European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes thursday april 4, t96il tl1 a celtics open 2nd half by rapping Lions 102-89 a _ a t z.  Ron Delacy staff writer Heidelberg is the us auteur seventh army troops celtics opened their bid for Theu Sarteur basketball tournament s second half championship Here tuesday night by beating the 24th div Lions 102-89. The celtics who dropped the first half title in a playoff with com z after finishing 6-1 in the first of two round Robins had moments of trouble with the Small scrappy Lions who had won Only two of their seven first half games. But that trouble was mostly confined to the first 10 minutes of the game and the celtics after taking the Load for Good inthe Middle of the opening half were Able to keep subsequent lion rallies from getting out of  Gray the heretofore sixth Man on the celtic team showed appreciation for a Start ing assignment by collecting 24points to share game scoring Hon ors with teammate Dewey Wil Liams and the Lions Murdock Williams. The 24th div s Dan King was next with 18 Points 14 of them coming in the second half. Heat out most of the first period after getting three Quick fouls Gray was also the court s most impressive player on defense and helped his Side maintain control of the backboards. His and6-foot-7 Dewey i of rebounds did Williams share leave much the prep scene eagles9 Turner mistic on track Outlook opt by Ron Delacy staff writer Over All i d say we re a Little bit weaker than last year said coach Joe Turner of us Desea s defending Champion Frank Furt track and Field team last week. But being the optimistic Type which i usually am i d like to say Well win it  Frankfurt s chances of repeating the personable Eagle coach indicated rest with the newcomers to the squad. We know about the ones coming Back he  Turner s list of nine returnees is Bernie Smith who took third in the Long jump and triple jump in last year s title meet an who has been a standout in the first two Eagle meets this  s five victories this year include a 21-foot, 8-Inch Lon jump and a 41-11 triple jump both of which Are the Best re ported so far in 1968 us Desea circles. He also has scored first and a second in the High  there s Eric thamm whose 1 57.1 800-meter run Las season would but for a technical Smith Ity give him a share of the us Tham Desea record. Trouble was thamm was judged second in the race to Orleans Don Hopkins. Their times were the same but Hopkins officially has the record All to himself. Thamm sat out Frankfurt s first meet this year with a sore leg but it s apparently All better now. He won his specially in Satur Day s quadrangular at Frankfurt in 2 04.0, beating out the Twoeagle teammates who had run one two in his opening meet a  teammates Hank Julian and Dave Caughey help make the eagles particularly Strong in the Middle distances and in the relays. Another big returnee is Bob Taylor last year s us Desea pole vault Champion. One big weakness Turner said is in the hurdles. But even there Fred Collins in the highs and Jon Johnson in the lows had Good enough times to win in saturday s  again of last year s title winning Eagle total of 36 Points in the us Desea meet none came out of the hurdles events. So High so Early it seems a trifle Young in the season to be Clearing 6-1 inthe High jump or 12 feet in the pole vault but those were the respective efforts of Augsburg s Greg Granderson and Karlsruhe s Ken Schupp in saturday s triangular at Karlsruhe. Both those performances by the Way were better than the Bestin the 1967 us Desea meet. It took 5-11 there to win the High jump and 11-6 to take the pole vault. Who s where this week tins saturday s track and Field schedule Frankfurt at Kaiserslautern Karlsruhe Wiesbaden. Munich and ludwigs Burg at Hei Delberg Baum older and Wuerzburg at Nuernberg Berlin bit Burgand Augsburg at Mannheim. In Tennis and soccer Nuernberg plays at Wiesbaden while Munich is at ludwigs Burg Heidelberg at Kaiserslautern Augsburg at Ber Lin Wuerzburg at Pitburg Bremerhaven at Mannheim and Karls Ruhe at Baum older. No coach for bearcats the mailman brought in this Quick response to last week s not about bad Kreuz Nach s not Fielding a track team dear sir the reason our school does not have a track team this year is because nobody wants to coach for us. We be got the boys for team but no coach but we Are planning to attend the Region us and meanwhile we Are keeping in practice sincerely the bearcats of bad Kreuz Nach american High  for anybody else. The celtics took immediate charge of the backboards but getting the Ball into the Bas Etwas another matter. The Lions broke and passed neatly away from the celtics Man to Man de sense making close Range shots to Lead 12-7. With 4m� minutes  then converted two steals into four Points and got two Moreon a tip in. The Lions never led  celtics spent most of the rest of the half increasing their Lead fattening it to 13 Points but the Lions rallied again inthe final three minutes of the period to Cut the Gap to Sevenpoints 44-37, by half me. King put the Lions As close a they were going to get to the Lead six Points with a three Point play Early in the second  the celtics started break ing free of the 24th div s full court press using Long passes to set up close undefended baskets. When Gray hit from the sideband added a tip in at 7 23, the celtics had the game s biggest Lead 82-59. The Lions made up 11 of those Points in the next three minutes but that rally ended with the reappearance of the celtic Start Usa eur troops ers. Both sides had been freely substituting and the celtics wound up with All 12 of their players in the scoring column celtic coach Bill Dildine was neither Overly pleased nor Dis appointed with his club s Sec Ond half debut. We had spots he said tet 8 just say we ,iw1,spots, where we showed we re ready to go the celtics play against tin 3rd div thursday night at Leifton Barrack in Wuerzburg Al Lions meanwhile will take on Etaf in Vicenza Italy 3rd div tops Stig Blue in a shocker Herzog Nakrach Germany special the longest winning and losing streaks in to Eusa eur basketball tournament were both ended Here tues Day night when the 3rd div Marne men upset the first Hal Champion com z big Blue 88-85. It was the opener for Bot sides in the second half of the double round Robin tourney. The Blue who finished the opening round at 6-1 and then beat us a eur seventh army troops in a playoff had won five  Marne men after winning 24th div opt Kuhlman 4 3-3 10 Alcorn Coltman 10-03 slip m. 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