European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday Apuli for 1968 the stars and stripes Page 21 if Lark mastered every phase of racing. Ion Don up Jim Clark 32-Yeard son of a Scott Tah sheep Farmer who killed sunday Bockenheim pc Many to ims became the first British Driver to win the indianapolis500-mile race. He became the youngest Man to i nip world Drivers championship in so s and took the title again in 1965.this season he topped the legendary 24 grand prix championship wins of Argentina s Juan Manuel fati Gio. Clark started in Auto racing at thenice of 20 and was scottish Speed Chain Nion for two years before he won i first Grund prix at Pau in 1961. He took second place in the Indian polls event in 1963 and returned u Europe to win the belgian dutch French and British grand prix. Wins the same year at Monza Italy Mexico and South Africa made him the first Driver in motor racing history Towin seven championship events in one season. In 1965, when he made his Lotus Ford the first British car to win the coveted Indianapolis 500, he was the first Driver to win five consecutive grand prix races. Lie passed Anglo s accumulative total on new year s Day this year winning the South african Girand As one of the world s great grand prix Drivers and probably the greatest produced by Britain Clark was modest and once said i Don t get a thrill out of driving fast. It s the Art of driving i the slim dark haired Scot mad Auto racing his overriding passion for More than half his life but he was also keenly interested in music and photo Auto racing great Britain s Stirling Moss tipped him As a future world Champion almost As soon As he entered the formula i class. He joined the Lotus team in 1960and helped to make it one of the most prominent on racing circuits through out the world. He first drove a car on his father farm in Berwickshire but when Bis parents Learned of his Auto racing ambitions they were firmly set against knew nothing of his first race until it was Over. He managed to get a drive on a scottish racing circuit an came last. He was then too Young to have a licence to drive on Public roads. Clark had several brushes with death on the Racetrack but he never suffered More than slight injury even when he demolished a Brick Wall at Aintree. The most eligible Bachelor in the motor racing world he never married. He remained a Farmer for most of his career but he lived outside Britain during the last year for tax reasons having residences in Bermuda Paris and monday he was due to return to Britain for the first time since winning the 1967 Brit she grand prix. Clark was made an officer of the order of the British Empire Obe in 1964 for his services to motor racing. Usa eur Council completes plans for baseball Bowling volleyball upper Cut lost a Benton of com z appears to be taking a upper Cut from 32nd Aad com s torn Harris during saturday s Usa eur basketball game. Harris was charged with a Foulon the play. Benton made the free throw and scored 24 Points As Coin z whipped the defenders 88-75. Is sch net tier Munich special plans for conducting the 1968 Usa eur baseball season the Choice of site for the theater wide military Bowling championships and the scheduling of the Usa eur company level volleyball final highlighted the fourth quarterly meeting of the Usa eur sport Council held at the Kalb officers and civilians mess in Nuernberg. Military and civilian representatives of major commands i divisions assigned units and districts chaired by col. Robert id. Montondo chief . Army1 special services Agency Europe attended the 4th army div hosted meeting to discuss the usar eur sports program. The 1968 baseball season be ginning May 4 and extending through september 1, features 50i teams competing on division Iri 1 Stal Lalion and battalion Levels. In the division level grouping 3rd i army div will Field five teams i 4th army div seven teams 8th div six teams and 3rd div seven teams including Herzo base. The com z league feature nine teams playing installation level Ball. Berlin and seventh army support come will com Pete within the com z league with one and three teams re corps will sponsor 14 teams in two battalion level leagues. A Usa eur invitational base Ball tournament is scheduled for aug. 17-sept. 2. League winners wishing to enter the invitational tournament must conclude regu Lar season play by aug. 17. The Usa eur invitational qualify for olympic games 11gg champions crowned Toledo Ohio a Ronnie Harris a 19-year-old pre inc student from Canton Ohio blitzed his Way to a third straight championship in Satur Day night s finals of the nation Al aau boxing , by virtue of his title in Cal gymnasts Nab Mcaa team title Tucson Ariz. A Cali fornia piled up enough Points in tie High bar the final event of saturday night s Competition to upset Southern Illinois for the team title in the Mcaa gymnast ties championships. The bears scored 27.40 in the i bar to 26.15 for s1u to Cap Ture the team Crown by one Twilli of a Point 188.25 to 188.15. Iowa with 186.55, and Temple,mm5, finished third and fourth 111 the team Competition. The in finalists were the survivors among