European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 9, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 21 err Sench by Bon Abrams jury tampering is a serious offence and so is rules tamper ing and baseball has recently committed a most serious Offen Seby permitting the minor leagues to Experiment with such Malarky As a wildcard Pinch hitter for the Pitcher automatic walks talk of installing a time clock and other gimmicks. Baseball is in dire Straits right now but what it does not needs a siege of gimmickry and rules tampering. These things tend to water Down the sport to a True baseball  wildcard Pinch hitter which will be tested in the minors All the Way up to the class aaa International league permits manager to use a Pinch hitter the same Man unless he is replaced by another Pinch hitter a every time the Pitcher conies to  Rule would be a godsend to a manager who has a Good hitter who also happens to be a Butcher in the Field say a zek Bonura or getting Back to modern Day baseball a Dick Stuart or a Richie Allen. These Guys All hit the bail with authority  developed the strange habit of losing As Many games with their gloves As they won with their bats in the course of a  pitchers generally Don t hit. So this new Rule would permit the use of a Good hitter and would t deprive a team of its Ace Pitcher. But it would t take the managers who Are Worth their Salt too Long to find a perfectly legitimate Way of circumventing the True intention of the Rule diminishing the effect pitching has had on the game the past few seasons. For instance if i were a baseball manager and had Richi Eallen on my team i would keep him on the Bench Bat the Pitcher in the Lead off Slot and immediately Pinch hit with  this would get me a very Good hitter up to the plate five times in Many Many games and i d still have my Good pitch Erin the game whenever i needed him. And of course an Allen sitting on the Bench while my team was in the Field would t be coming up with some Bonehead Man Euver on defense. Pitching hitting and defense Are All vital phases of baseball and we should keep them integral parts. It certainly in t fair to the Pitcher who has to face these Good Pinch hitters four or five times a game. Getting such people As Allen Bonura and Stuart out once or twice in a game is a difficult chore in itself but i seems that the Rule makers who Are considering such an event Are stacking the Law of averages against the  Briles the hard throwing St. Louis Cardinal Star brought up a very important Point prior to the Safe baseball clinic a Wiesbaden when he said that the batters Don t work at improving their part of the game As hard As the pitchers do. Briles said that pitchers work on their weaknesses while the batters always want batting practice hurlers to throw to their strength so they can slam the Ball out of the Park. We feel that the automatic walk is almost As ridiculous As the wildcard Pinch hitter. It does t happen too often but Why re move the chances that a Pitcher might just get a Little careless while issuing an intentional walk and get the Ball too close to the plate Only to have the Batter whack it for a run scoring hit or that the Pitcher loses his control completely and uncork a wild pitch that advances the runner or  very important actions would be completely erased by merely indicating the desire to Issue an intentional walk and having the Umpire wave the Batter Down to first base. And besides pitching four intentional wide pitches does t take that much Tim anyway. Or he Central Illinois collegiate baseball league one of j. The first circuits devised to  College season through the summer with subsidization by the major leagues uses the automatic walk and its games Haven t been notably shortened. After All How Many intentional walks Are there usually in baseball game the Cibl also has a Rule which requires using a Courtesy runner every time the Catcher is on base with two outs. This is so that time would be saved by having the Catcher put on his tools of ignorance before the inning ended so that he will be ready to