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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 7, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 21 Bundu wharf my line in Berlin one of the main features currently being presented at the an Nual Berlin Green week is the latest in american and european fishing  the american offerings is Leon Chandler vice president of Cortland line company who is showing films an giving demonstrations of Fly bait and spin casting. The exhibit closes sunday feb. 9. School for Hunting instructors the Rod and gun association will sponsor its annual Hunting instructors training course from March 10-15 at the hotel general Walker  try purposes maximum space allocations Are Safe 25 representatives Maag Bonn 2 . Army Garrison Berlin 2,and com a 70. Clubs May sponsor qualified personnel at their own  applicants for try attendance should Contact local Public affairs offices for space assignment and Issue of travel  qualify for the Hunting coarse applicants must be in Possession i of a valid Hunting License have at least one year to go in the command and have the ability to conduct a 20-hour Hunt school when they return to Home  must make their own reservations before feb. 26, i indicating they wish to attend the course at the Walker. It s carnival at Munich club Munich Rod and gun club invites members and their guests to a Fasching party to be held at Mcgraw Cavern in bldg. 19, feb. 15 at 8 30 . The admission is $2 and includes table reservation Buffet dinner entertainment dance music and a Chance on prizes for the Best  Are on Sale at the Rod and gun club office. Getting the Range on Vicenza Vicenza Rod and gun club operates two skeet ranges a trap Range a Small bore Range and Golf driving Range. The club also has a skeet Range in  derbies Turkey shoots and picnics Are also part of the  have almost All sporting goods for fishing and Hunting said dutch Kulibert manager. Normal sales prices Are 30 to 40per cent lower than those in the states added Kulibert. For items not in Stock special orders Are  thursday night free food and door prizes go to members who now number 823.the club operates two Hunting reserves and sponsors Archery. It also sponsors a skeet team which competes with italian teams. Archers meet at Ramstein the Ramstein Archery club hosted 26 bowmen at the first shoo of the new year Jan. 26. According to Al Bacey president of the Archery association Europe the next Bow and Arrow contest will take place feb. 16 on the Heidelberg Rod and gun club ranges. Here Are the results of the recent shoot scratch winners Handicap winners free style Wayne Pear free style Earle Sprog son Heidelberg 428. Gins Ramstein 576 Dean Long Barebow-a1 Bacey Heidel r"181?. 528j Joe Perry Karl Bere 332 Ruhe 52�  Rill nne Ell Bare Bow Sherry Roberts,p?r?e5? d�8se11 Ramstein 528. Ramstein us. Bow Hunter Steve Roberts youth Bent Bacey Heidel Ramstein 494. Berg 388. Youth Vince Bacey Heidel Berg 518. Kaiserslautern to Host annual9 Larry Hollier skeet chairman at Kaiserslautern called to scold me for saying in a recent column that both Garmisch and Kaiserslautern were bickering Over who would Host the annual skeet championships sponsored by the Rod and gun association. Not so says Larry. Not Only is it definite that Kaiserslautern will Host the shoot now known As the association annual and open but the ranges will sport new traps on its four ranges and we be got the Best Rod and gun club in Europe according to Larry. The shoot will consist of to Birds each in 410, 28, 20 and 42 also if International style trap is added to the contest it willbe fired at nearby Sembach which has the proper traps with red warning lights and three second delay  of the annual Are july 3-8. You can Contact Larry by phoning Lan Stuhl military 7291 or 8388. As if it mattered dept a 50-Pound Beaver measuring almost four feet from nose to Tali tip is believed to be the oldest Ever recorded in the . It was judged to be 21 years old through special dental examination technique after being trapped in Maryland in 1968. A new wildlife Reserve has opened on the shores of lower Lou Herne Fermanagh. Northern Ireland the Royal society for the Protection of Birds is managing the Reserve and plans to build wildfowl observation Windi. Fermanagh. Ulster s Lakeland if the most Westerly of the six counties. So a to Triou drive from Belfast. The lakes popular for boating and fishing contain More than 365 islands. Itching Lombardi will get closer piece of the action new York a succession t just a mild affliction for Vince Lombardi. It s More like disease. Winning in t everything the new coach and general Man Ager of the Washington red skins once said. It s the Only  and for Lombardi s teams twas. In nine seasons As coach of the Green Bay packers discharges won 89 regular season games lost Only 28 and tied the packers won five nation Jal football league titles six Western conference Champion ships and the first two super bowl  last three nil crowns came in succession before Lombardi yielded his coaching duties to Phil Bengtson to be come full time general manager of the  he firmly maintained throughout the packers worst season in years last fall that he had no intention of Leav ing Green Bay there were Indi cations that Lombardi was itch ing for a closer piece of the action. Has t been easy i made a decision to give up coaching and i m sticking with it Lombardi said in late sea son. But he quickly added it has t been easy. As a matter of fact it s been quite difficult. I know what i m missing there s a rapport with the play ers i no longer have. And that Sone of the greatest things in coaching the closeness of the people. There s a great satisfaction in putting things together and seeing them work  at Washington Lombard faces a better situation than when he took charge of the packers a decade ago. The redskins had a 5-9 record