European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes Tofi re Lias Field Flap at Bat on if Iff sunday August 11m, 1941 i Hahn Clinch so Csc to by Jack Ante staff writer Wiesbaden is Lanc Tobert hit. And hurled the wies Baden flyers to an 11-2 Romp Over the Hahn Hawks saturday As the Iii earned the flyers a least a slice of the Safe Ger standings Safe Germany conference won lost pet. Of 18 5 .783 Many conference baseball  win coupled with Darm Stadt s 2-1 setback inflicted by Pitburg pushed the flyers a game and a half ahead of the comets and Ramstein. The latter was rained out  a nifty four hitter and driving in three runs with a pair of singles and two doubles for a perfect Day at the plate Southpaw Tobert breezed by 10 Hawk hitters on strikes through eight innings. Jack Wilson mopped up in the ninth retiring the Side in order with the last out coming on a called third  boosted his personal record to 9-2 As he gave up two consecutive cheap singles to open the fourth and was nicked for solid hits in the sixth and  tallied twice in they Oliac to  Rumstein but Biira Stern Tim i Halm Seasun 10 in 13n 0ti 10 10 20 22 .727 .727 .505 .514 .1x0.osi itt 56 in item Barons Shade comets. 2-1 Henry beats Luke in Duel first As Ansel safety Between loser John Lingo Uzi Ardd for 16 hits As i the route with Only on Ous inning on the Mound normally catches. The flyers Ica dim r. 9 he .1 8�"i i h. If o he eight ill son five. Exploded for six saturday s results vies Faiumi 11, Hahn 2 liitle map ?.  1 Jam Stein at or Munch Post Poncil rain  sunday starting at t  . Conference Darmstadt Germany Spe Cial right hander Ron Henry bested Jerry Luke As Pitburg edged Darmstadt 2-1 Here Satur Day to Deal the defending us afe Champion comets a serious blow in their fight to overtake Germany conference leading  setback dropped Darm Stadt to 16-6, v/2 games Back of won lost pet. 15 2 .882 11 5 .6ss 9 9 8 8 7 6 0 .471 .438 .429 a outliers Riceld by let Willts. Upper hey font Alconbury. Liken Heath London 0 14 a  tie for title saturday s result  8, upper Huxford 7  at Alconbury unreported London at Bent Waters in report d go 2 teams ousted in Csc softball Rhein main Germany Spe Cial two teams were eliminated from the Safe Continental conference double elimination softball tournament Here Satur Day in the second Day of action. Fourteen teams remain in therace for the Crown. Rhein main eliminated h o with a 3-0 Triumph and Soester Berg knocked out Wasse Kuppe in other saturday action it Wasserbach 1, Stuttgart 0 Berlin 4, wheelus 0 Brindisi 4, Aviano 0naples 5, Wiesbaden 4 Bruns 5, Sie Gelbach 0, and Birken Feld 8, Hahn 0. Piston s Joe Strawder says he will retire Detroit a Veteran Detroit Piston Center Joe Strawder has informed Gener Al manager Edwin Coil he in tends to retire from the nation Al basketball association team. The 6-foot 10-Inch, 235-Poundstrawder has suffered from persistent knee and Back trouble and has undergone seven operations to Correct injuries the lat est surgery for a Back injury at the end of last season. Ron Henry. Five hitter the flyers who Defeated Hahn,11-2. The Barons remained in fourth place at 13-10.Henry gave up Only five hits two More than Luke but two unearned tallies in the second in Ning were enough. He walked three and struck out four in lift ing his record to 3-1. The Only run off my was also tainted. Luke took his third setback in12 decisions despite whiffing 13 and walking Only two. One of a strikeout victims Jim Lund Strom started the decisive rally by reaching first on a wild pitch third  held singled Lund Strom to third then stole Sec Ond just ahead of a passed Ball that scored one run and moved him to third. Clarence Clipper walked and while he attempted to steal second was apparently caught in a rundown. But held broke for the plate and the throw there was dropped by Comet Catcher Bob Taylor for an error and the second Baro run. Luke scored the Only come Marker after singling in the sixth and moving to second when the Ball was overrun in Center for an error. Al Jenkins ground or moved the Comet Mound Ace to third from where he scored Ona wild pitch. The game was played in only1 hour 56 minutes one of the fastest of the season. Wal Beaird had two singles for the comets and was the Only Manon either team with two hits by Truro goo 000 0002 3 4 Darmstadt 000 001 0001 8 1henry and Jei Ulinka Luke and Taylor. A Henry 3-1. A Luke 9-3j. Rain Kos Karlsruhe opener series moves to Giessen for 2 Karlsruhe Germany is washed out of their scheduled series opener Here saturday the Lessen eagles and Karlsruhe spartans shifted their com z Layoff site depot Field into Wiessen sunday for a double header starting at 1 . Heavy showers which left the Howard bears Blank Kitzinger in War nun Kitzinger Germany Spe Cial George Geiger s two run triple in the first inning Walsall Denny Howard needed As he pitched