European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 28, 19bb the stars and stripes Paga 21 prep Pickin s old Fox cos if a Day in Dodds the sly old Fox is departing Dodds. John Winkler leaves a Trail or basketball championships winding from Fiance to Wiesbaden to Madrid Spain 9 Mannheim 10 Lon Don la Frankfurt when he Calls it b Day Friday As the first Scmisler comes to a Clow in Dodds. Winkler has spent the last is and one half Yean of his 2b-year Dodds career at Sembach Junior High school As a physical education teacher. Coaching was t fun any More. So i got out of in after my fourth year Al Frankfurt and came Here to Sembach Winkler said. Coaching was setting to be 4 chore maybe because i was gelling work seemed to have disappeared. There were so Many kids who were watching Loo much to and trying to imitate the pros. They figured they did l need any coaching and and discipline became a project not just a problem added the Illinois stale Normal now Illinois stale u itty Cisily product. Editor note i recall Une Frankfort Gune 1 catered. Frankfurt hid a two poll Lead near the end of the lint Quarter ind Winkler instructed Bis a Gen to Huld the Bull for the last shot. One of Hal Stan took a very bad shot and missed. The other learn pit the Bill and lied he rime. Between Quarter i Bea Djohn admonishing the offender. The player said meth inn like hey cinch shoot ing is my style not funding around Hall in the Ball and John replied Well Stan my style is that Yon your Bull on the Bench the my of the Gune. The player did and Frankfurt pulled out a Victory because the other Guys played a Good team game discipline Winkler style. Dodds it used to be called us Desea Back Ihnn has been pretty Good to me Over the years. I Veen Joyed working in the program. I be taught and coached at Many places and i have Mcl Many Fine people. Our schools Are right up there with a lot of the schools in the slates. Maybe Pic program in t As Good As the really big schools bul we re list tar than Man email schools. Even our Small schools have a program Hal includes a Good variety Ofa Civilin Winkler said at a reception in his Honor at Simbach Friday. However i think the time has come to Call it Aday. 1 really am looking Forward to retirement. Eliza Beth John s wife and i arc going id Florida and Ria in the Sun around inc beginning of april after we visit some friends in London her folks in Wales and my Mother in Trenton Illinois Winkler added. Winkler s Dodds career began in Morocco at Nous Scur near Casab Lani a. The team competed in basketball and track and Field against port Lutcy the Only other High school in the area and in the military league. Then came stints at England Junior High and Izmir Turkey where inc military supplied most of the opposition again. On to Unaie Auroux where his team won the com z basketball title. In 1963, Winkler transferred to Wiesbaden. His warriors look the 1964 class a big schools Ihnn title and Winkler was named coach of the year by inc family a weekly newspaper that Call mainly with military lifestyle and had Benabram Good High school coverage. Wiesbaden won its league title the nest to years but lost to it the tournament finals both limes. The Neit year will a wasted one for Winkler. He transferred to Berlin bul did t get to coach basketball. Then he went on to Madrid where he won two Spain title and finished second and third in the class a championship at Rhein main the Europe wide tournament formal had t been abandoned yet Winkler resumed to Germany in 1970-71 and spent inc Yea coaching the Jav team at Mannheim. He got the varsity Job the next year and turned in his most masterful performance. The Bison were soundly trounced by Heidelberg which had won three straight class a crowns Carly on leading Winkler to change tactics and go for control a act fail. That style paid off with 10 league wins and Only two More defeats the rest of he Way. After those two beatings by Heidelberg i knew we had to make some changes if we were going Todo anything much i hat season Winkler recalled. So 1 decided to slow the game Down. A couple of the players weren t too Happy bul As inc wins continued to come icy were convinced the Bison then beat Nymberg 46-38 and Kai scr Lautem 45-36 in tournament strife. And there blood Biz menacing Heidelberg sporting a 16-0 Mark and highly favored in win an unprecedented Europe wide fourth straight championship. Poised to Lead the Way were 6-6 sensation to Hutchison the leading scorer and rebound or in us Desea and hol shooting guard Brett mites. Miles had a great championship game with 25 Points but Winkler s sagging defense stopped Hutchison with Only one fill goal and six free throws. Super guards Gerald