European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 20 the stars and stripes Safur Doy March u a 1,11 four games launch Usa eur Cage play by boo Odem staff writer Darmstadt Germany is Heidelberg Berlin Frankfurt and Vicenza Italy will be the Cage capitals of Europe saturday for the opening of the Susareu conference level basketball championship  Sites will Start what is c Pec Tecl to be some of the wild est shooting St basketball seen in this part of the world in sometime. Eight commands will display their Best during the next six weeks and it is assured that basketball fans won t be lacking for  tournament will consist of two halves during which the teams will play each other twice. A Champion will be crowned when the winners of the halves meet in late april. There won t be much rest i Between games. During the 14 Williams Alcorn four game schedules there willbe one Day of rest Between each slate with one exception an four Days Between the halves. So condition will be an important Factor. The four game tip off saturday will have the 24th div meeting Berlin in the Berlin sports Centeral 2 . 8th div faces com z at Frankfurt s Blozis Hall at 7 30p.m. 32nd Aad com and usar eur seventh army tips meet i Heidelberg s Campbell Barracks at 8 . And 3rd div plays Etaf at Camp Ederle in Vicenza at 8 . Not one team can be Clas Sedas a favorite but there Are Sev eral which Are rated stronger than the others. They Are in particular Usa eur seventh army special tips and the com z big Blue. Most coaches pro or College tend not to build up their teams at least for the press and the same holds True for the Usa eur quintets this Yea with one exception. That one exception is Bill dil Dine coach of the Usa eur seventh army tips celtics who has said that his club will walk away with the championships. Dildine s brashness has added zest 19 the championships and fans will scrutinize his club throughout the Competition. No one can match Dildine optimism and maybe his team too. His club one of the tallest is led by Roy Sipp 33-Pomt aver age guard 6-foot-7 Dewey Wil Liams a 25-Pomt average Center Roger Johnson 6-7 and Ken Al Corn and Clarence Gray Toth 6-3. So maybe Dildine has plenty of reasons to sound off which i welcomed in comparison to the same old crying Towel stuff coaches usually  s club May be loaded offensively but How defensively sound it is will be known after its encounter with the defenders of 32nd Aad com and their 30 Point average men in Dave Maro Vich and Bob  will be plenty of fast breaking and running at Frank Furt in the com z big Blue-8th div Pathfinder clash. Both clubs Are the run run types but the big Blue will have a decided advantage in height. Com z coach Jim Wilder Withan overabundance of Talent will have practically the same Tea that won the shape tourney for the . Heading the group Isbos Lohse 5-10, Roger Bright 6-5, de Smith 6-8, Chuck Washington 6-3, and Herb Edwards 6-5 and Curt  thursday another top scorer joined the big Blue to add to its depth. He s Loston Benton Sindab Jennings Marokh Lohse Gardner Fitzgerald 1st american to Cap Oslo ski race Oslo a John Hovver a 27-year-old schoolteacher from a Burn Maine wrote american ski history thursday by winning the 15-Kilometer race of the nordic combined event in the 70th hol me Kollen games. Bower s 50-minute, 22.1-Secondfinish made him the first Ameri can Ever to win a Homenko Glencross country race. Finland s Eero Maen tyrant one of the greatest Cross country skiers Ever bade a triumphant Farewell to big time skiing Byo tracing the rest of the inter National elite in a special 15-Kilometer race. Maen tyrant clocked 46 min utes 30.5 seconds beating norwegian runner up Paal Tyl Dum Bya big margin of 48.3 seconds. Bower took 240 Points with his Victory toward the combined Lamonica edges Dawson in Al passing race new York up Daryl Lamonica who led the Oakland raiders to the american football league championship has been crowned the circuit individual passing Leader of the 1967 season in a close finish with Len Dawson of the Kansas City chiefs. Official league statistics showed that Lamonica led All other passers with 30 touchdown passes and had the lowest percentage of interceptions 4.7. He completed 220 of 425attempts for a .518 percentage 3,228 Yards and an average gain of 7.60. Dawson the 1966 Leader was second in the Overall ratings with 206 completions on 357attempts for a .577 percentage 2,651 Yards and a 7.43 average gain. Dawson s .577 percentage was no. 1 in the  Namath of the new York jets ranked third John Hadl of the san Diego chargers was fourth and Bob Griese of the Miami dolphins was fifth. The top 10 passers a . Comp. Pet. Cd. Yes. Us Nonica Oakland 425 220 .518 3228 7.60 Dawson run. City 357 20fl .577 2 551 7.43 Namath new York 4 1 258 .525 1007 8.18 Hadl san Lopo Gleao Miami Parlell Boston tonal. Denver Kemp Buffalo Beaulard pc Hou. Norton Miami 427 217 .50833657.88 331 100 .502 2005 0.00 344 101 .468 2317 8.74 325 131 .403 1915 5.89 369 1b1 .436 2503 6.78 231 94 .