European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sports fur sept. 12-13-14-15 unless otherwise dated football the German american football league kicks off its playoffs with four quarterfinals saturday and sunday the Cologne crocodiles play at Hanau in the Herbert Rocse stadium at 2 30 pm. Saturday and Bonn invades Ansbach for a 2 30 . Game at the sports rein 1857 Field. At 3 . Sunday Nurnberg plays at Berlin in to gel stadium and Munich visits Dusseldorf to play the defending Champion panthers at Turu stadium. The Northern Italy football league opens its season with two league games and one exhibition this weekend. On saturday at 1 ., the 2nd area support croup Blue knights of Vicenza play at Home against the Naples Mustangs and Aviano hosts the 4th in 325th airborne Geru Fiumos. Aviano is not an official member of the five team nil but is playing the league s Bye team each weekend on sunday the Camp Darby rangers visit the 559th in red raiders with Kickoff at 1 . The air Force offers eight games this weekend. In the . Sports conference s fourth week Lakenheath visits Greenham common and Fairford travels to bunt Waters at 1 . Saturday. At 1 . Sunday Alconbury is at Chicksands and upper Heyford goes to Mildenhall. The Continental sports conference shifts into its third week with the usual four games. At 1 . Saturday Sembach visits Hahn and Wiesbaden invades Ramstein. The 1 . Sunday games have Camp new Amsterdam at Pitburg and Span Dahlem at Rhein main. Swimming and diving the International military swimming diving and water Polo championships Are being held this week in Warendorf Germany near the City of monster. Competition in the co sell International do sport Militare cism meet started wednesday and continues for five Days through saturday and sunday. The United states entered for the first time since 1974, has entered a team of 20 men and women 15 of them from Usa eur who have been training at Berlin s Andrews Barracks Pool. Twelve nations including Canada the Netherlands Italy Belgium China France Sweden Austria Egypt Guinea and the hosting West germans arc entered. Adding a world class touch to the cism meet will be Michael Gross the swimming Star of the los Angeles olympics. He is scheduled to compete for the West German military team. Triathlon the increasing popularity of this three event endurance race is expected to produce a record entry list for the Usa eur Iron triathlon championships saturday at arc Chi Emsee. Competition will open at 11 . With the 800 meter swim followed by the ?.5-Kilomter bicycle event and the 10-Kilometer run. There will be five categories women s open men s open women s senior men s senior and men s masters. The Neuhausen International military boxing tournament winds up with finals thursday night starting at 7 . Site of the three Day single elimination tourney is the Hombur Halle in Neuhausen Germany. Entered Are military boxers from the United states Britain Egypt Greece Italy Tunisia and hosting West Germany. The six . Fighters entered Are lightweight Victor Ferraria and Light middleweight Eddie Martinez of Baum older Light Walter it ight Willie Cole welterweight Arthur Ortega and middleweight Michael Julian of Wurzburg and featherweight Paul Welch of Nurnberg. Tickets can be purchased at the Hombur Halle in Neuhausen which is located near Ballinger a to i hour drive South of Stuttgart. Tennis the Mercedes cup a $117,000 men s grand prix tournament featuring new . Open Champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia continues this week at the Tennis club Weissen Hof in Stuttgart. The Competition which began on monday continues on thursday Friday saturday and sunday. Thursday s second round singles and first round doubles and Friday s quarterfinals begin at 2 . The singles and doubles semifinals Are scheduled for saturday beginning at 1 ., and both finals will be on sunday starting also at 1 . Admission prices for the Mercedes cup Are 40 Marks for thursday and Friday and 50 Marks for the final two Days. The Weissen Hof club is located at 102-110 Parle Strasse in Stuttgart. The Safe Tennis championships open tuesday sept. 17 and continue through saturday sept. 21 at Torrejon a Spain. Auto racing the grand prix of Belgium originally scheduled for june 2 at the spa Franco champs circuit but then cancelled the Day before the race because of a deteriorating track surface will be held on sunday with the Start set for 2 . The race will be of 44 laps 189 Miles. Untamed practice is scheduled for 10 to 11 30 . On Friday and saturday while official qualifying will take place from 1 to 2 . On both Days. The circuit is located in the ardennes Forest in Eastern Belgium near the town of Almedy. At the Zand Voort circuit in the Netherlands there is racing