European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 14, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 Walker s run gave warriors first win by Bucky Fox staff writer leave it to Cal Walker to score Wei Bruecken s historic touchdown last sat urday. He did it on a 7-Yard run to give the warriors a 6-3 Victory their first Triumph at Rhein main in the 15 years of Owci Bruch Ken football. Walker did t score the to from his usual quarterback position. Nor at wide receiver where he often roams. Nor on an interception from another of his spots defensive Back. Walker made his Way to the end zone from his running Back position. For scor ing the most significant touchdown of the Continental sports conference s second week he earned the stars and stripes player of the week. Cal s a football player said Wiesbaden coach Don Bartel who once had Walker As his quarterback. Time after time hell be Back there doing it again. He gave it to me at Wiesbaden. He s giving it to we Bruecken. He s a 100-percent foot Ball if you really need a game turned around go to him said we Bruecken coach Ernie Pryor. Bartel and Pryor spoke after watching Walker beat the flyers in an exhibition last month. The 5-foot-ll, 175-Pounder first appeared at tailback and caught a 6 Yard pass. With the warriors behind 7-0, Walker moved Tomb and fired them to a i a-13 Victory. He completed six of 14 passes for 148 Yards including the win Ning touchdown. Before Walker helped beat Rhein main rockets defensive coordinator Gerry Jenkins said he was the Only really intelligent quarterback in the league last year. He told me last year he s rotating and i said How about Rhein main that was the first thing i said. He s Quick and he can Walker contends his favorite position is running Back. I was a running Back most of my life until i got to Wiesbaden. Bartel made me a Cal s the Best that i be seen said Aii Csc guard tee Taylor who has blocked for Walker three seasons. He s smart he can throw the Ball he can run. As a run Ning Back he knows How he should react. I do whatever i can do to protect the the leadership he has is hard to con tend with said Wei Bruecken s offensive coordinator Willie Miles. He s a cheerleader a Good inspiration said Walker i be been Here awhile and everyone has Confidence in Walker 31, Learned his game in that football hotbed Dallas. He arrived at Wiesbaden in 1979 and played three years All losing seasons. In 1983 he popped up at which had won a division title the year before. Walker a tired ready to finally reach the playoffs when the warriors led Pitburg 23-9 late in the season. Wei Bruch Ken went on to lose 30-23, despite Walker s five receptions for 111 Yards and blew its playoff Hopes. In 1984, Walker passed for 1,110 Yards tops in the Csc but the warriors still went 2-6. I be been in Chr wrong place at the wrong time says Walker in the air Force 10 years. What about 1985? thanks to Walker s to we Bruecken stands 1-1 and in the running for one of the four playoff positions. I Hope so. I Ain t lying he said. I be got to win this year or next year my Walker yearned for something else heading into this season a Victory at Rhein main. He had t won there As a flyer or a Warrior. Until last week. Extra Points last year s Csc most valuable player running Back Ioc ends to contract talks Lausanne Switzerland a the International olympic committee sus Pended negotiations with the three major is. Networks Friday and gave them until sept. 23 to submit new bids for exclusive broadcasting rights to the 1988 Seoul Canada s Richard Pound chairman of the loss television negotiating committee told a news conference at the end of two Days of fruitless talks with the networks and the Seoul organizers that none of the bids submitted by the networks was acceptable at this he said the committee would judge new bids from the networks following the dead line but no Date was fixed for a new meet ing with the networks at the Ioc Headquarters Here. Pound said All participant agreed to keep the offers made by the three networks strictly confidential. Ioc sources said privately the difference Between the highest bid from the networks and the minimum the organizers were willing to accept was close to $100 million. Abc s sports president Arthur Watson Aid to was disappointed that the commit tee had failed to accept our comprehensive and imaginative he spent the longest time in the closed door negotiations with the committee and was believed to have submitted the highest offer. But like the other network and Ioc official be declined to indicate the amount of the bid. To a reporter who asked whether his offer remained on the table until sept. 23, Watson replied no absolutely not. I have not made up my mind whether to make an offer at All. I will take my time to consider the situation and take a decision before the deadline Ioc president Juan Antonio Sam ranch presided at the news conference but handed the floor to Pound who was the Central figure throughout More than 20 hours of talks since thursday. Sam ranch stressed the Ioc s continuing Good relations with the three american networks which Are very important Mem Bers of the olympic he said he believed the american television contract for Seoul would be signed be fore the end of the year. We were notified this morning the negotiations were being suspended and we were asked to resubmit bids lbs Neal Pilson said. We will now evaluate the situation in the coming ten Days and take our decision. Nothing that has happened Here has diminished our interest in the olym Roonce a Ledgin sports chief of the american broadcasting company was not immediately available for comment he stressed earlier that Abc which has Broad cast nine summer and Winter olympics since 1964, intended to pursue its old