European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Morch 17, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 21 Bower shocks ski world. A in cagers a h Cha t a. Pm. A a wins Oslo nordic combined John school Bower teacher Maine saturday Luln ski history bythe nordic combined he 70th annual Holmen Kolen ski becomes the first Amer ican Ever to win the covet Edse s cup set up by the nine 25 g s cup Norway Kin for the Over All Vic tory nov of the nordic combination of 15-Kilometer Cross country ski eng and is also the first Ameri can to Ever win any event Ati Holme Kollen the Mecca of nordic skiing since it All Start de in 1892.he is the first yank to win a major nordic combined title in International skiing history. Bower who placed 10th in the 1964 olympic Winter games and 13th in the Grenoble olympics won the 15-Kilometer race thurs Dayan followed it up with Fine jumps of 78.5, 81.0 and 68.5meters in the jumping event sat Speed was reduced in the third round of jumps after Gjert Andersen of Norway established a new Hill record of 89.5 meter sin the second round. Andersen and Vyacheslav dry Gin of rus Sia finished second and third place behind Bower in the combined. Bower finished with 456.80points while Andersen had 447.75 and Drjagin 445.51.in the second jump in the nordic combined Bower All but clinched the first nordic combined Victory for an american jumping a stylish 81.0 meters which gave him the third place in the second jump and a third place in the Over All standings after two jumps but he ended Trees add Beauty Challenge to Golf course at Stuttgart by John Williamson staff writer Stuttgart Germany is a Bright warm Sun broke briefly through the Clouds hovering Over the Stuttgart Golf course Friday morning and suddenly twas summer. The illusion was Short lived however and it was Back to the discussion of prospects for Spring and summer yet to come amid the attractive decor of the club newly decorated dining room. Club custodian Mike Wood Ward and club manager Clark Braddock were enumerating the things that had been accomplished during the past Winter to make the course More at Tractive and interesting to Golf ers during the coming season. It s not that we be made an major alterations declared Mike but we be worked hard adding several Hundred Trees that will improve the Beauty of the course and in some cases add interest to the playing of the holes. We eliminated an unplayable Hazard from behind the first Green and kept constantly after our greens and fairways when weather permitted. We had a excellent Basic layout to begin with and our main concern has cokes records unanimous win in non title go Oakland a welter get Champion Curtis cokes. An unanimous 10-Roundnon-title decision Over Jimmy Lester Friday , 154, of Dallas dropped Ter 155, san Francisco in. Third round and Shook him 011 several other occasions. Pester swarmed Over cokes Ine five Roun is and p from " rely on counter appeared in kept an of an offensive and making punches. To have theron when cokes n 1"? with a right to Cheuu and dropped him. Although Lester never went h u he was stun i in the two ppm and a wit to the Chin. Jukes word Ster is Ai. Is now 49-9-2. Been to get it in the Best pos sible shape for the official open ing on april 21."on that Date the club will kick off its tournament schedule witha Shotgun event that will of Fer prizes for a Blind bogey Lowneta score Low Gross score Long est drive and closest to the hol Competition. Other tournaments Are scheduled throughout the sea son with the Spring match play championship set for May an the fall championships to be held in september and highlight of the tournament slate will be a series of four Home and Home meets to be contested with the Rota Spain Berlin Heidelberg and ram Stein clubs. The Home and away match will be played in each of four months starting in May. Still hoping we Are still hoping to get our summer greens open by the first of april stated Braddock butt looks now As though it might be nearer the 15th." play has on the temporary however and Woodward maintains that carefully conducted studies during the Winter proved conclusively that a Rednall is better than a Green one for play in ladies also have an extensive program lined up for the summer but have not yet com piled a firm schedule. Each thursday will be ladies Clay with women having priority off the tee until noon. Club professional Glen Richardson will also con duct a free clinic each thurs Day morning to help the ladies work out the rough spots in then games. The course will be open foreplay seven Days a week with Only the dining and bar facilities closed on monday. The driving Range will be open on wednes Days thursdays weekends and holidays. Reservations open Only to members will be required Foi starting times on saturdays Sun Days and holidays. Non members May play Upo payment of greens fees or presentation of membership car from any of the other military courses in Europe. A Well stocked pro shop is operated on the premises and rental clubs Are available for the golfer who finds himself in the Stuttgart Are with time on his hands and to own clubs at Home. Up fourth in the Overall jump beat 24th div in i Salt l ii , who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs 168 pounds was Bornn Lewiston Maine moving to Auburn Maine and later to Middlebury it. Where he is now representing Middlebury Moun Tain club. He won the . National nordic combined title Las year and was fourth in special lumping that s coach Art Tokle said that Bower s Victory was Thebes performance Ever made by an american skier in Nordi Competition. It cannot be done much better than the King s Cupin Holme Kollen it is quite As Good As an olympic Gold medal Tokle said. The Leader for the . Team Al Merril said this is great for our nordic skiing program and it will be an inspiration for our other nordic began approaching top form when he placed seconding the swedish ski festival at Falun three weeks ago. Two weeks ago however he was ninth Only in the finnish ski festival at Lahti. But saturday Bower beat West Germany s olympic Champion Franz Keller and All the rus sians and scandinavians. He became the seventh for Eigner Ever to win the nordic combined class