European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse I thursday january 23, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 21 if you want to catch a sneak preview of the 1968 a. Basketball tournament finals come on Down to the Heidel Berg High school gymnasium this games on the european prep scene Don t come much bigger than the ones on tap Friday 8 . And saturday 1 30 . At Heidelberg where the Lions will be taking on the Frankfurt eagles. The Lions coached by excitable David Craig he can throw Towel As far As most coaches can throw a baseball and the eagles of Veteran Mentor George Ausra he s piloted frankfurt1 to over100 win both bring perfect 80 records into this Blue division showdown. There will be More than jus the Blue Loop leadership and a Good shot at being seeded no. 1in next month s class a tourney at stake when these two Power houses collide. Ausra and his boys Haven t forgotten last year sus Desea tourney when they were top seeded and then upset a by the Young Lions. Several Ofa the Eagle cagers who played football will be out to avenge Frankfurt s Only loss at Heidelberg of the past season. Four of the Heidelberg Cage standouts returning Lel Termen to Delaney Bob Bissell Bruce Wood and Foster Fountain were on the Lions Gridiron team which upset the eagles in , they la have to Stop quarterback Steve Bari. He s quite a basketball player too. Last week against Kaiserslautern bar hit for 35 and 26 Points As the eagles handed the raiders their first setbacks of the season 83-67 and 75-69.this week s games Mark the Halfway Point of the regular season and there is a full slate of Friday saturday games coming up Winall five of the us Desea leagues. There is also a showdown that matches teams with 6-0 record son tap in the Western division. The Lakenheath lancers will be hosting the shape spartans in this one. Red division Leader Karls Ruhe 6-0 will be at Home against the Augsburg apaches 4-2. The Vicenza cougars Pace setters in the Italy division with a 1-0 mar will be at Naples 1-1. John Winkler s Spain leading Madrid knights 5-1 travel to Kenitra 0-6 in other games Friday and saturday Munich will be at Stuttgart Mannheim at Kaiserslautern Brussels at Brun sum upper Heyford at London notre Dame at Livorno and Seville at Rota. Nuernberg plays at Wiesbaden thursday and Friday.9 a grateful parent9 losing records Seldom bring football coaches a handshake or a word of Praise. Exceptions Brussels the losing team Michael Cooper the losing coach and it. Col. Bruce h. Warren a grateful Parent who sees More in football than winning games. Brussels High principal Gordon Gartner passed along to us the following copy of a letter of appreciation which Warren whose son Richard played for the brigands sent to Cooper dear coach Cooper this is a letter of appreciation from a grateful have just been looking at my stars and stripes newspaper where the final standings of the us Desea football teams Are the handicaps you had this season fourth place in the Gold division does t look too bad. As a coach i m sure you would like to have seen Many More games in the win column. I would like to assure you however that you were a big Winner in one area this year. This was the winning of the re Spect and appreciation of both your players and their to the above i would like to commend you for your behaviour and bearing on and off the football Field. The example that you have set in this regard is far More important to me As Parent than the team s won lost record. My own son though certainly not a standout football player benefited tremendously from your coaching altitudes and the experience he had with the football team. I feel Hewill be a better Man As a result of your efforts. Please accept my sincere Here and wrestling meets Are scheduled Friday and saturday at Augsburg Wiesbaden Kaiserslautern and Mann Heim. In other mat encounters it will be Vicenza at Naples mad rid at Kenitra and Seville at Rota. The Junior High basketball tournament for ninth graders will be held at Ranii Tein feb. 14-15. The seventh and eighth graders will hold their meet at i Heui Maln on feb. 7-8. There will be eight teams in each tourney according to us Desea s Junior High sports director John Ripmaster of Ramstein,., Donald Roach football coach at the Athens Community school informs us that his boys enjoyed another winning seasoning the seven Man Flag league at Athene air base. To Many it Flag football May sound like a kid s game but when you compete against men with College experience and size one team in the