European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes tuesday september 6,1977 Safe Golf action Sniffen fires opening round 72at Rhein Blick for three shot Lead Wiesbaden Germany Clyde sniff in the Continental sports conference Champion and pre tournament favorite fired an even Par 72 Over the rugged Rhein Blick Golf course Here monday to take a three stroke Lead after the first Day s action in the annual Safe Golf tournament. Jim outs of the . Conference and Tom Royse of the Mediterranean sports conference turned in identical 38-3775 scores to deadlock for second place one stroke ahead of the Csc de Burgess who had a 76 on nines of 36 and 40. Only two other golfers the  s Rex Mccamy and the Mac s Vernon Ball managed to break 80, Mccamy coming in with a 38-39 77 and Ball with a 37-42-79. Tournament officials said that the Par 72, 6,604-Yard Rhein Blick course played local sports Cannon win highlights boxing show Mainz Germany All army Light weight Champion Jerome Cannon had to scramble for a split decision Here to High Light a Mainz military Community boxing smoker. Cannon from Hanau just did get the nod Over Clarence Powell of Mainz in an open division lightweight scrap that was described As a nine minute Brawl. Usa eur flyweight Champion Louis Ayala of Hanau Tod v corps flyweight King Roy Armour in another featured bout. Ayala who weighed in at 118 to Only 112 for Armour in an Over the weight encounter posted his second Victory Over Armour with referee Robert Ash stopping the bout at 2 49 of the second round because of a badly bloodied nose sustained by the v corps fighter. Novice division bantamweight William Ming Mainz Tod Joe co Ieman Mainz. 0 59 3rd. Light welterweight Don inn staff Mainz dec John Westscott Mainz. Middleweight John Wilson Hanau Tod David , Mainz 1 30 2nd. Heavyweight Shelly Linder Hanau Tod Earl Eiva. , 0 35 2nd. Open division bantamweight Louis Ayala Hanau Tod Roy Armour Mainz 2 49 2nd. Lightweight Jerome Cannon Hanau dec Clarence Powell Mainz. Middleweight Michael Mills Mainz dec David Edenfield Mainz Mills dec Rice. Light middleweight Samuel Green Mainz dec Edenfield. Heavyweight Douglas Singleton Mainz Tod Darvi Stargell Mainz 0 59 1st. 536th Aap co triumphs Grafe Wohr Germany propelled by the pitching of right hander Daniel line Barger and the hitting of Richard Brum Mett the 536th my co pushed Over a run in the Bottom of the seventh inning to defeat b co 5th in 7th Cav of Wil Flecken and win the seventh army training come co level slow pitch softball tournament. The 536th completed the four Day tournament unbeaten in four games. Earlier in the meet the 536th whipped the 5th in 11 8. The 5th in finished with a 3-2 record. The winning run was scored when rus sell Benzler singled in Pinch runner Wil Liam Taylor from second. Linebarger won All four games for the 536th, managed by Frank Whiteaker. Brummett the 536th shortstop who went 3 for-3 in the final game and hit .600 for the tourney was voted the most valuable player. Sports on of major league baseball Philadelphia Phillies at Pittsburgh pirates 12 31 . Wednesday. Relatively easy monday with the tee boxes in the front of the championship tee area and the pin placements not too difficult. They said that the tees would be moved Back and the pin placements tightened As the tourney which runs through thursday continues. Sniffen twice a Safe Champion and once an interservice Winner started slowly bogey ing the first two holes. He settled Down and birdied the Par 4, fifth Hole with a 10-foot putt and narrowly missed eagles on the Par 5, 548-Yard sixth Hole and the Par 5, 449-Yard ninth hitting easy Irons to the Center of the greens after unleashing booming 300-Yard drives. On six his 15-foot Eagle putt curled off at the last minute and stayed two inches to the right of the cup and on nine he missed by Only an Inch. He also bogeyed seven and eight going out the former with three putts. Coming Home Sniffen was a picture of consistency pairing the first eight holes and narrowly missing another Eagle on 18.Royse did Eagle the 18th Hole sinking a 15-foot putt to earn his deadlock with gout for second place. He also birdied six just missing an Eagle there and 16. The Csc s Casey Lake shared the first round Lead in the seniors Competition with the . S Claire Bartholomew As both shot 82. Lake went out in 37, with Birds at three and nine but soared to 45 coming Home. Bartholomew was a Little More consistent with nines of 40 and 42. The Csc s Frank Bautista was third in the six Man seniors Field with an 83. Although several women qualified for the Safe championships in their respective conference tournaments none the trip to Wiesbaden for the finals. Open division Clyde Sniffen Csc Jim , Tom Royse Mac de Burgess Csc Rex Mccamy  Vernon Ball Mac Andy Farley  Gar Moody  Doug Worsham Csc Meek Beno Mac Hal Sharber Mac Earl Stearns Mac Bob Benson Csc Joe Reg ural Csc Dave Evanoff  made 37-35-72 38-37-75 38-37-75 36-40-76 38-39-77 37-42-79 43-37-80 41-3980 42-38-80 37-4582 40-4282 40-43-83 39-3584 .39-35-84 46-47-93 seniors division Casey Lake Csc 37-45-82 Claire Bartholomew  40-4282 Frank Bautista Csc 41-4283 John Douglas Csc 44-4084 Mac Newton Mac 49-4796 Floyd Luce  56-45-101 big Frame helps Mannheim Triumph in Usa eur fast pitch title game Augsburg Germany a seven run first inning highlighted by Home runs from winning Pitcher Rich Jackson and Pete Peterson propelled Mannheim to a 9 6 Victory Over Pir Masens in a darkness shortened game to win the Usa eur fast pitch softball championship. Pir Masens sent the 10-team, four Day tournament to a deciding contest by defeating Mannheim 7-5, in one of seven games played monday All at Reese Cavern since the Sheridan Cavern Field had t dried out due to the rain that postponed sunday s