European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 20 the stars and stripes the prop Senc Grindrod repeat on at i Blue team by Bob Wicker staff writer Frankfurt s Bernie Smith and Harry Grindrod have gained berths on the stars and stripes All Blue division basketball team for the second straight year. The High scoring quintet named this week by the seven coaches in the Blue Loop also includes Munich s Bruce Dickinson and Don Hutchins and ludwigs Burg s Mig , a 5-Fopt-9 outside shooter took up where he left off in last year s balloting when he missed by Only one vote being a in Belgium Italy cop openers in shape care by Klint Johnson staff writer shape Belgium is Bel Gium and defending Champion Italy became the first winners i shape s new gymnasium tues Day night defeating the nether lands and Greece respectively to open the seventh annual shape International basketball  overcame Greece 70-63 after Belgium held off a rallying dutch team 75-68. Watching on the sidelines was the All military tournament s fifth entrant the Usa eur based  which was to make its debut Here wednesday nigh against Belgium. Gen. Lyman l. Lemnitzer commander in chief of shape formally opened the new gym by tossing up the first Ball for a ceremonial Center jump preceding the Netherlands Belgium , though the dutch fought Back to make a contest of that first game the newly opened gymnasium did t really liven up until the bitterly contested night Cap played before a raucous  that second game Italy Winner of the last two shape tournaments allowed Greece to get the Early advantage and the pushed ahead for the first time at 20-19. The italians still held a shaky29-28 Lead at halftime. But Guillio Bellini hit two Quick Lay ups to Start the second half and the italians were off and running never relinquishing the Lead thereafter. Bellini a spindly 6 a guard poured in 26 Points 22 in Italy s second half surge. Luigi Jess and Frank Fantin who carried the italians in the first half wound up with 15 and 13 Points respectively. The greeks lacking an outside shooting threat thrived on costos Diamando Ulous Early  wound up with 18 Points after tallying Greece s first four baskets. But it was Basil Goumas 23 that led the greeks Point Mak ing. Bernie Smith. Unanimous Choice Larry Daniel Stop voter animus selection. This time around Smith was the Only player named to the first team by All seven coaches. Dickinson and grind Rod were top choices on six ballots. Ludwigs Burg Mentor Larry Daniels came up with an All league team that was the consensus of All the coaches. Also casting votes were George Ausra of league Champion Frankfurt Cletu Campbell of Nuernberg Bill Magness of Munich Jerry Bisson of Kaiserslautern Dave Craig of Heidelberg and Jim Elliott of wies Baden. It is interesting to note that the five boys named were the to five scorers in the league during the season. Dickinson and hut chins who paced Munich to the class a tournament championship were the Pace setters with 23.7 and 21.6 averages respectively Grindrod at 6-7 the tallest member of the squad rated third witha 20-Point average followed by Smith at 19.9 and Oyola at 17 4 seven boys were named to the second team because of a three Way tie for the fifth spot. The no. 2 squad is made up of Heidel Berg s Foster Fountain Tom Delaney and Bob Bissell Kaiserslautern s Art Crumpton Steve Stublarec and Ken Eley and wies Baden s Charlie Owen. The 1968 All Blue division teams first Tea Dickinson Munich 6-1 or. Hutchins Munich 6-0 , Frankfurt 6-7 or. Smith Frankfurt 5-9 , l us wigs Burg 5-11 or. Second team Fountain Heidelberg 6-0 or. Delaney Heidelberg 5-10 , Heidelberg 6-2 or. Eley Kaiserslautern 6-2 ,  6-0 or. Crumpton Kaiserslautern 6-0 , Wiesbaden 5-9 or. Italy stars set acted co Champion Naples has placed two boys on the american schools in Italy All league team and notre Dame the other co Lviv Valcnza and Livorno each place one on the squad Jill of Edwards and Tom Loughran were the Naples selectee pc cowards is the Only repeater and he and notre Dame s Gene Usz were unanimous picks by the coaches Board the other nominees were v Vicenza s Jay Bistline and Livorno Scarlet on Maddox. The team Bill Edwards. Naple. 