European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes de Latimer is the Winner. Those words have been ringing in the ears of High school track and Field fans around upper Heyford England All Spring and now they Are bouncing off the Walls of our stars and stripes sports office in Darmstadt Germany. Seven members of the is sports staff went to the polls this weekend voted in this newspaper s fourth annual us Desea athlete of the year Competition. There were 16 names on the ballot and each writer voted for five ranking them in order. After All voters had placed their picks in sealed envelopes we opened them up an awarded Points on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis. Latimer totalled 27 Points to become the stars and stripes High school athlete of the year for the 1967 68 school year. As expected the voting was extremely Clos with Frankfurt s Bernie Smith finishing two Points Back Andrud Wissburg s Pat Twomey three Points behind. Munich s Bruc Dickinson was fourth and Seville s Art Uresti was  marked the second straight year that the Winner has come from a class b Small school. Fred Cheeks of  was honoured last Spring the other athletes of the year were Madrid s Bob Lueke in 1955-56 and Frankfurt s Terr Brennan in 1954-55. Cheeks is at tending Virginia Union univer sity Lueke is going to. School at Rutgers and Brennan will soon be entering his senior year at Auburn. All three previous is winners received athletic , an . Selection in football and basketball capped great year at upper Heyford earlier this month at the use Isea track and Field Champion Latimer ship m Nuernberg Germany. Competing against stiff Competition from 19 schools he won three events and placed second i another for All of his team s 22 Points. His performance was enough to give upper Heyford the class championship. Upper Heyford athletic director Dennis Lavalley who nominated Latimer says i could not in this Short justification put into words the respect i As his coach hold for the abilities of this boy. In working with him every night after school for two years Andin observing him in countless games and competitions i am filled with admiration for his spirit in the face of innumerable  proper equipment much of the time and working for the most part in mediocre or improper athletic facilities it would have been understandable if the team members in All the sports we took part had Given up. But de Latimer set for himself and established for All the others a High level of achievement. He led and encouraged and inspired and  Latimer was the Captain of the upper Heyford football team. The speedy halfback he won the Uso Esea 100 meters title in 10.9 scored nine touchdowns in six games. One of his ads came on a50-Yard run that beat Lakenheath a class a school14-7. In basketball the 5-9, 150-Pounder was the upper Heyford Leader on the floor and averaged 15.9 Points per Gime. He averaged 20 Points per game in the us Desea class b meet and was named tothe All tourney team. Like Latimer Smith and Twomey were both three sport stand outs. They gave Latimer a close race which will not soon be for gotten at stars and stripes. We were proud to score it from the sidelines. Nice going de Bernie and Pat. Dear or. Wicker i read with interest your article regarding athletic scholarships april 18. My Alma mater Columbia University is experiencing a resurgence in athletic Success and i am interested in seeing this continue. 1 have been in touch wih our athletic department and they will Welcome applications from this part of the world."1 would be Happy to talk to boys who might be interested in Columbia. My address Robert e. Jacobs 6 Frankfurt 50, Ginn Heimer land str. 182." Lakenheath soccer coach w. P. Churchill informs us hat he lancers recently completed an unbeaten season with a 10-1 Romp Over upper Heyford. Earlier they Defeated the same team 3-2. And knocked off London 3-1 and 1-0. An unhappy soccer fan from Pitburg writes i hate you and Admire  seems we Haven t printed much about the red Divi Sion champs from Pitburg. As i often must explain we try to cover 30 High schools in a half dozen countries. At least part of All reports of weekend matches that reach our office by 6 . On Mon Days appear on these pages. Unfortunately the coverage is often Only As Good As the efforts of your school officials. With this column we ring Down the curtain on another school year. Thanks to All the coaches athletes and fans who helped us keep our readers informed of what was going on sports Wise in the High schools during the past nine months. Happy vacation play today j , May 30, twin Bills scheduled for Csc Darmstadt Germany is Pitburg basking in glory that it has t seen for years in the us afe Germany conference faces its first real test of the season when it puts up its unbeaten rec Ord 4-0 for Ramstein 3-3 Totake a swipe at in one of three twin Bills slated memorial  brushing off Sembach 1-3 in its first two games of the season the Barons blitzed cellar dwelling Rhein main 1-5 with comparatively ease last week 12-1 and 14-4.much tougher opposition can be expected for manager Wayne Jennings Barons from the rams. A pitchers Duel should reign i both games. Pitburg has its unbeaten hurlers Lance Tobert and Bob Clow both 2-0, ready to face the likes of left hander Jerry Curtis 2-1 and Al Viet 24. While the Barons will be trying to protect their league Lead the Darmstadt comets 4-2who Trail Pitburg by one game Host the Hahn Hawks 2-2 in another featured double header thursday. The Battle of the Bottom club stakes place at Sembach when the tigers entertain  clubs have just one win  games Start at 1 . Alan Ladd 2-1hahn s hard throwing right hander will be matched up against one of the two Darmstadt aces Jerry Luke 2-1 or red Meshach 2-1. Who Ever it will be the Duel should be the Best one of the  3-3tied for third place with