eight regional win the 132-Pound class joined 10other division winners who automatically qualified for the olympic trials following three Days of fighting at the Lucas county recreation Center in nearby Maumee. Harris won a split decision Over Juan Ruiz 18, a High school student from Brooklyn n baser 22, of new Ibe Ria la., pulled the biggest upset of the tournament in winning a unanimous decision Over Roland armadillos conquer 501th admin 79-7-1 Bamberg Germany Spe Cial the armadillos of the 3rdbn, 35th Armor rallied in the second half to take a 79-74 decision from the 504th admin to i basketball action game was nip and tuck All the Way with the Issue i doubt until Charles Jones turned an intercepted pass into the final armadillo Basket with 13 seconds remaining to play. Miller of Prairie View the defending titleholder 112-Pound other top matches Sammy Goss the 112-Pound National title Winner in 1965, latched onto the 119-Pound championship by stopping William Gray of Seattle wash., at the end of the Sec Ond round. The 178-Pound title went to Leonard Hutehins of Detroit who was last year s 165-Poundwinner. Hutehins 19, was knocked Down in the first roundly James Parks of Cleveland but returned to floor his opponent in the second George Foreman of Houston fighting for Only two months won the heavyweight title in unanimous decision Over Henry Crump of Philadelphia. Stars add yugoslav St. Louis a Milen Korus 27, a former member of Yugoslavia s National soccer team has agreed to play with the St. Irmis stars of the North Anu rican soccer league. Garmisch schedules pin tourney Garmisch Germany Spe Cial the Garmisch recreation area has announced plans for its i12th annual Spring scratch bowl -. Ing tournament to be held may2-5 at the Garmisch Bowling Cen will be held in i singles doubles and four Man team events. Three games will be rolled in each category and a entry fee of $3.50 per person will be charged in each event. A $2.00 fee for All events is optional. J Cash prizes will be awarded with one prize being Given for j each ten entries in each event the meet is open to All male members of the american bowl ing Congress who Are authorized use of armed forces recreation Center rolling in All three events will have to spend at Lea Stone night in Garmisch As the team event will be rolled in the evening with the doubles and singles following the next must reach the Garmisch recreation Cente tournament office Apo 09053 before noon May 2. Phone reservations May be made by Call ing Garmisch military 824 or 567.entry Blanks Are not required. Billeting reservations May remade through the billeting office at the same Apo Telephone Garmisch military 557. Military Bowling tournament willbe conducted May 25-26 at the Garmisch recreation area an features scratch Bowling in singles doubles team and All events. Each sports conference May enter four Man teams in the tournament. The company level volleyball championships feature two regional playoffs april 18-19 a Frankfurt and Wuerzburg and a Best of three set Home and Home series Between regional winners on april 25-26.a Taurus District regional will be held at the 3811 gymnasium i Frankfurt with v corps 8th div s e t a of Usa eur seventh army tips and com z competing for spiking honors. The 3rddiv will Host the second regional playoff at Leighton Barracks wit Vii corps 3rd div 4th army div 24th div seventh army support come and the 32nd Aad com pointing for berths inthe april 25-26 championship. I twelve District sports Consul Tants in addition to regular com Mand representatives attended the meeting to facilitate closer i coordination Between command and District sports supervisors. Aba to pay i King tribute j new York up player representatives of the National basketball association Friday unanimously agreed to play an i exhibition All Star game in the1 Singer bowl Here aug. 15 As a tribute to the late or. Martin Luther King. The game will be a Benefit forthe Southern Christian Leader ship conference an organization headed by or. King and the mayor s commission on youth physical fitness. Larry Fleisher an attorney forthe Aba who made the announce ment said the game will be he Din cooperation with the City of now York. 14th army Cav wins bad Hersfeldt. Germany special the 3rd Squadron of the 14th army Cav won the v corps basketball championship Here sunday by taking the rubber game of a Best of three series from the 37th engr up 103-s7. The victors were in command. Throughout the contest running i up a 48-31 margin in the first half and losing Only one Point of it in the final 20 Cole scored 33 Points to j spark the win. Bill swindle added 25. Rich Whitman scored 19 and Jim Singletary and me Mccain contributed 10 sensational Kinney piece. Bill Coleman Wasin defeat chalking up 35 Points. He got 16-Point support fro Harry Arnett. Paul Washington and Chuck Voorhis added 13 and12 Points respectively. The cavalrymen won the open ing game in the series ss-s3, but the engineers came Back to taken 86-68 verdict to set the stage for sunday s showdown 3rd Squadron will go on to compete in the v corps invitational championships starting april 15
