European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 Branske grabs Safe Golf tourney in playoff by Craig dooms staff writer Berlin hahns Donald Branske won the open division of the 1985 Safe Golf championships with a Par four on the second Hole of a three Way sudden death playoff Here but it was a master who showed the kids How to play Zaragoza Bob playing in the masters division for competitors Over 40 years of fired a 4under Par 66 to run away with that championship by a whopping 18 strokes Over Hal Sharber of who shot 68 thursday and compiled the tournaments Best 72hole total of 7over Par has now won the masters Crown three times in four his round of 66 on the final Day was Only three shots off the course record at the manicured Berlin Golf and country club course and contained five birdies and one Patricia Hauck of Wethersfield nipped hard charging Donna Leach for the Wom ens division title by two strokes with a final round nine strokes Back when play began carded a her Best round of the Branske wrestled the open division title away from Naples Ken Westmore land and Greg Milan of Hahn when he Sank a Threefoot putt for Par on the Sec Ond playoff Hole after his opponents could manage Only All three tied for the open division Lead at 296 for 72 holes and each made routine pars on the first extra the Par 404 Yard Branskey Road to the championship was a Rocky one after starting the Day four shots ahead of five in front of ram steins Mike Suess and six ahead of but the Leader after each of the first three Days slowly saw his advantage dwindle during his Birdie less round of 79 that contained seven bogeys and one Dou Westmoreland shot 75 and Milan 73 to Force the sucks fell out of Contention when he bogeyed the 72nd Hole to finish at tied with Rhei Mains James As far As pure Golf was the Day belonged to who fired rounds of 7776 the first two he was the Only player in the Field of 37 to lower his score each my personal goal today was to shoot said the 47yearold who holds the course record of 65 at the par71 Zaragoza in a Little surprised i finished with the Low 72hole total because i had a 42 on the front nine during my practice round Here and found the Back even More diff i hit everything solid and was never really in any said the one handicapper and Winner of the 1982 and 1983 Safe masters of the five Birdie putts Rodrigues rapped Only a two footer on measured less than 20 the greens Here Are if you read the line and stroke the Ball never a golfer cant expect a course to be in better condition than this was this Rodrigues despite leading the open Divi Sion from the confessed to having a bad Case of nerves from the moment he arrived at the course Friday it was a struggle All said the 26year the jitters Branske was feeling flowed into his he three putted five four of which were caused by misses from inside two and on half i thought if i could get past the first two holes without any problems 1 would be but then i three putted and i started whats going said after the next few three i really started questioning my putting and i never do facing another three putt possibility on the 72nd Hole that would have Cost him the Branske gathered himself and stroked his Best putt of the Day from 35 feet of a Sharp breaking swale to within an Inch of the allowing a solid at that i knew i was at least going to tie and go on the the air Force he but Branske still needed a Par on the second playoff Hole to notch his second Victory in As Many attempts having won the Berlin open in after crunching a Branske hit his second shot pin High to the right then calmly holed out in Westmoreland and Milan both saw their chances for Victory disappear when they flew shots Over the Green at Westmoreland hit a pressure recovery shot from Waist High weeds to within 12 but two putted for bogey when his first attempt Hung on the Milan played his third shot Back Over the Green and also settled for Rod Fred Mills of Ramstein and Ellen Connors of upper Heyford will represent Safe at the air Force worldwide championships 25 30 at Maxwell Mills finished the tournament at 314 while Connors recorded a Leach is not Eli Gihle for further air Force which is open Only to Active duty he says he wont resign club might expel Mcenroe Pennsylvania a John the worlds 1ranked Tennis says he wont resign from London prestigious Queens club and int worried about threats of expulsion if he Doest give up his Mcenroe was asked thursday to do the honorable thing and resign from the club following a complaint about his let them do the things that they feel is its not something in going to lose a whole lot of sleep Mcenroe said at a press conference before handing out visors and sweatbands to patients at childrens Hospital in Mcenroe played an exhibition thursday night against Vitas Gerulaitis to Benefit the he teamed up later