents: Brian
G rant, Stacey A ugm on, A ntonio H arvey and G ary Grant.
B u t it appears B rian G rant is headed to the M iami H eat in a sign-and-trade deal
involving Portland, M iam i and C leveland that could also end w ith G ary Grant
in C leveland.
R eports indicate Portland will sign B rian Grant to a seven-year, $90 m illion deal
and send him to M iam i. T he H eat w ould ship forw ards Chris G atling and
C larence W eatherspoon to the C avaliers, w ho w ould send Shaw n K em p to the
Blazers.
G atlin g ’s inclusion any possible deal m eans the trade could not be official until
at least Aug. 26. T he H eat obtained G atling from D enver in June and league
rules d o not allow a player to be traded tw ice w ithin 60 days.
Local team advances in
Softball World Series
•Girls take on Texas
team Wednesday
A ss q ciaiejt P ress
U pdated 5 :00 p.m. PD T A ugust 14, A
lo cal so ftb all team is advancing
through the L ittle League W orld
S eries, heading to the sem ifinals
W ednesday night
T ualatin C ity Little League, from
T ualatin, O re., is representing the
W est in the 2000 tournam ent being
p la y e d at A lp en ro se S tadium in
southw est Portland.
The Tualatin girls took on Sunridge
Little League from Prairies, A lberta,
C anada in the quarterfinals M onday
night. T hey beat the C anadians 12-0,
according to the W orld Series W eb
site. Tualatin will play M idw ay Little
League from W aco, Texas (pictured
in red) in the sem ifinals at 8 p.m.
W ednesday.
The w inner o f W ednesday’s gam e
will play in the W orld C ham pionship
at 12:30p.m . Saturday at 12:30.
In 1999, the South, represented again
by M idw ay Little League, beat the
W est team 6-1 to w in the W orld
Cham pionship.
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loans, the vast m ajority o f w hich are “m ission-purpose” loans
O ver the last 50 years, inner northeast Portland has experienced very challenging
econom ic tim es and social decay, with substantial m is-investm ent, rising
crim e, and a variety o f other social problem s. In the early 1990’s a group o f
com m unity activists brought suit against a local utility w ho ultim ately settled
th at suit by contributing $2.3 m illion to a com m unity developm ent trust with
the objective o f creating a sustainable econom ic resource for north and
northeast Portland. From that, A CB was form ed, loosely following the model
o f S outh S hore Bank o fC h icag o , advisory services were in A C B ’s form ative
period.
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L eisure H o u r Ju n io r G olfer w ill host the Seattle Jr. G olfer Sat. A u g 26 @ 10 a m. a t the C lubhouse G o lf C ourse in G ladstone, Oregon. The
beginners & Interm ediate w ill begin p la y @ 10 a.m. a n d have a B ar-B-Q ue afterw ards at the C h ild ren 's G o lf Course. A ll p a ren ts & m entors are
invited to see y o u r ju n io rs play. The advance Jr. G olfers w ill p la y @ G lendoveer G o lf C ourse A u g 2 6 @ 10:30 am.
B ack R o w fr o m left to right
J. D errick Taylor, 2. Jerm aine King, 3. R uth Scurlock, 4. E arl W inchester, 5. Virginia W inchester, 6. L ee Scurlock, 7. D ebra Scott, 8. Joseph
M oore, S h aetye R eed
M iddle R o w fr o m left to right
I. E boni Gudger, 2. Ja m ie M ayfield, 3. E zra Curry, 4. B riania R obertson-M ay, 5. Taylor Lewis, 6. C ennie M oore, 7. N eysa Gudger, 8. C harlotte
Moore.
F ront R o w fro m left to right
I. A ustin Booker, 2. Brannon Beasley, (The sign), 3. M itch M acha, Grant Dimitri.
N o t pictured-
Jo h n ell Bell, C hristina Em kuria, Spencer A riss-B lack
Oregon Sports Hall to induct the Drain Black Sox, five others
A ssociated P ress
T hey w ere called the Black Sox, but
there was nothing scandalous about
their perform ance. M ade up m ostly
o f college players, the D rain Black
Sox cap tu red the 1958 N ational
Baseball C ongress tournam ent, the
W orld Series o f am ateur baseball.
