■ww rncitti uASH-partfcipants compete in the 100
motor dash at tho National Final of the Hershey’s National
Track A Field Youth Program, hold in Hershey, Pa. The
program, open to boys and girts ages g-14, emphasizes
physical fitness through basic track and field skiils. Local
and state meets are held in more than 2,700 communities
across the country.
National Track And Field Games
Move Into 13th Year For Youth
HERSHEY, Pa.—Hershey’s
National Track and Field Youth
Program is celebrating its 13th year
of introducing children to the
importance of fitness. Founded by
Dr. Donald P. Cohen because of his
concern foi the health of America’s
youth, the program has grown from a
playground event in Charleston,
W.Va., to become the largest youth
sports program of its kind in the
United States. In 1989 alone, 327,000
children participated in the program.
Hershey’s National Track and
Field Youth Program is designed for
the beginner. Conducted on a
grassroots level and sponsored by the
National Recreation and Park
Association, the President’s Council
on Physical Fitness an Sports, and
the National Association for Sport
and Physical Education, the program
is open to youngsters ages 9-14. The
program begins in the spring when
more than 2,700 sponsoring agencies
conduct local meets.
From the local meets, the
participants can advance to district
and state final meets. Eight regional
teams consisting of 60 boys and girls
each will be chosen from state final
winners to attend the National Final
held each August in Hershey. This
year’s National Final will be held
Aug. 18.
Rafer Johnson, the 1960 Olympic
decathlon gold medalist, serves as
the national spokesperson for the
Hershey’s National Track and Field
Youth Program. He also is grand
marshal at the National Final and
captain of Team Hershey, a newly
formed group of past participants in
the program. In the role of team
captain, Johnson travels across the
country encouraging youngsters to
join the program.
Johnson was in Rocky Mount Feb.
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26 to discuss the importance of youth
fitness and enlist local community
support for the Hershey Youth
Program.
He addressed a meeting of area
park and recreation professionals at
Michael D’s Restaurant.
The Hershey’s National Track and
Field Youth Program is an
introductory program for children
ages 9-14 held in more than 2,700
communities in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia. Last year,
nearly 327,000 children participated
in the Hershey Youth Program.
Sponsored by the National
Recreation and Park Association, the
President’s Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports, the National
Association for Sport and Physical
Education, and solely funded by
Hersney r oods Corp., it is one ol the
largest youth fitness programs of its
kind in America.
The Hershey’s National Track and
Field Youth Program was expanded
to a national event in 1978 and has
now reached millions of boys and
girls across the country. In 1988,
NASPE joined with the other
sponsors to present the program in
the nation's school systems.
Youngsters and adults who want to
learn more about the Hershey's
National Track and Field Youth
Program can now dial a toll-free
number (1-800-468-1714). Those who
wish to write for information may
send their request to Jim Johnson,
national director, Hershey’s National
Track and Field Youth Program,
P.O. Box 814, Hershey, Pa. 17033-0814.
JESSE OWENS TROPHY AWARD—(From left to right)
Evan 0. Galbraith, Chlarman, Louis Vuitton - Moot
Hennessy U.S. Corporation, who served a dinner chairman
and former secrotary of treasury, WIKIam E. Slmoni present
the 10th Annual Jesse Owens International Trophy Award
to Roger Klndom (center), 110 meter hurdHst world record
holder and 1984/1988 Olympic champion. Also joining in
the presentation are: Ruth Owens (Mrs. Jesse Owens), and
Herb Douglas, retired v.p. of Schieffelin & Somerset Co.
and founder of the Award. The Mack tie occasion was held
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Hew York City. (Allen
Morgan photo)
Youth tor America campaign ■ u
Pick Three Celelbrity Panelists
Alex Trebek, Jackie Joyner-Kersee
and Chris Young are the celebrity
judges who head the judging panel to
determine the nation’s top
community-service winners in the
1990 Colgate’s Youth for America
campaign.
The award-winning national youth
program was launched by Colgate
Palmolive Co. in 1972 to encourage
and reward America s young people
for their community projects. To date
the anmial program has coniriouieu
more thin $4 million in award grants
to the national offices and local clubs
and troops of six leading youth
organizations—Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, | Boys Clubs, Girls Clubs,
Camp Fire and 4-H.
