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intertribal Sports run nets
winners, runners, fast pace
by Stphronla Coochlse
The 1987 Intertribal Sports Run
was held Saturday morning June
27. The run is a yearly event during
Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days.
There was a 2.2 mile fun run and
also a 6.3 mile run, both of which
began at 8 a.m. The 6.3 mile run
was divided into age groups: 1 3
and under, I4-I8, 19-29, 30-39 and
40-49.
The first place winner in the 13
and under was Vernon Squiem
phen, who was eighth overall, with
the time of 61:03, Jared Sampson,
who was second in the age group
and 18th overall, had a time of
61:33. Third in the age division,
20th overall, was Fred Powaukee.
First in the 14-18 years of age
division and fourth overall was
Thurman Squiemphen with 46:42.
Harry Yazzie was second in the
division and fifth overall. Behind
him was Corey Jim who was third
in the age group and seventh over
all. Fourth in the division was
Ronnie Smartlowit, who placed
ninth overall. Fifth in the 14-18
year division was Loretta Guzman
who was 14th overall followed by
Gerald Sampson who was 15th
overall.
Next age division was the 19-29
year division with only one quali
fier for this age division. Stan Knee
land, who was second overall, had
a time of 44:04.
In the age division of 30-39, Ray
Nakamura was first and third over
all, with a time of 44:55. Second in
the age division was Terry
Squiemphen, sixth overall. Terry
had a time of 46:48. Third in this
division was Leo Hellon finishing
tenth overall. Wayne BullCalf was
13th overall. Behind Wayne was
Dawn Smith who was 18th overall.
Sixth in the division was Gladys
Squiemphen, 21st overall, Donna
Thompson was seventh in the div
ision and 24th overall.
Cal Alslegen was first in the 40
49 division and was first overall
with a time of 39:40. Second in the
division was Dee Weaver who was
eleventh overall and had the time
of 54: 1 2. Third for the division was
Jerome Main, twelfth overall with
a time of 55:13. Next was Barbara
Alsleben who was 17th overall fol
lowed by Pam Iron who was 22nd
overall.
Other awards went to the Oldest
Runner going to Johnny Smar
tlowit who was 57 years old and
had the time of 65:54. The young
est award went to Vernon Squiem
phen. Twelve-year-old Vernon had
a time of 61:05. The Overall male
award went to Cal Alsleben and an
Overall female to Loretta Guzman.
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Into the homestretch came the race horses of the sixth race atPrineville on the final night. The race was aS'A
furlough race for thoroughbreds.
Horse racing highlights C.R. Round-Up
Jefferson County All-Stars
District playoffs to be held July 22-25
The Prineville turf turned in one
of their biggest nights on Saturday,
closing out the four day race meet
which started on Wednesday night.
Some of the top horses of the
northwest was on hand making the
race meet a tough one this year.
In the jockey club it wasn't all a
male show as several girl jockets
made a good showing for them
selves, pressing the top male riders
during the meet as some of them
out did many of the male riders.
Names like Wendy Ohnsted, Myra
Truitt, Carlene Fitzgerald, Kim Craw
ford, Andrea Beck and Laurie Cart
wright, the girl riders who pro
vided a lot of excitment in each
race.
The top jockey for this year went
to Mark Boag, who was atop of
more winners then any other rid
ers. Local riders Marty Heath was
on hand riding in several races.
Race horse owners from Warm
Springs and Madras were on hand
running horses this year. Delvis
Heath ran his horse, Dream By
The Sea, Franklin Suppah also
had horses there in the race meet,
and another central Oregonian Don
Boyle ran his horse Twila Drummer.
Bronson from the Umatilla Reser
vation were among the horse owners.
Each week the race meet is at one
of the county fairs throughout the
state during the summer months.
They travel all summer long mak-.
ing a big stop at the State Fair in
Salem, winding up the race meet
on Labor Day.
With the end of the official Jef
ferson County league play, the time
for preparing teams to play in dis
trict baseball playoffs is here.
The team members for three Jef
ferson County all-star teams have
been selected along with the coaches
and managers. All-star coaches for
the boys major league are Michael
Leno and Lyle Rhoan. The girls'
senior all-star coaches selected are
Rob Osborn and Dick Souers and
the coaches for the girls' major
team are Karen Hill and Miles
Visenor.
The boys district plav will be
held in Hood River, Oregon July
22-25 with the winners going to the
state playoffs.
The girls senior and major league
district playoffs will be held at
Boardman, Oregon July 15-18.
The Jefferson County Boys Major
all-stars team consists of Shane
Barnes, Cory Brown, Scott Dela
marter, JoDe Goudy, Tom Green,
Mark Harris, Kevin Hoppes, Dave
Lange, Frank Reese, Jr., Claude
Smith, III, Leif Suppah, Vernon
Suppah, Jr., and Samuel Wolfe.
Senior leaeue all star girls are
Shelly Dubisar, Luanne Foitz, Marcy
Hawes, Rosanna Jackson, Sadie
Kelly, Chris King, Jan Osborn,
Julie Simmons, Kristina Smith,
Marty Schmith, Ollie Smith and
Tohi Smith.
