European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday a Emory 28, 1969 the stars and stripes 21 Heidelberg is t h Heidelberg Lions Are sitting ail alone atop the toughest High school basketball league in Europe , following their two Tough est wins of the season they Renot boasting. Back eagles by Hilj a shooting a find Saturn la Fly 68-50the Tallis half shoot into of Aach by vial Craig a fill their Blue division record to 8-0here Over the weekend. With a pair of hard earned victories Over the previously unbeaten Frankfurt eagles. Although outscored in the final half of both games the Lions held on to win Friday by 75-65bob Bissell aha brue6 ,vw6ame up with key Heidelberg baskets in the final minute of saturday s contest after the eagles moved within four Points at63-59. The eagles had jumped off Toan Early 5-0 Lead before Craig s Crew found the Range and went ahead to stay at 6-5 on a pair of foul shots y f6ster Fountain. Bissell who led All scorers in the game with 20 Points connected for 13 in the first half to give the Lions a comfortable 37-27 Lead. Corrie Foos led the Frankfurt comeback in the second half by Hearty greeting a. Rene Miller right chief of Safe sports welcomes the instructors for the Safe baseball clinics starting tuesday at Wiesbaden air base and continuing next week a London s South Ruislip air base to Europe. The instructors Are left to right Frank Crosetti coach for the Seattle pilots St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Nelsons r i 1 e a National league Umpire Ken Burkhart Baltimore Pitcher Dave Mcnally and card hurler Steve Carlton. Is Safe baseball clinic staff arrives by Ben Abram staff writer Wiesbaden is Nelso Briles Steve Carlton and Dave Mcnally pitchers All and Ken raiders Register 21st hockey Victory bad Soellinger Germany special Dave Carlyle and Don Sheppard scored three goals each to Lead the 4 Wing raiders to a 9-5 win Over the Csc club from Zurich in a Nice hockey exhibition contest Here sunday. Tony Licari had four assist for the raiders As they raised their Overall record to 21-8.the raiders who Are in first place in the 1st air div league Defeated the 1 Wing arrows 9-6, saturday. Burkhart a Pitcher turned Umpire All expressed the opinion that batters Don t work at their game like the pitchers do Here  and Carlton members of the National league champions. Louis Cardinal Mound staff Baltimore Oriole Star Mcnall Yand Burkhart who pitched for the cardinals prior to donning an ump s mask arrived monday for the annual Safe baseball clinics. Frank Crosetti a Yankee for37 years but currently a coach for the new Seattle pilots in the american league also is on hand As a clinic instructor but he missed the luncheon monday. The clinics will be staged at wies Baden air base through Friday and at London s South Ruislip air base feb. 3-6. Crosetti is making his second appearance on a Safe base Ball instructors panel he Washer in 1966and the others Are appearing for the first time. How Ever Burkhart made a previous appearance for a Susareu clinic. Stars and scripts local sports Kolts stay unbeaten in Marne Loop Kitzinger Germany Spe Cial the Harvey Kolts out lasted the Smith Fiori bandits,76-73, Here sunday night in a Marne league game and retained their league Lead with a 4-0 rec Ord. Five players hit in double figures for tace winners. Larr Mayfield had 20, Rosio Williams 19, Craig Hamilton 13, Kevin Donovan 11 and Frank John son 10.tom Gordon led the losers now 1-3, with 26 Points. Robert to Lendon had 19 and James Thomas and John Nelson 11 each., the bandits led 35-33 at the half and the Lead switched backhand fourth throughout the second half until the Kolts took the Lea for Good at 4 40, 68-67. Wertheim Germany Spe Cial Wertheim s cowboys broke out of the Marne league cellar Here sunday by edging the Conn crusaders 79-77. The crusaders now sit alone atthe Bottom of the league. Cowboy Bob Fields broke a77-77 tie in the last nine seconds with two shots from the foul  Clayton was High Point Man with 18. Elmore Banto netted 17, Jim Robinson pumped in 11 and Fields connected with10 Points for the cowboys. Widest Point spread in the contest was at halftime when the crusaders led 44-38. Aschaffenbur Germany special the Larson eagles extended their wins to four