take the Pitcher s warm up tosses  american league Parks Chicago and Cleveland have electric clocks on their scoreboard so that they can time a Pitcher to see that he does t go any longer than 10 seconds Between pitches with no one on base. Such timing might he an asset unprofessional basketball and we really believe it is More of a detriment than an Aid but it makes a farce out of  one thing most pitchers do not take 20 seconds to deliver a pitch tests conducted by the various clubs last year revealed that pitches were delivered on an average of every 11 seconds. For those few that persist application of the unnecessary delay of game Rule would be effective. The one thing Many people forget is that practically every situation is completely covered in baseball rules but they Are not properly  people assert that the game needs a Complete restructuring but this kind of thinking seems to us to be a giant stride towards restructuring to Coin a new phrase. Usa eur mat meet 2 pathfinders win titles give 8th div team Lead by Ben Abrams staff writer Fuerth Germany is the 8th div pathfinders held the team Lead As the finals of the1969 Usa eur wrestling championships unfurled at Monteith Barracks gymnasium saturday  pathfinders whose Best showing in the 1968 finals was one third place finish by Mike Smerk have already nailed Dow two 1969 crowns Dennis Wil Liams won the 154.5 Pound title and Mike Mcglinchey took the 191.5 Pound laurels and 20points. Defending Champion 3rd Ann div ranked second after the sat urday afternoon four match ses Sion with 10 Points Rand the 3rd div was third with six. However the Spear headers Hada Good shot at retaining their Crown because they still had five men battling for Points in the nine match final session. The 8th div Only had two left in further Competition. Williams and Mcglinchey and3rd army div s Anthony Robin son won their championships Fri Day night and were not scheduled for action saturday because the had already beaten the surviving competitors in their respective weights and the aau olym Pic rules do not permit re matches. Local sports feel Sisters beat europe9s Best in slalom i Pinteno Italy up Fud Yand Kathy Nagel the flying Sis ters from Enumclaw wash., beat Europe s Best saturday to finish one two in the big i Pinteno Spe Cial slalom. It was the Best american show ing of the women s Winter circuit and followed a giant slalom win four Days ago in Garmisch West Germany by Marilyn Cochran a19-year-old from Richmond it. 83 competitors Judy Nagel 17, who has been highly placed in earlier european meets headed a Field of 83 competitors racing in two heats Dow the 660-Yard i Pinteno slopes. The course dropped 153 Yards through first 57, then 56 control Gates. Judy turned in a time of 96.34seconds. Kathy was clocked in 98.57,in All four american girls Fin scores High school basketball  82, Karlsruhe 82 Wiesbaden 75, Frankfurt 66shape is Bromela 03  68, Karlsruhe 56 Frankfurt 66. Wiesbaden 68bhapb 83, Brussels 60 Junior High basketball 7th and St or acc tourney Atu Roay championship Wiesbaden 47, Pir Aamna so third place Ranu Tein 30, Sembab 81 fifth place rhe a i Ftp 24, Tan Stuhl 17 cams Fanth place 8t, it court u shed in the top 10 including mis Cochrane who was ninth and Kiki Cutter 19, of Bend ore.,who was eighth. The . Showing was a hard Knock for the skiing elite of 16 nations contesting the Vii Genorace. Florence Steurer of France one of the favourites was third in 99.27 seconds leading two com patriots Michele Jacot and in Grid Laforgue. Miss Jacot who was second to miss Cochrane at Garmisch was timed in 99.82.miss Laforgue clocked 100.16. Fina Hawthorne of Britain was sixth in 100.62 and Monia Kaser or of Austria seventh in 100.77.kiki, sixth in world cup stand Ings before saturday s race came Down in 100.93 seconds while Marilyn the elder of two skiing Cochrane Sisters clocked 101.25.heidi Zimmer of Austria closed out the top 10 in 101.39. Aare Sweden a Jean Noel Auger of France repeated his Fine performance of Friday to take an overwhelming Victory in the world cup giant slalom race