the Berlin bears to a Victory Over the Kitzinger big Lama to run at Yonkers Yonkers . A big Lama a 6-year-old Chestnut Stal lion from Sweden has accepted an invitation to compete in both the $50,000 Gotham Trot and$50,000 United nations Trot at Yonkers raceway aug. 15 and aug. 22, respectively. Kolts Here saturday in an exhibition game. Howard gave up Only two hit sin seven innings As rain halted the game in the top of the eighth Frame. Berlin tallied onco More in the third and three inthe fifth when they routed starter and loser Don  teams Are in the us a eur baseball playoffs that get under Way next weekend the Kolts As Marne league champions will represent the 3rd div while the bears will represent the Berlin sports conference. Spartan Field infield immersed in puddles forced the postpone ment of saturday s game which was to have opened the Best of three series to decide the com representative in the Usa eur baseball championships. The second game had Bee scheduled for sunday at Giessen with a third tilt if necessary to follow. Now the revised series schedule Calls for a definite doubleheader sunday and with the if necessary game slated for tues Day 2 ., at Karlsruhe. The Winner of the com z play off will meet 1st brigade of the 4th army div in the first round of the Usa eur tournament in a Best of three series starting aug. 16. Pacers sign Dayton Star Indianapolis ind. Up the Indiana pacers of the Amer ican basketball association announced that the team has acquired guard Bobby Joe Hooper the leading free throw shooter on Dayton s nit championship basketball team. Cinderella greyhounds eyeing Usa eur Crown / /7/- 1 # i 11 ,1 f  to t,1fi\ Al _ continued from Page %0 regular second  available Are a pair of lefties Rich o Dell and ski Caviness neither of whom has a record thus fur. Then Mccuistion Hopes to have Lethander Gary Mulleedy available by play off time. He recently became available after just being re leased by his unit. Rotation also has Hurt the greyhounds in other positions be cause twins Jim and Don Graf have departed Don the Catcher and Jim in the  Bill Smith has done a very capable Job behind the Plain despite injuries to his hands which have made it difficult to Lioyd tin but. But his Homer in the final Giessen playoff game which tied the game 3-3 with two out in the ninth indicates he s1 ready. J also Able to fill in More than adequately is regular Center a fielder Lou e a r t h m a a who i stepped in several times during me year. At first the greyhounds have John Helms who has hit .277 in 15 games. Ley and Bill Wasdyke also have played there t h e latter during seven  is one of the top hit ters w i t h a .349 average an leads the team with 19 stolen bases. Mccuistion thinks leavens has great Bat control and has him in the no. 2 position in the baiting order. At Short aged Gunderson who has hit .368 in the last seven games with seven Bis three doubles and a Homer. Tim Carter has taken Over at third with a.348 average in the last eight contests. Skip Williams is the Grey hound Man in left compiling a .327 average and five stolen bases. Earthman patrols Center has excellent Range and 11 stolen bases. He finished the year hitting .289. Last but certainly not least because he s the team s leading hitter now is right fielder Echo Haynes with a .383 average what s remarkable however Are his 23 rib s plus four homers and u pair of triples and doubles each. In the last 12 games he Shad an especially hot Stock. Also available for Outfield duty is Joe Maccarl who s gotten into seven games hitting .238 an also filling in at third on occasion. The greyhounds won t overwhelm anyone with Power hitting statistics because that s not Mccuistion s game. He likes to concentrate on the line drives and run and he s got at least seven men in the lineup that he won hesitate to Send Down. And those 14 hounds Are hungry they Are used to battling and clicking together and the Yare mighty eager to see if they can t Latch onto a  Pennant. Lance to Bort. Fiver hurler 4-fom hits and two walks As 10 hitter paraded to the plate. Tobert was in command fro the Start. The first four Hahn batters grounded out. Then to Bert took just nine pitches to fan the next three men. He retired the next two Menon ground balls before Larry Boyce s slow Bounder go through the Hole to Start the fourth. Lingo was credited witha bunt single but was forced at second on Frank Beard Stapper to third. After striking out Allen Laddon three pitches. Tobert trapped Beard off first on a Pickoff an Boyce dashed Home during the ensuing rundown. The Wiesbaden Outfield Hadan easy Day with Only four put outs two by Carl Spain and pair by met. In the Wiesbaden eighth Spain singled and moved up on Dusty Rhodes Lap to the Hill. Tobert single scored Spain. Hits by Smith and Dave cml Tallie Tobert. 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