European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 29, 1986 stars and stripes Page 25 bowlers7 entry deadline drawing nearer by boo Odem staff writer d the deadlines Are drawing nearer for the american Bowling Congress european All Star and women s International Bowling Congress european All Star tournaments both scheduled in May at Ramstein. The deadline for Abc entries is noon on Friday april 4, or whenever the first 140four-Man teams Are registered. For the wisc the deadline is Friday april 11, or whenever the first 60 four per son teams Are registered. Entry forms can be obtained from local association secretaries or at local Bowling lanes. The Abc tourney is scheduled May 1-6,and the wisc meet runs May 7-10. The top 31 All events finishers qualify for the european masters along with defending Champion Dan Novak of Bremerhaven. The masters event is scheduled for May 11-12 at the Bicentennial lanes. With Connie Cornell of Ramstein not i Europe to defend her Crown the top 16 wisc All events finishers will qualify forthe masters. Jim Moynihan the Abc wisc euro Pean director has announced a new Mas ters format in determining this year champions. Instead of the tourney normally starting on a Friday night it will begin saturday afternoon May 11, at 1 15 . The Abc and wisc bowlers will Roll four games each in round 1 with no Cut in the Field. After a recess the bowlers Willcome Back for round 2 at 3 30 . For another four game Block with the Abc Field being Cut to 16. The wisc Field of 16 will remain the same. Round 3 will begin on lanes 21-28 at 6p.m. For the Abc group and at 7 15 . For the wisc contingent. Afterwards each group will be pared to eight bowlers. On sunday May 12, in round 4, each group of eight bowlers will Roll six games in order to trim the Field to five and set up the Stepladder Roll offs. Round 4 begins at 11 . For the Abc and 12 30 . For the be wisc to determine the five finalists in each group. The top qualifier of each group will seeded no. 1 for the match play Roll offs. In the two game total pinball Roll offs the no. 5 qualifier Rolls against no. 4 the Winner competes against no. 3 Winner bowls no. 2 and the Winner faces no. 1. The finals will be three game blocks total pinball. They also will Roll on lanes 21 28.the notable masters changes from the previous format Are the tourney starting saturday instead of Friday the trimming of the Abc Field to 16 after eight games in Stead of after 12 games open Bowling on All lanes after round 3 on saturday night. But the finalists May not use lanes 21-28. Atlanta Minnesota Boston Montreal let fans Down Little things produce winning Fearns by John Nelso Nap baseball writer they looked very Good on paper. A few looked Good enough to win a Pennant. But teams like Atlanta Minnesota bos ton and Montreal Haven t lived up to expectations and to Many the reason Why is Stilla mystery. It s the Little things that help you win the things you Don t often see on paper 1 says Chuck Tanner who As the new Man Ager of the braves will try to turn thing around in Atlanta. You look at the eight players you put on the Field and they look pretty Good. And sometimes All it takes is to get out there and. Improve each person by 10 percent says Tanner who guided the Pittsburgh pirates to a world series championship Over Balti More in 1979. You need contributions from everyone they All have to help. You Don t need a 20 game Winner but you need 10 Good pitch ers. I m the Only manager to win a world series without a 15-game Winner on my staff he asked. The braves Are a classic example of a Tea that went wrong. They won the National league West in 1982, then lost a rain delayed playoff to the St. Louis cardinals who would go on to win the world series. The following year with players like Dale Murphy Bob Homer Chris Chamb Liss and Glenn Hubbard still in the lineup they slipped to 88-74 then to 80-82 in 1984. Last year they were 66-96 for their worst finish since 1977, and that was after Many had picked the braves to win the division because they acquired reliever Bruce Sutler. We be been on the losing end for a longtime now Homer said. We won the no West in 1982, but we Haven t done anything since then. We want to  sometimes losing Breeds a losing Atti tude and that s Why a manager like Tan army triumphs in interservice Indiantown Gap a. The. Army with three Usa eur stars playing a major role won the interservice women basketball tournament with its third straight Victory Here  with an easy 79-68 win Over Navy the army conquered the air force84-69 and then repeated that win 85-60. Aschaffenbur s Yvonne Fleming wild Fie Ken s Angela Armstrong and Mann Heim s Darlene Johnson represented Sarteur in the unblemished March to the title in the double elimination tournament. Johnson