European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 5,1987 the stabs and stripes Page 25 Veteran frock coach worries about turn his sport s taking by Kun Tjohnson assistant sports editor Darmstadt Germany As a College 800-Meterrunner, Al a Uebler was a front runner. Now they Call ohm rabbits " said Buehler Duke University s longtime track and Cross country head coach. I did t win the big races but the meet director always Lite to have a runner like me in the Field to set a fast Pace said Buehler an sex Maryland Middle Dis Lance Man whole Best 800 time was 1 minute 51.3 seconds As an aau runner up in 1951. I always said if i m not going to win then the Guy who does to going to Haw to earn it " Buehler has not run competitively since his air Force Days in 1953-55. But he1 been a front runner i track and Field for aver three decades As an olympic team manager coach 1972 and 84director of inter National meets Mcaa rules committee chairman Anda director of the 1987 National sports festival in North Carolina. Among other things. One of the other things that Buehler does is give clinics. This week a s conducting the Usa eur track coaches and officials clinic Al Darmstadt s Cam brai Fritsch Cavern. Between 50 and 60 Are expected to attend the Usa eur Dinic with Buehler the Centrepiece for three Days of class sessions plus some on the spot instruction m an a comen meet saturday in Darm Stadt s Burje Park stadium what we teach at these clinics is the nuts and bolts of running a track meet As Wel As coaching said Buchler who has been meet director for a Usa uss meet 14174. Two Usa West Germany pan America triangular 1975 and 81 and a National Junior olympics 1983. Any track meet not Only the big ones but the Small one too depends on lots of volunteers who put in Many hours of work he said. You cant imagine the dedication of these people. 1 often wonder Why they do it the work can be hard the hours Long and they Only gel paid with pins med als or shirts you could t pay these people enough if it were Normal  Buchler cited the the National sports festival this summer in Raleigh and Durham n.c., As an example. For the sports festival we need j25 track and Field officials he said. So far i be had More than 300 applications from people around the country. Many of them Olter to pay their Way to North Carolina just to be a timer judge Rake the jump pit or whatever. Tuure s a group of people from All so Silks of life who just love to be on the scene. Without them we d be in  this Volant chrism doing your thing for nothing is not spilling Over into the competitors Side of track and Field according to Buehler. He cited big Money Road racing the grand prix track circuit and professional team sports As reasons that the american track and held program May be deteriorating there Are now important Road races every weekend red they offer big Money he said. The distance runners Are getting greedy instead of training prop Erly they Are constantly running marathons and other Tough races. And the big Money grand prix meets Are drawing our top track and Field athletes. They re All going off to european meets every summer. This commercialism Wain t id track and i iced before dual meets Are almost a thing of the past on the College level according to Buehler the Schoola can t Field full cams he said. They re sending their stand outs to the big Mvi nationals. There s no room anymore for the 12-6 pole vaulter who can get you Points in a dual meet Buehler also bemoaned the loss of super athletes to the big salaried spans of basketball football and base Ball. Some like shot Puller Michael Carter san fran Cisco 49ershurdler Reynaldo Nehemiah ex-49er and sprinter Willie Gault Chicago bears turned to pro football after establishing them elves As world class Trade athletes. But Buehler also wonders about All the track might have beens who have been siphoned off by pro sports. He cites former Aba Star David Thompson As an example. When Thompson was � freshman at North Carolina stale said Buehler he turned out for freshman track. As soon As he got the sequence of the triple jump Down he did 48 feet. That was his first measured  two weeks he quit but he Nad jumped 52-9. Most triple jumpers never reach Ilia a their whole careers. That s the kind of athlete we could be getting in track and  Buehler also preaches the evils of steroids for eighteen. In the Eastern european countries they Are test Camps where it s All controlled he  we in America Are not willing to get into that sort of  rockets say Sampson close to 10-year Deal Houston up the Houston rockets May they do not plan to Trade Ralph Sampson and Are close to sign ing the 7-foot-4 Forward to a 10-year, $20 million contract. Ralph Sampson and Akcam Ola Juwon Are the foundation of the Houston rockets and they will both be playing Here for the next decade general manager Ray Patterson said. Guarantee you that. Right now it s a matter of putting the Bow on Ralph s package Patterson said the contract would include a provision assuring Sampson of a front office Job when he retires As an Active player. The general manager also indicated that Sampson has expressed an inter est in living in the Huntingdon High Rise condominiums where rockets owner Charlie Thomas resides. Those Are the Broad Basic terms that have been agreed on Patterson said. We told Ralph those things will be no problem. It will be taken car of. Now it s just a matter of figuring out How to distribute the Money with regard to lax implications and the Sal Ary Cap. Ralph s agent Gene ferry and i Are working very hard on Fin Ishing the Job it is expected that the Deal will be announced shortly after the playoffs end. Sampson is in the final year of a four year contract and the new Deal dissimilar to one signed by Olajuwon earlier this season which will pay him around 12 million a season for 12 years. There were reports Friday that the rockets were thinking about trading Sampson to Denver for Lafayette lever and Blair Rasmussen that s total nonsense Patter son said. That Trade has about As much Chance of taking place As Wil Liam Randolph Hearst for Little or Phan Annie. You d have to be an idiot to even consider such a ridiculous thing. Let me repeal once again that Raith Sampson is not going to be traded to any team period. I can t make it any More emphatic than thai.". Ftp Tel photo by Kim o Duke s Al Boehler can t Field a fall  Buehler says the europeans Are Way ahead of us on steroid use. He says it s an individual thing mostly uncontrolled in the United states with dangerous  Tell my athletes the same thing i would Tell my own kids says Buehler it s not Worth it. Don t do , who is 56 with 33 years of Irick coaching experience has observed a lot of changes to his chosen Field. But he sees some Bright spots among the changes. And the biggest one is the expansion of women s track and Field in the United  women s track program is the fastest growing sport in he Mcaa he said. We used to have entirely separate men s and women s programs. The held separate meets and the officials of each hardly spoke to each other. Now we have one organization for men and women including a rules committee we re gelling the Quantity in women s track and the Quality will come. Our women will do belter an better internationally. I be found them to he super  Hupf Ntxo Houston Forward Ralph Sampson. Awaiting Bow on package Stuttgart s mull captures Lead in Abc opener Augsburg Germany Mike mull of Stuttgart s of shoot that thing team had the High game series and total to take the Alt events Lead Al the american Bowling Congress european All stars championship s opening Day. Mull fired a 235 game on his Way to a 648-5s3-i23i, 2s pins better than Hanau s Wayne Closson who had a 599 6071206.augsburg s Tim Daniels found his Home lanes 10 his liking with a 546-632 and third place in the All events. Despite mull s heroics however his Siut Garl squad could manage Only fifth place at 4304 in the team event Well behind the 4471 pins toppled by the Schweinfurt travellers. Rhein main s strokes paced by Rod Huss 574-590 1164, were winners up for first Day learn honors with 4437.bilburg s Gene Miller had the Day s second Best series at 639. It came after an opening 504, however for a combined 1143, Good enough for Only a seventh place All events tic. Miller s teammate last year s Abc european All stare sensation Mike Kruske had a 561-5 571118. Kruste is the defending singles and All events Champion who teamed with Sieve Ber Gan 10 win the 1986 doubles Crown