European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sports for sept. 5-6-7-b unless otherwise dated Ivan Lendl Heads the list of entrants for the Mercedes cup a $117,000 men s grand prix tournament opening monday sept. 9, at the Tennis club Weissen Hof in Stuttgart. Competition actually begins saturday and sunday with qualification play for four tournament berths. The Mercedes cup has matches scheduled monday through Friday starting at 2 . Each Day. Singles and doubles semifinals Are slated for saturday sept. 14, with both finals on sunday sept. 15, first matches starting at 1 . Both those Days. Lendl the czechoslovak Ian who is ranked no. 2 in the world behind John Mcenroe tops a Field that also includes Andres Gomez of Equador Henrik Sundstrom of Sweden Thomas Smid of Czechoslovakia Brad Gilbert and Vitas Ger ulaitis of the United states and Iose Luis Clerc and Guillermo Vilas of Argentina. Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker of West Germany is not entered. Admission prices for the Mercedes cup Are 20 Marks for the qualification Days 30 Marks for monday and tuesday 40 Marks for thursday and Friday and so Marks for the final two Days. The Weissen Hof club is located at 102-110 Parl Strasse in Stuttgart. The air Force s Continental sports conference is holding its Tennis championships this week at Garmisch Germany. Competition started wednesday and continues on thursday Friday and saturday at the sports Center courts in Garmisch. The Csc enters its second weekend of the regular season with harm playing its opener at Ramsten and Wei Bricken visiting Rhein main saturday. On sunday Sembach hosts Pitburg and Camp new Amsterdam is at Wiesbaden. Span Dahlem draws the Bye. In the . Conference four games Are also on tap this weekend. Upper Heyford plays at Lakenheath and Mildenhall visits Chicksands saturday and Bent Waters is at Alconbury and Fairford at Greenham common on sunday. Kickoffs for All air Force games Are at 1 . In Italy the Camp Darby rangers play Host to the Genoa Sharks an italian team in an exhibition game at 1 . Saturday. The rangers open their Northern Italy football league schedule sept. 14. The grand prix of Italy 12th round in the world driving championship will be staged on sunday at the Monza circuit in that Northern italian City with the Start set for 3 . The race will be of 51 laps 183 Miles. Practice is scheduled for Friday and saturday with untamed practice from 10 to 11 30 ?.m. And official qualifying from 1 to 2 . On both Days. In England the Rac tourist trophy endurance race 10th round in the european touring car championship will be held on sunday at the Silverstone circuit near Northampton. Races for formula Ford cars and sports 2000 cars Are also on the Silverstone program. Practice will be held All Day saturday. At the Snetterton circuit near Norwich Champion of Snetterton car races will be held on sunday. At the brands Hatch circuit Southeast of London my car races Are scheduled for sunday. The International rally of Germany a round in the european championship will be staged on Friday and saturday with the rally Headquarters at St. Wendel 25 Miles Northeast of Saa Brucken. More than 120 teams from 14 nations Are entered in the event with the first stage set for Iran tend trill be playing in the Mercedes cup in Stuttgart this weekend. Friday from 8 a. Until 10 30 . And saturday s second stage set from 8 a. To 9 . St. Wendel is the Start finish Point on both Days. Rally routes Are in the Saarland and Mitte Rhein areas some of the towns including Mosheim Trier and co chem on Friday and Ramstein Kusel Hermes Keil and laut Recken on saturday. Motorc be racing " of. " the eight hours of the curb urging fifth and next to last round in the world championship for motorcycle endurance racing will be held on Germany s new curb urging sunday with the Start set for 10 a. The race will finish at 6 . Practice for both endurance Bike riders and super Bike riders will be held All Day on saturday with a 15-Lap super Bike race set for 4 15 . In the Netherlands the ninth round in the european Road racing championship will be held at Assen on sunday with races for bikes in All classes plus cycles with sidecars. Practice is scheduled for saturday. In England Champion of brands motorcycle races will be held on the brands Hatch circuit on saturday and the Snetterton circuit will Host clubman s motorcycle races also on saturday. The team world championship for Motocross with riders from some 25 nations participating including the United states and the soviet Union will be held sunday in Gail Dorf Germany. Each nation will enter riders in the 125, 250 and Soock divisions and the outcomes will decide the world team championships. Each of the three Motocross races will have a starting Field of 60 riders. Practice and qualifying Are set for saturday. The town of Gail Dorf is located on National route 19, Between sch Sobisch Hall and sch Ibisch Amund. Filing the registration fee of $6 or 18 Marks can be paid at the Coleman and Benjamin Franklin Village itt offices through Friday or on race Day from 7-9 a. No entry fee will be charged for the fun run. There will be six age classes for the death run and fun run the men s open Junior vet 30-39and masters 40 and Over and the women s misses under 25open 26-32 and seniors 33 and Over. There Are two boys and two girls categories for the fun run under-17 and 18-and-older. Mainz is the site of the v corps Cross country event this week with 5-Kilometer rates scheduled for men and women. The Start will be at 11 a. At the Lee Barracks gym. Entrance fee is $3. The International Amateur athletic federation grand prix tour climaxes in Rome saturday with the Isaaf finals. Prize Money totalling $542,000 is at stake for the 16-meet tour which started May 25 in California. Grand prix awards will be made to the Isaaf member federations of the winning athletes. In addition to $25,000 top prizes for the Overall winners $15,000 will be awarded for the second place finishers $10,000 for third and $5,000 for fourth. Many of the top american stars will be entered in the meet at Rome s olympic  the German bundles Olga the weekend schedule opens with a Friday night clash Between Kaiserslautern and bochum at a town with Kickoff at 8 . Saturday i Bunde Sliga schedule features surprising Nurnberg at Bremen in a match Between two of the top teams in the standings and Hamburg s visit to Munich in a matchup Between two traditional Powers. Also on saturday Uerdingen is at Frankfurt Saa Brucken at Stuttgart Dusseldorf at Leve Kusen Mannheim at Dortmund Hannover at Schake Gelsenkirchen and Cologne at m6nchenb Dabach. Saturday games Start at 3 30 . Among German second league games this weekend Tennis Orussia Berlin hosts Freiburg and Bayreuth is at Home against Osnabrock saturday both at 3 30 .and on sunday Aschaffenbur is at Blau Weiss Berlin Oberhausen at Homburg Duisburg at Karlsruhe and Hertha Berlin at Kassel All at 3 . Manchester United which holds a two Point Lead Over Sheffield wednesday in the English first division hosts 13th-place of. Ord United saturday while Sheffield is at Home against 16th place West Ham United. In other English division one matches saturday Aston Villa is at Birmingham Arsenal at Coventry City Watford at Liverpool Chelsea at Luton town Everton at Queen s Park rangers Manchester City at Southampton Newcastle at Tottenham hotspur and Ipswich at West Bromwich Albion. Mannheim s 20-Kilometer death run half Marathon and 5-Kilometer fun run is scheduled for saturday. The 20-k race begins at 10 a. And the other two at 10 30 a. The Start and finish of the races will be in front of the Coleman Barracks gymnasium. The arc Garmisch course will be Busy with tournament action this weekend. The annual fall open will be held thursday Friday and saturday. On sunday the mixed scotch foursome tournament is scheduled for the Garmisch course. Open to All . Id card holders their family members and German Golf association players the foursome event has a registration deadline of saturday. The entry fee of $5 per person includes greens fees. Horse racer tel2t/ five thoroughbred cards Are scheduled this weekend in Germany with Frankfurt and Mulheim open on saturday and Munich Krefeld and Hannover presenting programs on sunday. September 5, ims stripes Magazine 77