European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse 1968 the stars and stripes Page 21 rare it is just August and already i had almost made Choice for the 1968 skipper award for composure on " going o Robert Mcclendon one of the participants in h11 Safe Golf championships last week at the hic Niblick Golf shh in Wiesbaden.,.a i to set the stage after the 72 holes of play Mcclendon he u k conference was tied for fifth place with George rom m of he Ommen Tal sports conference. The first five Fin a a 4 a i to � t o \ of t t l a to it so it there to have a freebies trip to the . To represent Usa Feair Korce worldwide _ Mcclendon and Thompson had to go through a sudden death playoff for that last ipod. He first extra Hole Thompson drove Clown the Middle of their was Mcclendon hooked one into the Thicket which Borders be Fairway. Us of maybe a lost Ball. Rut with the 20 or so spectators to help out everybody figure find the Ball so Mcclendon did t hit a provisional. As time went on and the possibility presented itself that the will might never be found people were buzzing about gee to wilful it would be to lose a trip to the states on account of a a Hal when Thompson s second shot dropped with 10 feet of the cup Hin a really started looking dim for this Mcclendon. If he did find the Ball he d have to go Back and be hitting his third shot rom the tee while his opponent was within Linkable Range in two. Everybody was shaking his head telling everybody else about hat a miserable break it was to lose a Ball on a playoff Hole Iilah so much at stake. Everybody but Mcclendon that is. He Wash Lily nosing around the Thicket trying to find the Ball but re Naining far from the state of panic i d have been in. Mcclendon reached under a Bush and picked up a it Mac asked Thompson showed sportsmanlike con Fern. Nope came the reply. Brand new titlist three to say 1 was ready right then to make the composure Uard presentation. But i decided to wait until the whole thing tas Over. Mcclendon casually made his Way Back to the tee and hit again right Down the Middle this time. Then he put his approach on and two putted for a six. Thompson missed the Birdie putt Butic Clendon conceded the Par putt and lost the Hole. While i was drawing up the presentation speech word got to that the playoff did t really mean All that much to Mcclendon Rall. Seems he had telephoned his Headquarters beforehand King if he d be Able to swing the time off to take the . Trip 1 he qualified for it. The answer was no. So Mclendon was t going anywhere anyhow except Back to England. There still was a trophy at stake and the nonchalance of Mclendon was still admirable but i decided not to make award presentation after All. The 1 maps 2vo Pushover arnouts during the aforementioned tournament weren t a Complete loss. At least they gave a Guy a Chance to listen to i Story or two from Gene Dunkle of the Safe athletic take the one he got from Charlie Berry sex National football Usa eur starts meet i at 3 Shes the Usa eur base Bull championships get under Way today with quarterfinal games at Gellhausen Fuerth an Bamberg. Berlin s bears will revisiting the 3rd army div s 2nd brigade at Coleman Barracks in the game at Gellhausen com z representative Ericssen takes on the 4th army div s 1st brigade at Monteith Barracks in the encounter at Fuerth and the 3rd support Bri Gade of the seventh army support c o m d tangles with Vii corps 35tharty up at Bamberg s John f. Kennedy Field. The game at Bamber starts at 1 . And the other two will get underway at 2 . After today s tourney openers the two teams at Bamberg will move to Stuttgart sunday for the wrap up of the Best of three series. The 2nd brigade Berlin series will Windup in Berlin sunday while the Giessen list Bri Gade Battle will be settled on the same Day a Giessen. The other quarterfinal series Matching Kite Ingen of the 3rd div and2nd brigade of the 8th div opens saturday at Minick Field in Baum Holder and winds up Sun Day with the second and if necessary third game at of the g a m e s on sunday Start at 1 . Luke wins 4-2 comets beat hams for top playoff spot by boo Odem staff writer league official and major league baseball Berry told him about it at an officials clinic. Umpire. Dunkle says it involved a player mho after Berry s Call at the plate got so set that he gave the ump a bit of a nudge with his Finger during ensuing argument. You just Don t do that to umpires. It s like challenging the ump throw you out of the game in front of everybody. You do pot touch umpires. So Berry thumbed the player out of the out conies this player s manager from the dugout to ask Berry by he d gone and thrown out the asked if the manager had t seen with his own two eyes Low the player pushed him. But the manager did t understand. He said he thought he had it but that it had been just an itty bitty nudge like so. The demonstrates on Berry giving him the sort of tiny nudge he nought he saw his player give the Umpire agreed that it was t much More than that but nose sort of things can t be tolerated at All. We manager said he could see throwing a Guy out for really pushing an Umpire you know giving him a Good shove like � he offers an example of what he considers an offensive push Ihk no Bari y Back a trifle but he sure could t go along with Umang somebody for such a minor offence like the push his of a 8iven a8ain no manager tries to reenact the nudge Abolt then while Berry was about to repeat the stuff How nobody should Ever push an Umpire even a Little bit by Daw a on the Umpire that there were somewhere 000 a 6 in Bali n 19 5 t 17 7 17 7 pet go triple out. The Pound Luke gave up six hits Bull a von Pia Yott 14 12 i 1- it i 1j6 16 17fur be Wiesbaden la coach praises hurlers by bin Abram staff writer Bonns a Man what pitching Jim really did a great Job for us today did t he Wiesbaden manager John de Simone was beaming with plea sure As he lauded Jim Lytle Fol lowing the Germany champions 6-0 Conquest of Brussels the Belgium representative in the finals of the european Little league tournament Here wed wins and three shut outs d e s i m o n e went s hard to beat. Jim really impressed a few people in the to strike out two Good hitters fourth inning men on secondhand third and nobody out and some Good hitters coming up and he gets out of that Jam in Hurt. But he s done that Dave Tipton and Doug related Story on Page 22 Simpson have been Tough for usin the clutch All through the tournament eliminations Start ing Way Back in july. They set m to thrive on Tough All Lytle did in that Jam was walk a Man and get another Ona Popup. I m proud of these kids de Simone continued. When the tournaments started people told us we d be Lucky to get out of the Wiesbaden District. Then they said we could t make it past Bonn in the District finals and they were positive we could t win the Germany Cham , the kids fooled the experts. Eleven wins in 12 game Sis pretty Good playing in any it if. Vhf fit . U
