European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thunk Octy february 6, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 21 one Hundred and fifty three prep scene columns ago on feb. 11, 1965, to be exact we Shook up a few football Basket Ball and track and Field fans by saying that wrestling had in jus four Short years All but taken Over As the no. 1 sport in us Desea. We were of course looking at the great number of participant sin wrestling on both the varsity and Junior varsity level rather than Gate receipts. Now with Well Over 500 boys from about 30 High schools in Germany Belgium the Netherlands England Italy and Spain taking part in an Ever growing mat program we re Happy to announce that his rough and Tough sport has arrived. If you re the Type As i am who grew up at the baseball Par armed with hotdogs and statistics and figured that wrestling was a sport for the clowns it s about time you snapped out of it. By Tak ing in one of the five regional mat meets on tap around the continent this weekend you la see that High school wrestling offer americans in this part of the world some fast and exciting action. You might even find a few hotdogs to wrestle  week s regional Are set for Friday and saturday at Munich Mcgraw gym Baum older base gym London Livorno an Madrid. The geographical names of the meets in order Are South Ern Northern Western Italy and Spain. Regional officials a Munich and Baum older have announced that their meets will begin at 4 . On Friday and 10 . On saturday advancing to the us Desea finals at Wiesbaden on feb. 14-15 will be the top three finishers in each of the 12 weight division sin the Southern and Northern the top two from the Western and the champions from Spain and Italy. The tourney picture two weeks from today eight class a and eight class teams will be bouncing in and out of the Pitts memorial gymnasium at Rhein main Germany trying to determine us Desea basketball championships for 1988-60. With action still going on in the four leagues that will furnish the teams for the Rhein main meet it in t yet known which schools will be shooting for the big trophies. But from Here looking at the latest standings the remainder of the schedules and rules which determine qualifiers for the tourney it lookalike Heidelberg Frankfurt Kaiserslautern Lakenheath and Madrid will compete in big school a portion of the meet and Karlsruhe Baum older Berlin Pitburg and shape will made the trip in the Small school  leaves three vacancies in each tournament with wies Baden Nuernberg Munich and London the class a contenders and Russum upper Heyford Augsburg and Wuerzburg the Best class b  of us Desea s five Cage loops wind up this weekend and the other two finish up next week. Only Heidelberg an Karlsruhe remain unbeaten and none of the league championships have yet been  and Madrid have clinched at least a share of the Western and Spain titles respectively and will be out for the clinchers in final games Friday and saturday. Lakenheath 9-1 plays at Brun sum 4-6 and Madrid 9-1 goes to Seville 7-3 the race for the Italy division championship will go Down to the final game of the season. Vicenza and notre Dame the co leaders with 4-2 records close out the season Friday and saturday on the cougars Home  set of games Matching two top teams will be at Baum Holder where the bucs 8-2 will take a crack at Karlsruhe unbeaten record and two game Lead in the red division. There s still another weekend of action after this one in the red  Blue division Heads into its next to last weekend with Heidelberg putting its 10-0 Mark on the line against Cletus Camp Bell s Nuernberg eagles 5-5. Elsewhere around the leagues Friday and saturday it will be Kaiserslautern at Munich Frankfurt at Wiesbaden Stuttgart at Mannheim Berlin at Wuerzburg bad Kreuz Nach at Bremerhaven Augsburg at Pitburg shape at Brussels London at upper Heyford overseas at Naples and Rota at Kenitra. Rams rockets loaded up for Safe Cage tourney by Jack Antes a . Bureau South Ruislip England is the Ramstein rams Csc Cage champs and the Rhein main rockets Germany s no. 2 team stacked the decks wit scoring aces for the Safe basketball Battle which opens her thursday. Ramstein defending four straight tourney titles has a Star studded roster that include four of the Csc s top 10 scorers. The rams strengthened their at tack by acquiring John Hart Man of the Hof hustlers an Hahn s Willie Carson. Hartman finished second incs individual scoring with a 20.7 average and Carson was third with an 18.2 Mark. Ram Stein completing season play with an 11-3 record was paced by Ken Somerville s 18-Pointaverage. Somerville finished fourth in the scoring race an was joined by teammate Oscar vegas cagers gain ground in Small poll new York up Ken Tucky Wesleyan s season Long reign As the nation s top Small College