European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 23 Good simply want Good enough the problem for a Good basketball team is learning to Cope with that so when the Safe mens basketball team left Rhei main for the air Force worldwide basketball tournament Early this its problem was not to live up to something but to live with the team zoomed off with about everything you could ask from a 10man service they had uncanny shooting ability from the likes of Donnie Stevenson and Hank experience in Curtis Hill and Stevenson and size from Al Pullium and Bill most of they had a knowledgeable coach in Warren who knows the secret to coaching service basketball is letting the players do their thing within a team in a the team blew into Maxwell to compete in the tournament billed As cant other teams might have had As much but none could match the safes experience stemming from a format that forces teams to play up to 40 games a Complete with key division showdowns and an annual tournament that pits teams against each other in a frenzied wino die but it want a can miss performance in game 1 of the worldwide tournament for Stanley charges As Safe dropped an 8982 verdict to the strategic air the team with All that All the scheduling and All that coaching was cast after one game in the role of quite a comedown from the Star studded attraction it had envisioned itself before leaving when a especially a Good suffers a the reaction is to look for scapegoats and there were no Lack of candidates to fit that you could almost hear the doubts being uttered from the other Side of the Atlantic maybe Stanley really didst know How to coach maybe he chose too Many shooters maybe the hassle Between Stanley and Pitburg coach George Price who was originally slated to head the team had crippled the squad before it got off the ground maybe Safe had played politics too Long and too heavily with the team selections in the first but All the maybes slowly began to victories have a habit of doing and the Victo Ries came fast 10499 Over 9279 Over 7675 Over 8872 Over 9785 Over Falc and 9688 Over Acaf to Force an Isnec Essary Acaf prevailed 8770 in the championship to put an end to safes title but the Safe team had shown plenty of character and plenty of especially the latter As Stanley starting five Hill and Charles Booker were All asked to stay at Maxwell and try out for the Allair Force Only Booker accepted the All but Booker and Stanley arc Back in Europe ready to Complete basketball seasons interrupted by their Stanley was to have arrived but he was bumped off a new York Frankfurt the Pace of the 1981 Safe basketball season now picks up considerably with rescheduled games clogging a tight Endo season that Doest leave much time to think about the Safe team that was or could have been just enough time to Ponder Why a Good team want one game the stars and stripes h or Rah out Rookie gets a Chance a the Cleveland indians took the news hard Toby Harrah fell off a ladder and is too badly bruised to play Ball for at least six but the third baseman injuries were actually Good news for a Young Rookie named von you hate to hear of anyone getting said one of the american league teams prize new i guess that Means ill get to play a Little two weeks ago on Friday the 13th Harrah fell 20 feet from the top of a ladder at his Home in and landed on a Brick he was Home alone and Lay on the floor 10 minutes before he could get he broke no its unlikely Harrah will be in the Start ing lineup on baseball seasons opening Day april Angels try to get Barr off roster los Angeles up1 the califor Nia Angels Are trying to use a contract technicality to remove Pitcher Jim Barr from their that came after he aggravated a Shoul Der injury playing in an exhibition game last the director of the game has Barr played first base in the Mak ing a Hal dozen throws to the he didst report to the Angels Spring training Camp in Palm Springs this week and team officials said tests were being done to determine the extent of the Angel executive Vic president Buzzie Bavasi said the team will fulfil its con tract commitments to we Are not concerned about Bavasi wed just rather have a Pitcher who can win some games rather than a Guy who cant even whats the sense of him coming to Camp if he cant even throw a Ball Bavasi added that playing in an exhibition game is a direct violation of his Barrs he absolutely has to get written permission from his team in order to play in such games and he never requested Permis that a violation of his stretch the Start of Spring training Means get Ting those Creaky Muscles Back in As Kansas City royals third baseman George Brett above demonstrates at the fort training mean new York mets Pitcher Craig Swan is Bent on shaping up before prac Tice in photos out in left is the place for Mcrae fort a Hal my Rae reported to the Kansas City royals training Camp 15 pounds lighter this and he has a suggestion for How the club could help him stay in shape let him play left i can play Well enough to play in the big said the Best designated hitter in the american league last 1 hate to do in the Spring because Spring training is for get Ting in and i get in shape better by playing the the royals have been looking for a re serve outfielder since the Winter baseball meetings in new Orleans last preferably someone with substantial major league although Mcrae said hed like to play 30 or 40 games in the Outfield this the royals Arent Likely to be Mcrae suffered a rotator cuff injury two years ago and underwent and the team Doest want to Chance another Matthews agrees to reds Trade West Palm a outfielder Gary Matthews changed his mind wednesday and agreed to accept a Trade to the Cincinnati Clearing the Way for the Atlanta braves to acquire Dave Collins of Matthews walked into the braves offices after the teams daily workout at Spring training Camp Here and informed executive vice president Al Thornwell he had changed his Thornwill before wednesdays Matthews had denied he had softened his position about requiring a new contract before accepting the Matthews is beginning the last year of a contract that requires his approval of any Matthews had flatly rejected the Deal last Thornwill said he doubted the Deal with the reds would be finalized Cincinnati president Dick apparently angered by reports naming Collins As the reds player to be failed to return some braves phone Calls