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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, September 6, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 22 Thi Star and Tutts Scptt mar 6, at Berlin in opener Sybl a a icon Titford from Page in his  he reiterated final ill a Ftuer rnnn.1 a relics on from is Hooks curves  according to Davies is almost a certain Choice As the second Tunc starter. However Davies made it Clear every thing depends on the weather. If it s dark rough weather i hate to throw a Good Pitcher and ruin Hiarm reit Fatla. Backing up Vogel and Yarrough Davies has right handers Denny Coward and Willis Sim Mons plus Veteran coach arid re Lief Ace Bob Mclean a knuckle Bailer. Cowart has a Good mix Ture of off Speed stuff and i powerful while Simmons is a Smalley Spain Shipes Chirco it Ion Vogel. Berlin Mound Ace Leroy . Flyers big Stickman royals deny offering Rigney Multi year managerial pact Kansas City a officials of the Kansas City royals american league 1969 expansion baseball team denied thurs Day they had offered a Multi Ernie Orsatti 65, Star of seizure Canoga Park Calif. A Ernie Orsatti who had a life time batting average of .306 forthe St. Louis cardinals and played in three world series died of a heart attack wednes Day at his Home. He was 65.Orsatti played the outfit and for the cards for nine seasons and in1932 butted .336. He recently operated a bail Bond business in Van Guys Cal he is survived by his widow Joyce and two sons. Rosary was to be recite thursday night in Woodland Hills and requiem mass will be celebrated at 9 . Friday. Rodriguez scores to key West Fra. A former welterweight Champion Luis Rodriguez now fighting at152 pounds scored a technical knockout Over Rudy Rodriquez middleweight158, of Minne Apolis in the fourth round of scheduled Day night. 10-Rounder wednes year managerial contract wit Stock investments to Bill Rig Ney manager of the Californi Angels. Absolutely not Correct said owner Ewing Kauffman concerning a Story that Rigney had turned Down a royals offer for a five year contract at $60,000a season plus blues help Stock in  be made no offer to Rig Ney Hank Bauer Bob Lemon Orang other person added Kauff  Tallis Royal i executive vice acted in president Anaheim was con Calif. He said he has talked with Rigney and several other managers but has made no offer � anyone to manage Kansas City. Sure. I talked erday Tallis Salt y yes i did not have a private conversation with him. I be been attending the games in Anaheim. After the games you talk to a lot of peo ple in the press room. I be talked with Gene Mauch for Mer Philadelphia Phillies Man Ager Bob Kennedy of the a Sand Al dark of the  Tallis admitted the royals Are interested in Rigney but said others also Are being consid ered. Not in any position tomake a Concrete offer he added. We re not going to put our selves in a position of the bridegroom. We want to wait until a manager makes himself  Man,1 Davies said. The scrappy welshman who snapped the bears out of a six game losing Streak near the endow the season when he took Over and then led them to the usar eur championship says his Berlin club is looking Forward to no Wiesbaden e re even offensively an defensively he continues and Don t pay any attention to the averages. That Way there s no pressure to keep up an averages we can just concentrate on playing  the one figure however that Davies does like to use is the fact that no one scored More than two runs against its in play offs to  at the same time he Points out that the bears have a 16-game Road winning Streak working the 49-year-old Wales bom vet eran of 30 years in baseball con siders his  club very stable up and Down the  outfielder Julian Henderson to gel and Geiger Are the Only returnees from the 1967 Berlin club that competed in usage circles and went All the Way to the finals. Henderson had an off on Yea but the Slack a taken up by the likes of fellow outfielders hip Chirco and Witt Shipes plus shortstop Bobby Bell catch or Rod Brown second baseman Gary Lafever and first baseman jury to Parker Wiesbaden Pilot Johnson is Happy to have Dave Crede health mfg a in cred teams with Leroy Weddington to give the Jet of Long bal blasters with 400plus averages. Of course Johnson , of Ansel Smith Mark Metz Larry Sana Joey Carl Spain Handbill Bennett for added punch Well be Able to Plaff our Typ of Ball Johnson stated. We re Strong defensively and will take advantage of any break they give us. Of course Well run anytime we can. We like to wait for the mistake and the big inning better than one at a  it s a Safe bet that both teams will be scrambling for any runs they can get one at a timer in clusters with All the serv ice marbles on the table. Benefit Auto races set by Ramstein club Ramstein Germany is the Ramstein Auto racing club will sponsor sanctioned race sept. 14-15 to raise funds for the Ramstein girl and boy  for the saturday sept. 14 race will close at 1 30p.m. And sunday sept 15 race at noon said Henry Ison club spokesman. He