again Stone loss in the Marne league by Downing the Graves ready cardinals Here sunday 102-83. Manuel Moore led in the scor ing department with 30 Points for the eagles. Henry Ross had 19and Robert Mcknight and Lonnie Starkey contributed 14  the cardinals Marl mor Gan and Ron Byron hit the net for 19 apiece Edward Dyson Tal lied 17 and John West pitched in15 Points. The cardinals trailed at half time 49-37. Everybody said this was Sucha great Pitcher s year but was it really Briles asked. Tel me How Many pitchers won 16 games not too Many. The pitch ers looked Good with All those shutouts and Low scoring game because they work harder at the game than the  that s right Mcnall echoed. If a Pitcher is having trouble with his curve Ball he Allwork on it. I pitch batting practice when i have some prob lems Only i Call it pitching practice. The Only thing about that is that the batters want us to throw fat pitches All the  yeah chipped in  a Batter is having trouble hitting the curve Ball does hero out and ask the Pitcher to throw him nothing but curves he does not he wants to hit the Good pitch out of the  Burkhart added that the Youn hitters ought to take a Page out of the books of Stan Musial anted Williams and make a study of the game. After All you have to learn to hit All the pitches be cause pitchers Don t throw you too Many Good ones if they can help it he said. Kirby paces 14th Cav Over wildcats 91-66 Fulda Germany special the 1st in 14th army Cav Defeated the 54th engr in wildcats,91-66, Here in a v corps Eastern division basketball game. Wayne Kirby paced the win ners who ran their record to 8-0, with 30 Points. The wildcats who Are now 2-2 in league play got 23 Points from Harris Narnett. To 8-0 netting 10 of his 14 Points for the afternoon. The Lions outscoring their visitors by 11 Points 18 to 7 at the foul line also got 17 markers from lanky Kent Paul 13 from Wood and 12 from Tom Delaney. Steve Bari missed 15 of his 22 shots from the floor but was the Only Eagle to join Foos in double figures. He had 17. In Friday s opener Fountain and Delaney set the Pace with 23 and 20 Points respectively Ashe Lions roared to a 43-29 half time Lead before falling apart inthe second half. Bari pumped in 22 Points an Greg Brown had 13 for the eagles who were Down by Only five Points with 2 32 left in the game. The setbacks left George aus a s defending Blue division Champion eagles sharing second place at 6-2 with the Kaiserslautern raiders. The raiders willbe at Home Friday and Satur Day for a do or die meeting Asfar As the league race goes against the Lions. Friday s game Frankfurt Heidelberg fish Rbrown Bari Williamsfoot euros Robinson g f t 3 0-1 g Fountain 5 3-4 13 Delaney 8 6-8 22 Bissell 3 0-0 0 paul4 2-2 10 Wood 0 1-2 1 23-47 g f t 10 3-3 23 6 Sll 20 5 1-2 11 7 4-ti is 1 1-3 3 totals 25 15-21 65 totals 29 17-25 75 Frankfurt 17 12 18 1865 Heidelberg 20 23 15 1775 fouled out Frankfurt.  fouls Frankfurt 19, i i Arlberg 17. Saturday s game Frankfurt g f 3 1-1 4 0-2 7 3-3 1 0-1 7 0-0 3 2-3 1 1-1 Heidelberg Fisher brow Bari Williamsfoot euro Robinson t 7 Fountain 8 Delaney 17 Bissell 2 Paul 14 Wood 7 3 g f 2 2-2 3 6-6 8 4-4 1 3-8 5 3-5 12 20 17 13 total 26 7-11 59 totals 25 18-25 75 Frankfurt 8 19 17 1559 Heidelberg 12 25 15 1668 fouled out Heidelberg  fouls Frankfurt is Heidelberg 12. Wiesbaden Nuernberg Divide pair Wiesbaden special the Wiesbaden warriors and the Nuernberg eagles split a pair of tight Blue league High school basketball games Here last week end with the eagles squeezing out a 54-48 win in thursday contest and the warriors coming Back to take a 62-58 verdict on Friday. Doug Thompson dropped in two Quick buckets in the closing seconds of Playto give the warriors the Friday win after the two teams had gone into the final minute of play tied up after con stantly exchanging the Lead throughout the contest. Thompson Lethe winners with Alford 18 Points. Bob Thomas added 16.walter Brown tallied 20 markers for the eagles while Chester Al Ford and Cliff Stoeltje had 14 and 10,  Alford led the eagles to Victory thursday with19 Points As Brown and Stoeltje each hit for is. Thomas was High for Wiesbaden with 15 markers followed by Bob Clark with 12.the split left each team with 3-5 records in league Competition