European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday april 2, Smith first half Champ in asterisk Usa eur Cage scoring scramble Darmstadt Germany is Berlin s bears May have finished in the Middle of the pack for the first half of the Usa eur basketball tournament but they Dhave to rank pretty close to the Bottom in the scoring  for the first half of the Usa eur schedule look Asif they caught the measles the result of asterisks spotting the columns. The asterisks Are there be cause scoring statistics from the Berlin Home games can t be verified because either no scoring Book was kept or it did not total nut. Only figures for the 32nd Aad com players at Berlin Are Barcelona race won by Stewart Barcelona Spain a Jackie Stewart of Scotland driving a Matra won the Barcelon grand prix formula 2 Auto race sunday. The race does not count for world championship formula 2  Pescarolo of France in a Matra was second and Chris Amon of new zealand in a Ferrari finished  of the favourites in the race Jim Clark of Scotland an Jochen Rindt of Austria dropped  broke the Mon Jucht circuit record in the fifth Lap bettering the previous record held by Jean  withdrew on the second Lap while Rindt left the circuit on the 43rd Lap. After several seconds he came Back on to the track until the 52nd Lap when he finally  was the hero of the race. He took the Lead from the beginning and soon had a five second Lead Over Rindt who Wasin second place until his with  and Amon kept up a Strong Duel in the last 10 Lap for second place which the French racer won by Only two seconds. They alternated in third and fourth places until Rindt left the track. Twenty two cars entered therace Over 60 laps of the circuit 141.3 Miles finished. But Only eight Mexico City up Moisess Plana of Mexico staved off engine trouble on the late Lap sunday to win the first Mexico City International Auto race for group seven sports racing cars. The race counts toward the sports car club of America  took Over the Lead in his Lola Chevrolet on the 30thlap and held it through the end despite a steadily growing Cloudo White smoke pouring from the exhaust to win $4,000.skip Scott of the . Was Ond in a Lola Chevrolet about 10seconds behind Solana. Peter Revson of the . Was third Ina Lola Ford in the 50-Lap, 250-Kil Ometer race. Astro Catcher sent Down Cocoa Fla. Up the Houston astros have optioned Catcher Ron Brand to Oklahoma City of the Pacific coast league. Brand 28, had been Houston Sno. 2 Catcher the past three seasons. Available because the defenders had their own Book which did total , de Billy Smith did t get involved and he walked off with the scoring title. Smith ended up with 216 Point sin eight games for a 27.0 aver  Russell of Berlin with his abbreviated totals vaulted int second place on a 25.7 average Over Reggie Greene of the 3rddiv, who had a 23.7 Mark. Alex Taylor tallied at a 23.2-per-game clip and Perry Polinski of the 32nd Aad com and Roy Sipp of the Usa eur seventh army celtics tied in the no. 5spot with a 20.7 Mark. One newcomer crept into the top 10, setae s Herman Bald win who popped in 28 Points in his final first half Effort. Team Wise the two leaders remained com z and the 32nd Aad com with the defender getting a close run in defensive honors from the 8th  z is still Well above the 100-Point-per-game Mark with 839points for a 104.9 average. The celtics also remain Over 100points per game at 100.8. The 32nd Aad com has Given up three fewer Points than the pathfinders from the 8th divan holds a five tenths of a Point Edge on defense. Setae finally climbed under 100-Points-per-tilt yielded in its final tussle holding the 8th div to Only 82 in dropping its sixth  the second half com z starts off with a Toughie enter Taining the improved 3rd div Marne men at Herzo base. The celtics Host the 24th div the 8th div travels to Berlin and the32nd Aad com journeys to be Taf in other games  first half statistics individual scoring Fig it to ave a. Smith com z8 78 60 21627.0 Russel Berlin. 4 "103 25.7 Greene 3rd div. 7 70 26 166 23.7taylor, Berlin. .4 93 23.2 Polinski 32nd7 56 33 145 20.7 Sipp Usa eur Gordon 3rd div latin 3rd div. 6 48 24 12020.0 m. Williams 24th Baldwin setae reflects absence of verified totals from three games at Berlin where no official score Book was kept. 7 � 145 20.7 7 59 26 144 20.6 6 �118 19.7 6 47 23 11719.5 team offence g to 8 839806 659644 606599 597 586 Cora z Usareur-7th army 8 Berlin 73rd div 32nd Aad com 724th div 7 setae 8th div 7 team defense g tp32nd Aad com. 7 582 St div 7 585com z 8 720 Usareur-7th army 8 733 3rd div 7 652 24th div 683berlin 7 684 setae 698 a won playoff for first half title Apfl. 104.9 100.8 94.1 92.0 86.6 85.6 85.3 83.7 avg 83.1 83.6 90.0 91.6 93.1 97.6 97.7 99.7 signs Louette pact Montreal a the Mon Treal Alou ettes of the Canadian football league have signed do Witherspoon of Michigan after the 6-foot-3, 243-Pound defensive lineman failed in a tryout last year with Detroit. Waits turn the Littlest Cepeda Orlando jr., 2, Waits his turn for the batting Cage at the St. Petersburg Fla., training Camp of the St. Louis cardinals. Maybe he s hoping to get an Earl Start in trying to duplicate his papa s 1967 feat winning the National league s most valuable player award. A photo wins 500 at Atlanta continued front Page it ago on the iy2 mile Atlanta g International raceway track. L the race watched by a crowd estimated at a record 83,000 by i track officials took three hours f59 minutes and 24 seconds. Atlanta a Here Are the Resuli to the finishers in the Atlanta 500 Stock car race sunday with japs completed. 