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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, September 25, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. Sopt Tibar 25, 1987 the stabs and stripes Page 23 commentary new Boss Chapman shakes up Csc Yea buddy Chapman has grabbed firm control since ascending As Safe s Conli Nanlal sports conference commissioner last july. Boo the 41-year-old chief master sergeant is lean ing Loo far into officialdom s Camp after Norm Hoffman s refreshing three year reign u players Cammish. Yea Chapman has to understand athletes. He was a professional on the Rodeo circuit plus b High school football and baseball player while a teen Ager in Baton Rouge la. Boo maybe he s hav ing trouble empathizing with Csc football play. Era because he never played Here since join ing the air Force 21 years ago. Yea As athletic i baddy Chapman Rector at Yokota As Japan he convinced the by Bucky Fox trass had to restart football in 1980 after fighting wounded the sport. Boo he enforced the letter rather than the spirit of football s flagrant foul Law by ousting yol cola players Tor entire seasons. Yea that get Tough policy is just what Safe football needs after the Sembach ram Sicin riot of 1986. Boo that Tiger ram fight was one Dot amid a capful of Good games. The 17lh air Force s leadership showed panic by ordering Chapman to clean up the  Yea Chapman Means it when he says quit the cheap fouls. Players get keyed up but they be got to maintain their Cool he says. He in t All talk. He received referee notices on flagrant touts and died Dan Barbosa of Raim Lein . Caldwell of Hahn and Neil Hicks of Soester Borg the preferred name for Camp new Amsterdam for the year. Boo what is this he child spanking Confer ence ejecting players for the rest of a game is punishment enough As Hoffman believed. Consider the crud in the line of scrimmage such As Eye gouging and kneeling and a late punch that Barbosa supposedly threw to puff. Yea Chapman really is flexible. After receiving a Hahn Appeal and reviewing film that showed Cald Well did t kick someone he reinstated the Hawks halfback. Chapman also reviewed the Hicks and bar Bow cases he s letting them play this weekend after a two week exile. Boo Chapman left himself open to shots of cronyism when Ramstein s  player allotment leaped from three to six just before the season started. The rams Boss Wayne Oddington coached under Chapman in Japan. Yea Safe Headquarters in Ramstein actually gave the rams the final of on using six  play ers plus Chapman wants to straighten out the  player mess. Football s 12-9-6-3  player allow Ance Between smallest base  and biggest Ramstein is a scattered arbitrary plan. Chapman is pushing for a consistent policy starting this Basket Ball season any  Guy assigned to a base can play any Soldier not working on that base cannot play. Boo Chapman allows Mem Miller baled ill ram Ilein to coach the  warriors. That s like letting a Raim Tein High school teacher coach Wei Bruecken High s trojans. No Way. Yea Chapman reasons thai the Csc needs the Best coaches possible. Miller s Good but Ramstein head Job was Laden. So go ahead and coach Wei Bruecken. Boo Chapman says i doubt if Torrejon will be Back in the league next  the raiders whose terrific comeback beat Owci Bruecken sunday need More support than that. Yea the commissioner Points out  in takes huge Bucks to fund flying learns to and from Spain. He s simply realistic. Boo Chapman has a new tiebreaker system for football. Rather than let Points break a three Way tie in the standings he would let the flighty flip of a Coin determine a team s destiny. Yea Chapman wants the Coin flip to Stop running up scores. Boo quit trying to tame teams hat go All out for 60 minutes. Yea Chapman endorses a two division setup starting this basketball season. If Torrejon does i make it next year the football lineup would offer Simbach Ramstein Rhein main and Wiesbaden in the Rhein division and Pitburg Mann Soesie Borg Span Dahlem and Owci Bruecken in the i act Divi Sion. That makes for a return to two exciting races. Boo second place teams would make the playoffs. Chapman should get Tough win your division or go Home. Yea Chapman wants an All Star football game with the . Sports conference his year. I won t say boo about that. T1� flu my empty strike from Paga 21 occasionally things got ugly in Houston a Busload of substitute players was pelted with eggs and a Rock smashed a window. The Washington redskins went to court alter striking players pounded Abus carrying subs o workouts. In Kansas City there were unloaded shotguns a slashed lire and shoving. Among those reporting for work were Union defectors Randy while of the dal Las cowboys and Mark Gastineau of the new York jets. While wednesday s session got under Way at 3 . Not talks dido i shift to free Agency the key Issue until just before Midnight the Union has demanded free Agency Tor players with tour years experience. The owners so tar have refused to mod Ify the current system under which teams Are compensated if a player signs else where. Only one player in 10 years. Norm Thompson has changed teams under that system. Just after talks ended at approximately 3 a.m., Schramm told & news con Ference free Agency was keeping both sides Jar apart our position is that if free Agency is not going to be resolved then we re not going to make Progress toward an agreement 1 he said we reiterated our position they reiterated their position then Gene up Shaw said let s break " Schramm dented a report that the Union had softened its demand for unrestricted free Agency. The Union refused to comment. Though picketing was uneventful