I June 6, 1985
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I Amateur Boxing
I Reynolds Pari
for Eastern ch
By DAVID BULLA
Chronicle Sports Editor
The three boxers rise and shine before
the sun comes up, before the first biscuit is
made.
"I call them at 4:30 and we're out runn-.
ing at the lake by 5," says Angus Lowery,
who manages amateur boxers Harold Bennett,
Michael Miller and Thomas Warren.
4 They run three miles in about 17 or 18
minutes. I think we're getting them ready."
Indeed, for the Winston-Salem trio will
represent their state in the Eastern Sports
Festival next week in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Each won North Carolina Sports Festival
titles last month. If they win in Lake
Placid, they'll advance to the National
Sports Festival at Baton Rouge, La., July
' 22 through Aug. 4.
44We don't know anything about the opponents
yet," says Lowery, who became
the threesome's manager when his brother
Whit signed with Don King last month.
44All we know is we're supposed to be there
Monday.
44They're all champs, so no use treating
them any differently."
Although he is the oldest of the three
boxers, Warren is the least experienced. He
has been boxing only three years.
Warren heard about the Reynolds Park
program through one of Whit's friends,
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Greensboro Dudley's Pam Doggett ea;
hurdles at the NCHSAA track and fie
Daniels).
Summer Track
TAC athlet
Following arc results from last McPhcrson
Saturday's City-County TAC Collum (RF
track and field meet at Winston- (RR) 34.72,
Salem State. Top-four finishers Chad Wait<
from Forsyth County are listed Mahan (RR
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UCIOW. 1 ncy advance lO tnc see- A 1:02.37, R
tionals at Greensboro's Jamieson Roadninner
Stadium June 15. Events in that 6:12.18.
meet begin at 8:30 a.m.
Key: RR-Roadrunners; CR- Midget
ChevRelays; I-Independent. 100. Kc
Bantam Girls Tronic <
Brown (CR
100 meters: Jaurw Hayes (CR) 14.49, (CR) 9-6t
Christine Frey (RR) 14.83, Candace Turner (RR
Crawford (RR) 16.39. Loaf jump: Hayes Brown (CR)
(CR) 11-9Vi. 200: Hayes (CR) 31.80, Frey (RR) i:2o
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Crawford (RR) 35.04. 400: Webster (RR)
1:17.0. 1,500: Britt Armentrout (1)6:45.0. Midget
4x100 relay: Roadrunners 1:05.04.
100: Derr
Bantam Boys ,B"p: Du*n
Speas (RR)
Lo?t Russell Mahon (RR) 11-5 . 30.02, Jtbb
100: Hamilton Cuthrell (RR) 14.11, Che William Ci
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k trio ready
lampionships
whom he worked with at a Twin City
barbershop.
"T was in a gang when f lived in
Philadelphia,'* he said. 44You had to be in
a gang. I was maybe 9 or 10. Those were
some mean children.
*4Boxing is something I'd wanted to do
from the first tim#? I'H it i
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heard about Whit, I decided to come down
here and give it a try."
Warren's success in the ring - he owns a
40-12 record ? has brought him plenty of
grief from his barbershop customers.
44Win, lose or draw they ride me," said
Warren, who turns 22 next Friday. 44But
they do say to remember them if I win
something big."
Bennett appears to have the best shot at
winning in Lake Placid. He has won more
than 90 fights.
44Harold has pretty good speed," says
Lowery of the fighter who's been boxing
since he was 5. 4 4 He can hit you pretty hard
and takes a good punch."
The 17-year-old Bennett boxes in the
132-pound weight group; the 18-year-old
Miller, who has more than 50 career wins,
in the 106-nound class anrl Warrfln a# 110
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pounds. Bennett won the state championship
with a technical knockout in the finals,
while the others won on decisions.
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aes to a state record in the 300-meter
>ld meet at N.C. State (photo by Joe
es advance to
(RR) 14.65, Rogercich Mc- Roadrunners 56.45.
t) 15.84. 200: Eric Murden 5:37.88.
