European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January the stars and stripes Page 25 pickins by Ben Abrams Blue jays Froemming to conduct Safe baseball clinic we did the prep year we omitted any coverage of girls Al though Golf has been downgraded by Dodd eur officials to almost an intramural status the scheduling was left to the individual coaches and Friday Competition was discouraged Dodd eur did Okay finals and i country Shamplo ships were held in Spain and the highlight of the girls Golf Campaign was Sarah Lewkowicz of Berlin winning the Germany championship for the second straight year Over the Tough Fel Darlng Golf Sarah beat out her to become the first Girt Ever to win the Germany title twice la Only a she says Shes aiming for a triple Crown next Rotas Kim Potter captured the Spain championship and and Naples Mary Holland snared the Italy the has scheduled a on Day Golf tournament for june it will coincide with the on Day Tennis tournament the is staging in lieu of its regular season 1 he basketball Campaign is relatively but some of the teams have impressed in the Early going and have established themselves As possibilities to watch come tournament and tournament time is not that far for can Clinch the Turkey division Joys championship this weekend if the chips fall in the right Brace Donahue cougars Are 80 and they invade Ankara 33 a sweep coupled with an unlikely in Ciurlik my sweep of its set with Izmir wraps up the Bunting far Brindisi teams very Strong reports from Italy indicate that Aviano and Brindisi boys have their Best teams Ever that Naples also is quite Strong the Italy format has been revised and All the teams Are in one league again this year although the teams dont All play each other the same number of other Strong boys teams this Early in the season include Frankfurt is upper he fort Pitburg Munich Bremerhaven 51 and Hahn on the girls to be at Naples upper Heyford Asl Stuttgart Munich is Bonn Izmir Livorno wies Baden Bremerhaven Hahn Ankara and Hanau were already talking about basketball championships and the Spain teams Haven even had their opening tips they swing into the Winter sports program a week from antics is staggered throughout the school year on the Dodd eur sched the Spain season was completed right after thanksgiving and the Turkey Campaign begins next week and extends through 2s when the finals will be held at foe swings into action u with a four meet regular season and the finals on March 1011 at the Italy schedule has meets set for i and March u with the finals april 8 at stg Zeua and Benelux gymnasts compete March and april Ali eur finals Are april to qualifying meets in Germany the Germany Competition is the of the Germany schools have a three Date regular season starting on with five or six teams competing in three meets each they also compete March 18 and april but they have qualifying tournaments at Kaiser Lautem and Stuttgart april 15 for their finals because of the number of schools the Germany championships will be held april everyone knows that the biggest problem in Dodd eur sports is transport some places in Germany Arent too but every game in Spain and Turkey involves Lon distance when the weather gets bad and that Apt to be More often than not the routine 12 14bour trip becomes Simonella and Izmir bucked the elements last weekend trying to get to Naples and goo Ella not Only bad to fight the weather route to but had to Bear some More of it at the bus carrying the Jaguar cagers and to Naples was in the Middle of the Autostrada for More Una four hours because a big truck had Bukk med on the Slippery Highway and had it completely the entire trip took More than six hours longer than when the teams were getting ready to another storm hit the Naples area and the Section of the City where Ibe school is to bated was blacked out for some 90 36 hours on the bus Germany manager Roy Hartsfield of the Toronto Blue jays and National league Umpire Bruce from Ming will head the 1978 Safe baseball clinic 2325 at Lindsey air station Safe officials announced Here who guided the expansion Blue jays in the East division of the Amer ican league to a 54107 Mark last will discuss baseball fundamentals and techniques while Froemming will cover interpretation of rules governing the who is a native of has had an illustrious baseball career Roy Hartsfield Froemming both As a player and the 52 year old Toronto who has earned the reputation As an aggressive manager with his was involved in 77 one or two run decisions during the 1977 it was his first season As a major league manager and Only his second losing season in the last 15 the former second baseman entered the majors in 1950 with the old Boston he hit As a Rookie and played with such stalwarts As Gene Mauch and Connie both later major league Wisconsin native who became the youngest professional Umpire at the age of made his debut into the National league in 1971 after 13 years of minor league Froemming has worked two Champion ship York mets Cincinnati reds in 1973 and Philadelphia Phillies los Angeles dodgers in he also officiated in the 1975 ail Star game and the 1976 world series Between the new York Yankees and in Froemming worked behind the plate for a near perfect game by Chicago cubs Milt Pappas walked the 27th hitter that ruined his perfect bid but got the next Batter to gain a prep Cage standings Frankfurt Stuttgart ill Mim sutly gel Tom Dan to org of Mcmurt  Blue division boys Wen amt Pel of Joo Joo i red division North boys red division soul boys pet of t t i Benelux division boys b4d the storm abated enough to gel me Monway Ine Izmir Yuya Vic Ucucu ukr but the girls took two basketball wins to move into first place in the standings and the Sultan wrestlers also triumphed those two incidences Point out the difficulties of running a program in Dodd eur and its a credit to the Young athletes involved that they still were Able to perform under such trying the Ankara boosters dub puts out a very informative news letter covering All the schools sports activities including predictions on How the Trojan teams will fare against Stothe teams in Reviss of the ast comments on outstanding ath one Sesto aloof Turkey and Homecoming to mention Only a few of the step pickins appreciates the thoughtfulness of the Abc in sending a copy on to Nurnberg mat meet postponed one week Germany the Nurnberg Community wrestling championships will be held 28 instead of 21 As originally announced at the Herzo Artil Lery base registration and weighing will be from 810 followed by a Competition in 10 weight classes paperweight to super heavyweight is scheduled to Start at any Active duty military personnel As signed to the Numberg area Are those interested May Contact their local gymnasium or the Numberg recreation services division at 2621 8413 or also featured on the same Date at Herzo gym is the Day North bavarian sports conference wrestling the same time schedule As the Nurnberg meet will be Stuttgart slates smoker Germany the Stutt Gart military Community will Hoid a smoker 14 at Wilkin Barracks the bouts will get underway at 7 pre ceded by weighing from 46 for fur ther information Call George Latham at Stuttgart Mil 2721 Bonn division boys Turkey division Boyi Uran Wrol i i til Moo m my Lou pet of m i i Lwi pc of my i i 000 sports pro hockey lob Beaton