European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes if it Page 25 Carter gets jump in race by John Nelson an a sports analysis new York a Gary Carter and Rickey Hen Derson unwittingly have been thrown into a race to Cap Ture new the ticker tape capital of hero by virtue of a Quick Start and his full the new York mets new has the Early Edge Over Hen the new York Yankees new Center Henderson didst make his Yankee debut until having missed the final three weeks of Spring training and the first two weeks of the season with a bad the mets also had the advantage of starting fast at while the without began the season at Fenway Park in Boston by losing three in a Henderson said his return to form is just a matter of i need some time to get my timing he he called it a Day today adding Hes still a Little hesitant out there because of the sore for a Man who makes his living with his its needed no time getting the cites baseball fans leaning in his he won the mets opener with a loth inning Home then he hit another Gam winning Homer in the mets third he has three homers and five Bis so far this year while hitting Carter talked almost immediately of the importance of acceptance in new York after spending 10 seasons in where he occasionally was criticized for what seemed to be a phony there Are not enough words to describe the feeling i Carter said after a standing ovation for his first Homer As the crowd Gary Gary Gary Gary Carter Rickey Henderson ill certainly remember this the rest of my he its a terrific if Carter was not being totally he at least had followed the form of his entire career a never ending torrent of cordiality and while Carter sometimes has to be reminded to Cut Short interviews so he can go to Henderson arrived at Yan Kee stadium and i dont need no press in his hed just gotten off a plane after playing three games with the yanks fort Lauderdale farm playing for Oakland the past Svi Henderson Seldom has experienced the Type of Media Blitz that accompanied his move to the he did not enjoy his Only real previous time under the Microscope when he set a majors record with 130 stolen bases in in his first game last Henderson also was greeted with cheers from new York he went 1 for 6 and hit into a rally killing double play in the eighth inning of a 54 loss to Boston that brought a smattering of Boos from the sparse in his second he went 0 for 4 and committed an error in the first inning that led to a run As Boston won 7 the Boos were louder this while hendersons reception was More it prob ably also was More realistic than the reception Given whose fans were willing to accept him As an instant Yankee fans have seen More heroes come and for a at Henderson May compound the scepticism with his own unlike Hen Derson does not sparkle under the hot lights of Carter is a More erudite a member of the National Honor society for four years at sunny Hills High school in Hes also five years 31 to hendersons and May be More inured to the chaotic activity around most Henderson is sincere and entertaining under it just Doest come As naturally for him As with for its a theres not even the hint of a fake front to these first impressions of would be heroes will be important to new York who Are both Quick to embrace and Quick to the intolerant of yet excessive in their rewards of the final assessment of these two players will the however will be won in the Mannheim Host weekend play a to hold preseason baseball meet compiled by Birgit Jost staff writer baseball the German american league will hold its preseason baseball tournament saturday and sunday at Darmstadt and saturdays games at Darmstadt memory Field match the Mainz rangers against the bad Kreuz Nach panthers at 10 and Giessen wolverines against the the Darmstadt Kenwood comets at 1 with the winners playing at 4 at mannheims Woods memorial its the Munich Brewers against the Bamberg braves at 10 and the Ansbach Angels against the defending Champion Mannheim Lee Amigos at 1 the winners meet at 4 the third place and championship local Roundup Are scheduled for Darmstadt on unday at noon and 4 distance running the Hei Delberg Road runners club will stage its ninth annual Mountain Goat ramble May starting at 10 at the Axel Mulen Heim Spie Platz atop the Hill in front of Campbell registration is prior to april further information May be obtained from Al Mcadams at Arman do Lopez at 3708873 or Lyn the second annual River rat Strassen Lauf will be held sunday at an Derson Barracks in the 10kilo meter run is scheduled to begin at which costs is from to 9 Golf the fifth annual Galloway Handicap tournament will be held at the Kitzinger Golf club on com petition will begin at with a shot gun the entry fee is All golfers have to do is show up and pay the further information May be obtained by calling the club office at Kitzinger civilian 09321 4956 or tournament chairman Bob Knych at Wuerzburg Mili tary 2321 proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the Wuerzburg High school scholarship softball the Csc women pre season softball a three Day will be held at Rhei main air starting at noon Camp new Amsterdam and we Bruecken will compete in group and sem Hess Isch Oldendorf and Wiesbaden will play in group the round Robin tournament ends with the championship game on volleyball the deadline for Small unit teams to Challenge the last place regular season Csc mens team in positional playoffs is May Contact the Csc office at Sembach military 7292 or 7004 for More Rugby the Munich Rugby composed of players from Neu bad Stoelz and will play the Augsburg club at saturday at Reese Cavern in Safe women duo 2nd in worldwide doubles Kirtland air Force systems commands Goss and Jerry Owens rolled a 2556 wednes Day to capture the doubles event in the second Day of the air Force worldwide Bowling Susan Claypool and Ruby with 2219 took the women doubles in the three Day the air Force Academy team of Dave Hall and Larry Walker placed second in the mens doubles division with 2432 total pins Jack Swanson and Bill Brown were third with 2422 Wayne Wilkinson and Andy Andrews of Sac finished fourth at and Rick Roo Mette and Joe mrenak of logistics command were fifth with safes Bev Warner and Deb Spainhoward placed second in the Wom ens doubles with a 2139 Safe teammates Dee Curry and Renee Owade were Only one pin out of third with in the women Al events Competition Barbara Walls of at leads with a 2297 followed by Claypool at 2252 and Kim Mark of Acaf at Spainhoward is fourth with 2242 and Owade is fifth with Spainhoward 1118 six game total was wednesdays Best Safe followed by Owade with Warner 1078 and Curry among the Safe Bill Krasso turned in the Best individual performance rolling a Bill Perrott scored Mike Burchfield 1117 and Larry Eccles in the mens after 12 games in the team and doubles compete Larry Wallace of Mac leads with seven pins better than walk Goss is third at Ron Wells of Acaf has 2487 and Brad Newhouse of Mac East germans Fie 55 with fourth period surge Czechoslovakia a coming from behind with four third period goals three of them in minutes held the United states to a sur prising 55 tie at the world ice hockey championships the americans led 41 at the end of the second but in the third the defense As Well As goalie Christopher Terre who at times appeared were unable to withstand the East German the who have nine Points from six games in the intermediate stand Are assured of participation in the playoff series of the Best four teams even if they lose their last first round match against Finland Harald Boelke narrowed the margin to 2 1 at in the first the americans scored twice More in the second although the East germans increased their Tempo and often came close to scoring with fast Paul Fenton of the Hartford whalers picked up a pass from Corey Millen to slam the puck in from close Range at into the second on a Tom Fergus of the Boston Bruins was right at the crease to connect on the rebound of a snapshot from Robert but that was the end of the dominance Over the East while assisted by Dorion and scored at following East Ger Many second the seemed Finland and West Germany played to a weak and exhausted and lost Complete con 33 tie in another wednesday game tool for the rest of the Robert assisted by Daniel Ralf Hantschke slammed the puck into put the americans ahead at and Joel an empty american goal at Frank with assists from James Johnson and assisted by Captain Dieter Mark Fusco of the Hartford narrowed the margin to 54 at and made it 20 at the Thomas Graul tied it 46 seconds