1, Cale Yarborough Timmonsville. So1968 Mercury 334,.$20,050. " 2, Lee Roy Yarbrough Columbia so i1968 Mercury 334, $9,285. 3, Donnie Allison Hueytown ala.,Ford, 333, $5,365. 4, Charlie Glotzbach Georgetown i1968 Dodge. 332, $3,225. 5, Darel Dieringer Charlotte , 332, $2,300. 6, Richard Petty Randleman i1968 Plymouth 331, $1,775. " 7, buddy Baker Charlotte n.c.,Dodge, 331, $1,200. 8, Bobby Isaac Catawba n.y.,Dodge, 330, .$1,075. 9, Sam Mcquagg Columbus ga., 19511dodge, 329, $1,000. I 10, Butch Hartman Zanesville Ohio i1968 Dodge 327, $850. 11, Jim Hurtubise North Tonawanda in.y., 1968 Mercury 322, $750. J 12, tiny Lund Cross s.c., 1968 mercu.1ry, 322, .$700. 13, Friday Hassler Chattanooga tens,1966 Chevrolet 320, $7001 14, Frank Warren Augusta ga., Chevrolet 318, $670. 15, James Hylton Inman s.c., 196 Dodge 313, $.630." i 16, Dave Marcis West Salem wis., 196 1chevrolet, 304, $575. 17, Elmo Langley Landover md., Ford 299, $550. 18, Clyde Lynn Christianburg va.,Mercury, 294, $600. 19, Bobby Allison Hue town ala., Mlford 291, $1,015. New Mentor gave 14th army Cal impetus to gain v corps finals bad Hersfeldt Germany special in Early february the 3rd Squadron 14th armed Cav was a team going nowhere a 4-7 record left it Well Down in the standings of its own league. However tuesday the 14thcav Quint will tackle the 37th engr up in the v corps championship the opener slated for Pioneer gym in Hanau at 8  army Cav cagers Are fresh from knocking off two Loop Cham pions after just barely qualifying for the title  of the big reasons is coach James Payne who came onto the scene in the first week in february and quickly saw the Tea had Talent but was t properly organized. The 14th Cav won its last Furloo tilts to tie for second place and won. A special playoff to qualify for the championship tourney. The first obstacle was the Cen trial league Kingpin 2nd in 83rd arty which fell in two  same Fate came to Provo in special tips which had taken the Southern Loop. The latest victim was the corps special tips. The 14th Cav expects to do Well despite losing their top scorer Leonard Davis who had a 22-Point-per-game average before  there Are still two players who score about 20 per tilt Roncole a 6-foot-2 Forward who is Mickey Wright Victor by four with 215 in Palm Beach open Boynton Beach Fla a Mickey Wright fired a 73 sunday and won the ladies Palm Beach county open Golf tournament with a three round total of 215. Four strokes Back were Ruth Essen and Carol Mann. Miss Jessen had a 73 and miss manna 72 sunday. Miss Wright won $1,875 while Unser triumphs Las vegas Nev. A Bobby Unser Albuquerque . Ran out of fuel at the Heckerd Flag but still captured the stardust 150-mile race Sun Day second Stop in the . Auto club championship  drove his rear engine Eagle Ford to Victory after Mario Andretti ran out of fuel with five laps to go. Andretti two time National Champion returned to the race seven seconds behind Unser an almost charge made to the successful finish. He Cut three seconds off Unser s Leadon the final Lap. The second place finishers got$1,650 each. The winners Mickey Wright $1,8757 -71-73 215 Ruth Jessen. $1,65073-73-73219carol Mann $1.65073-74-72219 Sandra Haynie $97572-77-82221kathy Whitworth $800 Margie masters $675 74-75-74 22373-76-75224 Betsy Rawls $57574-76-75225 Marlene Hagge $47279-73-75227judy Kimball $47278-75-74227 Clifford Ann Creed $40074-77-77 228sandra Post $34776-74-79229 Sharon Miller $34776-77-76 _ 229donna Caponi $25873-78-79230 Sandra Spuzich $25874-77-79 so Marilynn Smith $258 74-71-75230sharron Lilder $25877-78-75230 Candy Phillips $19078-75-78231 Murle Lindstrom $19076-79-76 _ 231sybil Griffin $14475-79-78 23 Mary Mills $14479-73-80232joann Prentice $144 76-77-79232sharon Moran. $12078-78-77233 Louise Suggs $10777-80-77234peggy Wilson $10774-79-81234 Jane Woodworth $5177-80-78235 1 81-77-77-235austin72-83-80-235 Jan ferraris $51 .,.,79-81-75-235 Amateur now the team s top printmaker and Captain Dick Whitman Ai guard. Jim Singletary a 6-6 Center provides the height arid Forward Mckinley Mccain and guard Bil Swindall round out the starting five. But basically the key to clubs Success says Payne is team Effort and he Points of that any one of the five is Caf Pable of hitting double figures 01any Given occasion. Frankfurt special commands who chose not to enter  Usa eur basketball tournament will have a Chance to Cap Ture other laurels in the v corp invitational tourney Here apr 19-21. Among those quilts who hav entered Are the 3rd army div i 1st in 36th arty the 4th bjl41st arty from Vii corps and the 115 is in from 7th army support come. The entries from v corps anil4th army div Are now be incl determined in unit championships. All games in the double  meet will be played All Gibbs Barracks gym Here Witt the opening tilt slated for 1  on the 19th. The tourney final will be played at 2 . On Ali 21st, with the if necessary Seconi game set for 8 . The Sarr Day. White sox trims Sarasota Fla. A baseman Cotton Nash and piers Fred Rath and i eke Abarbanel have been dropped from the Chicago White so roster. Nash was optioned Hawaii of the Pacific colleague and Abarbanel and were sent to Chicago s Minoi league Camp