European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes april belgians overcome Usa eur All 7464 Bubo Modem staff writer Germany sets the Usa eur a stars had to take a Back seat to the King of Spain Here thurs Day afternoon and then played second fiddle to the belgian National basketball team that which had led by As much As nine Points in the first was blown out of the Sta Thalle in the i2th annual Bremerhaven International basketball tournament As Belgium experience paid off in the Long it was a Case us Reurs strategy fail ing going from a zone defense that carried the All Stan to a 3833 half time Lead to a Mantovan move in the second half and the smooth working belgians turned Usa eur into a frustrated Usa eur never came out of the Man Toman As the score continued to mount in the second half and a cached the epidemic proportion of an i Point Olin Corky Bell showed their was plenty of life left in those Skinny 30year old the Exa Merican and his mates showed to much savvy for the Usa eur the old play maker out of Chicago took the games scoring honors with 23 Points he showed his younger Usa eur counterparts that he still has the the shooting the Good moves in driving for the Basket and excellent defensive the Victory was Belgium second win and puts the group a Winner into Satur Days 4 finals against the Winner of group either Austria or the nether in wednesday nights Belgium overcame As Bell scored 15 paints and Austria sideswiped 89 As Joel formerly of Valparaiso and Ron the ex7 foot Southern Cal tallied 31 and 21 Friday at 7 Usa heur will face Germany and Austria will take on the Netherlands at 9 the coaches must take the blame for this said George who along with Bob direct the usar eur we should have taken a time out and calmed our players said we didst go inside to the big men in the second Aikerson we had to take the Ball to the hoop and once we went into the our big men came out to High and that enabled Belgi us big men to get behind them and take and we didst run the break Ai Kerson we were too intense in there were several reasons Why usar eur it went from an effective zone to a Mantovan defense that didst it committed 26 fouls to Belgium allowing the belgians to get 22 Points at the free throw line to usar eurs and Usa eur could never get inside in the second half and there outside shooting was the belgians played their zone a Little tighter in the second half and forced us to shoot from Norman we were not Able to get the rebounds and they controlled the boards in the second we were Only getting one shot while they were getting two or three from the offensive take nothing away from the they Are an extremely smooth Norman Usa eur outscored Belgium from the and nine out of its 10 players that were eligible to play had one or More Field Eddie Brown was us Reurs top scorer with 13 but the 37 Forward was held to just two free throws in that dismal second half that saw Belgium outscore guards Ricci Greenwood and trimmer Green i and Forward Walt Reaves had 10 Points All by the Field goal which dominated the boards in the first finished with 49 re Bounds to Belgium Etiennw who had 18 knotted the contest 43 seconds into the second half and 25 second Slater Sank two free throws to put Belgium on top for the first and it never trailed Seaver wins no Honor new York Apt Tom Seaver of the new York mets has been named National league player of the it was announced Seaver had consecutive shutouts including a on hitter in the first full week of the he struck out 11 batters in the two the plight of Usa eur can Best be descried in the fact that it could Only Muster 10 Points in the first 13 minutes of the second that less than a Point a Usa eur went from a 3838 halftime Lead to trailing by with re during that Span it failed to score in the first and then later went without any kind of any basketball coach knows you cant do this and Usa eur lost Green on fouls but it made no Dlf Crece As it was trailing by the Usa eur nastily dressed in White Blue pants and Usa in red let were As Classy As its uniforms in the first 10 minutes of the with Greenwood and Green sort of play ing a Mantovan defense while its big men stuck to a tight Usa eur dominated the play during that it held two nine Point 1910 and which turned out to be the biggest in the first 20 Usa eur banged in 17 Field goals but collected Only four Points at the free throw line while Belgium took advantage of the All stars excessive fouling and collected 18 of its first 39 Points from the Charity sparked by Bells 13 tied the score twice at six and Brown put Usa eur on top with a pair of free throws for a 20 Lead arid greens 25 footer made it Belgium didst score until had Groeb Wood broke the 04 tic and put Usa eur in front to stay in the first half with a a tip in by Steadman Graham and a crowd pleasing driving Layup by who left the floor eight feet from the Basket ran the count to five straight Points by Brown which included a three Point play and a nifty Bank shot upped the margin to nine for the first Bell and trimmed the Lead to 2119 with later Reaves scored on one of his patented Long shots and took a pass from Green and tallied on a fast Jerome Warfield scored on a Mike Ward on a 15foot Bank shot and War held hit again at and Usa eur was up by but six straight Points by that included four free put Belgium Back within War Fields sky High rebound and subset semipro Grid teams to tour Europe by Ual Bock new York api two semiprofessional american football teams will tour Europe to play a five game series for the fledgling intercontinental football league this summer the