European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                14 the stars and stripes february Camp Lindsey captures Berlin Gage Tourin furst wins Cage title from obie 28 eagles Nui away from tonight to capture the Safe Southern division Cage the eagles jumped into an Early Lead and kept it throughout the leading at a Trio of Bill Chuck Bacanti and Duffy Dostal scored 12 tallies apiece but High Point went to obies Dick later with the eagles went through the tournament j Dawn the stretch for 28 special the  hornets remained in the running for the Safe Southern division basketball championship by edging out the Erding and will meet the Furstenfeld Bruck eagles in the Walt with three Quick sparked Erding to an Early 00 Lead and the arrowheads at the at Erding had stretched its Lead to but could not keep up the Pace in the second started fast after the inter outscoring 18 to in the third period and were As the final Quarter the arrowheads determined rally in the closing minutes failed to gain them Victory As time ran Gursky was the big gun of the evening with 26 Points for the losers and Dick Lamper and Don with 12 and nine starred for the winning Berlin boxers cop five of eight bouts from 26th 28 Berlin ring team took five out of eight bouts against the 26th of Bamberg before fans in titania Joe Texiera started things rolling for the doughboy by out pointing Toji Shimabukuro in the opening bout but berlins George Shigenaga evened the count by scoring a to Over Wilson Tazrie in another flyweight bantamweight Gordon Webster the Only other to of the hammering berlins Tom Kendrick relentlessly until the referee stopped the bout at of the in other bouts Richard Hong of Berlin took the nod Over Joe Gal Lagos in a bantamweight Ohata Robinson of the 26th Deci middleweight Lupi berlins Danny Taylor Defeated welterweight Tony Bustos Stod Ted Travens of Ber Lin gained the verdict Over Benny Al Mono 8 is virtually flying Down the stretch As he just maps stud poker n the Widener assault and the finished out of the football rules need final of 28 a pro posed single set of football rules for some High school and 9rto College teams has been completed in rough draft and awaits final approval by both subcommittees representing Rule making groups in the National collegiate athletic association and the National federation of High school associations disclosed that work in combining College and prep rules into one Book was the work of reducing some 100 to a half necessarily caused by age was announced jointly by Fritz Hutchens of the and Porter and Thomas of the National officials of both groups declined to comment on the nature of differences still ironed but one presumably was on High school rules specify that kick offs which Cross the goal line Are the colleges play the Ball As combined code can be readied for the Printer by March it will not become effective until next the subcommittees emphasized that each group still must ratify the proposed Nyu takes 19th straight new 28 York University undefeated basketball team registered its 19th consecutive Victory by routing before Christopher promised starting assignment West Palm lanky Philadelphia athletics has won his fight for a Chance to becoming starting assistant manager Earl Mack said Christopher would receive a written Promise that he will be used in at least at the Start of the who had been hold ing out until promised a Chance to show he can be a starting appeared in 44 Relief jobs last winning 10 and losing athletic officers of dec to meet for Spring Agenda bad 28 special a meeting of major command and military Post officers has been arranged by the athletics office of Neucom special services and is to be held in bad the on Day conference will open with the first discussions at on March 2l athletic officers will discuss the Agenda listings which directives for summer training and selection of officials athletic supplies Neucom Bowling con Gress civilian participation in Neucom athletics the wac ath Letic program and the publicity and promotion of i officers attending the meeting in bad nauheim May be accompanied by officer who is directly concerned with any of the three summer be annexes wac Crown 28 today won the 1948 Neucom basketball championship when they Defeated a scrappy Wiesbaden before 600 spectators at Burger Brau the lassies gained the diadem on the strength of a torrid Las Quarter drive that turned a close game into a on sided Wiesbaden gained a 2218 halftime mainly on the shooting of Helen but be tied it Early in the third Quarter and held a 3230 advantage at the Start of the final then a pair Robinson and marked up six straight Points to give be an eight paint Lead and ice the Miller led All scorers with 23 while Robinson tallied 1st sets dates for hoop tourney bad feb 28 1st athletic officials have announced that j the big red one basketball tournament will take place March 25 Lin the Al inf Kaser i v r the four the re Cert try completed double round Robin who will vie for tournament honors the 2nd 26th regt and the 7th a the Winner of the playoff will represent the division in the South Ern Neucom regional Competition to be held in March five 4 lulls have Mew pilots for 48 season new 28 new managers Bow into the major leagues when Spring training opens officially on March each with a different problem and presumably with mixed ice returning to base Ball with the Boston red was handed a remodelled team and can lace the season with Leo Durocher comes Back after a year in the penalty Box and must shoot the works for another pen Nant for Brooklyn to match the j847 achievement by Burt Bill meyer1 comes to the Pitts Burgh pirates with an improved and High Hopes of pulling the bucs from the Joe a freshman returns to Washington with Little Hope of lifting the senators any higher than their seventh place finish of and if Zack Taylor of the Louis Browns has any Hope for anything beyond completing a sea son of 154 games he deserves a solid Gold for being mrs Sunshine of Meyer is far and away Best bet to succeed in mastering his Imire Diate Pittsburgh has picked up Johnny Hopp from the Boston Joe Grace from Elmer Riddle from Cincinnati arid a Windfall from Brooklyn in pitchers Hal Gregg and Vic shortstop Stan Rojek and outfielder Mccarthy bed sox May be the american leagues Pennant favorite on the basis Winter but Marse Joe definitely is Oil the a it of folks he will win and his club May not be As super the of strengthening moves by the now York As the deals for Ellis Jack Billy and Vern Stephens of the Browns and Stan Spence of Washington indicated earlier in the a development to be followed closely will be Mccarthy handling of Ted Williams and other surviving stars of Bostons 1946 american league Mccarthy never has lost a player showdown yet and is not above making a few changes Roget his Durocher is on a hotter spot than the dodgers have been and May no be quite As Strong As the outfit which Shotton peacefully Shep herded to Victory in the National league last Washington might have been aided a but probably not enough to make noticeable Dif Ference by obtaining second base Man Al Kozar and outfielder Leon cult Erson from the red sox in a Deal for 7702nd in cons Latr by rat Musleh staff correspondent 28 in a preview of what happen in the Neucom tired the Berlin invitational tournament tonight by def berlins Green commanders led All the by John Turkos 15 we was High for the a b n e r followed his with 11 and Gene Wolfe i the losers potted the winners held 1911 time in the Consolation the and from for tripped Munich flak Klaserner i Desco Winninger tallied markers for the 7702nd but in of the flak led the scoring with the Safe and Berlin representatives entered the with unbeaten tourney commanders having Defeated Kaseane and 33rd a and having downed Navy and Ljus in the the whose Frank per sat out the co Stab tilt be Cafor were equally impress res their second Gams Asin when it came to the the Deadeye Berlin pagers up with the Best Field goal cent age of three Day almost half of cons tabs 41 against Berlin were made Hornet who ran to Eph for Berlin in the last Lin held a comfortable going into the final coach Al Bussard of Lindsey also yanked his commanders Midway in the period against the a Tiu guard Murrell a Fia pensive was the Lone to foul leaving the shortly after the second half be Doi 536th to1 class b did by William staff Corre he Type had trouble the 536th to s championship of the Bremes class b through by a 3733 led All losers to stays f never Lour racked up margin and then mate engineers  the final de slavic led with 14 while Owen Mcconnell that Totaj by spark i Fly Hanlon signed by Cai 28 a Chicago boy who halfback at Loras College of que has signed to Ball with the Chicago Ray presidents National league t Newhouser signs 28 one of the Best in the big signed contract with the Detroit