Trebejk, best known as host of
America's. . top quiz show
"Jeopardy," heads this year’s panel
of judges. Olympic gold medal trakc
star Jajckie JOyner-Kersee and teen
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Labor Dispute
Creates Problem
For ESPN Sports
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP)-The na
tion's largest sports cable network,
ESPN, could have a lot to lose if the
current labor dispute between
baseball owners and players delays
the start of the 1990 major league
baseball season.
The Bristol-based network scored a
coup last year by successfully
landing a $400 million contract to
televise 175 major league baseball
games this season, including 10
during the exhibition season.
If the baseball season is put on hold,
ESPN will have a major void in its
programming.
“We’re concerned,” ESPN
spokesman Mike Soltys said Monday,
“About a month from now, if there is
no settlement, we’re going to be
really concerned. ”
Although ESPN can fill the void
with other events such as tennis and
boxing until the baseball owners and
players reach a settlement, each day
that baseball is not played will limit
the ability to fetch advertising
revenues.
On April 1, ESPN will begin making
payments of $4 million to each team
under its contract with major league
baseball. Monies from advertisers,
however, will not start filtering back
until the games are played.
The owners and the Major League
Players Association are currently
negotiating a new collective
bargaining agreement to succeed'the
agreement that expired Dec. 31.
The talks are currently stalled over
the issue of revenue sharing, among
others, and the owners are
threatening a lockout that would keep
players out of spring training and
even postpone the season until an
agreement is reached.
Spring training camps were
scheduled to open Thursday, but
management negotiator Chuck
O’Connor acknowledged Tuesday
there was not enough time to do so.
ESPN is planning to broadcast six
games a week during the season,
along with a daily baseball show.
That amounts to half the network’s
prime-time schedule, Soltys said.
TV/lilm heartthrob Chris Young
complete the celebrity trio who will
join Colgate Youth of America
authorities to determine winners
from the thousands of project entries
now pouring in from across the
country.
Colgate executive Carla Mikell
says, “Once again, our ‘Youth for
America' program proves that
today's youngsters have genuine
concern for their communities, their
country and the future of all its
citizens. Their projects range from
anti-drug abuse programs and adult
illiteracy to environmental recycling
projects and restoring local parks.”
Clubs and troops of the six
participating youth organizations
represent 13 million young
Americans, and “Colgate's Youth for
America” is the only natiohal
program that unites these
organizations annually in a joint
service program.
In the 1990 campaign local units win
up to $1,000, with a bonus prize of an
additional $1,000 for the project voted
the nation's best. v \ '
The deadline for this year's entries
in Colgate's Youth for America
campaign is March 15. Entry forms,
for local units that have not yet
received them from their regional
headquarters, are available by
sending a stamped, self-addressed
envelope to: Colgate's Youth for
America. 1*0 Box 1058. FDR
Station. New York, N.Y. 10150-1058.
’.Vinners will bo announced in May.
IMPRESSIVE SHOWING—The 6arnor Road Family YMCA held irs Annual Bench
Praia Meet on Febraary 11,1990. Participants from throughout Wake County
joined in to compete for top Trophies, Impressive showings wore among Males
and Females. This event was sponsored by the YMCA Physical Development
Department.
RodneyMonroe Most
Accurate ACC Shooter
N.C. State University offers this
profile of Rodney Monroe, State’s All
American basketball candidate:
“...The sweetest shooter this side of
the NBA...”
—Gary McCann
Greensboro News and Record
“With Monroe, I can’t imagine how
they could ever really be out of a
game/’
Coach Tom Davis, Iowa
“You want to know what kind of
groove he was in? On one of his shots
I almost tore his arm off and it still
went in. He’s the truth on that
jumper.”
Roy Marble, Iowa (fo&owing
Rodney’s 40-point performance
in the 1989 NCAA tournament)
First-team All-ACC in; 19B9r-his
numbers are even better this season.
Rodney is one of the reasons the
Woflpack has surprised nearly
everyone with its 18-8 record to date.
Selected as the nation’s best
shooting guard by Sport Magazine.
First team pre-season All-America
by Street and Smith.
No. 2 scorer in the ACC, averaging
22.7 points per game.
The ACC’s most accurate three
point shooter, he connects on nearly
50 percent of his attempts.
Already over the 1,500-point
plateau and he just passed the
midway point of his junior season.
On the course to break All-America
David Thompson's N.C. State point
total record.
Scored in double figures in each
game this season.
Plays his best against the tough
opponents as evidenced by his
35 points versus Florida State, 31
against UNLV, 33 against Temple, 30
against Pittsburgh, 27 against North
Carolina and 25 against Georgia
Tech.