and Armstrong were selected for the . Forces team that will compete in the aau National women s tournament april 7-13 in Detroit. A photo Chuck Tanner. Everyone must contribute Ner the eternal Optimist can be a big  times organizational problems get in the Way. Ray Miller was hired to manage the twins last june after seven seasons As pitching coach at Baltimore where reworked under one of the game s Best Earl Weaver. He found that a lot of the Little things things Tanner talked about had been ignored. What they had basically done Here was sit around and wait for the Home run. They had built a club for Power and the three run Homer Miller said. They never put a lot of work into the defense. There was no real consensus on the staff on How to pitch anybody. So i implemented what i  picked by Many to win the american league West after challenging for it in 1984, the twins wound up tied for fourth,14 games behind Kansas City at season s  having talented players like Kent Hrbek Frank Viola Gary Gaetti and Ron Davis Minnesota got off to a 27-35 Start last year under Billy Gardner. They finished 50-50 under Miller. Davis the Relief Pitcher who had struggled Early on was successful in 21 of 22 save opportunities to finish the season and Miller adds we were 22-11 in one run games under  had t worked on a lot of the basics he said. I did t like the bunt plays they had. They had no procedures for run Downs cutoffs and relays. They used All the Standard plays but you have to adapt the to your Park and they had  the red sox were another one of those disappointing teams. The team understand ably was built to take advantage of the Short Fence in left Field the Green monster with players like Tony armas Jim Rice and Wade Boggs. Picked by some to finish Well up in the american league East if not win it in 1985, the red sox finished 18 /2 games Back of Toronto in fifth. They Haven t won a division title since1975 despite seeing the likes of Carl Yastrzemski Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn come and go. Boston manager John Mcnamara believes one of the keys to Success is Relief  a look at the clubs that contend and they Are usually in the 40s in the save department he says. The red sox had 29 saves last season with Steve Crawford the Leader at 12. So the red sox made a Trade that brought Relief pitchers Calvin Schiraldi and Wes Gardner from the new York mets an Sammy Stewart from Baltimore. We knew we had to do something Mcnamara said. We had no one in the farm system that had distinguished himself so we would feel we could stay with  injuries also can play a role in a disappointing season. Boston pitchers Roger Clemens Al Nipper Bruce Kison and Bob Stanley All missed significant portions of the season with injuries As did Rice a Darmas. You come out and try to do the Best Youcan Mcnamara said. You want to set a High Standard but it can sometimes be Tough to keep up. So you do the Best you can and whatever happens  the Best example of a team gone belly up was the Montreal expos. On paper they were the team of the Early 80s. On the Field they managed Only one Divi Sion title in 1981, then they were Dis  Cromartie and Ellis Valentine two thirds of what Many considered Thebes Outfield in baseball Are Long gone. Third baseman Larry Parrish is  Gary Carter is gone. Pitchers Steve Rogers Bill Gullickson and David Palmer Are gone. Virtually All that is left of that team Are outfielders Andre Dawson and Tim Raines who started out As a second  have been replaced with Mike Fitzgerald at Catcher Vance Law and Hubie Brooks in the infield Herm win Gingham in Center Field and Joe Hesketh Andy Mcgaffigan Bryn Smith Floyd Youmans and Jay Tibbs on the  was As total a reconstruction Job As baseball has  had an awful lot of work to do on this club expos general manager Murra Cook said. A photo John Mcnamara. 40 saves needed it was t a situation where you could come in and make a few Small changes. I guess wholesale is a Good word to , manager Buck Rodgers feels that with just a Little More offence the Job willbe close to done. For that purpose Rodgers has hire Bobby Winkles to teach All the nuances of  Don t want him just to help Guys hit the Ball put of the Park Rodgers  m talking about total offence Bunting hit and run situation hitting. One third four games Are decided by one run and we Are going to work at scoring those runs in alot of  that comes Back to what Tanner said it s the Little things that keep teams from winning in big ways. Arn sports radio and television College basketball final four luvs. Louisville 9 15 . Saturday Duke , 11 45 . Saturday. Correction the invitation boxing smoker at sem Bach a will be held on saturday at 5 ., instead of on sunday As incorrectly stated in the stripes Magazine sports Calendar this week