-At2r^s.!lLR)o35Youth Girls
:rs (RR) 39.99 . 800: Russell
) 5:00.0. 4x100: Roadrurmers Jerryeen
oadrunners B 1:11.81..4x400: Tameka Waiters (
s A 6:11.18, Roadrunners B Squires (CR) 12.64,
13.27. Long Jump: SI
11-0, Kim Hayes (
Girls Squires (CR) 8-V4.
27.05, Waiters (RR) I
nya Turner (RR) 13.00, .
7 v / . moham fRR^ 29 ?Q
Wright (CR) 14.57, Rcgina V" ' 'J '
v ., _ . 29.89 400: Iyesha 5
) 15.09. Long jump:Brown v /T4?x
___ . ? Shanta Young (RR)
, ' 9"I0W' M0: Martin (CR, M2.
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M.Jfc ? : Ctandn Gu.hri* BJ6 3, 4l4M: Roa
.00. 4x100: Roadrunners ^ ?
Roadrunners B 5:12.
Boys Youth Boys
100: Harvey H
ick Speas (RR) 12.47. Lo?f Stcphen Torrence
e Ooodman (RR) 12-Vi. 200: Jcssup (RR) l2 20
27.1, Rufus Cuthrell (RR) Brown (I) 12-K, Cur
ar Bennett (RR) 30.71. 400t 200: Julius Recce (
rews (RR) 1:12.28 . 4*100: CR) 23.89, Jessup <
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Thomas Warren extends on a jab as he prepares for the Easi
boxing championships (photo by James Parker).
Sports Scope
Doggett becomin,
By DAVID BULLA |
Chronicle Sports Editor "Parental SI
GREENSBORO - Pam Doggett , differenc
lives in King's Forest, a middle-class ulJJ^
neighborhood on the northeast side Qrg several fad
of the Gate City.
The street names would imply a make a Quality
Camelot in a textile town. There are 7*. . ~orknrn
King Arthur and Sir Galahad streets 1 niS sePara
amid roads with names like Textile from the Other
Street.
Although she has won four in- I ve CO
dividual state titles, set three state
records and participated in three state
? championship relay teams, the TrOCi
Dudley track and field standout is as
modest as the neighborhood and Charlu
home she has lived in since 1968. ?
"They're lucky she can only run modesty almost as ref
four events. She'd dust 'em," says wins medals and trop
her father, who is not boasting but Dudley's girls to a sc
speaking the plain truth about one of state championship t\s
the best all-around 16-year-old and finished second in t
female athletes in the United States. at the TAC junior natic
"But, Dad, she (East Forsyth's mer in Los Angeles. Th<
Debra Alexander) runs a 24 or a 25 to capture the bronze
(in the 200-meter dash)," his junior Pan American C
daughter says. "She'd dust me." "Yes, it's started to i
Doggett displays this kind of Doggett, who turns 17
sectionals
4x400: Roadrunners (CI*)1 23.30. 400: Reece (CR) 54.08, I Mf
Michael Jones (RR) 1:06.05 . 800:. Brant
Armentrout (CR) 2:32.62, Kyle Armen- ^
trout (CR) 2:34.35, Michael Petile (CR) W *
foods (RR) 12.62, 2:49.96, Chris Mack (RR) 2:51.56. 1*500:
RR) 12.63. Renet r amuntmni trb\ a ki at\ v a
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Shev Martin (CR) trout (CR) 4:51.56. 3,000: K. Armentrout
levonne Martin (CR) (CR) 10:22.38, B. Armentrout (CR) |j9
CR) 10-5 ]/?, Rence 10:26.50. 200 hardies: Curtis Canty (CR) ^
200: Woods (RR) 38.98. 4x100: ChevRelays 46.69, |3^H||Hjp
28.42, Latrcsc Cunn- Roadrunners 51.28. 4x400: Roadrunners
Shanta Young (RR) B 4:19.39, ChevRelays 4:22.96, Roadrun5towe
(RR) 1:14.97, ners 4:53.70.
