European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eliza Art Job of has a frustrated look As ill her Lucky charms fill her. Benin Hanson top hit shows off a card she thinks May be a Winner Vetr to her is her hat band Gerald. Meanwhile Anna dmm left looks for a Little Slot machine action Between Bingo Gomes. Photos by Ken George biorhythms flowing at Hood tide Are the Tricky fates the capricious Powers that May be preparing to to generous or break a poor loser s heart ill Tell you a Bingo crowd is funny people says a Man at the bar munching a jumbo Burger with a Long piece of onion dangling out of his Mouth. Up on stage sgt. Al Decker the Bingo caller is readying i Little machine. Yeah most folks have a Good Lime relax eat drink a Little Beer. But some look like they re Hying an air plane about to crash 1 be seen a Man get up and walk out on his wife Over Bingo. People will try systems anything Lor Luck. I would t be surprised to see a calculator out there. I like seeing people win making them Happy. The trouble is most people lose. Funny thing nobody s Ever come up and kissed me for winning but they can really get worked up for � nothing fires up a game like a Sleeper Bingo. An unfortunate who Bingo in and did t see it unlit the next number s been called. Decker says it s rough to have to Tell some needy soul who might have been lighting up a Lucky he did t win $500 because lie reacted a second too late. Sorry about that. I be been threatened says Decker i be had the crowd booing and Yelling at every Little thing had card thrown at me thought i was Gonna gel lynched. But i cooled it Oul i be been called everything from too fast Al for Callin the num Bers Loo fast to heartless Jerk to Cheater. That choked me up. Most of the time they jus kind of tip it at  Well said Lodie Poole club manager who s been put Ting on Bingo for 15 years i be never been Able to figure out How you can cheat at Bingo the Way we play  the Bingo machine worked electronically blows a lot of numbered Ping Pong balls wildly around inside a chamber with Rushing air until one Ball pops up for the caller to Call. Then there s five to seven seconds for players to play i heir cares some fast guns play 10, 15 cards and More. Poole recalls that once at it. Hua Chuca mi., there was such a big fuss about Bingo rigging that the cd d was called in a cd d Guy look All the Ping Pong balls up to the Hospital and weighed them out one by one on one of those thousandth of an ounce Scales to see that some of them weren t weighted or  the balls were clean. Tonight is Decker s last Call. He s already cleared Post heading to the Stales. He says thai although his Normal style is to be or. Sweel tonight just tonight he s Temple to raise a Ilelle fuss himself. Maybe Start a riot. A caller senses the mood of the crowd. He can make them feel Good or Rotten. Toy with them cause the steam to build make them squirm. Like you be continued on Page 10 duct outer f4 im6 it Pitt a i him