European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 23, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 25 optimism abounds on . Cism team by Ben Abrams sufi writer Frankfurt optimistic. Thai s the word hat Belt describes , rack and held contingent thai arrived at the Airport Here monday morn ing for he Conseil internationale do sports Mill air cism championships thursday through saturday at Warren do of optimistic despite the fact thai the dates conflict with the athletic Congress championship meet scheduled at Sanjose City College and several would be cism competitors arc displaying their wares at that venue. I think we will be much better this year than we were last year in Italy said head coach Glenn Passey. Last year s meet was held in inc fall when All the european teams were at their peaks and we had had a three month Layoff follow ing the armed Force championship. This year we Are hitting our Peak while most of the other teams Are hardly into their seasons. That should Benefit us immensely. And i was impressed with the Talent we had competing Ai the armed forces meet two weeks ago. Some of that Talent won t be Here because of cism conflict ing with the tac but we have come up with some outstanding replacements added Passey who earned the cism head coaching assignment because his air Force team nudged Charlie Green s army squad by one Point in the armed forces meet. Green and James Perkins Are the assistant coaches. Missing will be steeplechase Brett Hyde who had an 8 28.0 clocking Long jumpers Ralph Spry 26-10 and Vesco Bradley 25-7400-meter hurdler the Ron Brown and decathlon athlete Kristof so Baegy. We certainly would have loved to have those athletes Here with us Green said. However we have been Able to draw some Quality athlete to replace them and i feel we should be Able to do Alt right this week Green said that two members of the winning army 400-meter relay team were unable to malic the trip but headed we picked up Alonzo Babers Bis Phonh by Kwh Owci is. Cism track and Field team nits for bus to Warrendorf after arrival it the Frankfurt Liport monday morning. And Willie White to Lake their place. My team ran the four-limes-400 relay in 3 07.8 and with Alonzo and Willie inhere i m looking Forward to something like 3 0fi,0 in  Babers is the former  school sensation who went on to added Fame by winning the 400 meters in the 19s4 olympics. He Slit holds the Dodds 200 Ana 400-meter records of 21.5 and 47,7, respectively Babers won the armed forces 400 meters in 46.22 and White was a step behind him. In the200 meters atrial Berry of the Marine corps won in 21.60 and White and Bab in were behind him in 21.66 and 21.67, respectively. Berry also is Here for cism action. Babers was the Only member of the . Group who failed to arrive monday. His plane from los Angeles to Dallas arrived Loo late to make the connect onto Frankfurt and he was rescheduled for arrival tuesday. Green says that he expects Babers to zip the 400 in forty five and a lithic change this week and thai he s looking for a one Lac three in the 200 from Berry White and Babers with any one of the three a possible Winner they re so  Usa Reuh. Is represented by three athletes and a Trainer. A Schallenburg s Chris Bonner and Baum older s Clyde Harp Are High jumpers deluxe with Harp owning a 7-5 leap this year. Nuernberg s Horst Pendergrass finished second in the discus in the armed forces with a 162-7 heave. Pir Masen s Bob Miller is the Trainer. Other top athletes on the , team include triple jumper Charles Swindell s2-6 a800-meter runner Tom Johnson 1 48.9high hurdler Mike Benjamin 13.9java list Francesco Man 203-3 and distance runners Mark Donohue 10,000 and Mike Mccormick 5,000. Cism math Glenn  peaked Ai right time first time since 1969 Wimbledon wiped out by heavy rain by Andrew Warshaw Wimbledon England a the opening Day of the 101st Wimbledon Tennis championships was wiped out by rain monday without a Ball being struck on any of the s grass courts. After a gloomy wet overcast Day at the All England club organizers announced late in the afternoon there would be no play Only the fourth time in the history of the grand slam tournament that the whole of the first Day program has been rained Oft the decision was a Hitler disappointment for the thousands of spectators who had braved the wet conditions with their raincoats and umbrellas for a place in the stands. Just before the cancellation was announced Buzzer Hadingham chairman of the All England club said a possible review of Wimbledon s timing might be considered to try and avoid similar Rai nouts in the future. Hadingham said in a statement that he would be discussing with his committee of management whether it might be Wise to put the meeting Back a  naturally the implications of such a move must be studied carefully before any decision is taken he said. Midway through the afternoon organizers called off half the Day s schedule in the Hope that the top matches could still go ahead if the weather relented. It did to and at 6 30 p.m., the decision was taken to postpone play entirely the first opening Day Wash out since 1969. Among the matches that suffered was two Lime de fending Champion Boris Becker s first Rounder against Karel Novack of Czechoslovakia. Becker had been due to play the first match on Center court at 2 p.m., but there was never any Chance of in taking place. Ivan lentil s first round match against Christian Saceanu of Romania on court one was another victim of the weather. At one Point a huge cheer went up from from the Center court spectators when it was announced that belter weather was expected late in the afternoon. But it never materialized and All the fans saw on court was a Large fat Tarpaulin. Monday s Complete program was switched to tues Day with the main women competitors including de fending Martina Navratilova now Idle until wednes Day the third Day of the tournament. One of Navratilova s rivals Hana Mandli Kava withdrew from the championships without hitting a Ball. Mandrikova last year s beaten finalist and the no. 4 seed pulled out with an injury to her right foot and was replaced by Anna Maria Fernandez of the United states. All the seeds were moved up a place with Sylvia Hanika of West Germany com ing in at no. 16, tree Tennis fan. Alone in Wimbledon rain