European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. August 2, 19bg the stars and stripes Page 25 Torrejon basks in la title glory by Dave Walczak staff Halle Wiesbaden wearing the sky Blue uniforms of Torrejon and the look of champions Spain s Little league team clustered Friday afternoon looking on casually As the other six teams in the european championship battled for runner up places. Torrejon s team of i year Olds could afford the Lux Ury of taking in easy having already clinched the european tournament title and granted a last Day Bye Spain s players were thinking of things Miles away. Things like Williamsport. s where Torr Jon s team will he beginning aug. 18, thanks to a fit record chalked up at the european tournament prior to Friday s wrap up european Little league director Mike Shapiro adjust informed the team that in will open the Little league world series against inc Central americ entry. With that news Torrejon s players tried to Crys Walize what that game and Williamsport will be Denny had already Given some thought to the world series. Spain s Mound Ace figured on drawing the starting pitching assignment. He spent pan of Fri Day afternoon thinking about the biggest game of his life. Ill be nervous he said playing on to and i front of 30,000 people. I know i la be All right after that first inning i think about All the memories i la have. Twil be something to Tell my children Denny could Tell tots of stories about the european tournament. His favorite will focus on his team s opener when he belted a fourth inning grand slam that erased a 2-1 deficit to defending Champion saudi Ara Bia. Torrejon went on to win the opener 8-4.Denny s lean Nate Bryan Kinder said the blast was scottish team loves to play . Football baking Cruces . Bureau Raf Edzell Scotland they Knock Heads without any crash together without protective padding of any kind. They Don Teven i ave uniforms. What they do have is some natural Talent and a burning de sire to play american football. They Are 35 Young scotsmen aged be tween 15 and 30, and together they make up the Dundee whalers. The whaler practice wire a week but arc not in a league of any kind and Welcome a game whenever they can arrange one with an other is their first year of play and their team was going nowhere fast until the got an american coach this summer he s Navy senior chief Myron Elliot the Deputy Exchange officer at Raf Edzell 3i Miles North of Dundee Home tothe naval Security group activity Elliot from Shreveport la., is a Bigbear of a Man who has played and coached football for years. He played i High school and then notched four years of professional and semiprofessional experience As an offensive guard he tried out for the nil s new or leans saints at one time played for the minor league Sci Arkana titans and coached on the Junior College level at Louisiana Baptist or five of the whalers Are real Good and they All have the interest these Riou Ness and the determination but they Lack experience. What they had seen on British television s coverage of the no. S games is what they were doing Metore started coaching them said Elliot. I started out with the basics teaching hem the same things you would teach 10 a Junior High school team. They improved a great Deal and won the next two games we played Elliot said they have been playing All out tackle football without any equipment. Smuch As i be played and coached foot Ball it scare me to death to watch them. What got us up. We were kind of Down in the dumps. After that i knew we could win in Kiki Kirksey Torrejon s left fielder anticipated Denny s Cruncher. He hit the Fence inc Lime up before that. He said he was going to put one Kinder who collected 10 hits in sin games at wies Baden had Early doubts about his team s Williamsport dream. At the beginning we were Alt fifi Ling and every thing. But then we just stopped thai and started to play. We knew we had a shot. We just uan cd to try out hardest. When we started id win Here everyone wants to beat you. Vou get a lot of enemies. Bui now that it s Over everyone turned out to be Nice Kinder expressed doubts Aboul i Kiili Ashport championship. Ill Settle for one win something rare for euro Pean entries in the . If those other teams made in there they Vegol to be pretty Torrejon s Center fielder Freddie harder was More upbeat. I Don t think they la be Able to beat us said the boy who prefers the Outfield because i three hits in leading the Middle East team to its fourth Victory in six games. Saudi Arabia scored three times in the first inning to make a loser of Slade Stewart. Shape went wingless in six games. All Star selections Torrejon and Brussels each placed four players on the is Mcm bar All tourney team selected by the coaches and managers. Kinder. Denny harder and Frankic sign Erin my prised the Spain contingent. Mike Delia Gregg. Eric Sirlin and arc Osmun represented Brussels. Saudi Arabia placed three players Mundy ran som Johnny Arvai and Dan Cariss on the team. Sawa and mall Smith of Naples Stewart of shape and Bobby Shaw of inc United kingdom completed the selections. Nawls Security arc 10,000-meter records broken in Safe tracks spot Tol Ciller Myron Elliot left runs he scottish football team through basics at the Edzell gym. The majority Are in Good hit hard and so far the Only injury the whalers have had is one Brokennose he said. We be been giving he other Guys the injuries said one of Elliot i players 15 year old Andrew Roberts. Some of the teams the whalers bang Heads against Are out filed with shoulder pads but they can t use them because most of the other teams have no padding of any kind. While there arc two Large organized foot Ball leagues in England that include a few scottish teams so fir there is no organized league in Scotland. But Elliot s players Hope there will be one by next season and that their team Wil belong to it. Right now the players arc pooling their resources to outfit themselves like the american professional players they see on British television but that lakes Money and most of these Guys have pre Cious Little of that. The players Are a mixed bag some arc High school kids others Are in College a few have jobs and quite a few Are unemployed. Each player chips in two pounds per week about s to inc club Kitty and so far they have come up with enough Money to order jerseys and pants for the whole will Cost us about 200 pounds roughly $300 per person to outfit each of us with a helmet and pads said ran Dall Ford a 20-year-old end. It will be hard to raise the Money 10 kit out All the players. We have been try ing to raise the Money by taking part in sponsored 20-mile walks and we Are try ing to gel a Gram from the local District Council he whalers Gol hooked on american football by watching nil games. The contests have been carried regularly for the last few seasons by Britain s Channel 4 television is it Aboul the game thai draws them to in a lot of our players continue to play soccer too but they find american fool Ball More exciting and More of a team game said Roberts a 210-pounder.ian scrim Fineour at 28 one of the team s old men said there Are some players who Are just into the game for the violence but most of the hard tackling we encounter is fair Frankfurt two 10,000-meter records were set at enl race stadium Here Friday As the 1986 Safe track and Field championships opened a three Day meet. John Rolando Fth Continental spoils conference took 7.1 seconds off the Mark he established last year when he turned in a 31.42.5 clocking in the open division that time was identically matched by Csc teammate Dave Ren Neison in the senior 30-39 division. Renneison s record Selling performance erased the old Mark of 31.50.4. Two other finals were staged Friday night. The . Conference s Larry mat thews won the masters 40 and older division 10,000-Meicr race in 39.38.1, and teammate Donna Underwood turned in an 18 51.9 Lime to capture inc women s 5,000 meters. Louganis Mitchell win festival titles Houston Dpi Greg Louganis and Michele Mitchell repeated As Cham pions thursday in the 3-meter Spring Board diving Competition in the . Olympic festival. Mitchell won the Gold medal for the second straight year and qualified for the world championships with runner up Kelly Mccormick. Louganis a double Gold medallist in the 1984 olympics triumphed As he and run Ner up Mark Bradshaw earned spots for the aug. 13-23 world championships. Television pro football nil Hall of Fame game St. Louis cardinals is. New eng land patriots 8 to . Saturday. Track and Field . Olympic Festi Val 2 . Sunday. Radio baseball Kansas City royals at bos Ion red sax 7 . Saturday