at most Camps that was t the Case when it came to striking redskins oilers and bengals. Dairy Grant a redskins defensive tackle pounded his fists on the windows of a bus carrying substitutes mostly fire agents to the team s training Camp in hem Don a. A bus company spokesman said two windows were Boscn. My emotions got the Best of me Grant said. Those scabs would take the shoes off a dead  later wednesday the redskins obtained a temporary injunction prohibit ing players from bothering replacements. A window also was broken on a bus carrying free agents past an oilers picket Tine. The bus was pelted with eggs and a Rock Asil brought the replacements to practice. This does t Surprise me said quarterback Warren Moon the oilers player representative. The Guy have been Calm to this Point it was just a Little show of  in Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason and teammates Bruce Kozerski and Tim Mckee sat in the path of a bus arriving to pick up subs but got up when two police cruisers arrived. They think they re nil players. That s ridiculous Esiason Laid at Kansas City two striking chiefs players Dino Hackett and Paul coff Man jokingly waved unloaded shot guns outside Arrowhead stadium before the substitutes arrived. We re looking for scabs they shouted to teammates on the picket line later at Arrowhead stadium a tire was slashed on one non striker s car and linebacker Jack Del Rio got into a shoving match with chiefs scout Otis Taylor who was escorting a sub into the Park. But in Irving Texas White and team mate Don Smerek were cheered by spectators As they drove a pickup truck through the cowboys picket line. I m not against the Union,1 said White a nine time pro bowl player. I did what i had to do. I respect what they Are doing. Hope they respect what i doing. I m doing what s Best for me and  Gastineau said defying the Union was the toughest thing i be Ever gone through in my lift he did not have to Cross a Pickei line because the striking players were not allowed to demonstrate at the jets training site at Hempstead . Gastineau said he was continuing to work out of loyalty to the people who have been paying me for nine  no from Page 21 one out single. The expos made it 20 in the third on Raines double a sacrifice and Brooks sacrifice Fly. The mets scored in the fourth on Straw Berry s one out single his 32nd steal and Carter s single. The expos took a 3-1 Lead in the fifth on a walk to Mike Fitzgerald a sacrifice and consecutive singles by Raines and Webster. In other games wednesday Pinles 2, cardinals 0 St. Louis Brian Fisher pitched a two hitter for his third shutout of the season As Pittsburgh Defeated St. Louis to stall the cardinals Pennant drive. Fisher 10-9, struck Oul six and walked tour in route to his Cam High sixth com plete game. He also helped set up Pitts Burgh s first run against Greg Mathews 10-11, with a bunt single. Mathews who has allowed Only one earned run in his last is innings also lost 1-0 to Pittsburgh last week in a game won by Mike Dunne. It was Pittsburgh s 13lh Victory in Iti last 17 games giving the pirates a 9-1 record in their last 10 games away from Home. Pittsburgh s record in september is 14-7, Best in the no Phillies 5, cubs 0 Chicago Lance Parrish hit a two run Homer and Bruce Ruffin pitched a six hitter As Philadelphia blanked Chi Cago. Ruffin 11-14, won for the first time since aug. 19, ending a five game losing Streak. He struck out five and walked one in pitching his first major league shutout. It was Ruffin s third Complete game this season and first since july 20. Cubs starter Jamie Moyer 11-15, lost for the third straight time allowing eight hits and five runs in six innings. Pdres6,rrds4 Cincinnati Randy ready and John Kruk hit Home runs with two outs in the i3lh inning to lift san Diego Ove Cincinnati. Cincinnati s loss reduced san Francis co s magic number for clinching the National league West to four games Jeff Montgomery 1-2, he eighth reds Pitcher retired Pinch hitter Rob Nelson and Tony Gwynn who had four hits in seven Ai bats before ready and Kruk homered. Braves Sastros 4 Atlanta Albert Hall led off the ninth inning with a triple to Complete the Cycle and scored on a wild pitch to give Atlanta a Victory Over Houston. Hall singled in the first doubted in the fifth and hit a Home run in the sixth before tripling against Dave Smith 2-2. Hall is the first Brave to hit for the Cycle since Billy Collins in 1910. Ciiu9, san Francisco Kevin Mitchell and Chris Speier drove in two runs each in a five run seventh inning As san fran Cisco rallied from a four run deficit to beat los Angeles. The giants win combined with Cincinnati s loss to san Diego Cut to tour the giants magic number Tor clinching the National league West race. Any combination of giants wins and reds losses totalling tour would give san fran Cisco its first division title since 1971. Trailing 6-4, late Uribe tuned the giants seventh against on Hershiser 16-14, with a single. One out later Eddie Milner doubled Uribe 10 third. Mitchell Hen singled scoring Uribe and Milnor and chasing Menhiser. With two outs will Clark doubled off reliever Brad havens scoring Mitchell and Chili Davis was walked intentionally. Tim Crews relieved and walked Dave Henderson and then gave up a iwo run double to Speier. Giants Sutler Rick Reuschel was bailed out after giving up four runs on six hits and a walk in in innings. Three other giant pitchers also lasted Only itt innings each with Craig old tons 5-5, gaining the Victory with n inning of re Lief. Don Robinson earned his 19th save As the giants snapped a three game lot ing Streak  
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