league had a line that averaged 250 Pound the game become quite difficult and far from a kid s game writes Roach. There Are no other High school football teams in the area that Athens can compete with but the lancers Are expected to journey to Naples to play in the Mediterranean basketball tourney feb. 12-15. Five teams May compete Basic Bull ? f it Juji i f l re of. To my under Way by Jack Antes a . Bureau London is the Londo rockets Lakenheath eagles Chicksands fighting Chicks an Wethersfield raiders will Coit Pete in the Safe . Con Ference basketball playoffs which Start Here the Ben Waters phantoms May become the fifth team in the three Day double elimination tournament to determine the team that will join the Cham Pion upper Heyford sky Kingas Luik. Representatives in the Safe tourney Here feb. 8-10the sky Kings automatically qualified for a Safe Berti winning the conference title i a 1m record. The second thro fifth place clubs Are scheduled to fight it out in the playoffs. Should Wethersfield drop both of its two remaining games wit Lakenheath thursday and the Mildenhall marauders Friday the phantoms and raiders would Complete their seasons wit identical 10-8 slates records. And say 3rd air Force athletic offi local i Lay of monday vials should that happen Bent Waters would be invited to the course Wethersfield could tie Chicksands 12-6 for fourth place in conference standings by winning both of its possibility of another looms for Lakenheath which needs to defeat to Wethersfield in order to deadlock London 13-5 for second place. If there Are no complications in the final standings the second place team will meet the fifth place quintet and the third and fourth place squads will tangle inthe opening round. Should any teams be tied inthe final standings a pre tourney Coin flip will determine the pair Ings. Support come has Back two mat champs to Eslingen Germany special Clayton Wyse the out standing wrestler in usage urlass year and Connie Mccormick Usa eur s 213.5-Poundchamp in 1968, will be returning to the 1969 Usa eur wrestling championships with the seventh army support come and Mccormick who were both selected from usar eur to attend the All Rainy trials at it. Lewis wash., Las Spring form the nucleus of the support come squad that will bout to take their second usar eur Crown in three years a Fuerth feb. 6-8. The support come grappler just missed capturing their Sec Ond consecutive usar continued on Page 82 Collins Rice Are eagles Over Welford 92-75 Greenham common eng land special Milo Collins and Stan Rice combined for 25 Sec Ond half Points Here tuesday in a Safe . Conference make up tilt As the Lakenheath eagles subdued the last place Welford pirates 92-75. The eagles boosted their mar to 12-5 with one game remain ing Oil their slate. They were to meet the Wethersfield raiders thursday. The pirates completed their season on a 2-16 note. Collins produced 13 of his 17markers in the final 20 minutes while Rice scored Only two of his14 total in the first half As Laken Heath pulled away after holding 39-38 Edge at the intermission. Welford s Charlie Akers garnered scoring honors with 32 Points. Art Ransom had 20 to Lead the eagles. Pirate guard Henry Richardson Allied 17 while teammate Nate Polk scored 11 before fouling Outin the first half. The . Conference stand Ings won lost pet. Behind upper Heyford. H 4 .718 London 13 5 .722 1lakenheath 12 5 l =4 Chicksands 12 8 .667 2wethersfield 10 6 .625 3 Ben Waters 10 8 .556 4 Alconbury 8 10 .444 6high Wycombe. 4 14 .ir.2 10 Mildenhall 3 14 .176 i0 Welford 2 16 12 a clenched title tuesday s result Lakenheath 92, Welford 75only game scheduled thursday s at Wei Ersfeld Friday s Gam Mildenhall at Wethersfield celtics on display John Shannon 45 of he Usa eur seventh army troops celtics leaps for a shot during exhibition play against German National team at the West German sport press festival in Dortmund. The 14-Ininute game was one of 35 events on the program which Drew 14,900 to the westfalen Halle. No official score was kept and rules were slightly altered one foul shot Only no time out but an unofficial tally had the . Quin tet winning 33-22. Other celtics shown her include Frank Taylor 30ralph Snoddy 25 Aud Clarence Gray 21who led the scoring with 10 Points. Five of toe German players were also on the teams which handed the celtics their Only losses of the season in inter National tournaments at Bremerhaven a ios Habruck. American High jumper Duk Fos Bury who won a Gold medal at Mexico City also did his Flop at the festival. Army
