European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 6. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary cheers jeers for air Force football As Safe football shifts into playoff Mode this weekend make Way for the filth annual stars and gripes awards. An aside. I caught games Al six Continental sport conference bases missing Soe Lerberg Torrejon and we Bruecken and none m the . The envelope please. Best game Wiesbaden Al Span Dahlem the Fly in fought Back from 28-zip to lie it then lost i overtime. But then 1937 offered tons of comeback thrillers. Definitely the most exciting regular season or the decade. Wont game Torrejon at Rhein main. Thirty four penalties. For those still awake the rockets won 9-6 in overtime. Upset special Tilburg Al Rhein main. I picked the Baron by 43, so rather than bore myself with that i covered  at Wiesbaden. When Rhein main s 22-14 Triumph was announced outside wies Baden s gym it was so shocking i asked for confirmation. Best team Hahn. Since the Hawks have been in the playoffs three straight years you almost forget they be never won a championship. Even their play ers know do it now. Worst team we Bruecken the Warrior draw this tag because of their flawed operation. Picked to contend they started 2-0. Then two choke jobs helped them lose six of their last seven. Zwy Eimbeck in should never have hired a Ramstein Guy Vern Miller to coach. Even worse the warriors fired him after their fifth straight toss and blamed him for their misery. Luckiest team Mildenhall. The marauders aver age Victory was 12-8. In Luckiest team Mildenhall. The marauders average loss was 13-9. Most surprising team Ben Waters. I picked the phantoms last. They started 6-0 and finished 7-3. Most disappointing team Chicksands. From lop to Flop. Tic Chicks produced six shutouts while going 11-2 in 1986. They were blanked four times while going 2-8 in 1987. It got so bad according to coach Al Carter five Guys were coming to practice the last week. Probably the worst Tumble by a Safe Champion. Guts est team Alconbury. The spartans started 14, usually their Cue to fold. Instead they clawed Back to have a shot at the title heading into the last game. The spartans lost the game but not their Backbone. Best running backs Wiesbaden. When Ryan Gates went Down the flyers still had Kevin Brown. And Kenny drown. And . Jackson. Endless. Best quarterback Jeff Wilson of Ramstein. I received a letter from a former Sembach assistant Bucky Fox Cortez Lawrence. He called Wilson the Best Leader note i said Leader not a a in the  after five years of Wilson passing Safe silly it s Amaz ing that coaches refuse to see thai Jeffs 6-foot-4vision and powerful Arm make him the Best Talent in  receiving corps Ramstein. Anthony Carter . Toomer and Darren toy who has to be the most underrated Light end. Best offensive line Span Dahlem. This is where the sabers wore Down Tilburg in their 32-24 come Backer last week. Worst offensive line Fairford. Thai s Why the fal cons averaged 2 Yards per Rush. Best defensive line Hahn. The Hawks were the Only team i Ever saw make Wilson scramble. Won defensive line Wiesbaden. It got so conch Gary Covington had to use running backs to hold that line. Best linebackers Hahn. Dave Olson played like an All Star but he could t make the Csc team Wilh Darryl Williams playing like an map. Worst linebackers Torrejon. No wonder Derrick Riley had to fill the Gap from his natural comeback spol Best secondary Lakenheath. With Strong safety Mike Kinder and comebacks Anthony Brown and Andre Fletcher there s no need for 3 free safety. Worn secondary Chicksands. Best coached game Dave Lockwood i strategy that got Span Dahlem within 32-29 of Hahn in week 2. As Hahn s Olson said it was like playing against our often  worst coached game Vern Miller s offensive Dis appearing act As we Bruecken gave Soester Borg its Only Victory 14-7. This from a Warrior Bunch that boasted the Best running Back in the Csc Charlie Harris plus All Star Caliper Talent Inq de Venable and receiver Mac Washington. Most quotable coach Jim Kirksey of  s a Dandy after that nag draped lass at Rhein main my defense played their bleeps off. I can t believe this Bleep. It s a conspiracy somewhere Down the line to get Torr Jon out of the league. They treat us like the stepchildren of the Csc. But Torrejon will be around next  least quotable coach Joe Green of Tilburg. Nor Mally a cooperative Guy. Green lands this for being the Only coach to refuse comment after a loss the Barons 144 defeat at Hahn. Besl stadium Sembach. Wont stadium Chicksands. I once thought bit Burg s Freddie Miller groped for excuses when he blasted Chicksands Muddy Field after the Barons lost last year s Safe title game 29-22, then this season the Chicks postponed their oct. 17 tame with Ben Waters because their held flooded. Miller was right after All. Best uniforms Torrejon next year. Kirksey promises the Raider Wilt shed their red and Wear appropriate Silver and Black. Worst unify my Sembach. The teen looked ship Early in the season. Then Ihetu helmet decals went the Way of their four game losing Streak. Most enthusiastic fans Span Dahlem. They finally have something to cheer about. Most vicious fans rams Cin. When they tired of ranting against the enemy they turned around and barked at the press Box. Best cheerleaders Sembach. Best Public address Ramstein. Dave Hom Dasch does t just air names. He entertains. Then there Shis Pinch Hitler Jackie Erickson. In Llic Wiesbaden game the flyers were Given a fifth Down. Rather than cover up for the