finishing Here saturday. He was faster saturday an sped through the 76 Gates on the 2,200-meter course dropping 490meters, in 1 50.26 for a combined time of 3 35.89.second was Jacob Tischhauser of Switzerland who finished in1 50.70 for a total of 3 38.36. Tischhauser also placed second Friday top american finisher Over Al was Rick Chaffee of Rutland vt., in seventh place at 3 43.32. Vagabonds top comets in 2 out of 3 Williams gained an impressive evident superiority Victory Over the 4th army div s Garth Fowler to Annex his diadem. He whipped Fowler who had looked spectacular in registering three Lashy pins earlier 15-2.Mcglinchey decision Ned Bill Lachenmayer of Usa eur seventh army tips 6-0, to win his  beat de Morgan of the 4th army div 3-1, to retain the 114.5-Pound Crown. Another Robinson Gary of the8th div was the Only one of the 72 wrestlers who had compete Din 99 matches through the Early saturday action who still had Ashot at a perfect Zero score in  recorded his fourth straight pin when he took out the 3rddiv s Theodore Justen in 2 48 Friday night. Under the aau olympic wrestling rules no Points Are charged for a win Ning pin. Decisions won and lost and pins lost Cost a wrestler unto four Points it takes six to be eliminated from further com  results fourth round114.5 in Allen to Lily support come. Dec i Ralph Carpenter. 3rd div o-2. An Titony Robinson 3rd army. Dec Edward Morgan 4th army 3-1.125 5 a Loren Headrick 3rd army pinned Dominic Basile support com .3 52 Gordon Bertrand v corps dec Edward Gordon 3rd div 3-2.13s.5 in Marc , 3rd army. Pinned Wayne Corey 3rd div 3 52 Mike Razer. Berlin dec Wayne Lei Siares Coin 3-2.154 5 in Leroy Rogers 3rd army dec Dave Woodward Berlin 3-1 Dennis Wil iams 6th div dec Garth Fowler 4th Arrond 15-2.171.5 a Gary Robinson Styli div Pennea Theodore Juten 3rd div. 2 4s de  Drian Usa eur seventh army tips dec Dan Presley 32nd Aad com 10-0.191.5 in Clayton Vyse support come pinned John Spahn 4th annd div. 2 04 like Mcglinchey. St div dec b i 1 1 Lachenmayer. Usa eur seventh army tips 6-0.213,5 in Alan Cornell sch div pinned Ron in unite 3rd div 2 33 Corneliust Ccormick support come dec Dick an Drews 3rd army. 8-6.heavyweightmick Gillespie. Sch div pinned Ken Wetmer. 3rd annd 1 26. Fifth round125.8 a Bertrand dec Bruce Mccabe. Berlin 8-3. Sixth round 125.5 in Beadrick pinned Mccabe. 6 40.154.5 in Fowler pinned. Bill wooden Craft 3rd army div. 1 45.1t1.5 in Teddy Erlewine. 3rd army div. Pinned Wledman 2 07.heavyweightjim Homan 3rd div dec que Sale 6-0. San Vito Dei Norman Jas Italy special Herb Stephens and Gene Bennett Lethe san Vito vagabonds Over toe Darmstadt comets in a three game basketball exhibition series  Vito won the first game 79-78, As Stephens dropped in 23 Points and Bennett scored 16, Tito off nifty came pm pc and won he second game ims. But the Vagabond took the deciding game 7m8.w Comet led at half Tow in to Tell game im8 Hornett s two fee throw with ,10 seconds left in the game put the game on tee for the  Davis i cored 19 and Stephen Chela talk 18 for the the second game the comets up a 4830 Halme Lead and coasted the Reft of the game a coach Brad Tane substituted freely. Bob Taylor took game Honor with $1 Points while Davis and christain had ii and 18 Points respectively. In the final game the Vaga Bonds led at the half 38-34. Stephens scored 17 and bennett15 Cor the winners. Taylor was the game s top scorer with 21. Davenport ties world 60-Yardhurdles record fort Worth Tex. A Willie Davenport lashed to a world record tying 6.8 second sin the 60-Yard High hurdles and Tom von Ruden beat the listed american record in the 1,000 Yard run to highlight the ninth annual fort Worth coaches in door games Friday  crowd of 7,856 watched the first running of the games in the new Tarrant county convention  s Victory was his 10th in a Row indoors. The olympic 110-meter High hurdles Champion tied the Mark held by Hayes Jones and Earl me  Ruden an Oklahoma state graduate who is in the army turned in a 1 07.7 time to beat the listed american record of 2 07.8 held by numerous ath letes