European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                & is daily Magazine byjoe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau the Rise to the top was Quick. Eight lights into an Amateur career army stall  Dewberry was the Light heavyweight Champion of the Netherlands. But that was1981. Now 27 years old with a 51-6 Amateur record. Dewberry was in a reflective mood As he talked in the tiny gym where he started his career with the Lan Graal boxing club in Landgraff. Germany. Nearly 10 years into a military career More than seven of them spent in the Border Community where he Learned to to Dewberry is approaching age 30 and facing an imminent assignment to the United slates. There is also the Wile and two children to consider. It s time to take Stock. The fight game has been Good to Dewberry a repeat dutch title a string of service boxing titles and a shot at the olympics Are part of the Story but the people who know Dewberry say things could have been much better he could have been on  said Josef Moonan. Coach of the Lan Graal learn Moonan urged Dewberry to go professional shoot Lor a european title and then jockey for a big Money Light in the United Stales. Dewberry should have won the olympics said William Berry Allied forces Central Europe boxing coach and the Man who trained Dewberry irom the Start. Dewberry s own assessment of the Light game is that it should have taken Molo being a  Bur on reflection he said i think fighting Lor Money might change me in one Aen a boxing has made a professional out of Dew Larry i Pete Sam pays Dewberry to be a Section chief with pit b of the 85th . Army Field arty Del the unit is stationed on the nato airbase at Geilenkirche Germany. Training to fight with the army during working hours and for himself after work lakes its loll. Dewberry estimates he spends about 60 hours a week on the Job training before and after work adds another 2 a hours of toil each Day. Dewberry normally trains every other Day except for two weeks before a Light when he trains daily. Between training and my work i feel really burned out Dewberry said. A Normal training Day begins at 5 30 . With three Miles of roadwork. A full Day s work follows and in the evening. Dewberry says he Likos to run six Miles i tend to give up at about  in the Modem Ter Warden gym successor to the Back room ring where Dewberry started the routine continues. Alter warming up Dewberry Shadow boxes four rounds then moves to the heavy bag for another four rounds. He will spar Lour rounds and put in yet another Lour rounds on the Speed punching bag the session  concludes with what Debeny Calls exercising  ii definitely keeps me in Good condition. I Vema de every it physical training lest and that allowed my soldiers to took up to me not for my boxing but for my physical condition Dewberry was no overnight Success despite his Quick Rise to a National Amateur boxing title. For a full year Trainer Berry kept his Young fighter in the practice ring and of the fight cards. I made sure he Learned every step one at a  Berry said. Dewberry said that first year was Tough but that it taught him How to slip a punch and move inside the ring. I used to be a puncher. I d walk in there and take four punches to get in one but that one would be a Good  Dewberry first paired up against a fighter from Amsterdam with two fights under his Belt Dewberry to d him in the first round. It was a result that held up for his first four fights All of which were knockouts in the first or second round. Dewberry quickly advanced to the lop a level of Competition and by the end of his first year in the ring he was a Champion the next year he was the army tight heavyweight Champ. In 1984 he was the interservice Champ at that weight class and he repeated As the dutch Light heavyweight Champ that june Dewberry tried out Tor . Boxing team that went to the olympic games in los Angeles. He gained the invitation by virtue of placing third in the nationals earlier that year. But in the trials Dewberry s olympic dreams ended at 1 18 of the second round when the referee stopped the bout and awarded the decision to Bonnie heard of Ell the fights the one that Slicks out in Dewberry s mind is the one he lost at the olympic trials. Dewberry says he was t badly Hurt and the fight should have continued. Although lukewarm to a professional boxing career. Dewberry is very hot on the idea of making the 1988 olympic team. That shot could very Well be his last. Dewberry said. One More  Dewberry figures to fight a few More years before hanging the gloves up and scouting around for a. Coaching Job. The army already has another Job Lor Dewberry one that will Likely ensure that the Light heavyweight slays in lop shape. It will All begin with a month spent at Drill sergeants school fort Sill. Okla. Alter Yean of throwing Puneet in Europe Clarence Dewberry heading Back to the state. Is photo by Joe Mia her Friday november 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13