European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 Alaska Moose steals games show by Michael Goldsmith Seoul South Korea a a tap dancing Moose from Anchorage Alaska stole the show sunday As the 12 candidate cities vying for the 1992 summer and Winter olympics unveiled colourful exhibits they Hope will Sway the vote of the International olympic committee in octo ber. The candidates six each for summer and Winter presented panoramic displays films and mountains of Glossy literature on the sidelines of the 152-nation general Assembly of the association of National olympic committees the last important olympic gathering before the decisive Ioc vote scheduled in Lausanne Switzerland. Anchorage outside the mainstream of International Winter sports venues faces an Uphill contest against some of its rivals Albertville France Berchtesgaden Ger Man Falun swede Lillehammer Norway Cortina Italy and Sofia Bulgaria. " but Only the alaskan City s display Drew crowds and applause As the 12 exhibits opened on a sunlit rooftop of Seoul s largest hotel. The furry headed Moose actually Anchorage music teacher Bonnie Rindo in costume led a troupe of Volunteer mimes disguised As skiers skaters and luge runners who moved like marionettes to the music. None of the other candidates had anything like it and some rival officials were heard to mutter that the Ancho rage Ballet was playing foul. Representatives of the summer candidates Barcelona Paris Amsterdam Birmingham England Brisbane Australia and Belgrade Yugoslavia also viewed each other s activities with some suspicion. Birmingham officials complained that Spanish sports minister Roma cuyas scheduled a luncheon tuesday that is Likely to draw guests from Birmingham s reception for 500 olympic officials. Free Beer was flowing in a miniature Beer Garden at the Back of the Berchtesgaden display which also featured a traditional bavarian Folk band in embroidered Black leather pants and a Light up scale Model of the snowy mountains where Berchtesgaden wants to stage the 1992 Winter games. Amsterdam whose mayor de Van Thijn is Here to boost the City s Campaign turned part of its display into a dutch Beer House where free tankards were passed around to Al Comers. Sjoerd Kamminga vice chairman of the City s olympic Campaign said the dutch government and the City Council have fully overcome their differences Over How to finance the proposed $600 million capital budget. A unanimous Welcome awaits the games in the dutch City Kamming Asaid. And in a sly dig at Amsterdam s big City rivals the dutch display figured the slogan As big As an olympic City should  with less than one million inhabitants Amsterdam is the smallest of the summer candidates and predicted it would have the fewest traffic jams. The Back of the Paris exhibit was a French Bistro offer ing aperitifs and Beaujolais wine. The Eiffel Tower an illuminated map of the Paris metro and a scale Model of France s High Speed Tiv train dominated the display. France is the Only country with two candidates Albert Ville in the French Alps is campaigning vigorously for the Winter games. France s triple olympic ski Gold medallist Jean Claude Killy showed visitors around the Albertville stand and said the French government has promised to undertake an ambitious Highway development that will eliminate the area s 50-mile-Long traffic jams Well before 1992. Barcelona is widely regarded As the front runner for the summer games partly because it is the Hometown of the Ioc s president Juan Antonio Sam ranch. The Barcelona stand featured a pledge from Spain s King Juan Carlos that the City if awarded the games would safeguard the Universal character of sports and the strictest respect for olympic  a prominent photo graph of Juan Carlos described him As an olympic Piersall Back helping cubs with outfielders by Randy Minkoff Chicago up he moves with the agility of a Man half his age camping under Fly balls and getting ready to throw to the right base. It s still second nature for Jimmy pier Sall who at age 56 is Back in baseball doing what he thinks he does the Best teaching baseball. The cubs hired the controversial sex Ball player and sex announcer to serve As an out Field instructor during the Spring. He will also serve As an instructor for the minor league prospects the cubs have Down on the farm. Piersall has dedicated himself to keeping in shape not just to be a coach and teacher but to stay alive. Well i played a lot of Tennis and some workouts but i had open heart surgery a couple of years ago so i have to watch it Piersall says. One of the toughest things is to hit the fun goes. I must hit 100 fun goes  Piersall has lost weight since the surgery due in part to his self imposed training pro Gram but also from just bending Over to pick up baseballs. When you pick up your own baseballs it s a lot of exercise he said. Coaches get a lot of exercise just As much As the  Piersall encountered a generally Veteran bal club with the cubs major league play ers. He had to reorient some of them on the basics of Fielding. Bobby Dernier had some trouble pick ing up the balls the right Way and he s a former Gold Glover Piersall said. I found the veterans responsive. I also got a lot of support from manager Jim  Piersall was known As a Slick fielder Dur ing his 17-year career. His offensive Statis tics never quite matched his abilities As a Glove Man. He has tried to use his experience not Only to work with the veterans but to instruct some of the 18-year-old and 19-year-old prospects the cubs have in their farm system. Piersall admits he recalled the advice he got when he came up from Dom Dimaggio As a basis for his teaching. At the end of his career he was a big help to me Piersall said. After a time Dom said i did t need any More help and when he said that i knew was ready for the  one essential element in the Piersall school of teaching is to treat players the same Way he was treated when he was in the majors. I think we All like personalized Atten Tion. Don t show up anyone he said. If