on sunday for Louring cars sports cars and formula Ford 1600s. Practice is scheduled for saturday. At Bockenheim Germany the 13th International avd Mainz race meeting will be held on saturday with events for several categories of cars. The Short distance track will be used. One of the races is a German championship round for formula Ford 2000 cars. In England historic cars will race sunday at the Oulton Park circuit near Liverpool. Motorcycle racing the eighth round in the German National motorcycle Road racing championship will be held on sunday at the avus circuit in Berlin with races for bikes in the 250, 350, Soock and super Bike classes As Well As for cycles with sidecars. Practice is scheduled for saturday. In England the Snetterton circuit near Norwich will Host championship of Snetterton motorcycle races on saturday and sunday. In France the Bol d or 24-hour race final round in the endurance world championship will be held on saturday and sunday. The event will be run on the Paul Ricard circuit at caste let in Southern France Between Marseille and Toulon. Motocross in the Netherlands the fourth annual dutch stadium Motocross will be held on saturday in Nijm Egen at the Offert stadium. The circuit within the stadium will be constructed to super Cross standards for this International event which will feature some of the top Motocross and super Cross riders in the world including americans Ricky Johnson Billy Liles and Mike Murphy. Practice begins at 1 ., eliminations at 6 . And final races at 9 . Nijm Egen located just South of Arnheim in Eastern Holland is about a one hour drive from the Amsterdam or Dusseldorf airports. In Germany the 22nd adar Motocross Bau Scheim for 125cc bikes will be held at Bau Scheim near Mainz on sunday. The 18th International adar Motocross Northeim for Soock bikes is scheduled for sunday at Northeim North of Gottinger. Observed trials at Miltenberg Gros Heubach Germany the final round in the world championship for observed trials will be held on sunday. Practice is scheduled for saturday. The town of Gros Heubach is located just North of Miltenberg which is on the main River and Southwest of Wertheim. Distance running Bundlach Germany will be the site of three distance running events saturday. Heading the program will be the 1st Sydn 2nd  Cav German american half Marathon a 13.1-mile race with six women s and six men s divisions. The half Marathon open to runners 16 and Over starts at 9 30 . Late registration s7 or 21 Marks is from 7-9 . A a Kilometre run for boys and girls 10 to 15 years old will Start at 9 40 ., and a 1-Kilometer race for children 6 to 9 begins at 9 50 . Both the youth races have no fees for registration. Start and finish lines will be at Christensen Barracks. Bundlach is located 12 Kilometres North of Bayreuth. V corps continues its weekly Cross country schedule saturday with races at Hanau 10 Kilometres for men and 5 is for women. Cardwell Cavern in Hanau is the site for registration from 9 10 45 . Entrance fee is $3. Open to All . Forces personnel the races Start at 11 . Soccer 1 Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt clash Friday night and Nurnberg and Mannheim Host saturday matches As the German Bun Desiga Heads into its seventh round of the 1985-86 season besides the Kaiserslautern at Frankfurt game Wald stadium at 8 .Friday night s schedule has Schalke at Saa Brucken 7 30 . And league leading Bremen at Dusseldorf 8 . On saturday Nurnberg hosts monchengladbach Mannheim plays Leve Kusen in its Ludwigshafen Home stadium Munich is at Cologne Stuttgart at Hamburg Dortmund at bochum and Hannover at Uerdingen All at 3 30 . In the German second league Fortuna Cologne visits the Stuttgart kickers saturday in a matchup of the first and third place teams. Among other second division games two Berlin teams clash Hertha hosting Tennis Bor Rusia and Bayreuth is at Aschaffenbur on saturday both at 3 30 .and Freiburg hosts Blau Weiss Berlin on sunday 3 30 . Golf � the Ryder cup matches in which 12 top american professionals play against a dozen leading european pros is scheduled for the Belfry course near Birmingham England this week. The match play Competition starts Friday and continues Over the weekend. The seventh  training come will holds ill Golf championships in a one Day tournament saturday at the grafenw6hr course. Horse racing the thoroughbred season in Germany offers a full weekend with racing at Dusseldorf saturday and at Frankfurt Munich Neuss and Hannover on sunday. Neuss also has a midweek program on wednesday sept. 18. In England the track at Doncaster offers a racing program this week with the Doncaster cup on thursday the Champagne stakes on Friday and the St. Leger stakes on saturday. 18 stripes Magaz be september 12,1335