European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Foge to the stars and stripes March 1966 sparring partner floors Cassius during workout March ii up1 a weary causing Clay was knocked Down saturday by a sparring partner daring his first workout for the March z boat with George some observers suspected the Knockdown might have Beta another example of the unpredictable Heary weight champions Psychol intended to Pat Cuvalo off junes a in Good heavyweight who fights out of floored Clay in the third Road of a heavy training session with a too much Clay mattered to his Angelo after he got up from the Clay was up at s to run five Miles along the Ontario it was perfect Light Dundee sold youre going to hear More about this Gay probably be fighting on the same card As Clay on March about in fans looked on As Ellis Clay appeared to he put out by the Ignominy of the lie got hit with n Beautiful that All there to to said French skiers dominate both giant slalom races in championships March ii France scored a sweep of the mens and women giant slalom races As disaster struck Amer ican Hopes saturday in the United states Alpine Sung Cham Jeanclaude Killy led a 143 sweep for France in the mens event when americas main Billy crashed near the top of the rugged Mansfield the Spring training circuit astroturf makes but 83 March it a the Houston astros saturday night rolled out their new n Washan Wear Rug of synthetic Nylon that Uke closely packed crepe paper and gives every indication of being an advantage to the the Pool table Green sub Laid in the infield and Down the foul made a Spe Cial press debut before being used for the first time in game Competition saturday night As the astros met the world Cham Pion lot Angeles dodgers in an the dodgers won the game 8 i their first Victory of the Spring grind but lost the first Battle of the manmade the dodgers committed three two on ground balls that shot quickly across the synthetic the astros made Only one error on although on four occasions the infielders had difficulty at limes Fielding the Ball cleanly on the Nylon floor an Astrodome crowd of saw the dodgers jump on four Houston pitchers for u including a Lead off Home run by Jim Lefebvre in the Lefebvre and Wes Parker each drove in two the first two Houston runs came off Johnny Podres who gave up four hits and no walks in four innings before being relieved by Phil singles in the fourth by Dave Nicholson and Sonny Jackson and a two base error by Ron fairly produced one and another error by Nate Oliver let in the put Down where grass failed to grow under the Astrodome of last year at Cost of per Square foot the substance has been labelled astroturf by the manufacturers and has been labelled difficult to handle by third baseman John Kennedy of the dodgers said the infield should be a great advantage to the everybody com Plains about How hard our in Field is this is the same he Pompano March a the Minnesota twins pounded out is hits and took advantage of five errors to beat the Washington senators 128 saturday and extend the senators exhibition losing Streak to eight it was the twins second straight Victory after seven the senators scored five unearned runs off Camillo Pascual in the first two on Ken Mcmullens Home run and two on de brinkmans Gary Holman hit a Pinch Homer Tor the senators in the an elusive score Jim Gosger of the Boa ton red sox evades Philadelphia Catcher Clivy Dalrymple to score from second on curl Yus single in the third inning of their exhibition game it George Smith 11 also scored on the a photo Tony Ken Retzer and Bernie Allen each had three hits for the who put the game out of reach with Nix runs in the fourth off Frank fort March 11 a the Chicago White sox pushed across three runs in the eighth inning and scored a m exhibition baseball Victory Over the new York Yankees singles by Marv Staehle and Don Buford and a double by John Romano started the rally that knocked out Rookie lefty John Danny Cater tagged reliever Hal Relff for a run scoring the Yankees had taken the Lead on Lou Clinton seventh inning Homer that broke a 33 new York Catcher Piston Howard had to leave the game in the sixth inning when a foul up off Bufords Bat caught him on the left the injury was not Tommy John worked the first four innings for the White striking out it was Chica gos eighth Victory in 10 new York is hmm March it California augers scored three runs in the first in Ning and survived seventh and eighth inning threats saturday for a 41 Victory Over san fran Jose car Denux Lear off walk and doubles by Bobby Jim Fregoso and Jack Warner gave the Angels at 34 Rookie outfielder Eddie Kirk Patricks doable in the sixth scored californian that san Francisco loaded the bases Ullh Only one out in the seventh and eighth Bat  March it a Pitcher Bob Veale drove in two runs with a second inning carrying the Pitts Burgh pirates to a 32 baseball exhibition Victory saturday Over the Philadelphia Richie Allen slammed a two run Homer for the phils in the ninth inning with two a held the phils witless during his three inning Pittsburgh took a 10 Lead in the first when Donn Clendenon doubled Home Manny who had led off with a Veale singled in the scoring Willie who had und Jim who had March ii a City clubbed out three Home runs in the first six inn Nus to build up a 40 then weathered a Louis rally to defeat the 64 in an exhibition game Bill who had four hits Page my Mountain a 11yearold made Florence out classed the worlds Best in the women giant slalom with Wendy of san placing fifth for the Best Amer ican the mens course on mount nearly a mile toot with a drop of wms lightning seeded up by chemical called Snow Cement which froze on the Dax Xung performance the daring 12 one of the sensations of the european Winter sped Down the track in 1 he was followed by Guy second in and Georges third in who Learned his skiing tricks on mount Tum bled while favouring a sprained ankle and took a hard spill near the top of the he was not seriously Jimmy of Tahoe topped american getting fourth place in the time of French gals 12 the Spunky miss Steurer also beat out a French Annie in winning the women giant slalom in she led the Field of 49 women Down the course with a drop of miss fam oses second place time was with Traudl 23yearold olympic Veteran from third in Martelle Gotschell of France was fourth in miss Allens place time was her was As were five other gym title won by school March it a led by Richard Loyd who won two events and placed second in Northwest Louisiana state dethroned Western Illinois for the naia gymnastic championship Host Winner the last two finished second with 75points while Northwest had others in the top 10 were be my Del 65 Northeast Siana state 04 Eastern Michi Slippery 31 Georgia 20 Eastern David and fort Dennis Sullivan of Northeast won the Allaround Crown with Loyd was second with and defending Cham Pion Jerry Golucek of Western third with Loyd won the floor exercise with and the Long horse with Loon cagers Nab 3rd in Belgium tourney March u special the rant ers overwhelmed the nether lands military Here saturday to capture third place in the Ostend in Lena tonal military basketball the French team from Bataillon de Joinville whipped a belgian Navy to capture the on opening the French team handed Laon a sg45