Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 10

10-Fridav, March 22, 19fsS Reno Evening Gazette Lenten Guideposts Frail Bob Pettit Was Always the Last Boy Picked can became a challenge to my the Fellowship of Christian Ath "Bob Pettit." "I can't believe it. He wasn't is that it seemed the end of the world. I was unwanted a failure. letes and speak at all kinds of basket-shooting form. Apple cores, candy wrappers and sporting events.

I try to get pline Never quit on yourself Don't work for awards and records the one record with which you should be most concerned is your record as a person, a child of God. At first I just moped around good enough to make the junior varsity last year." scrap sheets of homework paper across these ideas to young the house. Then I started go au Decame small basketballs. people: ing down to my church St. Find a worthwhile coal in life CHAMPIONSHIPS But Coach Day kept me at LEADING SCORER From a bov who couldn't hold James Episcopal where I and persist toward it Re I wasn't any good at all but somehow I made third-string tackle.

When I finally got into a game the other team ran a play over me that went for a 65-yard touchdown. My football career was over. I went out for baseball and got to play second base one game. Then some guy hit a ball to me and it went right through my legs. That ended my baseball career.

By BOB PETTIT Former star of the St. Louis Hawks At the age of 12 I was thin end frail and had the coordination of a broomstick. I could not run fast, nor was I strong. Whenever thy chose sides for any game, 1 was always the last boy picked. We had no Little League in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

There was no community recreation get-up for boys. I never had instruction of any center. Our team became state sang in the choir, served as an member that what vou think a basketball properly I developed quickly through this nrac- high school champions in my about yourself is what vou tend altar boy and took the collection at Sunday services. The for the first time, I was a member of a team and somehow important I started practicing at home. I bent a wire coat hanger into a hoop, attached it over the garage door and shot tennis balls at it.

My father, impressed by my determination, bought me a regulation basketball and backboard. Then began a routine of hour by hour practice which I followed for seven years. After school I shot baskets from 3:30 to 5:30. Then came dinner, homework and by 7:30 p.m. I senior year.

Then came more tice and became the leading to become Learn self-disci- championship teams during my pastor Mr. Philip Werlein scorer on our pick-up church team. four years at Louisiana State was friendly and very under standing. This period could really be University, and a professional career with the St. Louis called the pivotal point in my He talked to be about the In my sophomore year at Hawks, that covered 11 years athletic career because from then on my goal was clear- Today I am retired from pro Person of Christ, who would help me when I was discouraged and who was always there to pick me up if I stumbled and it i were even to excel any fessional basketball and devote my energies to the business world.

Yet my heart is very thing it would be basketball. I lacked natural streneth and fell. was out shooting baskets again, by the light of several lamps so began daily exercises. Every high school I had begun to grow some so I decided to concentrate on basketball. I gave it all I had, but when Coach Ken-ner Day posted the list on the bulletin board my name wasn't on it.

The only way I can describe by feeling at 14 when I wasn't good enough to make the team This kind of talk seem kind in sports until I entered high school. As a freshman I went out for football even though I was only 5-foot-7 and weighed but 118 pounds. much in sports. I am a part of )C RETAIL placed on the windowsill facing nignt I would do calf rises to build up my lees. Then I would too practical to a teen-age boy consumed with a desire to play the back yard.

grab window shade weights and Every trash and garbage basketball, but the words must have sunk into my subconscious because years later I used the EASTER SPECIAL do curls to build up my arms. When I became a high school junior I could hardlv wait for very same words to try to help the basketball season to begin. other boys overcome disappoint Dunes, Firm Plan Merger ment. But Pastor Werlein did have Freeway Project Engineer Named Gazette-Journal Carson City Bureau William Wilke has been rehired by the Nevada Highway Department as resident engi During the first fall practices Coach Day was still with the football team. The assistant basketball coach, meanwhile, had installed me at center.

When said stockholders in the Dunes have agreed in principle to a one suggestion that appealed to LAS VEGAS (AP) The! Dunes Hotel-casino on the Las' Vegas Strip and a New York The Renault 10 has: 1.35m.p.g. 2. 4 doors. 3. 4-wheel disc brakes.

4. 4-speed synchromesh transmission. 5.Top speed 85 m.p.h. 6. 11 cubic feet of trunk capacity.

7. Reclining 8. A sealed liquid cooling system. 9. A 5-main bearing engine.

10. Rack and pinion steering. 11. A 30 foot turning circle. 12.

A separate compartment for spare tire. 13. Engine over the drive wheels. 14. 15 inch wheels.

15. A 2-speed hot water heater and double outlet defroster. 16. Draft free ventilation. 17.

4-wheel independent suspension. 18. For only $1940 me at the time. "Why don't some of you boys form a church team?" he asked. Coach Day arrived for his first practice he asked, "Who's that at center?" neer for the Interstate 80 Free electronics firm are talking merger, officials of the Dunes said Wednesday.

Major Riddle, a principal owner of the high-rise hotel, LOTS OF PRACTICE We found enough boys who way construction project between Lawtons and Reno. hadn't made the high school basketball squad to form a three-team church league. Now, A former department structural specialist, Wilke has spent the last few years as project engineer for a Sacramento construction firm. stock consolidation with Continental Connectors Corp. of Woodside, N.

Y. The transaction would have to be approved by the securities and exchange commission and by Nevada gaming control officials. Riddle said the Dunes operating company, Investment would be a principal owner of Continental. He termed the move a "very good investment" for the eight major owners of the Dunes. Continental last week bought out Western Transportation Co.

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9200 $. VIRGINIA 329-0673 main blood vessels in the chest were discussed for Reno surgeons Tuesday. Donald Mulder, M.D., assistant professor of surgery. University of California at Los Angeles, addressed the monthly dinner of the Reno Surgical Society at Hidden Valley Country Club. His topic was: "Aneurysms of the Thoracic Aorta." Dr.

Frank W. Samuels was host for the meeting. Dr. Mulder was introduced by Dr. William M.

Tappan, his classmate at Hope College, Michigan. Dr. Mulder met with Washoe TyToiAol fan fat enrrronnc onrl An Oakland, Calif, couple pleaded innocent in Washoe Dis trict Court Wednesday to a charge of attempting to pass a forged check or instrument Sears in writing. ir Walter Dean Ernest. 25, and i 4- his wife, Helen, 23, are accused of attempting to cash a $50 travelers check on Feb.

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