European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and strikes sunday april 7, Carlos stench picked to he tap rookies new York up a 20-year-old kid who is scarcely wet behind the ears in the major league swim and a 27-year-old Travolino Man of the minor were selected saturday As the leading Rookie of the year Candi dates in 1968. They Are Catcher Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati reds who has played a total of 291games in organized baseball and Pitcher Cisco Carlos of the Long Range Leotis Martin tosses a Long left Over the head of Karl Mildenberger daring their heavyweight match a Frankfurt. Martin scored a knockout in the seventh round. A Martin scores 7th-round knockout Over Mildenberger in Frankfurt bout Frankfurt a american heavyweight Leotis Martin knocked out european Champion Karl Mildenberger in the seventh round of a scheduled 10-Rounderbefore 7,000 fans Here Friday night. Martin weighed 193 pounds while the German Ace tipped the Scales at 205.Mildenberger was Down twice in the seventh round from a series of Strong Hooks before dutch referee Ben Bril signalled the  actually was counted out eight seconds after the end of the seventh  Bell sounded when Bril reached two on his count but according to the rules the count continued and Mildenberger was unable to move. He was carried to his Corner by handlers bleed ing from the Mouth. The 28-year-old american seized the initiative at the open ing Bell and was in command throughout the fight. He quickly familiarized himself with Milden Berger s Southpaw style and consistently landed Long rights on nil s Kings lose protest Over goal Montreal up Clarenc Campbell president of the National hockey league Friday night upheld the no goal decision by referee Ron Wick levied during last saturday s los Angeles Oakland  Angeles protested because a Victory would have put the Kings into a first place tie with the Philadelphia flyers in the West division final standings re Quiring a playoff game to decide the division championship. The  game ended 2-2.at stake was not Only a Bonus for each player on the championship team and a bigger bundle for the Winner of thu Stanley cup playoffs but the cup games would have been affected too. Los Angeles maintained the disputed goal was scored before one of us players entered the goal crease while Oakland charged that the Kings interfered with their goalie. With lie game used 2-2 and Only five minutes left Losangeles rushed the Oakland goal while the seals were a Man Short. Kings forwarded Joyal fire a shot at the net and goalie Charlie Hodge was unable to hold on to the puck after stopping it. Oakland dec Neman aut Erickson and Bill Fleet of the Kings rushed in to grab the rebound but the puck rolled toward real Lemieux of the Kings who backhanded it into the  the instant the puck crossed the goal line Flett had already entered the goal crease with his right skate by at Leasta foot and his left foot had struck Hodge s body As he la prone on the ice with Fletus body completely in the goal crease Campbell ruled. Referee Wicks was station Dat the right of the goal a few feet away and had an unobstructed View of the play and he promptly signalled no  his opponent s  Martin was Able to draw Mildenberger into close fighting he also landed a series of powerful punches. Mildenberger s sporadic rights showed Little effect on Martin Martin clearly won the firs three rounds before Mildenberger appeared to rally As uie lighter american seemed to tire from the fast Pace. However Martin closed the sixth round with a stinging left Hook that signal Edthe beginning of the end. Milden Berger used the ropes to regain his feet in the seventh before a right Hook to the Chin brought thebout to a Climax. For Mildenberger it was the fifth defeat in 61 professional bouts and his fourth by a Knock out. He fought three draws. Mar tin meanwhile was scoring his24th Victory in 27 pro bouts. The defeat was expected topsoil Mildenburger s plans for a pair of fights against former world Champion Sonny Liston and British Empire titleholder Henry Cooper. The Liston scrap was envisioned for the end of the year while London promoter Harry Levine has indicated interest in a european title scrap against Cooper. Levene. However had indicated he would lose All interesting such a match if Mildenberger lost to  a non title welterweight match on the same fest Halle pro Gram West Germany s former european Champ Conny Rudrof scored a third round to Over Finland s Jaryno Bergloff. Anoil Ier non title Scran saw German Light heavyweight Lother Steng score a fourth round to Over Ireno Werlemann of South Amer Ica. Stengel is the reigning euro Pean Champion. Camp