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Capital City
Coaiata Sat Fast
PacalnEvrat
Raleigh’s Capital City ComeU,
under the leadership of head coach
Bennie A. Mack, Sr., and assistant
coach Ray Debnam, set a fast pace at
the Developmental Track Meet spon
sored by the Chapel Hill Pacers
recently.
The track team, which is only two
years old, has a total membership of
« kids, ranging in age from five to 17.
Theee young athletee, many of them
from Raleigh’s inner-city projects,
not only performed superbly on the
track field, but their off-the-rack
decorum was also beyond reproach.
Winning a total of 41 blue ribbons,
22 second-place ribbons and 17 third
place ribbons, this club is truly on the
move. They are currently looking for
a sponsor, and interested civic
organizations or businesses are asked
to contact Mack at 851-477*.
To date, the Capital City Comets
have participated in two invitational
meets, winning a total of 23S ribbons,
placing first through sixth in various
events. Average team speed tor the
Comets in the 100-meter dash ia 15.2
seconds. This is a combined average
of ages 5-17.
Blacks Dominate
Recent NBA Draft
Twenty-one of the 27 first-round
picks in die recent National Basket
ball Association draft were blacks, in
cluding die first 14 picks.
Blacks comprised 72 percent of
NBA rosters this year, and the
disparity promises to become more
acute next season, as the first round
choices wedge their way onto the
NBA rosters.
The first pick in the draft was
Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman, the
NCAA’s all-time leading reboundsr.
To no one’s surprise, Coleman was
chosen by the New Jersey Nets, who
needed help at every position. Guards
were the favorite draft picks, as at
least a dozen of the first 27 picks win
see backcourt duty as pros.
The first guard chosen was Gary
Payton of Oregon State, followed by
scoring guard Chris Jackson of Loui
siana State, who came out of school
two years early.
Only two players from traditionally
Mack colleges were among the 54
players chosen in the two-round
draft. Hot-shooting guard A.J.
English, Small College Player of the
Year for Virginia Union University,
was chosen 37th by the Washington
Bullets. English was the first pick for
the Bullets. The Indians Pacers
selected Kenny Williams, a «’•” for
ward from Elizabeth City State.
Houston's Rozier
Now Faces Two
Paternity Suits
Houston Oilers’ running back Mike
Rosier has been named In two
separate paternity suits filed recently
In Houston.
The latest suit was filed by Rita
Baldwin, SB, who claims diet Rosier,
SB, a five-year veteran and a former
Heismaa Trophy winner, is the tether
of her baby, according to her lawyer,
Glenn Lilly.
Lilly is also the attorney for
Paletna Gobert, S3, who filed a pater
»itv writ gainst Rosier aarUar in June
K. C. Royals Say
Bo Jackson Now
Trads Bait
The Kansas City Royals have con
firmed that etufitf bo
Jackson, the most valuable player of
last season's All-Star Gama, and an
NFL running back with the Los
Angeles Raiders, could be trade bait.
Jackson, battii* in the low .STOs
with only IS home runs, was ramond
to bo offered for San Dings shgger
Jos Carter. Jackson sans only $1
million per year. Carter earns $1.1
wllllwi pfr yfd> Lft g l»^4 ^
have his salary hiked by fl million
during the off-season. Ha earns only
the loth highest salary on the team,
despite leading the team in houants
and RBIs.
Johnson Soys He’ll Compete
When SusjiiSmionIJfted
nmnmMmn gni-inter Ban Johnson
predicted thathewill still be able to
compete as a sprinter whan Us two
year suspension ends in September.
“I have no doubt in my mind that I
can run fast again,” said the
Jamaican-born Johnaon, a, who was
haired from running for two years
and stripped of the gold medal and his
100-meter world record after testing
positive for steroid use at the 1100
Seoul Olympics.
"Hopefully, people can forgive me.
It’s been tough for me and my family,
lay lawyer and all tfaoae who rap
ported me," said JofanMo.
Johnson had insisted for months
aftar the Olympics that someone had
tampered with Us urine sample, or
someone had spiked hia weter bottle.
Uter,be«4mittodtbostanid use.
> Asked why he Uod, Johnson replied,
"At the time, there was a lot of
prassure on me. Yes, I lied, but it’s
something I’m not ashamed of
because everybody Usd.
"Yet Pm vary sorry 1 did it It’s
something I’d never do again,” said
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Dual-Sport Athletes
than one sport, and that’s fine. __ _
But when it comes to p&ying mote, than pee pro sport, I personally
don’t like it. I think one ofthe sports always has to suffer.
Of course, Bo Jackson is probably the best-known professional
athlete today who plays two spom, playing for the Kansas City Royals
and the Los Angeles Raiders. Bo is s afety tufted athlete, and I think
Deoo Sanders is probably going to bo in th^same ahegoiy. The New
York Yankees and the Adams Alcona are lucky lb have Sanders. Deon
may net hit as many home runs as Bo> hut wife his speed and some of
the other things that he pan do, I think he wiB contribute a tot to a major
leaguedub.
On the other hand, I just don’t know how these guys can really put in
enough effort in trying to make themselves better athletes bettor foot
ball players, better baseball players—without concentrating on one
sp<xt. Bo Jackson has been able to do it for foe last two years, but I think
that the older he gets, the more he’s grobtfoly going to concentrate on
one or the other.