Wade and Karl a fancy later declared map engineered the control game perfectly and the Bison eventually prevailed 53-49. The stunning upset was labelled the biggest sur prise in us Desea basketball Competition since eighth ranked Heidelberg had shocked slut Gart in inc 1959 championship game by Al Kynois coordinator of secondary schools in us Desea. Kyrios had attended every Dodds All Liuro pc basketball tournament since 1949. The Surprise also won for Winkler the stars and Xii gift coach of the year re Colin i Ion. That obviously had to be the highlight in my coaching career Winkler said Friday. Heidelberg had such a great team and had won so Many game sin a Row. I knew we had to play a perfect game to slay close and thai Mannheim team came us close to perfection As possible that Afler Mannheim Winkler went to London where he won a . Title and finished second and third into tournaments Al shape following inc termination of inc Europe wide Competition. His last coaching stint was Al Frankfurt where his three boys teams won two league titles and finished second in two class a tournaments and his one girls team compiled a 14-6 Mark Fin Ishing third in the tournament. It has been my pleasure having known John Winkler through most of his Dodds coaching Ca reer. He added a lot of class to the program. Good Luck Liz and John on the beaches in sunny Flor Ida and wherever else your trails May meander. The Outlook appears dismal for Small schools girls defending basketball Champion shape. The by Tenor is permitted Only two entries in inc Small schools Field the league Champion and the Ben enor tournament Champion. If the league and tourney Winner is the same team the tournament runner up advances to feb. 11-13 Competition at . This year the by Tenor has three Fine teams league leading Bonn 8-0runner up Hahn 7 i land shape 5-3. Hahn is Al Bonn and shape is Al Brussels for season ending strife this weekend. Mathematically the Best shape can do if Bonn sweeps Hahn is to tic the i Hawks Tor second place. A Bonn Hahn split or Hahn sweep relegates shape to third place in the final league standings. So. It looks like shape s lot rests on the out come of inc tournament on fib. 5-6. The spartans do have inc Home court Edge in that Eccl. Dodds sports lost an and Cal Booster last week when that same at Kyrios was taken from us Many a time Al Many a sports event. I have run into Al Over inc years before and alter i hit famous Winkler Mannheim Triumph. He practically never missed a tournament and very Seldom missed a regular season event in his area. He thoroughly enjoyed watching Dodds ath letes in action whether ii was basketball football soccer whatever. Thanks. Al. May you continue to enjoy All the sports offered up in arc. Triple doubles in one Imla shall game is quite an achievement. Bul Berlin s Lisa Freeman put two of them together Back to Lek Over the weekend As the bears look a pair of a Central Vic tories from the Karlsruhe knights. Freeman scored 22 Points grabbed 11 rebounds and was credited with 10 assists in Friday s win and she put 14-13-12 numbers in inc so rebook saturday to earn the stars Anil stripes girls player of Floc week accolades. Stuttgart s Steve Butler gels inc nod in boys action. He had 16 Points and 12 rebounds As in stallions knocked Wei Brocken out of the re infect ranks Friday and came through Wilh a 16-Pomt, 15 Board game against Wiesbaden saturday As the charges of Gene Kugler ran their Germany aaa record to 6-0. Unseld gets More bang from bullets byte Ellotta Landover my. A the Washington bullets whose playoff chances seemed Remote 10 games ago have a new look under their new coach was unsold. The bullets have won eight of their i games for Unseld Otter opening the sea son s-19 under Kevin Louth cry. Unseld took Over a the head coach after owne Rabe Colliu relieved Lou Ncry of his coaching duties on j an. 3. In ins than 3 a weeks u Unseld has taken this team thai could l shot could t re bound and could l win at Home and turned it into . Looking Back on it no. 1 did t think it would be this Quick unsold said after the bullets Defeated the Philadelphia 76en i ib-117 monday night in overtime. We still have a Long Way to go,1 he added. Afler the bullets Defeated Golden stole 115-91 last Friday for their sixth of seven one sided victories under his com Mand Unseld said the club was devel Oping new it s easy to say that there s a new attitude when you re winning a few games than when you re coming off los ing a few games. When we get in Lough situations it will be interesting to Sec How we the Bulluc reacted like winners in Lough situations monday night. They twice rallied from id Point deficits Over came a fourth Quarter 7
