European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                , augut a ims the stars and stripes Page 21 Riner  Lacobelli Difilippo tabbed for Usa eur ring clinic a Var wonder what army baseball players do when their team does make the Usa eur playoffs Well most of them return to their regular army jobs and Hangin their cleats gloves and bats until next season. But not just in for three baseball addicts of bad Kreuz Nach Germany s sup port come saints runners up in the 1968 div league race. Ito Eer White Steve Lancaster and Danny Taylor an outstanding and versatile Trio on the Diamond returned to their regular jobs mrs their season has hot ended completely. In fact their weekend shave been filled with baseball action and promoting German Ameri can Friendship relations by playing and helping coach the Darmstadt Colt .45s of the German baseball federation. Claus Helmig pronounced Hel Mic the .45s manager player and a representative for an american sporting goods company at fee Baden Germany tells i like it is. Keif americans they Are Bur key players said the Perfec English speaking Frankfurt native. My German players look up to Roger Steve and Danny and they work with them very closely. In fact our Young players Are proud to play with a group like  though a Youthful 30, Helmig is no newcomer to the american National pastime. After we saw the americans play baseball in Mannheim Germany after world War ii we grew interested in the sport. We saw a transportation outfit called the tornadoes in 1947who were really great. My friends and i Learned i the game from them and frequently practice wit american  the tornadoes were truly the Diamond powering Europe 21 years ago. Probing through old news paper files this Korner read about Guys Lik Bishop Taylor outfielders Geronimo Mcconnell and Tom Buckner and infielder Al Haynes who led the tornadoes to the european i s world la Clung series championship Over the Safe arrowheads. The 6th to to in tornadoes of Mannheim breezed through the Heidelberg my league with a perfect 23-0 record that year stayed unbeaten through the ii my playoffs and advanced to the world series by winning the i National league playoffs with a 7-2 Mark. All told the tornadoes entered the big series with a remark Able 59-7 record and took the Crown with an 18-4 verdict Over the arrowheads in the sixth game of the Best four of seven slate. Helmig in states Helmig said he got Good experience in the states in 1957 whence obtained a visitors pass after being signed by a Baltimore orioles scout. He played one season for the Paris Tex orioles inthe class c sooner state league. Though signed As a Pitcher he injured his shoulder played mostly in the Outfield and batted .285before his visitor s pass expired and he returned to Germany. Wasting no time Helmig formed the Mannheim Black knights on his return and promptly won the German baseball federation title the four years he managed there. We always watched americans play to learn the game better. This is an advantage to us Over the dutch and italians. They have bigger organizations and More sup port but they Don t have As Many american teams to see in action to learn the game As  this is Helmig s third season at the Helm of the Darmstadt Clubland he s had nothing less than Success. Right now his .45s Are battling the Canadian raiders for two big German baseball  he credits his three american players As big assets by using White the leading Batter at third base and Pitcher Lancaster at Catcher and Taylor at shortstop and Pitcher. In Germany International league Competition the Canada Tea has an 8-1 record As compared to the .45s 7-2. The highlight comes sept. 7 when the two leaders of the six team league collide in the regular season Ender. A Darmstadt win of course would result in a tie for the league Crown and thus Force a sudden death showdown the next Day. In German International cup Competition a playoff Between the top four teams of the league with winners advancing according to the most runs scored in two game the .45s and raiders both won two straight games Over Wiesbaden Aiu and Munich respectively to Advance. This playoff is slated the second weekend in september. We like the sport9 Munich special Mart Lacobelli a former seventh army support command athletic director returns to his european stomping grounds next month alone of the guest instructors of the 1968 Usa eur boxing coaches and officials clinic in Kitzinger , now the athletic director and chairman of the Phy Sical education department at mount pleasant Junior High school Livingston ., will share the podium in the sept.9-13 clinic with Veteran boxing referee or. Victor  clinic hosted by the 3rd inf div will be held at Harve Barracks in Kitzinger. Support come 1959-1966 Lacobelli worked with the seventh army support command at Mannheim and Stuttgart from1958-1966 after spending four years As assistant staff athletic director for the eighth army in , 41, who holds a Bach Elor s degree in physical Educa Tion from Seton Hall University and a master s from Rutgers fought 18 bouts under the professional ring name of Marty Ell on the East coast from 1945-47. He earlier represented the Newark boys club in the new Jersey Golden gloves championships. He was appointed aau boxing commissioner for Europe in 1962 by col. Donald f. Hull executive director of the aau taking on the responsibility for represent ing the aau in International Box ing  is one of six Ameri cans qualified to work As Anaibal association internationale de Boxe Amateur referee judge receiving the Honor after passing the rugged Aiba examination i Naples Italy in 1963. As an accredited Aiba official Lacobelli is eligible to work the