European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page is Sapp Frenette domination continues by Klint Johnson assistant Riporti editor Berchtesgaden. West Germany Usa eur skiing s pair of facts come up with another three of a kind Friday i Vii corps Randy Sapp and Andre frenetic each completed a third straight sweep or nordic Gold medals. Sapp Laired the Aschauer wih course in 4 minutes 56.2 seconds to beat everybody in Sig win the 15-Kilometer race and capture his ninth first place medal in the Usa eur ski championships. Frenetic matched that Teal with a 34.01.5 Lime in he women s open 10-Ki-Lometer event. Sapp and frenetic each triumphed twice Here thursday winning their respective 2.5-km sprints and racing on Vii corps winning 10-km relay. They have taken golds in All nine Sarteur. Races they pc entered since 1986. Unlike the Pinsl two Susareu meets. The number pair also both from Tupper Uke . Had biathlon racers from the . Cism learn to race against this year. The concil inner notional do  participation nol Only boosted the compe Lilic Edge of the Meci Here bul in provided Sapp and frenetic with another goal to make the . Cross country team themselves for nut week s cism championships in Costa Italy. No problem there. Sapp and Frennette were selected to join the 12-Skicr Ameri can cism contingent which includes biathlon Alpine and nordic comic tailors. Sapp beat Al four biathlon men in the15-km race just As he had done thurs Day in the sprint. His a cares biathlon challenger Wai Scott Belyea who clocked 44,39.3.  closest Usa eur racer to Sapp was Mark Weaver or Augsburg and Vii corps who turned in a numeric 50.50.0lime for second place in the open Divi Sion. Mike Grade gave Vii corps a 1-2-3sweep with a 53.14.4 for third. Weaver and Grade also won the men s open Lite or and Bronze medals in thursday s race. Gary Southard of Berlin who started10 lean he skating method Only last weekend just missed a medal with a 53 27,5 clocking. The 15-year-old Sapp was satisfied with his run More than satisfied. I m skiing very Well for having trained for just a month and a half he said. I know i be had More training time this season than previously in the army but i m comparing my Progress with earlier seasons when 1 was racing regularly and i m surprised that i m ski ing at thit  once again Sapp had former bad Toel skier Eric Reynolds of the cism learn As a pacer. In both the thursday and Friday races Reynolds started immediately ahead of Sapp. Reynolds thought Sapp would overtake him Al about the 7-km Mark of the 15-km race. Randy did belter than thai passing Reynolds just before the ski Point of the three dip race. Reynolds finished in45 48.4. Second among he cism racers. It helped to have Eric starting jus ahead of me in both races said Sapp. In fact it was very Good to have theism team Here both for the Competition and the clinic they gave on we Nev  fran clue who is assigned to the 219ihtransportltion movement control team in Nuernberg said her 34.09.s winning Lime for the women s 10-bn Wai a Cou ple of minutes faster than she  1-just wanted w break 40 min utes she said. And considering thai the course was somewhat Dower because of the new Snow pm  frenetic was nearly 20 minute swifter than her nearest Usa eur foe Darin a Lambert of Vii corps. Lambert locked 54 08.4 Tor her second women s open Silver of the meet. Al Ceca Pil Urczyk of 211 support omd won the women s senior 26 and Over Crown for the second straight Dayan was third fastest of the Usa eur ladies with a s 6 16.6 Lime. Frenette Alto raced against that scism biathlon women and conquered two of them. Peggy Hunter was faster but Only by 4,6 seconds. Paul Kerian and John Morris both of Vii corps and Stuttgart captured the men s senior 30-39 divisions both re pealing their thursday titles. Thus the same live Siren won both individual nordic race giving Vii corps eight of the 10 championships with lit support come taking the other two. Kenan clocked a is i5.0 time in in seniors 15-km race with two More Vii corps skiers second and third fran Boyce in 56.36,9 and Phil Tutu in l.0341.8. Kerian with his Parent from Fertile,minn., Here w Rool for him said my skis realty got going in the finally  track got faster i we  his closest senion competitor thurs Day Jim Cnenault of v corps was t around la push him in the longer  left Friday for Helsinki where he will compete with the us team inthe world orienteering Sid championships Morris held off Vii Conn teammate Robert o Neal to win the Maste Sild pm race in 42 12.0. O Neal was limed in43 47.7. With Berlin s John counts third in 49 46.3 counts was the defending master Champion in this race and Tot out to two newcomers who be the skating  skied belter this year Uinn last when i won said counts. I m going to learn to skate so i can beat these Guys forty seven  started the races Friday in partly sunny weather after a continuous Over night  of the racers called it faster some thought it was slower than thursday. But All the Usa eur entrants nor Dic and Alpine seemed to agree that the four Day meet held Here for the lint Lime alter Yean in Carmich was superbly organized and smoothly run. Joe Sunthimer of Heidleburg. A senior skier in both the Alpine and nordic meets for five Yean said. The courses Here were geared to the level of the peo ple who enter. The Berchtesgaden people did a Superb  cism Al be Cun Mcd four Usa eur skiers have Bee named to fill the it spots on the . Alpine team at the cism ski