in others were Sven Israelsson of Sweden in 1947, Heikki has of Finland in 1952, Paavo kor Honen of Finland in 1957, Niko Lai Gusakov of Russia in 1961, Georg Thoma of West German Yin 1963, 1964 and 1965 and Franz Keller last year. Going to retire now i m going Back to retirement and will continue As ski coach at Middlebury College vt.," Bower said after the Triumph. A Victory in Holme Kollen Isth most any skier can obtain during his career. I have Benin the International skiing so Long now that i have to concentrate More on the future As teacher he la take part in the big Spe Cial jumping contest sunday but monday you can count me among the retired skiers Bower was congratulated by Kel Ler Andersen and was unbeatable to Day Keller commented. Lauded by King Olav this was a Victory that you really deserved King Olav of Norway told Bower. You Are an excellent jumper and the King s cup landed where it should be the King is my biggest Triumph and it is in fact my Only Triumph said Bower. Now Call it quits. This was my Las Competition and it also turned out to be the happiest in asked Why he Only placed 13tlin the 1968 olympics Bower Sak that nordic skiing often is Hardtop understand and to calculate i got into top shape a Little Toolate but i think this Victory is almost As Good As a Victory i the olympics. Berlin special ale Taylor j. J. Smith and Tim Bussell propelled Berlin to a58-Point second half As the bears ook the measure of the 24thdiv Lions 97-86, Here saturday n the opening game of the us a eur conference level Basket Ball championship by three Points at in permission 42-39, after a Sloppy first half the bears moved into Ligh gear and turned the Gam around. Scoring Taylor too honors with the game23, Smith and Russell had 21 each. With 3 30 gone in the second Urga lists 2 exemptions for . Open new York up the United states Golf association announced the creation of two new classes of exemptions Friday that professional will enable golfers to More gain automatic eligibility for the 1968u.s. Open championship. The Urga will exempt the winners of the last five pea titles from qualifying that will take place on the local and then sectional Levels to produce a150-Man Field for the tournament to be played at the Oakhill country club in Rochester . June 13-16. Previously Only the previous year s pea Champ gained an automatic exemption. Sectional qualifiers also winners of All 50 pea events during the 12-month period ending immediately be fore the deadline for open entries May 1, will gain automatic berths in the Section Al qualifying. Championships. The sectionals will be held june3-4 at 13 Sites around the professionals and any Amateur with a Handicap not exceeding two strokes computed under the Urga Golf Handicap system Are eligible to enter the local qualifying event which will be held in 56 locations May 20-21 and will determine berths in the sectionals. Half Smith hit a Hook shot Toive the bears a 48-47 Lead. But he Lions came Back and tied up the contest on two occasions 5-65 and 67-67. Russell converted a three Point play into a 70-67 Berlin Ead with 9 11 left and the Lions if coach Howard Clark never could catch up. In the final two minutes of he game Berlin went into a stall leading 92-86. The bears gave up the Ball twice within hat time but Russell stole it ight Back both times. Mistakes were numerous and Berlin played the slowest first half it has All season Long. Thad been averaging 55-Points a me for the first half and had never been below 40 until this game. Though the Lions took the Ead at the opening 1,0, Berli was in command nearly All of the first half until the last few minutes when the Lions behind Murdock Williams and Jim Kuhl Mann jumped in front. Six Point margins Berlin s biggest advantage Inge first half was six Points. It led 14-8 and 18-12. The Lions tied it up 18-18 with 10 19 left but Ray Thomas who scored 10 of his 14 Points in the first half helped move the boars to a 27-21 advantage. With 2 49 left in the half Kuhlmann hit on a jumper to push the Lions to a 38-37 started off playing a 2-1-2 zone but later went into it usual press. Williams led the 24th with 21points on 10 Field goals and one free throw. Charles Avan scored 15 before fouling out with 22 seconds remaining. Dan King also tallied 14 for the losers. Eric Sorenson scored 16 Pointras Berlin put five men in double teams were guilty of numerous turnovers mainly be cause of a Slick new , Berlin will travel to Wuerzburg to meet the 3rd div while the 24th div hosts the 32nd Aad com in Augsburg. Athens captures volleyball title Athens special Athens Defeated in Ciurlik 15-4 and 15-5hero Friday to win the Safe Mediterranean conference volleyball clubs will Advance to the Safe tournament schedule for Alconbury England March 26-30.Athens went through the double elimination tourney undefeated both of in Ciurlik s defeats Carat the hands of Athens. In Ciurlik beat Samsun 15-7 and 15 earlier in the Day to gain the title match. Sidel Ineil Toronto up Winger Wayne Carleton of the Toronto Maple Leafs will be dropped from the lineup for remainder of the season because of a cracked wrist the Leafs announced , in his third season of professional hockey has scored eight goals and had 11 assists in 55 games this season with the Leafs. His total National hockey league record including this season is 62 games nine goals 12 assists 21 Points 48-minutes complained thursday night of a pain in his wrist and a rays revealed a broken Bone apparently the result of wednesday night s game at St. Louis against the blues. Hayes tops coat lies Vot Minneapolis Minn. Up Houston s Elvin Hayes edged out Urcla s Lew Alcindor As the top vote getter on the 1967-68 All America basketball squad announced saturday by the National association of Basket Ball received 2,147 Points in the balloting conducted for the coaches association by the wheaties sports federation. Alcindor got 2,143 Points in the balloting by the nation s College m e m b e r s of the coaches first string All America were Westley Unseld of Louis Ville Larry Miller of North Carolina and i vie Maravich of Louisiana team selections were Lucius alien of Urcla. Don mayor Dayton Calvin Murphy of Niagara to of lire and Lule of Kansas
