European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february 14, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 21 Hunting i skiing a great things Are done when men and mountains meet this is not done by jostling in the Street. William Blake 1757-1827 culmination of a dream the new Darmstadt Rod and gun club will stage it grand opening Friday feb. 21, beginning at noon. Custodian Larry Lang says the lounge sales store Barand Kitchen should be ready by the big Day. Between the whine of the electric Buzz saw and the rap of hammers on hollow partitions Lang was trying to Tell me that the new club will be the culmination of a dream that started Back in 1966 when he took Over the administration of a Rod handgun club that was $15,000 in the Hole and which offered no clues of former control records or inventory. We re not out of the Woods yet Larry admitted. But our idea is to offer something for All age groups. The sales store and All of the sporting goods is Only part of lounge bar and Kitchen will be Haven for soldiers and for families As Well. There la be partitioned sportsman s Corner and Over there where you see the carpenters will be a podium for musicians and floor shows. Well have barn dances country and Western music and what Ever the membership Lang says that closing of the old club space in the Ernst Ludwig Cavern across town and moving to the new location next to the officer club in Cambrai Fritsch Cavern put a Dent in the club sales especially since the move was made just before Christmas. Larry Lang but we had the Chance to get a better location and we grab edit said Larry and now Well be Able to offer a better service to the Community since Cambrai is now a centralized shopping enter. All the Way along i have had the backing of general James a Collins v corps arty commander the club custodian also slipped in a Good word for the Man who furnished the manpower and vehicles that made the move possible. That was it. Col. Carl m. Davidson 6910th support group com Mander who personally drove one of the trucks and provided the Security for the sporting arms and ammo in storage during the interim. Up by the Bootstraps Lang s plans include bettering Community relations on the Ger Man Side. We Are inviting to the opening All of the German Hunters and fishermen and town dignitaries who have helped us and those whom we think would help if we knew them better. They will be Welcome to participate in our club activities at any time. We rebutting in a new skeet Range on the German olympic trap ranges and the general is looking into the possibility of installing an olym Pic pistol Range As the partitions fell into place and the saws wailed to the Hammer beats Larry mentioned some of the do s and Don to of club management and custodian woes. Management i had to pull myself up by the Bootstraps. Walked into a scenario full of mystery and intrigue because of my newness. Sporting goods firms Dunne me for payment on invoices have never received. I stopped hiring married couples because it could create a situation conducive to have had to fire personnel who drank on the Job. Drinking bar tenders Are no Good for clubs either if they drink when they labor your labor is your profit. I keep strict controls on labor. I had to get rid of one Guy because he put in a time Sheet claiming he worked 120 hours in nine buying i go to the Rod and gun convention every year an take a real close look at every piece of merchandise. Some club buyers Purchase their entire year s inventory at the convention. 1think this is basically unhealthy. I Don t think it s Wise. You can go overboard and get Hung with an inventory you la never example was the popular .270-caliber sporting Rifle. For a two year period it was a hot hem and every club should have filled their Racks with them. Then the trend changed overnight and the clubs were Hung with merchandise they could t sell. Pulse of the customers through oar Board of governors and general membership we feel the pulse of the customers. I Tell the salesmen at the Conven Tion i m just looking and that they should come to my club at their convenience with heir merchandise and then i will make out my orders. I would say this is Hindsight. But it s better than foresight that costs Money. Through Larry Lang the club acquired Access to the German fishing club of Darmstadt. It s deep in the Woods has a half dozen Ponds and a cozy Metje restaurant with an Angling atmosphere. It a Good place to flick a Fly or Wak a worm on a sunday morning Ana there Are frequent fishing contests and German american Larry Hopes that everyone will attend the grand opening of thee Lub. A for everybody. Not Jost members he us said Twa is a service to the Community. It s to the Public interest that we be finally got a Good Home for the club and we know that everybody will enjoy f playing with austrian two . Hockey stars awaiting Call to Stockholm by John Williamson staff writer Heidelberg is Len Lilyholm and Craig Falkman Are american hockey players. That Sonly a minor oddity compared to the fact that they Are Ameri can hockey players imported by a team in a european National hockey league As the Only two non nationals on the and Craig have spent the recently completed hockey season playing on the wings of a front line for the team of the austrian class a hockey paused monday in Heid Elberg Between playing dates Ona Post season exhibition tour with their club to talk of thing past when they were both Mem Bers of last year s american olympic squad at Grenoble and of things in the future the world Amateur championships to be held next month in Sweden where they both Hope to compete for the . National team once More. Team not picked the american team for the Stockholm meeting has t Bee chosen As yet explained Falk Man Over a Man sized american breakfast of pancakes and sausage. Len and i have both forwarded letters of request to the states and we can t think of any reason Why we should t be chosen. Len played on the .national team two years prior to the olympics and i played in1967. Plus we have both just completed a full season under International in marked contrast to the american squad that has t yet been picked the russians Wallsend a team to Stockholm that has played together for six to 10years for the most part. They bring up a Young player or two each year Len explained but basically their team is the someone they put together to take their first olympic title in 1964and includes several of the same players that lost to the .squad in the upset at the Squaw Valley olympics in 1960."the . Team is in fact Only barely eligible to play for the world Crown in class a Competition this year. Only six teams will compete in the double round Robin play starting on March 15in the swedish capital As com pared to eight in the previous playoffs. Wood s skating gives a Edge Oakland a skating with a bad head cold Tim Wood of Detroit captured the men s of tie to give the United states a 34 Edge Over Canada to the North american figure skating. Championships a Silver medallist in the i maintained Ahe had piled up lung try of the compulsory figures. John Melsha Petkevich a Harvard student from great Falls Mont took , Donna Taylor and Bruce Lennie of Toronto turned in a Beautiful free dance exhibition to overtake the 17.8. Cham plans Judy Schwomeyer and a Mes Slady of Syracuse University miss Taylor and Lennie makeup a 4.4 deficit with their flaw less free dance performance. 1968 of wide Mart Over Jayne. . The last two finishers in the olympic class a play were dropped to a lower classification for world play. The . Team finished sixth at Grenoble ahead of West Germany and East Ger Many to win the last class Aberth. Russia Czechoslovakia Sweden Finland and Canada Are stars and stripes local sports celtics Star picked to try for All army Munich special Dewey Williams 6-foot-7 Center of the Usa eur and seventh army troops celtics was the Only us a eur basketball player selected this year for the tryouts for the All army team currently being held at the Presidio in san Francisco left saturday night for the tryouts at the Californi Apost which started monday and Dewey Williams. Representing Usa eur will continue through mar. 8.should he make the All army team he will play in the inter service Cage meet March 10-1c. Usa eur annually sends lilt of nominations to the department of army of outstand ing basketball players in the command that they think might be an asset to the All army squad. The Pentagon then Issue invitations to the individuals they think they might be a Leto use. A Strong rebounded Williams has been a big reason the celtics Nave been rated As one of the teams to beat in upcoming us a eur championship play. If he Mak
