European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary How fare far Force football Falcons i already love writing about the air forces newest football the Fairford the alliteration Are endless the fumbling Fairford football or the fire breathing Fairford the five starting Well see if the Falcons Fly or that the Day they open the conferences football season by playing Host to in one these Are the first Fairford has never fielded a football now the base joins seven other teams in the race for safes top sports in another these Are the fated fated for last where else would you predict an expansion team but the futuristic Falcons have bigger playoff Fairford fed much of the muscle in Greenham commons expansion season of and the pirates shocked the pundits me included by winning the National division of the Confer fair Fords feelings Are Well be better than Greenham common was last year because we have better said one of the More famous 224pound defensive end Ken we wont lie Down on our backs for said another first rate 210pound linebacker Arthur Chicksands will lie Down after were through with Smith and Obrien know about standing up to the so do 15 fellow Fairford airmen who drove 50 minutes to Greenham common every Day so they could play football in Obrien played it so Well he won the pirates most valuable defensive player the offensive award went to yet another Fairford Fleet Charlie with Guys like that playing for its no wonder the Falcons figure to win at Wynn was one of 87 Fairford football fanatics who signed up for the Rookie running Wing wide quarterback he put Down All of them on the sign up said assistant coach Phil Hes one of the Best athletes on wherever we put hell the wonder of this firs year Fairford flock is the depth of Veteran before Greenham common found football in Fairford Farmed its airmen to upper Wynn Lent his Speed to Scyford in the year the sky Kings went 100 in the a couple of other sky Kings from the class of 83 who should fight for Fairford in 85 arc wide receiver Kevin Ward and defensive lineman Ivory who at 39 swears he wont play but naturally without fair Fords full support last upper Heyford failed to win the for the time since Obrien must be right when he Fairford is blessed with a lot of if i the Boston red sox have and what have they done since 1918 Greenham commons Dick who started the pirate program last predicted of fair Fords for it depends on who that its up to him to fit fair Fords footballers into a he landed the head coaching Job in he can take advantage of his regular Job staff sergeant in the Supply outfit that provides equipment and loads of hails from like so Many of his air Force Paulette coached some pop Warner a Little youth league but never on this there was nobody else really for the i said what the ill take Paulette what the in a couple of months Well see whether fair Fords football Falcons forge or the stars and stripes 1st Scarf in 6 years expos7 Mahler on hits giants 60 by United press International Mahler finally won another not Atlanta Rick Hes been in a slump since winning his first seven decisions this Ricks older brother Mickey did the winning making his first major league Start in six years a memorable he pitched a on hitter and led the Montreal expos to a 60 Triumph Over the san fran Mickey Mahler Cisco today i had no curve Ball at said but i was Able to spot the fast they hit a lot of balls on the Money but right at had not started a game in National league the majors since 1979 when he was with the since then he had appeared in Only 15 big league games All in the Only hit off him wednesday was an infield single by Dan Gladden to shortstop Washington in the third i figured he had to make a Good play and a Good throw to get said he but i still beat it he happens to be the fastest Guy on the team and when the fastest Guy smells a he gets a Little said the expos scored the Only they needed off starter and loser Mike in the first Tim Raines led off with a went to second on a single by took third on a groundnut and scored on Dan Driessens sacrifice youre not going to score Many runs with one hit that for said san Francisco manager Jim Terry Francona drove in three runs for Montreal with a pair of in other games braves cubs 2 Chicago Rafael Ramirez drove in four including a two run Homer that snapped a 22 tie in the Lith to carry Ramirez lined an 02 pitch off reliever Lee Over the Loftfield Wall with one out in the 11 the for his second Homer of the Ron Cey hit a two run Homer for reds pirates 9 Cincinnati Alan Knicely hit a three run his fourth since joining the reds on May to break an 88 tie in the sixth inning and Lead the reds to their fourth straight Frank 1 was the John Franco went three innings for his first Don 2 took the astros cardinals 3 Louis Mark Bailey clubbed a two run and Frank Dipino earned his fifth save to Lead the Dipino pitched the final innings to preserve the Victory for Bob Danny lasted five plus innings in taking the padres Phillies 1 san Diego right hander Lamarr Hoyt pitched a four hitter for his fourth straight Victory to lift the 6 turned in his fourth Complete game and second in a Row in 12 Charles Hud worked seven yielding five walking and striking out dodgers mets 1 los Angeles Bob com ing off the disabled list and appearing in his second game of the led the dodgers to in pitching five in Welch allowed two hits and struck out five to gain his first win of the exd Odger Sid Fernandez fell to Al from Page 21 100 Means a lot to Martinez it makes me feel a part of the Al time list of Baltimore in proud of the organization its the Best and i Hope to pitch my whole career Rookie Kirk yielded run scoring singles to Cal Ripken and Fred Lynn in the first Jim Dwyer extended his hitting Streak to 11 games with an rib single in the Lee Lacy opened the Baltimore first with a he moved around to score on a stolen a and Ripkens 10th hit in his last 15 Lynns rib Fol Lowed a walk to Eddie Rick Dempsey Drew a two out walk in the of six issued by Mccaskin in his six scored after singles by Lacy and both Lacy and Lynn entered the game with 3for21 Baltimore added a run in the seventh when reliever Tommy John walked Larry sheets with the bases loaded on a 32 who struck out three allowed a Lead off walk to Ruppert Jones in the second and the hit by Narron in the a double play followed each the Only other California baserunner was Juan who was struck by a pitch with two outs in the after Beniquez stole Jones fanned to begin a Streak of 16 consecutive batters retired by Cleveland at Oakland at new York and Chicago at Texas were All rained out in other Al action Brewers royals 2 Kansas Paul Molitor homered on the first pitch of the game and Earnie riles smashed a three run single to carry Ted Higuera and Milwaukee to a Victory Over Kansas riles1 three run single was the first since Kansas cites George Brett on the last time before that was when both Willie Montanez and Tommy Davis did riles hit highlighted a six run third in Cecil Cooper chipped in three hits and every Milwaukee starter contributed to the 15hit Higuera retired the first eight Kansas City batters before onix Concepcion singled in the the royals did not get another hit until the seventh when Steve Balboni also Higuera wound up allowing four hits and two runs Over seven innings to improve his record to Molitor belted Bud Blacks opening pitch Over the Loftfield Wall for his fourth Homer of the season and Cooper and Robin Yount then had on out third base Man Brett booted a grounder by Bobby Clark for an allowing Cooper to score from second the Brewers made it 30 in the second on a triple by riles and a single by Mil Waukee then blew the game open with those six runs in the sending 10 batters to the plate and rapping out six hits after Black re tired the first two tigers mariners 2 Detroit Alejandro Sanchez and Tom Brookens homered to Back the six hit pitching of Jack Morris As Detroit Over came a shaky Start to beat Seattle and Avert a sweep of their three game struck out eight and walked two while turning in his sixth com plete Mark gave up seven hits and four runs in the innings for Langston left the game with a strained Tendon in his left Sanchez snapped a 22 tie with his fourth Home a Solo shot to left in the fourth Brookens hit a Solo shot off Frank wills in the his Blue jays twins 0 Toronto Barfield hit two Home runs and right hander Doyle Alex Ander handcuffed Minnesota on six hits through 8 innings for who struck out five and walked scattered five singles and a ground Rule Gary Lavelle got the final out in Mike was the Barfield hit a two run Homer to left Center in the his other Home run came with none on in the the twins have lost 12 of their last 13