said there would be a powder puff event if enough women Are interested further information can be obtained from Ison at Ramstein Mil 7512 or 6592 or from Pete Breeze Lan Stuhl Civ. 4986. A Kun Jott son att Tani Sporo editor berlins a a downpour that would do credit to a Holly Wood rainmaker washed out the opening round of the Usa eur Golf championships Here thursday with the tourney scheduled for a new Start on  director Bueford Moss called off thursday s play with All but three foursomes on the  announced that 28 holes would be slated for Friday. Start ing at 8 30 ., and another 18 holes would be played saturday with the same starting times the final 18 of the 72-Hoie tour Ney is still scheduled for Sun  unique breakdown of the holes is caused by the setup of the Par-70 Berlin course on which the 10th Hole not the olympic stars cite . Teams As greatest Ever n e w y 0 re up two olympic stars one current and the other of the recent past said wednesday that the 1968 . Olympic track and swim Ming teams Are the greatest it Ever has sent to the games. The United states will win every Gold medal in men s swimming except perhaps in the breaststroke and maybe the backstroke said Murray Rose who won four Gold medals and one Silver for his native Australia in two olympics 1056 and 60. He now is an actor i Hollywood and so americanized that when he Speaks of the .team he says we will win and our squad is the  the men s track and Fiel team is better than the team which dominated the try olympics four years ago said former world record Long Jum per Ralph Boston who is a top favorite for a Gold medal this year with Russia s Igor Ter Ovanesyan and Bob Beamon of the . For instance i say that in my own event the listed world record won t even win a  Rose said the Overall Quality of the swimming Competition will be better than Ever. There will be Strong Challen Ges in every race but the . Gold medal breaststroke will win Ever except in the where i think the russians May Edge Charles Hickox and in the backstroke where Rolan Mathes of East Germany is my Choice As  the us. Simply has to much world class depth he added. Every swimmer incapable should he Uve a particularly Good race of winning a  wire not ninth finishes at the Uii Seit started raining a ii ear thursday let up briefly at morning but started again As he first foursome teed off at 10 i . But the show i rih Eavy until the Delta. Hit  noon flooding most of i greens. The downpour caught the  foursomes preparing to hit second shots on the Par-4 no whole. Berlin s Randy Morris one of the members of that four some was the most unhappy f i Low when word came of the postponement. Morris resident pro Here was one under Par for the first seven holes and nobody was shooting any better before the postponement came. Morris 22, a draftee who Cameto Berlin in february birdied the 400 Yard Par four second Hole and Par red the Othor six just missing a six foot Birdie Putton no. 4. Ralph Schlicht the pre tour Ney favorite off his perform ances in the com z Champion ships and Wood Lawn open was even Par for six holds  in the second foursome. The Usa eur Golf championships had not been rained out since at least 1059, Accord ing to Moss who had been involved in the Usa eur sport programs since that year. Ironi Cally the downpour was the firsthand rain of the summer at the Berlin Golf and country club which had been fighting a drought by hand watering it fairways. Sixty out of the originally 69golfers were on hand thursday and the same number were expected to tee off Friday. Nine out of 11 commands represented Here have entered enough Golf Era five to qualify for the  corps and vol corps have entered partial teams and the other two Usa eur commands 24th div and setae Are no entered Here. Darmstadt Auto club schedules slalom race Darmstadt Germany Spe Cial to the Darmstadt Chal lengers t/5 Auto club is sponsor ing a slalom saturday and Sun Day at the Darmstadt air  at the stars and strips Complex in  on saturday will be from noon until 5 p.m., and Sun Day morning from 9 . To 10 45 . The timed runs Start it . Seat belts Are required Barons seals to affiliate Montreal a Mont real and Oakland of the National hockey league and the Cleve land Barons of the american league announced completion of arrangements Here whereby the Barons became an affiliate of me seals. I claims Ralph Boston Mexico s air to Aid Long jumpers new York a Mexic City s thin air will help the Long jumpers say Ralph Boston. Record Holder there s less resistance in the High Altitude said Boston wednesday. The jumper should be better by five inches to a foot in the olympics a Mexico City. The jumpers will probably have to break the listed world record to even get a medal continued the Veteran american  won the Golden medal in 19n with a leap of 28 feet. R inches and was second in he with a Davies to Britain s Lynn Boston set the listed world Mark of j74k in 1965. It Wood last year by Russia s i biter Ovanesyan  
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