games. Since neither team could come up with an alternate Date to play the final game and realizing that it would be impossible to get in seven innings with darkness approaching Usa eur sports chief Joe Lane and managers Don Ray of Pir Masens and Gregg Fallon of Mannheim agreed that when darkness set in the game would be considered a completed one regardless of the number of innings played. The game was called at the end of five innings. Jackson allowed seven hits in the final game As Mannheim completed the meet with a 4-1 record. Pir Masens finished with a 5-2 Mark. In the seven run first Frame off a tired Frank Limtiaco who pitched four games for Pir Masens monday Jackson unloaded a three run blast and Peterson hammered a Solo or. Limtiaco was tagged for 12 hits in a losing Effort and the previous game he was Muldowney nears drag title despite defeat at nationals Indianapolis a Shirley mul Downey world championship Points Leader and second fastest qualifier Here blew an engine As she neared the finish line sunday and was beaten by Dick Lahaie in the first round of top fuel eliminations in the $442, 000 . Nationals drag races. Four time National Champion Don big daddy Garlits meanwhile easily advanced to monday s top fuel finals. Despite the setback for Muldowney unsuccessful for the third straight year in her attempt to become the first woman to win a . Nationals title she All but clinched the world championship As her three Clos est challengers were also beaten. The Only Driver now with a mathematical Chance of catching the 37-year-old mul Downey is Frank Bradley but he would have to win All four rounds monday As Well As the final two races on the National hot Rod association circuit this  Struksnes second to Muldowney in the standings was dumped by Dennis Baca Pat Dakin in third place was beaten by Hank Johnson and Jerry Ruth in fourth place was upset by Gary Ritter. Muldowney who qualified second to Garlits with a run of 5.888 seconds Over the Quarter mile Indianapolis raceway Park drag strip was out in front of Lahaie until her engine went up in a puff of smoke. The transmission broke she said. It absolutely would t shift into High gear. It was nobody s  Lahaie 35, of Dewitt mich., turned in a time of 6.19 seconds to Advance to Mon Day s first round against 1974 Champion Marvin Graham. Garlits 45, Suffner fla., was the fast qualifier at 5.803 seconds and drove his Dodge powered dragster to a 5.91 seconds clocking in beating Rookie John Kimble of Compton Calif. Grant Stoms a 25-year-old Driver from East Brunswick n.j., was the third fast est qualifier and made the final Field of 16 with a run of 6.08 seconds in beating John Abbott of Denver. Canadian Gary Beck who was the fast qualifier the past two years but could t get up the Speed in four Days of trials last week fired his chief Mechanic sunday and briefly bumped his Way into the top fuel Field. Beck the 1972-73 . National Champi on managed Only a 6.211 second run through saturday s qualifications 35 thousandths of a second too slow. But All cars which did not qualify were Given one last Chance a do or die Effort sunday morning. Nicked for 11 hits but was the winning Pitcher. In the Pir Masens win Norris Hender son socked a Solo Homer in the second inning off Fallon. Bill Mccormick collected three hits for Pir Masens while Jackson had a single double and triple for Mannheim. The same two teams met in monday s opening game Fallon out dueling Limtiaco As Mannheim whipped Pir Masens 7-3. Eric Peterson slugged a Solo Homer in the fourth Frame for the losers. Mannheim s Tom Stelae finished the tournament As his team s leading hitter with a .444 average. Peterson led Parma Sens with a .476 Mark. Limtiaco who pitched the final three games of the tournament in the matter of several hours allowed six hits in eliminating Frankfurt 7-1, Limtiaco also aided his own cause off losing Pitcher John Wilfong with two runs batted in on a double and a triple. Frankfurt was ousted with a 4-2 record. Eddie Foster s three run Homer in the first inning off losing Pitcher Dusty Rhodes helped Frankfurt put Hanau 3-2 on the sidelines 5-0, behind the six hit pitching of Bob Lippincott. Earlier Hanau behind eng Silivelio s five hitter Kod Bamberg 6-1. Pacing the winners 11-hit assault was Kenny Schmidt with three hits and Hubert Gibson with two. Bamberg departed with a 2-2 Mark. In the closest game monday Hank Malone singled Home John Cotton with the winning run in the third inning that lifted Frankfurt Over Stuttgart 2-1. Al Rose and Cotton led Frankfurt s seven hit attack off losing Pitcher George Montgomery with two hits each. Wilfong yielded five hits in ousting Stuttgart from the meet with a 1-2 record. Rose Newton Shosid head Safe Cage clinic today Wiesbaden the annual Safe basketball clinic begins at the Rocker club at Lindsey air station today at 9 . The clinic features Alabama coach . Newton University of North Carolina Charlotte coach Lee Rose and Veteran basketball official Joe Shosid director of officials for the metro seven basketball conference. Anyone interested in coaching or officiating basketball is invited to attend the clinic. Registration begins at 1 30 with the sessions scheduled from 9 to 5 today an tomorrow. Alabama finished with a 23-4 record last year under Newton and reached the semifinals of the National invitation tournament. The Crimson tide won the nit two years ago. Rose led Unic to a 24-3 record and a berth in the semifinals of the Mcaa Basket Ball championship. One of Charlotte s big wins in the playoffs came Over big ten Champion Michigan one of the nation s top ranked teams. The Unic bid for the Mcaa title was foiled by eventual Champion Marquette. The Trio will also conduct a clinic for . Personnel at Mildenhall thursday an Friday