European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes saturday March 9, 1968 u. S. Rumbles past dutch in shape tourney Cage Maneu vers the . Basketball Tea dominated the action Here in the shape tournament against the dutch. Melvin Johnson above goes in for a Layup As teammate Roger Bright and dutch players Gerlt Van bullpen 11 andean Sikking 15 watch. Bob Lohse below dribbles against an unidentified player As Chuck Washington comes up on left. Is photos by Klint Johnson staff writer shape Belgium is overcoming a faltering Start the . Entry powered past the Netherlands 102-50, in the shape International basketball tournament thursday giving the us a eur All Star club its second100-plus performance in As Many nights. The ., which rolled Ove Belgium 103-66 wednesday night now shares the Lead with Italy in the round Robin tourney each with a 2-0 record. The two Lead ers Are slated to meet in Satur Day s 9 . Finale. Greece used its fast break of sense to Wear Down Belgium 112-56, in thursday night s Sec Ond game. Sparked of Basil Gorman and costos Diamando Ulos each with 23 Points the greeks ran up the highest score and winning margin of the tournament. The greeks have split their two tourney games Belgium is 1-2 and the Netherlands is 0-3. After grabbing the initial Lead Bueford Moss s yanks allowed the scrappy dutch to tie the six times in the first half before finally shaking off the nether lands cagers with five minutes to go before the break. Alex Taylor of Berlin rebounded a shot to put the . Ahead to stay at 28-26, and de Smith followed up for 30-26 advantage signal in infantrymen 3rd army div finals Frankfurt special the 143rd signal in earned the right to meet the 1st in 36th inf for the 3rd army div battalion level basketball Crown Here thursday by taking the final game i losers bracket Competition from the 1st in 33rd Armor 103-97. The Signa leers built up their eventual winning margin in the first half to Lead 49-43 at inter Mission. Gerald Tucker and Jim my prevails in 1 Frankfurt special Alan Kuranovich s Basket with five seconds remaining enabled the 709th maps to defeat the .army Garrison 54-53, Here thursday night and win Theta Nus District company level championship. Kuranovich stole the Ball inthe maps Back court and dribbled in to score the winning Basket. Third tourney win the Victory for the maps who were unbeaten in three tourney games sends them to the come company level championships at Bremerhaven March 12-16. Ron Henderson led the my with 16 Points while Bill Pavlowski arid James Estes scored13 each. Fred Irwin led the losers with 19. Pawlowski was voted the out standing player of the tournament. Wood to coach wolves los angelas up Ray Wood coach of Barnsley in the English soccer league will coach the los Angeles wolves of the new North american soccer league it has been , 37, is a former goalkeeper with Manchester United. Ivory accounted for 76 of the win ners Points the former with 39 and the latter with 37. John Kirkpatrick paced the33rd Armor Quint with 28 tallies. Tom Doyle added 25 and Ray Davenport had 21. The 143rd and the 36th meet saturday night at Friedberg s Ray Barracks in the Champion ship play. Should the signal squad win the if necessary game willbe played at Drake Cavern in Frankfurt on sunday. Both games Are set to Start at 8 00 . More Maier Zinzell Germany up Speed skater Fred Anto Maier Norway s 5,000 meter Gold medallist added the world 3000-meter record to his list of International accomplishments at an invitational meet held ripped around the 400-meter circuit for a Tim of 4 minutes 17.5 seconds to eclipse the old Mark of4 18.4 set Here last year by Holland s Ard world Mark is the third to be currently held by Maier. He also holds records at 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters. After that it developed into a the yanks moved to a 44-3 5margin at the intermission and then outscored the dutch 58.24in the second half runaway once again the . Scor Newas spread throughout All 12 men with Smith and Herb de. Wards a pair of hard to defend shots sinking 8 of 11 Field goal attempts and three for threat the line for 19 Points Edwards a late addition tothe team who arrived Here tues Day fired in 17 Points while the moves around the Basket that made him a Sta with the Sasae big Blue to 1962-03-64. Taylor scored 12 into Brief appearances. Diminutive guard Fred Denius smallest but hustling St Man on the court once again led the dutch in scoring with 14 Points. Seven of the dutch were i foul trouble with at least four but Only Reserve Henny Breme fouled out. Both teams wound up wit slightly Over 40 per cent shoot ing percentages from the floor but the dutch were considerably More accurate in the first half hitting 45.7 per cent to the yanks 38.3."we looked much better in the second half said Moss. Our first half particularly the first 10 minutes was bad As we we retaking poor shots ones with no one under the Basket to . Was to play Greece Friday night and then wind up the tourney against defending Champion Italy following Satur Day s 6 30 . Opener Between the Netherlands and Greece. 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