European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 photos by Tony Nauroth Mike Dixon Drew Dorminey Derrick Daniels Carey Williams a athletes have winning on their minds by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Germany Mike Runey stood behind Home plate with his hand stuffed in a shredded left handed catchers Mitt held together with Kite siring and the score was Bottom of the ninth with Grafe Woehr leading Aschaffenbur in the Usa eur youth activities finals last there were runners on second and Steve Johnsons final pitch did a dips the Batter took Only enough leather to Send the Ball straight up and Down where it somehow landed in the Jerry rigged pocket of runes that sent Aschaffenbur to the that last pitch is the single event remembered most often by members of this a Junior divison 1315 age group team that took Usa eur championships during the past year in baseball 150 basketball i to and foot Ball Runey played on the Vilseck High school basketball team this but baseball is his first a Strong nucleus of triple Crown play ers stitched together last years championship sports program Here and has also moved on to High school with players like 6foot2 Derrick Dan 61 Carey Williams and 65 Kelly Moose the a champs were a powerful at the beginning of some of the we had to show our cards to prove we we rent too old for the Daniels none of them wears shoes smaller than mens size which is Mike Dixons i have Small Mike As if he were Runey and Pitcher who also played Forward and guard on the unbeaten basketball team last would like to see baseball added to the sports programs at american High schools in eur Runey is working through the school system to petition Dodds Headquarters to establish a baseball without Runey said he May not become competitive enough to make it in baseball when he returns to the Dorminey Hes worried that he May not get enough exposure to land a baseball but his statistics Are Dorminey fastball was clocked at 69 Miles per hour when he was 13 years Hes 16 now and sent 102 batters swinging to the dugout last his Speed approaches 80 Miles per hour if the weather is right at Dorminey batting int bad his season average was and he turned in an average during the three Day finals at the players say their championship basketball team was Daniels held the Center position and averaged 35 Points per in Dixon averaged three touch Downs and about 110 Yards Rushing per game from his fullback his strategy against defending linemen is simple i Knock them Over or carry them with but ask these Guys who the stars arc and Clam one player did there Are no us theres Only the if you have too Many you dont have a and then you dont Runey said individual players had their differences off the but on the we were a he Daniels saying they won be cause of teamwork and hard much of the Talent that anchored the triple Champ teams moved on to High school this asked whether the upcoming replace ments have any Chance of holding on to the youth activities sports director Stan Wilkerson Graf is hosting the tournament basketball at the end of i feel both my girls and boys teams will win it this and the same holds True for the other Mike Runey two he 1 always lose play but then i always get another key player newly assigned from the Runey recalled the night before the baseball tourney when he began stitching up his he realized the new one he had ordered from the states want going to arrive on a left handed catchers Mitt is pretty scarce at he but according to the their coaches and the sports there is certainly no Scarcity of boxing last Chance he wants the ring to be safer place by Ira Rosenfeld Washington a a Montana Congress Man called thursday for the establishment of an Agency to oversee boxing in the United setting safety standards and keeping accurate ring creation of the american boxing corporation would be a voluntary Effort to clean up boxing from the inside without Federal funding or mandatory regu said Pat the corporation would serve As a National Clearing House and make periodic reports to it would not supersede any state regulatory but would ask states to voluntarily come under its sanctioning Williams he said the corporation would establish Model state boxing commission Sanction matches and establish this could be the last Chance supporters of boxing have to Reform the said the Democrat in urging support for his serious efforts from some quarters Are mounting for a National ban on this legislation is a Las ditch Effort to let the Box ing Community clean he the status quo is not i firmly believe that compulsory Federal regulation is the Only step left if this voluntary approach the american medical association has called for a ban on and a Bill to outlaw the sport already has been introduced in Gus a cosponsor of the Bill and a professional Boxer in the said the legislation is a Way for the government to have some Type of say in its a first a foot in the door and something we can build he Bob head of the new Jersey boxing commis Sion and president of the International boxing Feder endorsed Williams Call for a uniform Standard for boxing a fighter knocked out in Pennsylvania should not be allowed to go to California and if he has a detached Retina in new Jersey he should not be Al Lowed to fight in Texas just because some states be Lieve in Home Lee while Williams said deaths and injuries have sky rocketed in recent the most recent figures on ring deaths dispute the the number of ring deaths both Amateur and increased from an average of four a year during the 1970s to seven in 1982 and nine in 1983 but dropped to four last according to Nigel Collins of the ring the number of deaths has not increased Only the amount of said