established olympic tradition whatever the outcome of the Seoul bargaining. Abc agreed earlier this year to pay $309 million dollars for the 1988 Winter games in Cal Gary Canada. Pound told the news conference the negotiating committee would determine its fur ther moves after studying the new bids and has not decided whether to Call in the net work representatives for additional negotiations. He stressed that the committee had no particular network offer under consideration at this Walton says he s ready Able to help celtics Boston a four year Ger being told he never would play again. Bill Walton is a Boston celtic the team he worshipped Long ago and from far away. He declared himself ready thursday Todo whatever is asked of him to help the celtics and himself add another title to their colourful National basketball association grew up a Boston celtic fan. Even though i was from san Diego Walton Saidat a news conference. It did t take a lot of deliberation on my part to decide this waste team i wanted to play after prolonged negotiations that once Wen declared dead to Boston general manager Jan Yolk the celtics finally of Ulo Edthe 6-foot-11 Center Forward last Friday from the los Angela clippers in Trade for Forward Cedric Maxwell. Walton hid he initiated discussions after becoming free agent following last season. I contacted the celtic in june of this year and a Prend an interest in playing for the celtic " he mid i i Hank la i say they were Inlet wll Walton. 37, rep Al Lar n1 lip deferred payments owed him by the clip pen for the Trade to be completed. Finances Are very important particularly As one gets older and approaches the time in his life where he s not going to make the Large dollars available to athletes today be said. This was much More a Walton who led Portland to its on Lynda title in 1977, wined the clippers then in san Diego in 1979 and played 14 sat out the next two seasons with a foot am incredibly Lucky to even be playing television baseball new York mets at Montreal expos or St. Louis Cantina Dos at Chicago Cuba 9 . Saturday. Radio College football Noire Danae Al Michigan to pm Sawday. Baseball Toronto Blue jays at new York Yankees 2 am. Sunday. Freddie Miller of Pitburg. Is averaging 9.4 Yards per carry. He carried Only 11 times in the Barons 21-3 Victory Al Sam Bach which led tigers coach Jack born howl to comm Cal i was surprised Dave Lockwood Pitburg s coach did t give him the Ball could be because Bornhoft said before the game that the key to stopping Tilburg was stopping Miller. Predictions last week 2-2 season 5 3. .625 Simbach it Vlahn saturday with tigers quarterback Gil Macliz limping and questionable icy must rely on that swarming defense. It should be enough. Simbach by 2. Wiesbaden at Ramstein saturday the flyers option is. The rams off tackle Power. Ramstein defense to the Rescue again. Ramstein by 12. Camp new Amsterdam at Pitburg sunday the Ever improving Wolf hounds have joined tiie second Echelon. That s still out of the Barons league. Bit Burg by 24. Sparig Dahlem at Rhein main sunday neither team has scored a touchdown. This could be a 3-0 Yawner. Give it to the rockets by a fool. Rhein main by 3. Basketball from where i was in 1981 when they told me i would t play basketball again Walton said. It s been six years since ave been i the he added. The celtics have been in the playoffs five actually six of those years. That s where i want to barring further injury he s almost cer Tain to be there next season. Walton said be is healthy but Stec pledged that his style of play poses dangers. There s always a concern because of Bow much action i be missed in the Aba be said. I feel Good right now but i play an aggressive attacking style. I like a lot of other celtics tend to end up on the floor a lot. When you do that you can get Hurt Walton played 24.s minutes per game for the cuppers last year and expects to play slightly less As a substitute for Boston next season. The departure of Maxwell leaves the celtics without the Man they counted on to guard Quick Small forwards. It also leaves Boston coach . Jones with the potential for a frontline of 7-foot Robert Parish 6-11 Walton and 6-10 Kevin Mchale. Swim Marks continue to tall in cism by Tim Boivin suit writer Warendorf Germany the announcement of broken re cords is sounding More like a broken record itself at the concil internationale do sports militia re swim Ming championships. Three More records fell out of four events held Friday. The Only record not broken through eight events during two Days of Competition was in the women s 400-meter Medley relay. The Only reason that record was t Bro Ken was because it was the first time it was a cism event thus establishing it As a new Mark. West Germany s olympic Gold medallist Michael Gross Laid claim to his. Second individual cism Gold medal in two Days. He blew past the rest of the Field in the 100-meter Butterfly setting the cism record in 55.76. His Clos est competitor teammate Klaus Ortwin finished almost 3 seconds behind at 58.64. In the women s backstroke China s Zhang Zhi Xin took the Gold with a cism record 1 09.0. In the Battle for second place american Karen Burton narrowly lost out to China s Shen Wei. Wei swam a 1 12.29 while Burton finished an eyelash behind at 1 12.82. Burton s teammate Diann Wright finished fourth in 1 15.49. In the women s 400 Medley relay the chinese team handily beat the american team for the Gold medal. The chinese knocked off a 4 38.95, while the americans finished in 4 56.09. The final record was set in the men s 200-meter individual Medley relay. Sweden s Anders Pettenon swam a 2 07.74 to beat out Italy s Mauricio divan who had a 2 09.31. The cism championships continue through sunday with qualify ing heats at 9 30 . And finals at 5
