County Athletes to Be Inducted Tonight

Three other Orange County athletes, football player Gerry Mullins, Olympian Evelyn Furtsch and surfer-sailor Hobie Alter, will join Randy Jones tonight as 1985 inductees into the Orange County Hall of Fame at a banquet in the Anaheim Convention Center.

Cocktails will be served at 6 p.m. with dinner following at 7:30. NBC and Angel broadcaster Dick Enberg will be the emcee, while tennis pro Vic Braden will receive the Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mullins, an All-CIF tackle at Anaheim High School, played in two Rose Bowls for USC and four Super Bowls for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Furtsch, while attending Tustin High School, won a gold medal in the 440-yard relay in the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles. Alter, from Laguna Beach, invented the Hobie Cat catamaran and helped pioneer the polyurethane-foam surfboard.

The four will join such former athletes as baseball players Walter Johnson, Del Crandall, Arky Vaughan and Jim Fregosi, football players John Huarte and Brig Owens, basketball players George Yardley and David Meyers, diver Dr. Sammy Lee, boxer Carlos Palamino and gymnast Cathy Rigby, in the Hall.