European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Triple Crown bid saturday june 11, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 25 by Chris Scherf new York up Mickey Taylor and or. Jim Hill who have brought Seattle slew to the Brink of becoming the first undefeated triple Crown Champion by wisely recognizing the Young Coil s limitations have discounted completely the possibility of his losing the bal Mon stakes. When a surprisingly Large Field of 10 was entered thursday morning for saturday s109th running of the Belmont Taylor was asked if he thought it indicated a continuing scepticism of Seattle slew s talents. No said Taylor who shares owner ship of Seattle slew with his veterinarian Seattle slew s owners discount the possibility of losing Belmont Friend Hill. It just Means a Tot of people Are running for second or third  before the triple Crown Campaign began Mickey and his wife Karen said they realized if Seattle slew kept racing eventually he would have to lose. With this realistic attitude the Young couple would have been disappointed but somewhat psychologically prepared if Seattle slew had been upset in the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness. However the will be shattered if Seattle slew docs not win the a mile Bel Mont stakes saturday to record the ninth consecutive Victory of his Brilliant career. And Mickey admits it. I think i d have been More prepared some other time than the Belmont said the 31-year-old Lumberman from White Swan. Wash. I could have accepted his losing the Derby or the Preakness. But just can t see him getting beat in the Bel  it would be Tough to  but raised in logging Camps and used to a few hard knocks Mickey Taylor takes things rather stoically. It would be More difficult for Karen a 32-year-old former stewardess. That s where i think you have to go Hawks Hope to halt ram runaway in Csc doubleheader today at Hahn Back to Lexington laugh said Mickey referring to one of the first horses they owned. Lexington laugh broke a Bone and had to be  and i wanted to put him Down Mickey said. We could look at him and see he would t make it but Karen said save him. He looked terrible after a week and a half looked like a scarecrow and covered with sores and i took her to Sec Lex. It was horrible but she realized hews in misery and should be put Down. If she can get Over that Shell get overdosing. It would t be easy on Sally Jim s wife either. But the ones it probably would be toughest on is their  but Hill the 39-year-old vet from the Slough slew area of Florida is confident his children can continue to believe the Good Guys always win. I can t see him think i could have being beaten in the i think this horse by Dave Cowan staff writer with Only three weeks gone in the Continental sports conference baseball season the Ramstein rams look like they re head ing for a league championship barring any unforeseen injuries or rotation of play ers Back to the states. But nevertheless. Rams coach Robert Lienemann insists the season is far from being Over. The front running rams now 104, meet the Hahn Hawks 4-4 in a doubleheader at Hahn today and Lienemann is sceptical about his team extending its unblemished  is always Tough at Home Liene Mann said especially when George May Nard is on the  Maynard. Now 3-1 with an 2.34 Era. Hurls in the first game Lienemann said he will use Steve Dudek 3-0 with an 3.27 Era against Maynard creating a Battle of lefties. Carl Black 3-0 is scheduled for the second  other doubleheaders the Sembach tigers 3-6 invade the Span Dahlem sheiks 4-1the Blob org Barons 8-2 meet the we Brucken warriors 2-7while the Mannheim Black knights travel to Rhein main to play the rockets 1-7 in a noncom Ference  sunday s single games. Span Dahlem is at Tilburg. Hahn plays Sembach Rhein main meets Ramstein and Mannheim trav Els to we Brucken for another no Confer  rams who have hammered out 16 homers and arc batting .370 As a team have five players in the top 10, according to statistics release by Csc officials this week. Dudek leads the Parade with a .557 aver age followed by John Gilbert with .514, sat Iabichella .448 Rick Fowler. .438, and Lienemann .429. Sembach s Chuck mid Ducton leads the league in hitting with .580, Home runs with five and rib with 20.surprisingly, Lienemann is giving one of his Ace surfers Barney Nelson the week end off and will go with Ray mock m on sunday when Ramstein hosts the  wanted to give Barney some rest so i could use mock to give him some innings under his  Lienemann said. I might need mock in some clutch situations and i want to be Able to Call him from the bullpen on a moment s  coach Jeff Blanchard has tentatively named Maynard. Who s hitting at a .467 clip to Start in the first game against the rams with George Gollehon m slated for the , who has had knee problems All season while hurling Only three innings will Start on the Mound sunday when the Hawks move in for a single game at sem Bach. Rain hits . Net tourney Nottingham England up rain returned to plague the $100,000 John player grass court tournament Friday and washed out All Quarter final matches. The Hawks Are hitting the Ball Good. Gollehon has a .539 average Maynard .467 Greg Ritka .400 Bui Werner .447, and Dave Hunter. .444 All of them with out enough times at Bat to make the Csc top ten. But pitching has been a sore problem according to  is the top performer for the Hahn team perhaps for the league with 66 strikeouts in 30 innings while sup porting a 3-1 Mark. Rain and More rain is the biggest news at Span Dahlem where the sheiks Are scheduled to meet Sembach in a double header today. The cold Damp weather has played havoc with coach Marcus Rodri gues Ball  sheiks now 4-4, have maybe had a Chance to improve their season Mark but Csc baseball Ramft tin.  hah Sembach. Pm Brucken rown main i   a mite i Hahn sem turn it Spano Flahie a 7 Pitburg to zweibruchtn.7mnnlwiin at him Man  Sund Tiv  up or i Spang Darilek at Pitburg hahnats4rml 9ictirnein ,it ram slim men nil in at a Etor attn Baimon sat Smth won lost pet. Gb0 two 1 150 a s nyx 5 -11 6v, c a h pet. 10 , pm in. 10 � h  11 � so Henry. Sem Lmh. 