Even in riavina one pga apart- tW« f that «n «thUw. will
wear himself out. But with two sports, you never give your body a
chance to mat during the year Tfotfgo ffonronnspotfcrothc other, and
each requital a different gantte. In football, you can afford to have huge
thighs. In baseball, you can't play tgilt that way. You need to be a little
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A Job Corps student by day end
amateur boxer in trainiig by night,
Mark Lewis defeated U.S. boxing
championship title holder Steve
Johnson from Denvdr in a 4-1 decision
at the Las Vegas Goodwill Games
“Box-Off" on June 8. This unet
followed Lewis’ win of the hi aly
coveted national title at the USA
Amateur Boxing Tournament in
Miami, Fla., where he defeated top
seeded Nevada state champion
Patrick Briseno.
Lewis will represent the U.S. at the
1M0 Goodwill Games on July IS in
Seattle and compete in the 138-pound
weight class against international
contenders from Cuba and the Soviet
Union.
These achievements are
remarkable for a student enrolled
full-time in the Sacramento Job
Corps carpentry program. Job Corps
is a federally funded residential,
education and training program for
disadvantaged youth between the
ages of 18 and Si. Lewis' regiman
starts every morning at 8 a.m„ when
he leaves his dorm to run from 5-10
miles before eating breakfast in the
cafeteria with the 400 other students
who live at the Sacramento Job Corps
center. From there he attends his
educational class, where he is study
ing to pass his GED. After lunch he
receives hands-on training in carpen
try sponsored by the Home Builders
Institute, the educational arm of the
National Association of Home
Builders.
After dinner, Lewis and other
members of the center’s Boxing Club
are taken to the local Police Athletic
League gymnasium—where inciden
tally, Lewis learned about Job Corps.
The group returns to the dormitories
In time (tor the 10 p.m. curfew.
For the 21-year-old Lewis, travel
ing to Seattle will have an added
bonus: his carpentry classmates will
be in Seattle to perform on-site con
struction maintenance (tor the games.
While Lewis will be in training the
week before the games, his (allow
carpenters in training will be putting
the finishing touches on athletic
locxers to m usoq oy cwnpwini
athletes. His dassmatee will have the
chance to eee him bon and to root him
on to victory.
For die past 18 months, Job Corps
students have spent more than 40,000
hours working on assorted construc
tion projects for the 1980 Goodwill
Games. An estimated 700 students
from 10 Job Cone canters in the
Pacific Northwest have built 3M plat
forms (tor prom seating, 841 custom
pram tables, 118 team bike dividers,
88 volleyball barriers, 814 sandwich
signs and more. In what could be a
lucky omen, the Job Corps has also
built what are known in international
athletic parlance as “Urn and cry
platforms” upon which winners are
awarded their medals. The Job Corps
community Is hoping to eee one of its
own, Mark Lewis, among those win
ners.
Getting to compete at the interna
tionally acclaimed Goodwill Games
is a milestone for Lewis, whose
lifelong goal is to be a world cham
pion. Born in 1988 in Laurel, Mias., he
started boxing in Plainfield, NJ., at
theage9fl8.il) 1988, whan ho was liv
ing in Merced, Calif., Lewis Joinsdl
local gym and later became
associated with the Merced Boxh«
Chib.
At Uw suggestion of a boxing en
thusiast Mend, Art Poms, ho wont
to Sacnmonto in 1W7 with another
young Merced boxer, Ray Lavoto.
Porras felt that two young fighters
had great potential and could benefit
Mm the Sacramento Police Athletic
League Gym under the watchful eye
of Harry “Pop” Wilson, PAL’s direc
tor of boodng.
FamllarNamea
Engraved On ”90
Wachovia Cup
Three familiar namae will be
engraved on Wachovia Cup awards
this year as Orimsloy of Greensboro,
T.W. Andrews of High Point and
HendarsouviDo won their rlassiWca
tionoi while MOnroe Ugh School won
its first cup award.
Grimsley won the 4-A cup for the
fifth time In six years; High Point An
QraWI IOOK CM rA Clip lOT CM vOUTIA
time in five years; and Henderson- \
villa woo the l-A classification for the
fifth straight year. Monroe, the
runnorup last year, withstood strong
w—r-^thn from the N.C. School of
Science^ and Math to break
Salisbury’s stronghold on the S-A
award.
The Wachovia Cup program
recognises schools that have the bast
overall Interscholastic sports pro
grams in North Carolina. It Is spon
sored by the North Carolina High
School Athletic Association and
Wachovia BankgndTrust Co.
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U.S. soccer Flayers urge
Recruit Inner City Blacks
After the United States’dismal per
formance in World Cup soccar play,
sadtiiv in the first round with three
straight losses, one of only two blacks
on the team says that the United
States should cultivate inner-city
youths for the sport.
Dssmood Armstrong, who, along
with Jammy Banks, wore the only
blacks on the team, criticised the U^.
Soccer Federation for paying Bp ser
vice to recruiting minorities.
"The federation hasn't dona
anything to recruit black athletes,"
Armstrong told USA Today. "There
have bean many talented black soc
cer players who have played with
state teams. But something kept
than (ran making the national team
and they dropped out”
Armstrong said block playan or*
forced to change positions ones they
get to tbs national team, as ha aad
Banks ware. Ho cautions that having
mere blacks on the team wont naan
mors UJ. team success. Botha says,
“Whan wo tap into an segments of
this country, than you’ll find a player
with hunger aad Mat} dastra. That
will make fora moroaggrosshre, at
tractive aad compatltiva brand of
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Milwaukee, respectively.
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