5-11 senior Gene Tisz. Notre Dame. 5-11 senior Jay Bistline. Vicenza. 6-2 Senio Carleton Maddox. Liv Ortu. 5-10 Junior Tom Loughran. Naples. 6-3.junior taking notes. As the Snow goes we Hope in rushes another track Andfield season. The first meets of the year Are set for March 23 with Karlsruhe and Mannheim at Heidelberg Augsburg and Munich a Nuernberg Wuerzburg at ludwigs Burg Wiesbaden at Frankfurt bad Kreuz Nach at Berlin and Pitburg and Baum older at Kaiserslautern. The regular season runs through May 4 with the regional set for May 11 and the us ska finals May 17-18. Soccer and Tennis teams from schools in Germany will play the same schedules during the 1968 season. The Blue division openers March 23 will Viiu Kaiserslautern at ludwigs Burg Heidel Berg at Wiesbaden Munich at Frankfurt and Nuernberg with a Bye the red division slate has Augsburg at Pitburg Mannheim at Ber Lin Bremerhaven at Baum older and Lucr Bury at Karlsruhe. The Tennis regional have been scheduled for May 10-11the finals will be held on May 19-20, a sunday and monday. Sites for the meets have not been determined. Belgium led All the Way i much less noisy opener a 42 to 28 Hal Tinie � survived Holland s second Hal rally behind Fred Denius a 5 Marksman who hit 14 in. All after the intermission Michael Vercheval paced the Shorter belgians with 28 mini Claudy Melon with 20 anti Bert Troch with 19 gave � Giurin a three pronged attack the Netherlands and Italy m or t it a . F Michel Vercheval of Belgium unc oils a left "7"iu""j"iu" Over the outstretched arms of Rund Harrow Linof the Netherlands 9 in the opening game tuesday of the Sev oj.iir.111. ? International basketball tournament a shape Belgium. Vercheval s shot was Good for two of h s 26 Points which paced the belgians to a 75-08 Victory. In the Back ground is the Netherlands Bob Aldenburg. Is photo by Huster the  takes on Greece in thursday s 6 30 . Opener 0lowed by Belgium versus Italy each team plays the other four in the five Day tournament which winds up saturday night. Garden plans new bouts for Nino Frazier new York up do Fullmer of Utah looms As the next opponent for new Middle weight Champion Nino Benvenuti while heavyweight King Joe Frazier is considering three candidates for his initial title  revealed tuesday he was committed to defend his newly won 160-Pound title in Madison Square Garden Proba Bly against Fullmer. At the same time the Garden announced Frazier would defend his four state version of the heavyweight title against Manuel Ramos of Mexico Boone Kirk Man of Seattle or former heavy weight Champ Floyd Patterson in a luncheon press Confer ence dealing Vith the develop ment of monday night s double title fight at the new madison1 Square Garden Harry Markson Garden boxing chief said that he has plans for All four of the principals we Haven t had a Chanceton talk yet to Benvenuti s manager Bruno Amatuzzi but we will get together in a Day or two and suggest Don Fullmer Gypsey Joe Harris or Luis Rodriguez As Nino s opponent for the next title defense later this  we already have begun to talk about a possible sign Between Sandro  of Italy and  later it was Learned a new suggestion had been a old packers Center Bernie Darling Dies Green Bay wis. A Bernard e. Darling a Center on the Green Bay Packer Tea that captured three straight National football league titles be ginning in 1929, died tuesday in a Green Bay Hospital. He was 64.darling, who played College Ball at Ripon and Beloit in wis Consin was a member of the packers from 1927 through 1931.he also served As a big ten football official. Redskins obtain rights to Talbott Washington a the Washington redskins have acquire a rights to quarterback Danny Talbott from the l