Ramstein and Hahn plays a non conference twin Bill thursday in Aviano. The flyers of Tom Johnson got a big boost when they whipped Darmstadt Sluke 8-4, saturday before bowing to Meshach on sunday 3-1. Won Lett pet. Go 0 2 3 8 9 3 6 1.000 .077 .500 .600 .500 .250 .107 Pitburg 4darmstadt 4 Wiesbaden 3ramstein 9 Hahn 2bern Bach. 1 Beio main 1 thursday game Ramstein at Pitburg 2 Hahn at Darmstadt 2 Rhein main at Sembach 2 Wiesbaden at Aviano 2non conference 4th army div scheduled for double duty Days Darmstadt Germany is the 4th army div pitchers had better be Strong armed this week because the schedule shows doubleheaders on thursday an single games on saturday and sunday. The Only teams escaping the double duty will be support come and 2nd brigade which have Bye thursday and Over the weekend  s Chart finds the league leading seventh . Rangers 3-1 playing Host to the 2nd brigade warriors 3-2 div arty 1-2 invading soldiers Field in Nuernberg for tussle with the 1st brigade mountaineers 2-1 and the division he tankers 3-2 entertaining the 3rd brigade Broncos 1-5 at Goeppinger. On the weekend support come 2-3 takes on division he at Fuerth seventh army training continued on Page 82 Landry 1st Quarter picked in 68 pro draft inks contract with Lions flu cancels fight san Jose Calif. A Sanjose featherweight Jose Moreno suffered a flu attack tuesday forcing cancellation of his scheduled 10-round bout tues Day night with Rene Macias of los Angeles. Detroit up Greg Lan dry. The first College Quarter Back picked in the 1968professional football draft and the Detroit Lions no. 1 draft Choice tuesday signed a con tract with the Lions. The 6-4, 205-Pound passe from Massachusetts was rated the top pro quarterback Prospect by the Bleston scouting Combine a network of scout that works for the Lions and four other National football league teams the Lions said. Landry 21 joins four other quarterbacks already on the Lions roster for the 1968season. The Lions recently made seven player Swap with the los Angeles rams which saw quarterbacks Milt Plum go to los Angeles and Bill Munso come to Detroit. Munson and Karl swe Tanare real Good quarterbacks and i m sure i la learn a lot from Jim Dooley to coach the bears continued from Page it tactics As flip flopping tackles and last year made the nil take notice with his Dooley shift in which a fifth defensive Back was used instead of a line Backer in Long passing situations. In february Dooley was named the no. 1 offensive coach and was replaced As defensive unit Leader by 37-year-old Joe fortunate former Star Bea linebacker. Halas introduced Dooley atthe news conference with the comment that he had held meeting of his staff on Dooley s selection As head coach and they expressed their Confidence in  when you have that kind of attitude you have a successful and Good staff said  May Well have one of the outstanding coaching staffs inthe National football  player Pride Dooley who became the bears fourth Best All time pass receiver in nine seasons before he quit in 1962, said our goals will include main Taining our Strong defense and working on coach Halas idea of total offence next season we want to get our Offens into the upper third of the league. But we want to do i with consistency and with individual Effort. We want to instill ride in the individual  Dooley s Holdover assistants Are Luke Johnsos Sid Luckman Phil handler Abe Gibron Edc Ody Chuck Cherundolo and babe Dimancheff. Them Landry said. I be got lot to learn. He somewhat shy and unions we to be facing a Batter 5cameras and reporters y of i j  Here wanting to Nav i Caen � of f Jyung Asri can Landry said who runs asked about his chances of breaking into the lineup past � two top rated quarterbacks Landry comes to the Lions from a Small College. In View that i m surprised to be Here he said. He indicated head been approached by clubs in the american football league and in Canada. But i wanted to play in the nil he said. All of us Are Happy to have him with us. We feel he has a real professional future and fit perfectly into our youth move ment said head coach Joe Schmidt himself Only in his second season on the Job. Both satisfied Landry and general manage Russ Thomas agreed both sides were satisfied with the contract if i weren to i would t be Here Landry  was picked first team All America quarterback by the football coaches association in the National collegiate athletic association s College division. In the North South game he Hiton 8 of 11 passes. During three seasons wit Massachusetts Landry completed 242 of 445 passes for a.544 percentage. He gained 4,763 Yards in total offence and holds13 Yankee conference records. Foyt users set to Chase Turbine cars continued from Page 11 statement that it was t saying the Lotus suspensions were unsafe but they simply did no comply with the rules. The steel we have been using is safer for the purpose Chap Man said. It s Ideal or Weld ing and the other steel in t. Pollard said the new suspension works fine.". Chapman shrugged off to parts replacements saying let s not make a big Deal out � rain showers fell off and on through the Day and no exceptional Speed was made in j Shakedown runs. Most of cars have been rebuilt since qualifying. The track was closed Jwj Day and Drivers received & annual instructions about trying to Dave mjg especially through Jwj where 11 cars were knocked a at the Start in 1968. Three tilts in 8th div today bad Kreuz Nach Germany special three 8th div games rained out sunday will be makeup on memorial Day All Start ing at 2 . At the same Home Fields As originally scheduled. League leading 1st brigade takes on 3rd brigade at Woods memorial Field in Mannheim support come and 2ndtied for second clash Kreuz Nach s Rose Barro Clu div arty and 5/6 missile paired at Baum older.  six clubs Are slated w Tine regular season p1 a weekend with Satu icily games