European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday August 28, 1959 Davis cup play gets under Way with Olmedo opposing Fraser Forest Hills . A peruvian Alex Olmedo who Almos single hand edly wrested the Davis cup from Australia last year was set to open the . Defense of the famed Tennis trophy Friday athe West Side Tennis club. The phlegmatic Wimbledon Champion meets Neale Fraser Australia s experienced no. 1 performer in the first singles match. The second match pits Barry Mackay the giant canno Baller from Dayton Ohio against the new Whiz of australian Tennis left handed Rod Laver runner up to Olmedo at Wimbledon. This is the Way the names were picked from the gleaming Davi cup during the official draw wednesday. Rival captains immediately predicted Victory while con ceding that the result of the three Day five match series May swing on the crucial opening match. The Winner of the first match will win the series said immaculately dressed . Captain Perry Jones los Angeles. That of course will be Olmedo and i think we will go on to sweep the series,5-0." Harry hopman who has captained seven winning aussie teams in the last nine years was More reserved but not less assured. I am confident we will win said the Sand haired newsman from Melbourne. I look for itto be 3-2." the doubles will be played sat urday with Australia s Wimbledon and . Champions Fraser and Roy Emerson favored Over the . Olmedo and 18-year-old Earl Buch Holz St. Louis. In sunday s final singles Olmedo will play Laver and Mackay will meet Fraser i that order. The 71-year-old Jones was More confident than he has been i weeks. Olmedo has established himself As the Best Amateur in the world and he is a Climax player who comes through in the big matches said the . Captain. I was a Little worried about Alex form but he told me i beat them Captain do not worry i am sure he will. Also Mac Kay is improved 25 per cent Over Lith Asa 517th medics win Baum older Germany Spe Cial the Lith Asa beat the 81starty in 8-2, and the 517th med co topped the 59th Sig in 5-4, in the quarterfinals of the army tips 7th army Western Region softball " tourney Here. His form at Brisbane last Decem Ber. He no longer is just a big Strong Flyswatter. He now has finesse and can improvise. We Al most won the doubles at Brookline mass with Olmedo off hopman based his prediction of Victory on the vast improvement of both Fraser and Laver particularly Fraser since Wimble Don where Fraser lost a five setter to Mackay and Laver a straight set final to Olmedo. I Don t think Olmedo has in. Proved since then the australian Captain said. We have an Edge in doubles and i believe both of my boys have a wider margin Over Mackay than Olmedo has Fraser and Olmedo have met four times each winning twice. Olmedo crushed Fraser in the 1958 australian final after losing to the left handed aussie in five sets at Forest Hills earlier in the year. Laver beat Mackay in the Wimbledon semifinals in a Marathon match 11-13, 11-9, 10-8, 7-9, 6-3. Ils. Athletes favored As Competition opens in 3d pan american games Alex Olmedo. Do not worry Davison captures Lead in Germany District Golf Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial Walt Davison Ramstein thursday forged into a one stroke Lead Over former pacesetter a teammate Sam Friedman at the 54-Hole Mark of the Safe Ger Many District Golf tournament. Davison Low Amateur in the Ramstein invitational open burned up the Back nine Ai Luau Seehaus Golf course with a ailing . Coach replaced in games Chicago a Jack Sulger York detective and rowing Oach has agreed to fill in for Perry Manning Detroit ailing manager of the . Pan american games rowing squad. This was announced by Clifford tip goes chairman of the . Olympic rowing committee. Mann no is being treated in Detroit fora spine injury. Sulger rowing coach of the new York athletic club and Fordham University recently was named manager of the . Olympic Row no squad for the 1960 games. Olympic diving Ace to head 4 ism clinic Nurnberg Germany special olympic diving Champion Sammy Lee will head a three Man coach. Ing staff from the . Selected to instruct at the 1959 Conseil International do sport Militare cism biennial clinic to be held aug. 31-sept. 9 in Toledo Spain it was announced Here by usar eur special activities division. Accompanying the olympic div ing Ace to Spain will be Robert Mowerson assistant swimming coach at Michigan state univer sity and a t. Odeneal volleyball v expert from Florida state univer sity. Four Usa eur and Safe student representatives will attend the clinic. They Are Leslie Lobough 4th army Piv Pavid Shafer 7tharmy support come Robert Ster Ling 29th Sig in and Michaelo Elaney wheelus air base. Safe athletic director Labianco Wil serve As assistant technical director for the q the clinic is to pro vide coaching and training tech to selected student a. Fammy to conduct school 32 to go with his earlier 39 for a71, one under Par. Davison s total is 213, compiled on rounds of 74, 68 and thurs Day s 71. Friedman the defending Champ Rose to a 75 after earlier rounds of 71-68. Eight players from the open division qualify for the Safe championships scheduled in Green Ham common England. Luther Godwin 501st Tacon Wing retained third place but i five strokes off the Pace at 218. De Kotlarczyk Godwin s team mate who is in a tie for fou that 219 with Pitburg s Keith plan turned in the Day s top round witha two under 35-3570. Skip Ingram Wiesbaden and de Clark Halm Are tied in sixth with 220s. There is also a tie for eighth at 221 Between Steve Downey Ramstein and de Colosimo wies Baden. Ramstein team Leader Ramstein with a 63-stroke Lead Over runner up Wiesbaden has virtually clinched the team 36 holes of the senior tournament Ramstein g. Joe Humphries holds the Lead with 151. He shot a 74 thursday to go with wednesday s 77. Paul Bryant Pitburg who held the opening Day Lead skied to 90 and is in fourth place with 166. John Jeannette Wiesbaden an Herb Hartwig Ramstein Are tied for the runner up position with159s. Chicago a Competition in the third pan american game opens Friday at Soldier Field be fore 