H eld annually in W ichita, Kan., the
tournam ent has long featured form er
and future big-league ballplayers,
including Satchel Paige and M ark
McGwire.
The first W est C oast and only Oregon
team to ever w in the title, the victory
gave D rain a sense o f pride and a
glim m er o f national attention. On
Saturday, th eirteam w ill be inducted
into the O regon Sports Hall o f Fame
w ith N ike founder Phil K night and
four others.
“W hen w e got to W ichita, the people
w ere saying ‘ D rain? Y ou mean down
the drain? ’ “ recal led J im Pi fher, who
drove in the cham pionship run. “They
w eren ’t saying that w hen w e left.”
T he Black Sox sw ept seven straight
games to win the 31 -team tournament.
W hile obviously stocked with talent,
D rain’s m anager, Ray Stratton, and
som e o f his players, said the story o f
the Black Sox is not one o f great
athletes. Rather, it is about a great
sponsor, H arold W oolley.
A m ateur and sem i-pro baseball was
a big deal before television brought
professional teams into the living
room. M any sawm ill and lumber
barons sponsored popular teams in
s o u th w e s t O r e g o n ’s S a w d u st
League.
W oolley was its George Steinbrenner,
w ithout the firings.
D rain’s prim ary mill owner, Woolley
loved b aseb all and w o u ld n 't let
m oney stand in the w ay o f winning.
He built a great ballpark, supplied the
best
e q u ip m e n t,
p ro v id e d
com fortable accommodations and put
th e e n tire te am on his lu m b er
co m p an y ’s payroll. W hen Stratton
scheduled an am bitious road trip,
W oolley bought three brand new
station w agons.
“Mr. W oolley offered such a good
package that it w asn ’t hard to get
good ballplayers,” said Stratton, now
74. “T he trouble was narrowing the
team dow n; it w as quite a jo b .”
W oolley, w ho died in 1970, chose the
team ’s scandalous nam e because he
d id n ’t think anyone else would take
it. A fter all, w ho w ould nam e their
team after the one that threw the 1919
W orld Series?
He also had a feeling that it w ould be
lucky.
M ost o f D rain ’s players cam e from
the U niversity o f O regon, O regon
State and W ashington State and were
lured to 1,200-person tow n by the
prom ise o f sum m er m oney and good
c o m p e titio n . W h ile th e p la y e rs
occasionally put in a hard d ay ’s w ork
at the lum ber m ill, they spent m ost o f
theirtim eplayingball. The watchdogs
from the N C A A never caught on.
“1 kept waiting for the ham m er to fall,”
Stratton said o f the bogus jobs. “ We
were in violation o f the rules; I adm it
that.”
T h en a g a in , m a y b e th e N C A A
co u ld n ’t find them. Stratton had them
playing back-to-back gam es in places
like Boise, Idaho and Bellingham ,
W ash. O n their C anadian tour, they
stopped in those cities you only see
on th e b a c k o f a h o ck e y card:
M edicine Hat. Red Deer. Saskatoon.
“ It w as the m ost fun a single kid could
have,” P ifher said.
T hough they breezed through the
O regon state tournam ent, no one gave
Drain m u c h o fa chance in W ichita—
not even them selves.
“Y ou had to be there because if you
saw the type ofcom petition we faced,
y o u ’d be am azed ," said Stratton,
nam ing Earl W ilson, a pitcher w ho
later becam e a 20-gam e w inner with
the Boston Red Sox. “ I thought w e ’d
play tw o gam es and go back home. I
w as am azed after every gam e.”
But W oolley had little doubt. W hen
Drain played the heavily favored San
D iego team early in the tournam ent,
W oolley m ade a $5,000 bet w ith that
team ’s sponsor, Stratton said.
A fter the tournam ent, he show ed his
appreciation by having the team ’s
flight stop in Reno. A s the college
kids got o ff the plane, he gave them
$ 100 each to g am b le— a gesture that
ce rtain ly lived up to the te a m ’s
nickname.
D uring the tournam ent, the team w on
six straight gam es, m ost w ith late
rallies. In the seventh and final game,
the Black Sox blew a three-run lead in
the eighth inning, but won it in the
ninth w hen Pifher drove hom e W imp
H astings.
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