in the evening with Girlfriend Tatum Oneal in a celebrity doubles match against Gerulaitis and a local television Mcenroe beat Gerulaitis in two straight sets and the doubles teams split four the 26yearold whose clashes with officialdom have blemished an otherwise outstanding criticized the decision to expel him from the 99yearold West London club if he did not offer his i dont think people even know what the Queens club membership much less care about it Mcenroe it kind see Mcenroe on Page 26 split Dampens Safe women Hopes Norton special the fourth Day of the air Force women soft Ball championship was a study in contrasts for air forces Safe began play thursday tied for first with air Force systems command and the military Airlift but Hopes of a repeat title faded As the team split two Safe topped the air Force Academy 60 in one of the Best defensive efforts of the when things were looking air training command dropped a wrench into the works with a 32 win Over Aasc remains atop the 10team tournament with a 71 Safe and the strategic air command Are a game Back at Mac and Safe were to Square off but All three second place teams had to Hope for a systems command loss to Pacific air forces to get a shot at the the Day began innocently for Safe As Pitcher Johanna Drost and the Safe de sense allowed Afa just three Safe allowed a total of four base runners during the game and retired Afa in order in five of seven Kim carneys score in the first inning was All Safe needed to win its sixth game against one Safe added five insurance runs As Laurie Lundgren joined Carney with two hits assuming a giant killer role because their 34 record had put them out of reach of the Champi at erased a Safe 20 Lead through five before at was it had upset safes bid to repeat at air Force champs with a hard earned 32 Carney hit safely twice in three at bats for but the rest of the team Man aged Only four hits As the at defense turned in several sparkling Lundgren is the leading Usan e hitter through eight games with 14 hits in 27 at Kathy Epperson is close behind with a batting a Victory Over Mac would give Safe second place in the about 25 of the 150 participants will be invited to a two week training Camp at nor ton to try out for the Allair Force that team will travel to Barstow Marine corps logistics to face the Navy and Marine corps Al stars in the interservice championships saudi Brussels win in la meet Torrejon Spain Brus Sels and saudi Arabia posted first Day victories Here Friday As Torr Jon air base staged its second european Little league tournament this Brussels beat the for the Pean Little league seniors title on tuesday to Advance to the senior world series 1217 at this one is for the major the original Little league for people in the 1112 age the Champion of the round Robin tournament will Advance to the International Little league world series at Brussels hammered and saudi Arabia conquered saturdays schedule called for Italy to take on Torrejon and saudi Arabia to meet the tournament continues through Brussels clobbered Bryan Tomlin for 11 but his cause want abetted one Whit by defensive sup Rota was charged with 12 or Brussels made it easy for Francois who allowed Only three hits and fanned by scoring five times in the first inning and six times in the the first inning runs came on sin Gles by Steven Walters and Matt Stanard and a three run double by Jeff two walks and three Rota in the Brussels used a two run single by Gary Mosler and rib singles by Steve Claypool and Eric Silen and four Rota Bobbles to do the Walters had three hits and Clay Pool and the Mosley Brothers collected two apiece to Pace the Brussels cards struck out nine and walked Only one in getting Brussels off to its Good saudi Arabia wrapped up its Victory with two runs in each of the first two in the car Penter doubled and Pitcher Tim cards clouded a Home in the Sec Kent Rosenberger and Tim Gooden came through with rib sin the victors added single tallies in the next two Carris doubled and scored on Chay brcwards1 single for the first run and Jimmy steals triple and an infield out produced the last saudi Arabia Torrejos run was it came in the fifth on lament Han Kins two passed balls and a throwing error by Roger Mitchell sets diving record Baton a Michelle Mitchell set a National sports festival div ing record on the three meter springboard thursday easily winning the Gold medal with of Al is a plat form specialist and Hast lost lost her Spe Fialty in More than two but she has been beaten on the Spring thursday she led after All but two dives and clinched the Victory with Strong performances on her eighth and ninth Mitchell broke the record of Points set by Chris Seufert in Kelly Mccormick led after seven but badly missed her eighth a Back 1 i somersault with she  recover on her last two dives and finished