olympic games pan american game Sand at other top level International ring Competition. One of six Lacobelli is a familiar figure in Conseil International do sport Militare cism ring events having served As an american official at cism boxing championships in Wiesbaden i960 Luxembourg 1962frankfurt 1963tunis 1964munich 1965 and fort Meade my. 1967. Last year he officiate during the National aau championships in san Diego and ear Lier this year he handled the . Olympic boxing trials at Tren ton  Difilippo now executive director of the National Council nonphysical education and director of health and physical educational Seton Hall has been associated with sports As a participant coach Trainer and official. A graduate of Rutgers an new York University Difilippo won letters in five varsity sport Sand reigned As undefeated National collegiate 155-Pound Boxin Champion from 1929-33. He was selected to the All East Basket Ball team after his senior year at  coach of the Eastern team in Golden Glove Competition since 1939, and of Many other aau and Mcaa boxing teams Difilippo has handled such Box ing stars As Rocky Marciano Harold Johnson Jose Torres Emile Griffith Floyd Patterson and Johnny Saxton. He has Rutgers Difilippo played professional basketball with the Origi Nal celtics and Harlem Trotters in the american basketball league playing with and against such stars As George m i k a a Honey Russell Bob Davies an Walter Dukes. Acclaimed for his versatility in sports Difilippo in 33 years has conducted More than 60 clinics in boxing track and Field basketball and swimming . Servicemen in England Ger Marvin Lacobelli. Back again coached More olympic National aau and world Champion boxers than any Man in the .Difilippo has also written Sev eral boxing books the most successful of which were the Art of boxing boxing As a sport and boxing  the 58-year-old Difilippo has also had a role in the world of politics serving As an adviser nonphysical fitness to the presi Dent s committee on juvenile problems under presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. He waste commissioner of boxing for the state of new Jersey from1954-59. Following his graduation from or. Victor Difilippo. Famed coach Many France Italy Japan Korea and Hawaii. Coaches and officials from Italy and Germany will attend the five Day Usa eur clinic for instruction in physical condition ing training methods ring safety modern officiating techniques and Rule  keynote of the Usa eur ring program one of the larg est of its kind in the world is the safety and welfare of the participant. The Kitzinger pro Gram is one of the annual operations intended to instruct us a eur personnel in methods of conducting follow up clinics with ing their Home commands. Dunlap defeats Leek to snare 7th army tips Tennis Crown Heidelberg is Norman Dunlap polished off Jerry Leek Here sunday 6-2, 6-3,6-3, to Nail Down the open singles title in the Usa eur seventh Helmig says he has a lot of Young players on the team an financial backing for baseball in a soccer fan country is hard to come by. I spend a lot of Money out of my own pocket to keep ingoing Helmig related just because we like the sport. Proving this Point is the fact that the German baseball enthusiast drives Back and Forth from Wiesbaden for practice sessions with his team in Darmstadt even though he personally started the German baseball federation team in Wiesbaden made up of american civilian and air Force personnel and germans. We have a Good relation with go Bettez manager of the Safe s Darmstadt comets and Are fortunate to be Able to use the comets memory Field for practice and our Home games in entry Aren t using it Helmig also had words of appreciation for col. John g. Jones,8th div support come commander at bad Kreuz Nach who has the final say so on weekend passes for White Lancaster and Taylor we Are grateful for his cooperation in letting these Guys join us on weekend passes he said. Stra com captures softball tournament Vogel Weh Germany Spe Cial Stra com survivor of a 10-team, double elimination tournament has earned the right to represent the Rheinland Pfalz support District in the com z fast pitch softball tournament to be held aug. 28-sept. 1 in , from Pir Masens came from behind to whip the2nd general Hospital team from Lan Stuhl 1-0 and 5-3, in the championship finals of the com Pany level Competition. Dolphins Roderick acquired by raiders Santa Rosa Calif. Up the Oakland raiders have acquired flanker John Roderick from the Miami dolphins for a future draft , a 6-foot, 180-Pounder from Southern methodist univer sity was the dolphins top draft Choice in 1966.one of pro football s fastest receivers Roderick has been clocked in 9.3 in the 100-Yard dash. Bruins Esposito signs pact Boston a the Bosto Bruins have announced that Phi Esposito the Star Center who led them into the Stanley cup play offs for the first time in nine years last season has signed a i three year contract. Army troops Tennis tournament  and Dunlap later took he doubles Crown beating Bil Ninnis and John Williford in the Long finals 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.cecil Miles won the seniors championship by beating Raphael Acosta in the last match 6-3, 6-0. The senior doubles were postponed until saturday because of , Leek Ninnis and Bruce Belfield were selected to represent the command in the Usa eur tournament sept.12-15 at Garmisch. Cooney shoots Ace at Heidelberg s 7th Heidelberg special . Henry s. Cooney of the Usa eur medical com carded a Hole in one Here Sun Day at the Heidelberg club s132-Yard seventh Hole. Cooley playing Bis wife Rudy and Robert Wilber used a seven Iron for his first actin 1% years of Golf