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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. November 12, 1985 the stars and stripes Chicksands Carter blasts . Move of oust Chicks Page 25 by Bucky Fox staff writer Chicksands coach Al Carter still sounded depressed sunday. Two Days before he heard that his fighting Chicks were out of the . Sports conference playoff picture despite winning the National division. I m just flabbergasted. It has left me winded. It just took the life out of me Carter said from his Home. When i heard about it i got permission from my super visors to take the rest of the Day off. It was 11 o clock Friday when i found out about it and i had to get away. I could t face  with Chicksands Given the Boot the . Title was decided saturday when upper Heyford beat Alconbury 21-18. That gave the sky Kings the right to Host Torrejon at 12 30 . Saturday in the Safe semifinal. The upper Heyford Alconbury game was originally supposed to be a playoff to Settle their tie atop the . T american division. The Winner would then play Chick hands for the . Title. But Friday before the game 3rd air Force commander maj. Gen. Thomas Mclnerney ruled that Chicksands would t play. Upper Heyford is. Alcon Bury was suddenly the . Title game. Mctnerney made the ruling because the . Ran out of time. The league ill pre pared for possible ties wanted to break its american division deadlock with a game rather than a paper tiebreaker. So the . Requested that Safe push its sem and final Back a week. Safe Headquarters at Ramstein a Germany gave its final answer no Friday. The Safe semifinal would re main nov. 16 and the final nov. 24. So Mclnerney looked at the records of the three . Teams involved Heyford and Alconbury at 8-2 and Chicksands at 7-3. He erased the divisional setup and thus erased the fighting Chicks who had lost to both the sky Kings and spartans during the regular season. In the interest of safety we went with the two teams with the Best records said Mclnerney who had considered playing the Heyford Alconbury game thursday and coming Back with the . Title game monday. We had to eliminate the possibility of one team having to play three games in eight  said Carter i can t understand a Deci Sion like that. It affects not Only Chick san but the whole National division. They re saying we Don t exist. There Are a lot of hard feelings. We re trying to keep our Heads up but it s difficult. The Guys on the team Are so Down right now. It was hard to Tell the team. We won t get Over it quickly. Teams from the ., especially Tho National division will take years before getting Over  Carter a first year head coach turned an 0-8 team from last year into division champs. This was the fighting Chicks first title since 1978. I guess this decision Means Chicksands does t mean anything. We re a Small a Tough first Down a photo Amy s John Tom Psi left pot u plight tackle on air Force s but Wilsa but not before the Falcon quarterback get. A first Dow. La the first Quarter of saturday s game. Web Pui a for  and scored two others u do air Force stayed undefeated by in Abuaf fut tog Amy 45-7. Base and people did t think we re far real Carter said. Upper Heyford coach Jim Ousley called the . Move a Tough decision. Chicksands can forever say we could beat Heyford and Wear the Crown How can you argue the Point even Continental sports conference coaches expressed Shock. It s a very raw Deal Ramstein coach Bill Schultz said. Chicksands went 7-3, won their division and they were shunted out. I d Hale to be the coach or the Powers that be to Tell that team they re out be cause . Officials screwed  said harm coach Leon Hayes i would be retired right there. General or no general i would be  Schultz and Hayes spoke moments after their own Battle saturday in which Ramstein beat Hahn 14-13 for the Csc championship. One reason Safe opposed pushing its final Back was because of protest by the Csc which draws a Bye the weekend of nov. 16. Safe sports chief Dick mul Lins said some players in Germany were scheduled to rotate before dec. 1, and the Csc did t want to lose them for the Safe championship. Carter labelled Safe s refusal to push the games Back selfish. It s not the Csc s fault that the . Had this tie but we re in the same thing to pro vide morale and welfare for people abroad. That bothers me. Sure the . Made a mistake but i Don t know if the Csc would be Hurt that bad by is photo by gut Satiu Teller Chicksands coach Al Carter. Title but not playoffs waiting a week for the Safe final. I still think it s not too late if people Are really concerned to have us play. They could go ahead and have the Mac Torr Jon play the Csc Ramstein this weekend. Just go ahead and Tell me they la do that while we play upper Heyford and everything would still be on  Carter a Security policeman at Chick Sands said that if the . Decision stands i can t see myself at this Point in time supporting anything in sports next year. We did what we had to do win our division. It s hard to believe this is  Mcenroe drubs Jarryd in final at Stockholm Stockholm Sweden a John Mcenroe improving his game with each match of the tournament routed an off form Anders Jarryd 5-1,6-2 sunday to win a record fourth singles Crown in the $375.000 Stockholm open scandinavian Tennis championships. It was the most one sided championship match Ever in this tourney the world s old est indoor grand prix. The top seeded american who did not lose a set in his five matches Here never let Jarryd get into the match. I Felt better and butter for every match and it s very Nice for a change because it has t happened that much this year said Mcenroe. It was As Good As i be played for a Long time. Everything Felt smooth and i Felt i could have played even better if  but be really did not need to losing just one Point and posting three love games in four service games in the second set. The 26-year-old Mcenroe overtook Ivan lend of Czechoslovakia for the Lead in the grand prix Point standings after sunday s Triumph. But he still trails Lendl on the at computer rankings As Well As the 1985 prize Money list. The swede who is ranked eighth in the world absorbed his worst beating in seven matches with the american left hander. I did t have any fire today. It s very important to get a Good Start against him but i served badly from the outset said jarred who Only connected with 43 percent of his first serves. Mcenroe who earned $60,000 for his eighth grand prix title of the year never was challenged. He broke Jarryd twice in each set and it was All Over in one hour. Jarryd who said he was tired after play ing a doubles semifinal that did not end until Well past Midnight sunday fought Back to Deuce in two of Mcenroe s service games in the first set. But the new yorker always was tougher on the big Points relying on his big serve for instant winners or forcing Jarryd to miss his returns. Americans do Palmer of Knoxville tcnn., and Gary Donnelly of Scottsdale ariz., lost sunday s doubles final 6-3,6-4 to Andres Gomez of Ecuador and Guy forget of France. Chang retains wac Crown Seoul. South Korea a Chang Jung Koo of South Korea retained his world boxing Council Light flyweight title sunday with a unanimous 12-round Deci Sion Over mexican challenger Jorge Cano. It was Chang s eighth defense of the title which he wrested from Panama s Hilario Zapata in March 1983. There were no knockdowns in the bout at Taejon 87 Miles South of Seoul. Both fighters started aggressively exchanging punches in the Early rounds. They fought almost even in the first seven rounds but the 22-year-old korean Champion out slugged the ninth ranked mexican particularly in the eighth and ninth rounds. The Victory was Chang s 29th against one loss. Cano 25, now is 22-6. American judge Duane Ford scored the fight 116-111, japanese judge Kazumasa Kuwait 116-111 and thai judge Anek Hon Tonkan 119-112, All in favor of the Champion. Both fighters weighed 1  
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