Selected for the girls major all
star team are Carrie Harris, Heather
Clowers, Amy Dunn, Nikki For
man, Pam Jasa, Shelly Jones, Nicole
Mallori, Christy Miller, Lyda
Rhoan, Jennifer Runge, Susan Skav
lan, Theresa Towell and Liz Wilken-son.
Hoopa rodeo awards over $10,000
The annual Hoopa All-Indian
Rodeo sanctioned by Western States
Indian Rodeo Association was held
at Hoopa, California July 4 and 5.
The total payoff in the eight sanc
tioned events for WSIRA was
$10,272.00
Winner of the eight events are
listed:
Saddle bronc: 1 . Shawn Best, 73;
2. Terry Parrish, 70; 3. Oliver Louis,
69.
Bareback: 1 . Wilfred Tuni, 77; 2.
Shawn Best, 75; 3. Terry Parrish,
70.
Bull riding: 1. Dave Best, 69; 2.
Wilfred Tuni, 64.
Calf Roping: 1 . Ed Harry, 1 1.24;
2. Todd Cline, 1 3.06; 3. Mel Joseph,
13.50.
Steer Wrestling: 1. Ken Pepper,
6. 18; 2. Cort Herrera, 6.27; 3. Byron
Cheney, 8.61.
Team Roping: 1 . Roy Hicks Ro
bert Hicks, 7.31; 2. Frank Romo-
Todd Cline, 9.23; 3. Garry Rogers -Ken
Pepper, 9.4 1 ; 4. Garry Rogers -Scott
Rogers, 1 1 .64; 5. Mel Joseph
Cort Herrera, 12.93 and 6. Gilbert
TemokeCort Herrera, 13.60.
Wild Cow Milking: 1. Fred Wil
liams, 14.92; 2. Randy Rogers,
24.03; 3. Gene Harry, 24.7 1 ; and 4.
Mel Joseph, 24.84.
Barrel race: 1. Gypsy Williams,
17.71; 2. Hester Williams, 18.08; 3.
Karen Skoglund, 18.42; 5. Mary
Williams, 18.44.
WSIRA standings will be pub
lished in the next issue of the Spi
lyay. They were not available for
this issue.
Fort Hall sets tourney
Saturday, August 1, is the dead
line to enter the Fort Hall Annual
Festival Slow-pitch softball tour
nament to be held in Fort Hall,
Idaho August 6, 7 and 8.
There will be 16 mens teams, 16
womens teams and eight coed teams
entered in the true double elimina
tion tournament. Teams will play
by A.S.A. rules.
First place winners will receive
jackets and a trophy, second place
winners will receive baseball shirts
and a trophy and third and fourth
place winners will receive hats and
trophies, a most valuable player
jacket will be awarded as will be 10
all-star jackets. A traveling trophy
will also be given.
Entry fee is $150 per team. It is
advised that teams enter early to
assure a place in the tourney. For
more information call Mike G.
Sakelaris of the Fort Hall Recrea
tion department at (208) 238-3770.
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Pendleton National all-stars for theBabeRuth league won 1st place in the district playoff s held at Goldendale,
Washington. Two Umatilla Cay use Indian boys who made the all-stars are Gideon Farrow, son of Mike and
Louella (Tewee) Farrow andRyanSams, son of Mr. andMrs. ButchSams. State BabeRuth tournament will
be hosted by Ontario, Oregon at the end of July. Team members include: (front, left to right) Tony Hilde, Cube
Jones, Tim Cooper, Jason Parsons, Curtis Cooley, Kelsy Carton, Jesse Enright, Chuck By rum. Back: Cory
Ashbeck, Coach Mike Purkey, Brian Pickard, Ryan Sams, Coach Mike Garrison, Jason Coronado, Jeff
Persinger, Gideon Farrow, Manager Chazz Webb, Russ Purkey.
Prison inmates run, but not quite to daylight
T.R. Healy
The following article is reprinted
courtesy of Sports Illustrated from the
January 15, 1987 issue. Copyright e
1987 Times Inc. "Prison inmates run,
but not quite to daylight" by T.R.
Healy. All rights reserved.
Sir Roger Bannister testified to a
unique feature of running when he
remaded in his book The Four
Minute Mile, "I sometimes think
that running has given me a glimpse
of the greatest freedom a man can
never know, because it results in
the simultaneous liberation of both
body and mind."
That is what the athletic club at
the Oregon State Penitentiary, in
Salem, must have had in mind
when it started a running program
in 1981. Clinics were offered at the
prison by such noted coaches as
Arthur Lydiard, w ho trained Olym
pic gold medalists Peter Snell and
Murray Halberg, and Bill Dellin
ger of the University of Oregon to
help inmates develop their running
skills. Local experts came to speak
about nutrition and fitness. At first,
the inmates ran in cutoff blue jeans
and cheap tennis shoes, but in time
running shorts were allowed by the
authorities and the owner of a store
catering to runners agreed to sell
quality shoes substantially reduced
prices. Soon races were held on a
quarter-mile track inside the pri
son. Later, with the approval of the
penitentiary's administration, a one
mile loop was marked off inside the
prison walls and special gates were
installed so the loop could be opened
on race days.