basketball Power began to totter wednesday As the on Rushing rebels of Nevada Las vegas moved to within three Points of the faltering panthers. The Owensboro ky., school retained its number one ranking taking notes. Boo Odem one of the veterans of our is sports staff Heads Down Naples Way Early next week to cover the Mediterranean area Cage tournament. The 10-team meet is slated to get under Wayon  Junior High tourney for seventh and eighth graders opens Friday at Rhein Muin with Ramstein taking on Lan Stuhl at 9 ., Plum Sens tangling with Hanau at 10 30, Frankfurt Meetin Sembach at noon and Wiesbaden clashing with Rhein main at 1 30. The losers Square off later in the Day at 3 . And 4 30, and the winners meet at 6 and 7 30. The two Day meet winds up saturday with Consolation games at 9 ., 10 30 and noon leading up to the title  at 2 . Something has to give Friday night when the two smallest High schools in Germany meet on the Hardwood. It will be bad Kreuz Nach 0-10 at Bremerhaven 0-10 in that red division showdown. The lancers of american Academy High school Down Nathens have extended their winning record to 13-5 against i com petition with an easy 115-53 Romp Over the 2140th of Athenia air port. Jim Thomas chalked up 27 Points to set the Pace As the lancers ran up their biggest score of the season. Thomas Wasfi old by to Adang i 84, Mike Mosley s and Glenn Raphael if. A grower Kenny desportes Joean Christ Steve heu Annand Larry Ford also saw a lot of action for the Don Roach s charges. Ruby is first to announce for indy 500 Indianapolis ind. Up the first Driver for the 53rd running of the Indianapolis 500" was named tuesday. Texan Lloyd Ruby will Pilot anew machine powered by a four Cylinder turbocharged engine. The car is owned by Gene White Indianapolis. Ruby will make his tent appearance at the Brickyard this year. He has logged More Miles on the two and one half mile circuit than any Active Driver 3,902. He finished eighth or better in five of his nine appearances Here. His Best showing with the big cars was third in 1964. Ruby was a Leader in Las year s race and appeared to be headed for Victory Lane when his car developed ignition trouble with Only 26 laps to  costly pit Stop pushed him Back to fifth place in the final standings. Seals ask to move club to Vancouver Vancouver . Up directors of the Oakland seals hockey club have submitted formal request for Transfer of their National hockey league franchise to Vancouver it was announced tuesday by Vancouver hockey club president Cyrus h. Mclean. Seals officials Mclean said have requested the application be considered at the meeting of the nil Board of governors in new York feb. 18, Veteran writer die Philadelphia a mrs Stanley d. Lovegrove the for Mer Helen o. Mancin sports writer for the Philadelphia bulletin for 30 years is dead at 73. For the ninth consecutive  Wesleyan received 277 Points in the balloting by thess member United press liter National coaches rating boar while the nevadans garnered 274  College of Ohio the nation s Best defensive outfit also gained ground on the leaders. The eagles held Theno. 3 position with 243 Points. Another Ohio school Centra state retained the no. 4 rating allowed by no. 5 Southwest Louisiana no. 8 Stephen f. Austin and no. 7 Southwest Missouri. Puget sound moved into thetfo. 8 position Fairmont advanced to ninth even though the Falcons suffered their first loss of the season and Cheyney state slipped from eighth to 10th. South Dakota state continued its steady Advance in the ratings the jackrabbits moving into the no. 11 position. Other teams in order were Howard Payne no. 12 Mcmurry of Texas 13 american International Winner of its last six outings no. 14 Ogelthorpe of Atlanta ga., no. 15 Evansville 16th Alcorn an Eastern new Mexico tied for 17th Wittenberg 19th an Northern Arizona 20th. Kentucky Wesleyan the de fending Mcaa College division Champion has a 15-3 record but the panthers were upset last week by Bellarmine 72-64. The rebounded with victories Over Union of Tennessee and Arkan Sas state. Nevada Las vegas averaging104 Points a game used impressive victories Over North Ern Arizona and Long Beach state to move up on the panthers. The rebels also 15-3, downed 20th ranked norther Arizona 121-100 and Long Beach state 91-86. The ratings with first Hue votes  records team Point i. Kentucky Wesleyan i 15-3 i77 x Nevilla Las Vejo u4 153 2743. A Liland 18 23 i. Central stale 1 12-3 isi4 Southwest Louisiana h � 171 8 . Austin 2 14-3 i6di. Southwest Missouri 1 13-4 122 i puget sound 18-1 1009. Fairmont state u 13-1 83 no Cheyney state 1v2 to11. South Dakota St. 38 12. Howard Payne 2313. Mcmurry so u. American International 19is. Wogelt Liore 11 10. Evans Vili 4it. Tie Alcorn 3 a turn new Mexico a 13uj, Wittenberg 13 20 North Arizona other it calving Points Lipiew. In Diana