1:15 .11. 100 Inrdks:
4x100: Roadrunners lnt?rm?d i3t? GiflS Vf^1
54.18. Roadrunners iaa. ?i_ ev?u? /??x . * ::i
IWV, i uianua oncpncru (Ml| U.JJ,
idrunners A 5:10.79, Madiona Caesar (RR) 12.62, Danita
95. Roseboro (CR) 12.63, Phyllis Nancc (CR) W&M
12.64. Loag jnnp: Bobbette Love (RR) ^ ^ ^ J
16-V*. tilth jump: Katrina Lash (RR) S*'
ughes (CR) 11.40, ^ shepbci-d (RR) 25.68, Caesar *'jjgML
(CR) 12.19, Torre (RR) 25.69, Daniu Roseboro (CR) 26.20,
Lo?t imup: Corey Marcil Williamson (RR) 26.94. 400: v . . 04
til Canty (CR) 11 - Vi. Michcala Fair (RR) i :05 .25, Lash (RR) Q " 8
:CR) 23.M. Hughes 1:05M p.m Wuhinpon (CR) 1:06 09. ,R?^ru"ne;
rr) 23.u, Torrenc* Please see page B3 (photo by J
Roundups,
columns and profiles.
IYMCA boxing
feels the the ax
I By DAVID BULLA
Chronicle Sports Editor
I ^ James Ford remembers when he was the recipient
II of a head butt.
[ I Ford says it didn't feel quite right and his boxing _ =
I career ended that night. Felt like he was in limbo.
A Today, he has the same feeling about the suspen?
sion of the YMCA boxing program, which had been
i stationed at the old Patterson Avenue building
from 1951 until last week.
"You get a notice all of a sudden/' Ford said.
trying to hold back the emotion in his voice. "One
day they close you up and the next day they take
your equipment. Then they tell you they don't
know what they're going to do. They put you in
il limbo with a one-day notice."
| On the bright side, limbo may be kind of
I disorienting, but at least it's not purgatory.
That is to say, the YMCA boxing program may
I come back. In the meantime, Ford is training his
I boxers outdoors.
The future of the program rests in the hands of
Norman Joyner, executive director of the new
I Winston Lake YMCA, which opened last Saturday.
Joyner made the decision to suspend the boxing
I program, but he promises to make a permanent
decision in September.
I ' 'I want to get our main programs going this sumI
mer," Joyner said. "It gives us the opportunity to
meet with people. From this I hope to determine
where and how we are going to go about providing
services to those who are interested in boxing.
"We're not sure what's wanted and that's why I
say let's wait until the fall."
Please see page B2
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g a track legend
1
lot ot people at school congratulate
ipport IS me an(j ask me when I'm going to run
e There next* Others keeP up what I ve
done in the paper. My old friends are .
tors that my biggest supporters. They just keep
" . encouraging me."
Qtniete. They also have been keeping close
tes Pam ta^ on ^er Physical condition. With
the injuries Doggett has had in the
athletes last year, her nickname might be
tin "Old Aches and Pains." Here's why:
aCnea. At the nationals in Los Angeles
last July, she had trouble breathing
while running the 800. The Southern
k Coach California smog was too much and
she blacked out. The Greensboro
2 BrOWtl athlete had to be carried from the
field in a stretcher and, as if that
jularly as she wasn't bad enough, the emergency
hies. She led medical personnel assigned to the Los
icond straight Angeles Coliseum accidentally drop'O
weeks ago ped Doggett on her head while they
:he heptathlon loaded her into an ambulance on the
>nals last sum- infield.
m she went on Before the junior Pan Am Games,
medal at the Doggett pulled a hamstring. She had
rames. to cope with that aggravation when
sink in," says she went to the Pan Am Games at
Saturday. "A Please see page B5
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lepherd crosses the finish iine to compiete the
' intermediate girls' victory in the 4x100-meter relay N
ames Parker).