-107 1114 4.82 133 d3 .398 596 4.48 017th engr evens playoff at Iso Oeh of Iione Cist Germany special the 317th engr Liri turned Back the 1st so 3rd Arius c a 71-54. Here thursday to even their Best of three Prayom for a spot in the v corps battalion level Basket Ball tournament. The teams were to meet again Friday at Floe Cost in a to or die finale to determine which club goes to the tournament scheduled to open saturday. The 317th rolled to a 37-20 half time Lead behind Cen or Edward Miller who pulled Clown 25 re Bounds and scored 22 Points be fore his removal after being injured in a collision Early in the second  height led 3rd Cav with 22 Points. New York a aging George Blanda last season be came the first player in Ameri can football league history to win the scoring title solely on place kicking. Official statistics released Fri Day show Blanda with 116 Points for Al Champion Oakland. He kicked 20 of 30 Field goals at tempted and added a league leading 56 extra Points. Blanda missed one conversion kick Dur ing the season. Rookie Jan Stenerud of Kan Sas City finished second with 108 Points. He had a league leading21 Field goals in 36 tries. Another kicker Gino Cappel Letti of Boston the i960 Cham Pion finished third with 95points. Cappelletti also serves As a  non kicker among the scoring leaders was new York sleet Emerson Boozer who finished sixth with 78 Points on league leading new Yor Little Denver s High priced Rookie running Back led the american football league in punt return statistics for 1967.figures released hero showed Little gained 270 Yards on 16 re turns for a league leading 16.3 average. He also ran one Puttback for a touchdown the Only one scored on a punt return inthe Al last season. Oakland s Rodger Bird was second returning a record 46 punts for 612 Yards. Bird also had the longest of the season a 78-yarder against san  Duncan of san Diego 13 touchdowns. A Floyd the 1966third with Yards. Champion,36 returns finished for 434 Keller s jumping form has slumped somewhat recently while Bower is improving. The title. Mikkel Dobloug of Norway was second with 238.18 and mar Kus Svendsen of Norway third with 236.93.the jumping part of the event is scheduled saturday. Favo Redis olympic Champion Franz Kel Ler of West Germany although John Bower. Surprises ski world american placed 13th in the Grenoble olympics. The Only american who had managed to take Home a Victory from Holmen Oilen termed the Mecca of skiing was David Hicks who won the juniors jumping contest three years ago. In the opinion of experts Here Bower s Cross country Victory was a sign that the . Is gain ing ground in nordic skiing. Except for a few special jumpers the americans have always been lagging far behind the International elite in the nordic events. Sup com volleyball scheduled for Hunu Boe Bingen Germany Spe Cial seventh army support come s 1968 company level volleyball championships have been slated for March 30 at Flieger Horst Cavern in Hanyu. Six teams from the six athletic regions in Sui com will be participating in the one Day double elimination tourney. The Winner will Advance to the Usa eur cont any level championships i Wuerzburg april 11-20. Fl-4, a former Wiley lege Ace who a game with this Star studded Astyig Blue May do exactly Wildene had predicted his the pathfinders of Carlson will be looking big Blue but will use Mel Johnson who placed in the simple tourney and lamented a Are the fastest while bin Chatman and William Jennin rate As deadly shots. G8 the 24th div s Small club possesses plenty of Good shooters to fire Over the towering Berlin Bear quintet which averages Over six feet per  Williams 6-5, James Kuhlman m and Deacon Gar Ner Are the leaders of the Lions while j. J. Smith and Waynesmith both 6-6, and Alex Taylor and Hank Hemphill at 6-5 each put the bears into the Clouds carrying the Load for themar Nemen of the 3rd div against setae will be 6-1 guard Roland latin Kuhlmann latin who averaged 26 Points per game in Marne league  setae is to stay with the Marne men it must put the clamps on latin. But toy Fitz Gerald. 6-3, and John Coker 64, give the 3rd div extra scoring punch and Tom Gordon is its defensive  Lew Mckenna s setae club has Only one Man Over i and five of the players have had Only High school experience. This Lack of experience and height leaves setae with probably the biggest problems facing any team in the championships. Setae s tallest Man is Flem ing Richmond 6-6. Forwards Charles Davis 6-2 /2 and Willie Wade 6-2, should provide Flem ing with some scoring punch. Monday s schedule will in com z playing at Vicinza against setae Berlin takes on 3rd diva Wuerzburg Usa eur seventh army tips meets the 8tn div at bad Kreuz Nach and Aad com faces 2-Lth Augsburg. All in All. The championships should have a Little bit of every thing a basketball fan enjoys. Athens in Ciurlik grab volleyball victories Athens special Athens and in Ciurlik took first roid Vic tories in the Sakk Mediterranean conference Volley Bau championships.  beat Piyu Bakir our key As 15-10 and 15-h, and Ciurlik toppled Samsun lust. As 13-15, 15-2, 15-4. Ate meets in Ciurlik in i kirov bracket game and Samsun i on Diyarbakir in n 1"""T u Sion contest of the do nation meet. Boston soccer switch Boston