60,000 in this midwestern Metropolis gripped by a relentless heat wave. Twenty four nations from Canada to Chile and Argentina have entered 2,152 athletes. The ., with the biggest team num Bering 406, is at olympic games strength and must be favored i almost every sport. Thursday s opening ceremonies followed the olympic pattern a Parade of athletes a formal proclamation by or. Milton Eisen Hower opening the games on be half of his brother the president the lighting of the Friendship Torch by Chicago s Donald Rodri Guez last boy scout runner in a month Long relay that carried the flame from Mexico City and the release of 5, White doves. Chicago had eight Days of 90 plus weather with considerable humidity. No Relief was in sight for Friday. It s rough on athletes from South America where the Southern hemisphere s Winter Isnow in full Force. Ray Norton the san Jose state Star who is Bent on establishing his claim to the title of world s fastest human carried the . Flag at the head of the Host team in the opening ceremonies. By tradition it entered the Mammoth Lake front stadium last of All. George Worth Veteran fencer from new York took the solemn oath on behalf of the athletes. Worth 44, born in Budapest i manager of the . Team. He took second place in Sabre Competition in the 1951 and 1955 pan am games. He said in the name of All competitors i swear we will take part in these pan american games respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them in the True spirit of sportsmanship for the glory of sport and the Honor of our the Catholic archbishop of Chi Cago Albert Gregory Meyer delivered the invocation. There Wasa 24-gun Salute in Honor of the competing nations. The hallelujah chorus was Sung and 2,500 costumed representatives of National groups participated in a concluding dance ceremony. The . Never has had a More powerful team for pan american Competition. The first games in 1951 at Buenos Aires came in whats the american Winter time. The 1955 games in Mexico City herein Early Spring. This time the Anie rican squad was chosen without conflict with College commitments. A lightning fast running track has been Laid Down in Soldier Fieldy the same British firm that built the tracks for the Helsinki and Melbourne olympics a number of pan american Marks Are Likely to fall and several world records could be threatened. Among american athletes cer Tain to sparkle Are Norton Greg Bell who has come within less than an Inch of Jesse Owen world Broad jump record Don Bragg who has vaulted higher than anyone else but has a Heel infection Al Cantello who bettered the world javelin record this Spring and Parry o Brien the Veteran shot put record Holder. Lions release five to Cut roster to 47 Detroit a coach George Wilson announced that five de troit Lions including four rookies have been released cutting the team s roster to 47. Placed on waivers were Tom Rychlec american International College in Connecticut an end on last year s lion squad and rookies Dan Mcgrew Purdue Center Jim Baldwin Mcmurray Tex col lege linebacker Carl Smith ten Nessee defensive halfback and Harry Jacobs Bradley guard race results changed Saratoga Springs . Up Irish Jay Ridden by Eddie Arcaro was awarded the Victory n the $79,900 spin away stakes at Saratoga after Natalia who finished first was disqualified an placed third doctors of Mooty for football play Fayetteville Ark. A All Southwest conference halfback Jim Mooty whose football career had been reported ended by ahead injury will be in the Arkan Sas Backfield sept. 1 when fall practice opens. Coach Frank Broyles made the announcement after a team of University physicians examined Mooty and pronounced him fit. The 175-Pound left halfback be Gan suffering dizzy spells last Spring and a doctor told him to quit football Mooty led Arkan Sas in Rushing last year with 395yards. Trap shooters tie for title Vandalia Ohio a rain and darkness wednesday halted the 200-target race for the North american 16-Yard trapshooting championship leaving practically everything in a turmoil. With 1,062 marksmen from All parts of the Western hemisphere firing five hotshots broke the entire 200 and Only two were eliminated in the ensuing shoot off. Still in the fight for the coveted Crown Are 16-year-old Kevin Onka sugar Creek to. Arnold Riegger Castle Rock wash., and c. W. Barnhart Prairie Village Kan. The three broke 50 extra targets in a shoot off in which Boyd Williams Davidson mich., and Dan Orlich Reno nev., were eliminated. Riegger cops Crow ii As Orlich dropped out the Cham Pion of champions title went to Riegger the two having carried Over that shoot off from tuesday. The three survivors will meet for the North american title with the Winner picking up a ,$500 prize. Roy Rogers the Cowboy film Sta who never misses with his six shooter muffed one wednesday with a Shotgun. His 199x200 led the California contingent and put Himin a six Way shoot off for second place in the class a division. He broke 25 straight in the extra heat to stay in the fight. The women s championship went to Helen Urban Mentor Ohio with 199, red haired Canadian Vera Holdsworth finishing second with198. Proctor top Pitcher Knoxville Tenn. Up the Knoxville smokes Jim Proctor has been named to receive the Sam Smith trophy As the outstanding Pitcher of the South Atlantic league for the 1959 season. Proctor had a 14-5 won and lost record this year. Winnipeg clinches title in Northern league Winnipeg Canada a the Winnipeg go Deyet won the North Ern league baseball championship Here by holding off a ninth inning rally and Downing grand Forks,5-4, it was Winnipeg s 97th Victor of the year against 34 losses and put them 16 games ahead of place Fargo Moorhead. Spain Morocco Golf slated next week Madrid special the Safe Spain Morocco sports District Golf tournament will be held Here next tuesday through thursday under the sponsorship of Torrejon air base with More than 50 entries players from All 16th air Force bases and port Lyautey and Rota naval stations will be seeking the eight Spain Morocco berths in the Safe tourney to be held at Green Aam common England sept. 14-18,