Nile Hawks and the Chicago both members or the Northern states football leave in june for the series in Germany and organizers of the league Hope the tour signals the Start of increased interest in americ i football tie re has been a drastic and dramatic decline in soccer interest in explained Bob founder of the h does not relate to the people there Are empty stadiums Lor Many soccer games throughout Europe and that is the reason Kap and Carroll presi Dent of the believe that american style football will be a hit there do they need with when wednesdays sports transactions Chat Coo curs from Ine Seville Tor Rwy Ruri Uter football cd Ngitami Edmonton Eskimo signed Joe fam tuck Mac Montreal Al Jettes Bui defensive lineman College mar is Minn named Ron Donovan director they can have american football said last the if imported two College Henderson state and Texas for three games in playing in West Vienna and the two College teams averaged belter than fans per the contest in Austria Drew More than doubling the combined Atten dances of seven professional soccer games played in the country that the two teams also played at Mannheim and Nurnberg before mostly an audience of american servicemen and their depend who once coached the Dallas Tor Nado of the North american soccer thinks american football cant miss on the my Tell you he ill take american football in Europe and you can Haw european soccer in the United Well Sec who has More caller and Kap would like to Sec a self sustaining european league con sisting of perhaps a half dozen local teams including some american just As baseball teams use Exma Jor leagues from the United states for the the if will offer the Nile Hawks and two top minor league to promote the like so Many minor league the two clubs have a Host of exc ollege their rosters Are often scanned by nation Al football league clubs and three Mem Bers of the Iowa defensive tackle Tyrone tight end Bill Larson and wide receiver Dave All recently were signed As free agents by the Washington Jackson and Dye both played at Iowa and Larson came out of Colorado our players Are very excited about the Prospect of this said Jim the Nile Hawks founder and who doubles As a wide this could change the semipro football picture in the United what we arc doing now is educating the european fans to american said the process can be for exam there is no explanation or single word for the idiomatic american football the French came up with the Clos est describing it As Pendant be which translates As timeout for you cant argue with laughed quent feed to Greenwood who hit from 15 feet made it 3835 and Belgium 18th successful free throw of the half trimmed it two at the King Juan Carlos of Spain was a on Day visitor Here thursday and attended a con Ference in the Norse hotel Naber where the Usa eur team is the Usa eur upon returning from an afternoon practice session had to wait in its bus 45 minutes until the King de earlier the players were told they would be confined to their rooms if they Here in the hotel when us King Belgium Usa eur All stars 64 Belgium Cottrll 4 vim much i m Bill her Tutt m cd Tran 0 Greenwood i Gram 5 Rummi i fro War Lum 11 Gordon 0 win 1m a gluon 104 Millie All Belgium total foully Uretz All Belgium Tom null Loulu Sarteur All striking refs Call halt to picketing Philadelphia a striking referees called a 48hour halt to picketing National basketball association playoff games wednesday in an Effort to Foster Good relations with the according to their Richie in new Aba Deputy commissioner Simon Gourdine issued a statement indicating the league had received inquiries concerning possible movement towards settlement of the but then reiterated the leagues position against collective bargaining with the the walkout by 24 of the nabs 23 referees began april the last Day of the regu Lar since the referees have picketed several playoff while the Aba has manned those games with referees from minor leagues and the College neither Side will comment on the status of but the move to suspend picketing is apparently an Effort by the referees to break the earlier this Phillips had suggested the differences might soon be re i am extremely optimistic that the strike will be resolved before the playoffs Are and i am somewhat optimistic that it will be resolved this Phillips Phillips emphasized the referees remained firm in their demands for collective bargaining and for tying the cur rent playoffs to a Lon term Gourd incs restatement of league policy would appear to muffle Phillips from the beginning of the Gourdine the Aba has been willing to negotiate with referees on an individual basis for the playoff with other issues to be negotiated after the thai continues to be our we Are heartened if the increased speculation concerning a possible settlement is an Indi cation that the referees now realize the reasons for settling the dispute on this basis Are both sound and record sugar bowl payoff new Orleans up the Organiza Tion which runs the sugar bowl sent pay offs totalling million wednesday to the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Georgia for participating in the 43rd annual classic it was a record payoff for the sugar bowl and nearly double the previous according to Harry president of the new Orleans midwinter sports which sponsors the sugar England said checks for 800 75 each were mailed to Georgia and Pitt an gets to keep All its Georgia must split its with other members of the Southeastern the previous record was set a Vear ear Lier when Penn state and Alabama each received the first payoffs in the a game in was to each