refs Erit son bellowed now on fifth and  wont Public address Wiesbaden. Best National Anthem Annamarie Burette of Hahn. Wont National Anthem nearly Ever other base thai hires singers who improvise the lyrics. Best refreshments Rhein main. Still the Only stadium that offers variety other than hot dogs and bursts. Best statistician Paul Kachurak of Hahn he s like a Beal reporter. Worst statistician arc Cham common. No won Der you did t read about the pirates. Best press Box rams Cin. Stat Man Don Griffin keeps the place Loose. Plus the gym staff is the Only one in Safe that provides no dogs at halftime. Worst press Box rams Cin. It might be Comfort Able once you re up there but getting there is the problem. Thai ladder is a broken neck waiting to happen. If you survive that you Strain your neck just to see the Ball. Good thing the Safe final won t be played there. Truce off Morris goes to free Agency Detroit a the truce Between Jack Morris and the Detroit tigers is Over. Morris is a free agent again. Moms who received no offers As a free agent after the 1986 season and won a 11.83 million salary from an arbitrator after re signing with the tigers filed for free Agency again wednesday. I was told monday that he was going to file tigers general manager Bill Lajo Esaid. Well continue to . We be had rouble getting together in person because of schedules but we will sit Down and talk again the week after next three other players filed wednesday raising the total so far to 44. Pitchers lice Hammaker of the san Francisco giants and Bob Mcclure of the Mon Treal expos and outfielder Ruppert Jones of the California Angels joined Morris. Alto. Mike Schmidt will file for free Agency if the Philadelphia Phillies do no schedule another salary negotiating ses Sion by monday his agent said. Players have until Midnight monday to declare free Agency. Dale Murphy one of the 109 players who were eligible to file re signed with Atlanta on wednesday. His three year contract u Worth More than j6 million. The tigers reportedly have offered mor Ris a two year contract Worth $3.7 Midion. Morris is seeking Al least a two year Deal Worth More than $2 million a year Morris and his agent. Dick Moss have promised the tigers they will not sign with any other learn until that meeting. I m going to Nebraska for a while to do some Bird Hunting Morris said wednesday. They can Contact  Morris is the winning est Pitcher of the 1980s. He was 18-11 with a 3.38 earned run average last season the fifth Best Era in the american league. But be was 12-3 through Early july. Lost his final Start before the All Star break and was 6-7 thereafter. Morris was fifth in the league in innings and strikeouts and seventh in com plete games. Morris is 162-105 in ii major league seasons All with the tigers. Morris spent last weekend at a lavish party hosted by club owner Thomas Monaghan on Drummond Island off the Eastern tip of the upper Peninsula. Morris tried to leave the tigers last Winter after the end of his four year s3.45-Miuion contract that brought him 1950,000 in 1986. He and Moss approached the Minne Sota twins new Doit Yankees califor Nia Angels and Philadelphia Phillies Las december with various contract proposals but when no dub made an offer he accepted salary arbitration from the tigers last dec. 19, minutes before the Midnight deadline. Arbitrator Richard i. Bloc awarded Morris a ,85-million salary for 1987 in february turning Down Detroit s proposal of 11.35 million. Morris wants to stay with the tigers this year according to Moss. I think that s Jack s first preference Moss said i be had a number of conversations with the  Moss would not detail what Morris wanted either in salary or length of con tract but he indicated that talks with the tigers were progressing belter than they had last Winter. The offers that the tigers made to Jack last year were totally inadequate Moss said. They acted lists they were in the Driver s Seal and icy knew  Moss said that one of the reasons talk were belter this year was that Morris was starting from a much higher  Detroit offered Morris a Sis million two year contract last Winter before mor Ris began seeking out other clubs. Moss said he and Morris have not Dis cussed whether they would go to arbitration again this year fit comes to that moms $1.85 million arbitration award is the second highest Ever behind the $1.975 million Given last Winter to Don Matingly of the Yankees. Yankees owner George slain Brenner said his team had talked about Morris this year. We be had discussions about some pitchers out there and Morris was one of them Slein Brenner Laid. Jones who made j4�,000 in 1987, hit .245 with eight homers and 2s Rols during limited playing time Wilh the Angels. Ham maker who made $350.000, was 10-10 with a 3.38 Era and Mccurr who earned s550.000, was 6-1 with a 3.44 Era and five saves for the expos. Schmidt and the Phillies Are trying to work out the numbers. We Are in agreement on the length of the contract president Bill Giles was quoted As saying in the Philadelphia Dairy news. We want two years and he wants two years.,. But the dollars Art not agree Able so we May wind up in arbitration. Giles said the Phillies offer met Schmidt s publicly slated position that he would nol accept a Cut from the s2,133 million he earned last year. We be kind of made our final  said. Schmidt who hit .296 Wilh 35 Home runs and 113 Rols. Often has said he Felt the negotiations would end in arbitration. I think we can present a Good Case a arbitration Schmidt said recently. They might have some