i see something i take them aside. You Don t try to Embarrass anyone. Make them aware. I read where Carlton Fisk says he is going to go to sleep in the Outfield. No Way you do that in the  Fielding has become somewhat of a lost Art in the Days where offensive performances Are gauges for the High salaries for free agents. But Piersall said he was encouraged by the attention some of the younger cub prospects have had toward sharpening their Fielding skills. Some of them Are working hard. Some May be better than the veterans on the Field he said. I think Pride is a big thing. Think of 50,000 fans in the stands and you mess up. That s a great incentive to work at  overlooking Fielding skills May actually Start on the Little league level where the weaker kids Are often stuck deep in the Outfield. But Piersall said that is a mistake. I Don t think the Best players play the infield he said. That s a  Piersall played the Outfield from the time he started in grammar school and with the exception of a Brief Stop at shortstop under Lou Boudreau with Cleveland Piersall has made the Outfield his Home. I Don t like to think about those Days at Short he said. If you want to be Good you stick to one position. That s what i Tell people. Keep them there and develop that skill. Don t be moving your prospects  up photo Jimmy Piersall. Believes in basics the Best Fielding outfielder other than himself that Piersall Ever saw i would say Paul Blair but he did t have a Good Arm like me he said. Willie Mays was the Best All around player including fielder i Ever  the worst Yogi Berra was the worst he said. He would be been a great do. He was a great player. But they moved him to left Field just like they Are doing with Fisk. Fisk la lose some games for the  at a certain age veterans do become somewhat immune to new ideas unlike some of the younger players. Piersall said no Veteran should consider himself too Good to be taught Basic elements of the game. Some Are Fielding one handed. But i Tell them to get into better position for a throw and use the Glove he said. I told them to do what s Best for them but to use their head. Be open to the  you can t kid anyone anymore headed. It s the enthusiasm and the love for what you do that makes you Good Good a coaching Good at announcing Good at  at the Birmingham stand a video tape lauded the merits of Britain and its second largest City in a Sharp Oxford accent. Spokesman Leon Hickman said the Birmingham olympic site was so concentrated that it would be quicker to Fly there from the Center of Paris than to reach some of the French capital s own proposed venues. Brisbane s mayor Sallyann Atkinson who for three years has campaigned tirelessly for the australian City s Long shot bid was still at it we have the Best Case she said. We have the peace and Security the idyllic weather and full support from the Public and All Levels of govern  Many of the displays reflected a worldwide preoccupation with terrorism stressing the respective candidate Cit ies Security records. Birmingham s Security system is admired by police forces throughout the world said one inscription on the City s stand. It will turn the Birmingham games into a perfect unobtrusive  several of the candidates including Sofia Belgrade and the italian ski resort of Cortina presented relatively Low key displays. Cortina which staged the 1956 games is the Only Winter games candidate with previous experience in Stag ing the olympics. Paris organized the summer games in 1900 and 1924, and Amsterdam in 1928. The olympics Are held every four years in a City designated years earlier by the 92-Membcr Ioc. Seoul and Calgary Alberta arc the summer and Winter venues for 1988. The Ioc is due to meet in Lausanne oct. 12 for a six Day session culminating in the secret vote to determine the 1992 venues. The ballot is by elimination allowing Ioc members who Back losing candidates to shift their vote to other cities As their initial Choice drops out of the running. This procedure favors All kinds of backstage alliances and makes the outcome virtually impossible to predict with any certainty. Seoul planning for 88 games runs smoothly by Larry Siddons Seoul South Korea a preparations for the 1988 olympic games in Seoul Are on schedule and running smoothly a top organizing committee official said sunday. Sangjin Chyun special assistant to the president of the Seoul olympic organizing committee said most facilities to be used in the games should be ready 2 / years before the lighting of the olympic flame in september 1988. Chyun said the olympic facilities would have thorough tryouts Well before the games. In june they will be the site of South Korea s National sports festival. In september they Host the 10th asian games. It is a Busy schedule he said. He also said that political developments both within South Korea and in discussions with North Korea should have no effect on the Success of the Seoul summer games. He pointed to the expected attendance of a record number of countries at a meeting of the association of National olympic committees Here this week. Everything is going As planned but some people Are worried about participation of Eastern bloc countries in the Seoul olympics he said in an interview. I think the number of Ioc countries attending the meetings show we will have Good  South korean president Chun Doo Hwan is expected to step Down in the Spring of 1988. Opponents Are calling for direct elec Tion of his successor rather than the cur rent system of the president being chosen by an electoral College and for the elections to be held before the olympics. Chun s party is expected to retain Power. We expect a peaceful transition Accord ing to the Constitution with no effect on the games Chyun said. We have a tradition ally Strong opposition  North Korea has demanded that the games be divided Between North and South. The Seoul government has refused and the two sides Are scheduled to a third series of meetings in june at the International olympic committee Headquarters in Lausanne