championships much 2-7, Randy Clauthier Usa eur giant slalom Champion from Nuernberg and Thot be Borg of Bremerhaven were selected to join Navy Man Doug Nordmeyer and Kevin Dwyer of Pic army who came Over from the Stales and compe teed As guests in the Usa eur Alpine meet. Maria Rothgeb of Nuernberg and  of a Ellingen the usar eur women s open and seniors champs respective by in both Alpine races this week were picked to compete in the first ism women s Competition. A giant slalom race will be the Only Alpine event on the cism program. Mcrae says color should t be Issue Halmor no 36-Day tryout Bradenton fat a Hal Mcrae would like to be a. Major league manager bul he does t want to be handed a Job just because he would be the next Buck manager. When baseball was criticized last sea son for failing to hire potentially Quali fied Black managers Mcrae then a Kansas City player coach surprised Many by turning Down the Chance to be Hie royals interim manager. Mcrae does t dismiss the offer As being merely a Token gesture to appease base Ball s Black Community in the Wake of for Meru Angeles dodgers general manager a Campanis remarks about Blac slacking the necessities la manage. But if be is offered a managing Job again Mcrae Hopes it won t be on a 36-Garae tryout basis and that it comes from team not specifically seeking a Black Man Ager bul one Ihal is color Blind. I think i probably would like to Man age if the right situation came along bul i Don t want to do in just to do it. Or just to be a Black manager said Mcrae now the Pittsburgh pirates minor league Hilling instructor. And if the Opportunity does to com along again the 41-year-old Mcrae says be will manage just Fine. It s not something i have to do it snot something i dream about doing and if i never get the Opportunity to manage again i won t second guess myself and i won l look Back he said. I d like to slay in the game and stay involved but if 1 Don  said the offer to succeed the ousted Billy Gardner As the royals manager was t Tough at All to Lum Down once the general manager John Schue Molz said it was for 36 games. As a Rule those kind of assignments just Don t work nut. I was t going to be  or naive to the Point where i fell like i could do More than 90 percent of in Guys who have been in thai position be cause you just Dan i get  another former royals player. John a than later accepted the Job on an interim basis and was rehired. Wal Nim is White. Just because he was rehired does mean i would have been Mcrae said our situations were totally  s to say what they would have done with me. It was Ikic a tryout and i that s the Only tryout if that s the Only shot i m going to gel e want it to Belonger than 36  Mcrae instead took the pirates Job because it allows him to stay at his Bra Donlon Home. He will work primarily with the pirates Bradenton farm club in the Gulf coast Rookie league. All Gott needed was some Confidence . Fla. A it s taken him a decide u do in. Bul Jim Colt has finally shaken the lag of having what he himself describes As a million Dollar Arm and a a a Cal  Gott whose raw Talent and 90 Mph plus fastball failed to translate Inlo Suc Cess with either Toronto or san Francis co. Ai a Seldom used Long reliever for the giants until the Pittsburgh Pimes acquired him last August. Instead of trying to alter his pitching style or asking him to prove himself i Long Relief the pirates gave the right handed got the Ball and told him he was their bullpen stopper. My million Dollar Arm and 10-Cem brain Days lasted Way too Long got said wednesday Al the pirates Spring training Camp. All 1 needed was for somebody to give me a Little bit of Confidence to Tell me that it s nol a matter of having a i decent brain at All but a Mailer of being a Little More consistent and what is consistency consistency is Confidence. And when i portrayed Bitle bit More Confidence on the Mound then the value in my head went up7�-� Gott who had endured seasons Suchias 5-10, a and Tio with the Blue Jay and giants was 0-2 with a 1.45 earned run average and 13 saves in 16 opportunities with the pirates. 220-Pound Colt Wai delighted when pirates pitching coach Ray Miller encouraged him to v his own Man on the Mound. Every year it was different mechanics a different style for me to pitch. Each pitching coach thought he we going Toh the one to Tran Fonn Jim Coll s Ca reer Gott said. Everybody be was basically forcing ideas on me and in the heal of the action out on the Mound would get confused. That s where the ice Cpl brain thing came about. I was t thinking for myself so had no brain got brought to much visible enthusiasm 10 the pirates Youthful clubhouse hit Nyle had been altered by to Many he was elected As player representative learns since signing in 1977, the 6-fool4, less than a month after his arrival. When Thrift held a late August club House meeting challenging the pirates to play winning baseball Hie rest of the season Gou stood up and called or them w win at least 25 of the remaining 38 games. Thrift cautioned they should Sci More realistic when the pirates won nol 25 bul 27 of their remaining games and tied Phila Delphia for fourth place in the National league eau they held an Impromptu club House Champagne Celebration. When Syd had that talk after Makin Jall those trades and Aid i think we re ready to Lake the team picture people were Able to relax. And then All of a sudden thai positive attitude we had created a positive situation on the Field Colt said