Las season. The packers had won Only on game in 1958, the year before Lombardi arrived. But Vince boasted he had never been associated with a losing team and he was t about to Start now. It was a cocky statement from a Man whose Only pre Vious head coaching had Bee with St. Cecelia s High school in Englewood  a member of Ford Ham s famed seven blocks of Granite Forward Wall Lombardi was still coaching in the High school ranks at the age of 33. However in 1946 he returned to Fordham As a line coach and two years later moved on lowest Point serving under Earl red Blake a Stern disciplinarian whose influence still runs deep in Lombardi. Worst team in nil Lombardi was 41 when Betook a Job As an assistant with the new York giants. He remained there until Green Bay beckoned with the Challenge of turning the worst team in the nil into a  was quite a Challenge but Lombardi met it brilliantly. In his first year the packers finished with a 7-5 Mark and were actually in Western conference Contention much of the  installed Paul Hor Nung the former notre Dame Star at halfback and teamed him with fullback Jun  recognized Talent and trades brought Green Bay such players As end Willie Davis and tackle Henry Jordan. He also recognized players who a 3 ability but did t use it an quickly banished those be text would stand in the Way of Victory. The packers were on heir Way toward league domination. By 1960, Green Bay was the Western conference Champion. The packers lost the title gamete Philadelphia that year but t was the Only championship hey were to lose under Lom  next year Green Bay again won the divisional title Hen Defeated the new York giants for the nil Champion ship. They won the title again in 1962, again beating the giants inthe championship showdown. But the packers slipped to Nicklaus leads in Money Palm Beach gardens Fla. A As a result of his $0,000 Victory in the Andy Wil Liams san Diego open last weekend Jack Nicklaus has taken the Lead among Golf s Money winners the profession Al golfers association of Amer Ica announced  has earned $35,600 in Only two tournaments almost$7,000 More than George Archer who won the Crosby the pre Vious week. The top 10 Money winners Nicklaus $35,600 Archer $28,953.30 Gene Littler,$24,727.24 Bruce Devlin $20,634.43 Charlie Sifford,$20,400 Miller Barber $16,907.50 Bob dickson$15,416.67 Harold Henning $15,365.72 Dick Lotz $14,702.67 Howie Johnson $13,826.63. Second place in 1963 when Hor Nung at the height of his Ca reer was suspended for betting on football games. Hornung was Back the following year but Hewan t the same and Green Bay again wound up , in 1965 when both Hornung and Taylor were show ing signs of Wear Lombardi s personally groomed Quarter Back Bart Starr started com ing into his  packers reeled off three straight championships and won the first two super bowl meetings with the rival Ameri can football league. Then at the height of Success Lombardi suddenly announced almost exactly a year ago that he was giving up coaching to be come strictly a front office  his legacy to Bengtson was far from promising. Crip pled with injuries and aging vet Erans the packers had to struggle All season to avoid the Central division  divorced himself from the team leaving com plete control to Bengtson on sundays while he took a sea thigh in the press Box away from the  began to Fly but it was obvious that this separation from the sport that had made him wealthy and famous left Lombardi restless and impatient and the rumours Wesanto Fly. He was mentioned As a Candi Date for the Job As baseball s new commissioner. There were reports he was trying to buy into the financially trouble Philadelphia eagles and to. It Washington was trying to lure him away with a fantastically Rich  most of All it was obvious that Lombardi simply missed being on the sidelines. And winning. He gave into that de sire monday. Local Cage if on my up hot 2nd half helps bandits smother crusaders 101-84 Aschaffenbur Germany special the Smith Fiori ban dits pumped in 55 Points in the second half to turn Back the Conn crusaders 101-84, wednes Day night in the Marne league. Steve Milland led the bandits now 5-3, with 23 Points. He was backed by Larry Toomer and John Nelson with 17 each and James Thomas with 12.the crusaders who trailed by 48-38 at halftime were paced by Dave sheets 26, Dan Breiden Haugh s 19 and Bill Nelson s 16. A Atzingen Germany Spe Cial the Larson eagles caught fire in the second half and race to a 101-77 exhibition win Over the Frankfurt Asa big Blu wednesday night. The eagles got 59 of their Points after holding a slim 52-41 Lead at  England netted 31 Mark ers Bob Mcknight added 22 and Henry Ross had 13 to Lead the eagles. Herb Edwards poured ins3 and Mike Vinson tallied 25 for the losers. Mannheim Germany Spe Cial John Shannon scored two free throws with six seconds Leftin the game to give the a Jar eur seventh army tips celtic san 80-79 Victory Over the Mann Heim cobras in an exhibition encounter Here wednesday night. The cobras had rallied froma 44-36 deficit to pull ahead in the final minutes of  s clutch free shots gave him 25 Points and game scoring honors. John Brodsky had 23 to set the Pace for the cobras Wuerzburg Germany Spe Cial Roosevelt Johnson s 24 Points paced a Well balance Wuerzburg attack which produced a 103-88 Warrior Victory Over Graves ready Here wednes Day in a Marne league  Adams added 18 Points to the Warrior cause while Carl Davis chipped in with 17 and Bob Foreman scored 11.John West scored 18 and Merl Morgan 17 for Graves ready. Cowboys sign up two free agents Dallas a the Dallas cowboys of the National foot Ball league have signed t w Livingstone College players As free  were Greg Smith a 6 foot-3, 240-Pound offensive line Man and David Hendrix a 6-1, 205-Pound running Back who averaged six Yards per carry  
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