The running program, unlike any
other program in the penitentiary,
is administered by inmates. And as
interest in it increased, so did the
number of races held in the prison
yard. The highlight of the peniten
tiary's running season has become
the annual Make-A-Wish Benefit
Marathon held in October. The
benefit, which also includes a half
marathon and a I0K, is organized
to raise funds to help realize the
wishes of terminally ill children.
Runners from outside the peniten
tiary are invited onto the prison
grounds for this event to partici
pate alongside the inmates. For
one morning in October, the prison
yard is transformed into something
of a park, with the non-inmate
runners dressed in all sorts of out
fits and colors mingling with inmate
spectators dressed in jeans and
jackets and blue work shirts. Out
of curiosity I entered the 10K race
in last fall's Make-A-Wish Benefit.
All guest runners were required
to arrive one hour prior to the start
of their race in order to be pro
cessed into the penitentiary. At the
prison reception desk I signed in
behind a large contigent of Indian
runners from a high school cross
country team and I walked through
the "snitch box,"an electronic metal
detector. I then had the back of my
hand stamped, which was my gua
rantee of safe passage out of the
prison after the race. Silently the
guest runners filed down a well
lighted corridor to a locked gate,
which a guard opened, then con
tinued down the corridor, which
had two more gates.
"There's room for you people in
D-Block if you get tired running,"
one of the guards cracked as we
filed through the last gate.
Half a dozen inmates stared at us
in stony silence as we left the corri
dor, and instinctively I turned my
head away, feeling anxious for the
first time. My pulse began to race
as I realized I was now in the
depths of a maximum-security peni
tentiary. An inmate shepherded us across
the rain-slickened yard to the pri
son recreation building, where we
received our I -h!rts ?r3 race num
bers and got out of our sweat
clothes. We then assembled at the
starting line to receive race instruc
tions. The sky was overcast, the air
cool and damp. The marathon and
half-marathon races were still in
progress on the course, so we
watched and encouraged the runners
who ran past us while we waited for
our race to begin.
I stood beside a lean, muscular
inmate who repeatedly jabbed the
air with his fists, which were wrapped
in white tape. His hair hung to his
shoulders. "Some days you eat the
bear," he muttered to himself as he
snapped his fists. "Some days the
bear eats you." It seemed to me
that he was strong enough to devour
just about anything, and I stepped
out of his reach toward the middle
of the track.
At the start of the race the boxer
burst toward the front of the 64
runner pack, his taped fist hanging
idly at his sides. I stayed back,
doubting if I could ever keep up
with him. The first quarter mile of
the race was on the track and then
we preceeded onto the special one
mile loop that took us across
stretches of asphalt, concrete, grass
and bark dust inside the walls of
the prison. Through the first circuit
of the course. I almost forpot I was
running inside a prison; I was preoc
cupiedas I would be in any race
with trying to establish a comfor
table pace. Because many of the
runners were guests, the field
appeared similar to that of other
races I had run; indeed, to my sur
prise, there were even a few women
participating. For all I know, I
could have been running at home.
Heading into the second lap,
however, I glanced up to one of the
gun towers and saw an armed
guard staring down at me. The
shock of recognition startled me
for a moment. I was not home at
all, of course, but inside a prison
running beside convicts. It was,
without a doubt, the most unusual
situation I had ever run in. Wher
ever I turned I saw the immense
wall. Gradually I began to sense
the oppressiveness that the inmates
must endure on a daily basis. The
feeling crept inside of me like a
small insect, gnawing at my nerves,
and I began to quicken my pace a
notch, as if to escape from my emo
tions. I passed the boxer easily,
passed all of the members of the
high school cross-country team,
and wished that I could gather
enough speed to pass every one on
the course.
Soon ! had rard all of tre
inmates but one a short, supple
Indian runner who wore his long
hair in braids. I stalked him for
several meters before passing him
as we moved into the last lap. The
harder I ran, the more my edgei
ness seemed to dissipate. I was able
to ignore the wall and the guards in
the gun towers, and instead focus
my attention on finishing the race.
But then, with a quarter of a mile
remaining. I heard footsteps behind
me. Suddenly, the Indian inmate
surged past me, his long braids
twisting across his back.
I ran after him but he continued
to move ahead. He was running as
hard as I had ever seen anyone run,
his arms churning and his head
tossing from side to side. Even if I
had just begun to run at that instant,
I doubt if I could have caught him.
Now he, too. was able to ignore the
immense wall that surrounded him
day and night. Running for him, as
perhaps for all runners, was no
drudgery but freedom.
(Editor's note: AMs Smith, Sr.
requested the Spilyay Tymoo reprint
the preceding article. The India a runner
mentioned h hit ton, Vernon. A hi
staled that Vernon it a long-distance
runner and a boxer and among M00
inmates, Vernon it the best in the two
events).
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