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Possibly the Only Good thing Rodrigues has going right now is the recent return of first baseman Bob Schaeffer. Schaeffer who was stateside attending school has made seven appearances at the plate collecting five hits including three doubles and one Home run which came on his first time up. Schaeffer who was the Csc s leading hitter last season with a .487 Mark and 12 Home runs is currently Bat Ting at a .714  schedule is looking better All the time More Home games Sembach coach Charles Mitchell , who said recent Road trips have tired his team Hopes the current Home stand will get his team Back into con Tention. I be got the Hilling but my pitch ing has t been that  Mitchell has two of the league s top slug Gers with Middleton leading the Confer ence in every statistic. Marvin Henry is hitting .470, including two homers and 15  the sheiks Bob Cobb 1-2 and George Wright 1-0 will be on the Mound while righty Lou Brockwell will have the pitching chore on sunday when the tigers Host Hahn. The Barons will Send Dave Virardi 1-2 and skip Winkelman 2-0 against the War rial s at we Brucken today and will save Jim Uley with a 3-0 Mark and .078 Era against Span Dahlem on sunday. Verardi lost a heart breaker to ram Stein last week 104. When his team made numerous errors. The right hander allowed Only two earned runs during the game. But it s going to be a different Story this week said Baron coach Walter Gordon. After the rams saw that we can beat them and should have. 1 think we re going to jell even More now. The team will be up Forte  the Odds maker at Belmont Park indicated his agreement by installing Seattle Stew with Jean Cruguet aboard As the 1-5 Early line  Chance farm s run Dusty run who was second in the Kentucky Derby and third in the Preakness was next at 6-1. Trainer Smiley Adams dismayed by jockey Darrel Mchargue s performance in both those races has turned to Sandy Hawley for the  Dan farm s Sanhedrin a Strong closing third in the Derby was listed at 8-1. He will be Ridden by Jorge Velasquez who will Wear a protective cast for the hairline ankle fractures suffered in the same spill which seriously injured Steve Cauthen. Harry Mangurian s Iron Constitution and Meadow stable s spirit level were the Only two other Colts in the Field Given a serious shot at upsetting Seattle slew. Iron Constitution Ridden by last year s winning jockey. Angel Cordero was second in the Preakness. Spirit level owned by mrs. Penny Tweedy Ringquist who had thelast triple Crown Champion in secretariat Defeated Sanhedrin in the Peter pan last  the Field were Jutin l. Graor s or. Lied Wing. La Luna stable s sir sir Elaine Brodsky s leading scorer and the Johnny Campo trained entry of fast Pierina stable s hey hey . And Elmendorf s make  10 horses make it to the 5 42 . Fat Post the Delmont will have a Gross purse of $18.1,800 with a Winner s share of $110480. Sata s opening drag race slated for Wiesbaden a Sembach Germany the Sembach automotive timing association Sata will bold its first drag race of the season sunday with an entry of 45 to 60 cars expected Drivers will compete on the wies Baden air base drag strip. The gales open at 9 . Trials Are set for 10 ., and timed runs Start at 1 .any Driver with a valid Usa eur License May enter the drag race but a helmet and fire extinguisher Are mandatory. Classes Are open to All types of vehicles. Renault qualify 1 -2 for 24 hours of be mans be mans. France up Renault grabbed the front two places on the Start ing Grid for saturday s Start of the 24 hours of be mans thursday night with Frenchman Jean Pierre Jab Ouille clock ing the Day s fastest time of 3 minutes. 31.7 seconds in the final practice. Jab Ouille Flung his Renault Alpine Turbo round the 8.47-mile Sartre circuit at an average Speed of 129 Miles per hour to Spear head Renault s Challenge to end porsche supremacy in the annual endurance Clas  Degailler of France was second fastest in another Renault Alpine Turbo with a time of 3 32.9, ahead of belgian Jackie icky third Best with 3 30.0 in a Martini porsche 936 Turbo. Between them Renault and porsche which last year swept the world group 5and group 6 championships As Well As Vic tory at be mans monopolize the nine Best Only Frenchman Xavier Lapeyre driving his privately entered Lola t286, crept into the top 10 with the 10th beat time of 3 45.2."i m Well satisfied with our Day s work said Renault team chief Gerard Larrousse we had some problems ear Lier with fuel feed and the electric system of Jab Ouille s car. But we re All straight now and All three alpines Are in perfect  remained unimpressed by the Renault  is More important to us is not in which position we Start in but in which position we finish  said team manager Manfred Jantke. We re confident Well  they May have set the fastest times today said Ida. Who along with his French partner Henri Pescarolo is bidding for a record equating fourth win at be mans. But look at the Way they Are driving their cars. At that rate they won t last two hours never mind 24."