A clutch performer, he has hit last
second buckets that put the Pack into
three overtime periods and has
connected on two last-second free
throws to give the Pack another
victory during his career.
Majoring in humanities and social
sciences.
Born on April 16,1968.
CAREER HIGHS
Points: 40 vs. Iowa, March 19,1989
(NCAA second round, Providence,
R.I..NCSU 102-96 2 OT).
Rebounds: 8 vs. Akron, Nov. 28,
1988 (Home, NCSU 87-67); vs. DePaul
Feb. 4, 1989 (Away, DePaul 81-74);
vs. East Tennessee State, Dec. 19,
1989 (Home, ETSU 92-82).
Assists: 6 vs. Clemson, Feb. 15,1989
(Home, NCSU 90-75); vs. Coastal
Carolina, Jan. 12,1989 (Home, NCSU
97-69); vs. Columbia, Nov. 26, 1988
(Home, NCSU 110-54).
Blocks: 2 vs. North Carolina, Jan.
7,1990 (Away, NCSU 88-77).
Steals: 4 vs. Vermont, Nov. 30,1987
(Home, NCSU 105-58); vs. North
Carolina, Jan. 29, 1989 (Away, UNC
84-81).
Molitor To Make $3
Million With New Deal
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP)-Mil
waukee Brewers’ infielder Paul
Molltor became baseball’s ninth
player to receive an average annual
salary of )3 million when he accepted
a three-year, $9.1 million contract.
Molitor signed the contract last
Monday, agreeing not to pursue free
agency. He is among players vho,
under arbitrator rulings in baseball’s
collusion cases, could have had a
second-look opportunity to talk with
other teams.
The cases involve free agents who
accused owners of colluding to
restrict their salary offers.
The Molitor contract “actually
does a couple of things” for the
Brewers, General Manager Harry
Dalton said. “It takes Tiim out of
arbitration for a couple pf years and
he gives up Ms free-look chance,
pending the collusion ruling.”
A ruling on a third eollusion case,
this involving those eligible for free
agency after the 1987 season, is
expected within two months. Earlier
{tilings in favor of players dealt with
free agents from 1969 to 1998.
“If we had signed him for one year
and he was given a flee look, he could
be a free agent,” Dalton said. “That
was important to us. It keeps the
continuity of the club;”
Molitor’s contract is baseball’s
seventh-highest in annual average
value. It gives Molucc a $1 million
signing bonus and annual base
salaries of $1.1 million in 1990, $3.9
million in 1991 and $3.1 million hi 1998.
There are also bonus clauses, >< U
Molitor win receve half of hi*
signing bonus immediately and the
other $500,OOP on Feb. IS, 19»l at lOti,
percent interest. ' “‘"1 >X
Molitor, 33, had filed a salary
arbitration request of $3.25 million
and the Brewers countered with $2.8
million.
He hatted .315 last season, when he
had a base salary of $1.4 mUlioo that,
with incentives, paid him $1.75
million.
The settlement with Molitor means
Dalton still has yet to have a salary
negotiation to go to arbitration.
Molitor’s hearing had been scheduled
today.
Dalton’s streak appeared in
jeopardy when 14 Brewers, the most
of any team in the majors, became
eligible for arbitration this year.
“I thought certainly two or three”
would go to a hearing, Dalton said,
adding he couldn’t explain how he
avoided it.
Pack Women Fac '
Stiff Contest
In Final Stages
Winners of 10 consecutive games
and with a 20-win season in hand,
N.C. State’s ninth-ranked women’s
basketball team faced a stiff week of
competition that included games
against Clemson and league-leading
Virginia.
The ACC regular season has
become a three-team race as it enters
the final stages. With two games
remaining, N.C. State had a hold on
second place with a 10-2 record.'The
Pack faced Clemson, 9-3, on
Wednesday evening in a
doubleheader with the Wolfpack
men’s team, who entertained Duke at
9p.m.
On Saturday, the Pack women were
at Virginia to meet the 11-1 Cavaliers.
Game time for that contest is set for
*;3»p,m. The game, part of the ACC
television package with Home Team
Sports, will be televised on a delayed
basis on Feb. 28 at 9:30 p.m.
The scramble for the No. 1 ACC
tournament seed will not be decided
until the final ACC game of the
season. It’s also conceivable that
N.C. State, Clemson and Virginia
could all finish with 11-3 conference
records.