tour Chi sox impress Cronin Boston a american league president Joe Cronin says Chicago was the team that most impressed him in his annual swing around the spirit training Camps but he still anticipates another tight race i which Detroit and other clubs tuve shots at the Pennant the White sox were the most solid club i saw in Florida Cronin said at a preseason j luncheon meeting with Bosto baseball writers. You can t discount those four excellent pitchers left handers Gary Peters and Tommy John and right handers Joel Horlen and Cisco Carlos he  acquisitions Cronin said outfielder Tommy Davis acquired in an off season Trade is going to Supply Good punch for them and shortstop Luis Aparicio another new acquisition looks  Detroit also got a solid tag from Cronin. He said Don Wert one of the most underrated players in the league should Bounce Back from a sub Par year in 1967 and Eddie Mathews Bat for a whole season should help them especially in that  said the bullpen might be better than expected this season. Barring accidents they la be1-2 All year i think he said. Minnesota did t look although it had jelled Cronin said although slugger Harmo Killebrew looked As Good As Ever and Bob Allison was hav ing the Best Spring i be seen him  for the defending Cham pions whose pitching problem include the loss of injured 22 game Winner Jim Lonborg forthe Early part of the season. Cronin said that infield an Outfield where Are you going to get better ones he said Gar Waslewski has pitched Well in Florida and can pick up some of the  the others of other clubs Cronin said Baltimore a Good solid club everywhere except in pitching. Boom Powell has really slimmed Down and looks like a different Guy. If they happened to get some pitching they la be very  have a lot of Good looking Young  second baseman Frank Coggins looks like another Rod Crew. Del Unser looks like a real plugging hustling Outfield Chicago White sox who Wai with eight teams in seven minor leagues from i through Bench was named Tho standing candidate for soothe year honors in the Nati league and Carlos was select Din the american league in Thi United press international1annual preseason Survey of m exports. Fourteen rookies tin the no and eight in the Al were mentioned in the Survey Bench a 8-foot, much. Pounder from Oklahoma City okla was chosen by 15 expert Pitcher Alan Foster of the it Angeles dodgers and shortstop Don Money of the Philadelphia Phillies received three vote and Catcher Hal King of the Houston astros Pitcher Gary Wagner of the Phillies an outfielder Bob Rau drum of the reds one each. Carlos who stands 6 feet i inches and weighs 205 pounds beat out third baseman Sal Bando of the Oakland athletics eight votes to six. In the Al balloting. Outfielder Reggie Jackson of the athletics received three votes and second baseman Mike Ferraro of Tho Washington senators and third baseman Mike Ferraro of the new York Yankees two each. Other vote outfielders Merv Rettenmund and Dave May of the Baltimore orioles and Del Unser of the senators rounded out the balloting with one vote each. Despite his inexperience Bench has been virtually conceded the reds regular catching Job and scouts Are almost unanimous in predicting that he will develop into a  he is considered n exceptional mechanical Catcher with an outstanding Arm and a High Power although possibly Low average  was recalled from Buffalo of the International league last aug. 28 and hatted a Mere .163 in 26 games for the reds. He had a .259 average with 23 homers and 68 run batted in for 98 games at Buffalo. Me batted .248 in 68games for Tampa in 1965 and .294 in s8 games for Peninsula in 1086 before being promoted to the triple a International league in 1967. Well travel Carlos a native of Monrovia calif., always kept his bag packed As he wandered around the minors Between 1961 and1967. He made stops at Idaho Falls in the Pioneer a Asur  have some of continued on Page u Harlan in the appalachian Visalia in the California Clinton in the Midwest Eugene in the Northwest and Lynchburg in the Southern compiling a a record during his first five seasons in organized  big right hander sudden showed Progress when he posted 15-8 record and a 2.85 earned run average for Evans Vule the Southern league in 1966 and attracted the White sox Atten Tion with an 11-8 Mark and a 2.63 Era for Indianapolis in the Pacific coast league Lasi season. ,. The White sox brought him up at the end of the season an were deeply impressed by his 0 showing and 0.86 Era in innings. No open net for Spain Barcelona Spain up the president of the Spanish Tennis federation has announced Here that Spain will Noton Junly. Any open tournament this reason