European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. April 29,1983 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Csc to baseball you re outta there i str i Tynt it Nitt so it does t rhyme neither did inc air Forte s axing of Continental sport conference baseball last month. C Hapl goodbye. Baseball no More Simbach battling Rhein main in the ninth inning. Forget Ramstein rolling to tin Pennant. Consider a vacs Badin Spang Dalcin double header a Nincic memory. Consider military baseball in Europe out on strikes. Army baseball fanned years ago. The last Hope air Force baseball Wen Down looking in March. Hal Means turn Oul the lights on he original May 21 opening Day. Thank buddy Chapman Lor that. He s the Csc commission. He s a Good guv. A Louisiana Rodeo Cowboy who works As hard scheduling i thurs Hahn foot Basi games As he dues roping calves. Yet Chapman must live with Elliis legacy he s the commissioner who Lei air Force baseball die in Germany. It was also during Chapman s regime thai Torre Jon football find the Csc. What next maybe this magician of a commissioner will make boxing Dis appear for fear of punchy flight Crews. Chapman defends the Dalh of Csc baseball with Bucky Fox awards came to about annually and that Loo much 3. Milendar be was embarrassingly Low 4. Athletic directors leaned against baseball 5. If the five teams wanted to keep placing on their own. Go ahead. Counterpoints t. That commander s trophy Deal is an excuse Oul of Cal Field. You la never hear a hitter say he playing for a commander s trophy. He does t even know what it looks like. Chapman admits that five teams is one under the minimum to qualify for that Earth shaking trophy. Which is exactly Why his predecessors. Ernie Walker and Norm Hoffman ignored thai Dusty bylaw 2. Money i to the taxpayer. No. The Bucks will Goto critical sports like volleyball and Raqu Cimball. Meanwhile All five baseball teams Semadi. Ram Ilein Rhein main. Spring Dahlum and Wiesbaden had shelled Oul for uniforms and equipment. And had full rosters to use them. For nothing. 3. Empty stands .1 if that s a Factor wave so Long to everything save football and basketball. 4. The dreaded Aili Letic directors. Ramstein s adduce Decker pans baseball Tor nol being a Usak Rico Gnu cd sport. Thai s a Mark against the . Sports conference which quit on baseball after the1985 season. Don t hold that against the Csc five teams which survived after Tilburg s bailout follow ing the 83 season. Decker also mentions Money and Field space problems. Meaning softball nerds ooh. Anything for softball. Humm babe bring on that big us pitch Wintill. 5. Chapman says those baseball learns Don t need our involvement. They should pc gone ahead with the that s like Pelt Ueberroth telling the american league West to Drift on it sown for a season. Those live Csc teams need the commissioner s office to tic an organi Lional knot. Instead. The Rodeo Man Lei go of the rope. What the commissioner s office needs is some one looking out for the National pastime. Someone like Walker and Hoffman baseball fans. Or Mike Stevenson the Ramstein general manager who assent out a proposal for the five Csc learns to play on their own starting june 3. . If not for Helmig baseball in Germany would never come to bal in 1988. He s the founder an president of the German american baseball league. He s the manager of the dynastic Mannheim Amigos. He s a former Baltimore Orinic farmhand who keeps baseball swinging in Germany. Helmig s both a a season opens sunday with Ihrck games Stuttgart at Mannheim. Gissen at Bamburg and Darmstadt at Nimberg. Mainz and bad Timi arc also in the league. That makes eight should expand to nine teams after pc Mig s Csc Rescue Mission. Helmig welcomed any of the lie Csc orphan so join his a a Loop. He runs a solid league manned mostly by . Army players. How solid the a a Champion Giessen Brewers swept Ramstein in last summer s All Germany championship series. The Only Caioli is Helmig s German Rule. Two German players must be in the lineup. That gives Csc teams two options i. Find two German players 2. Forget the German players and enter the a a league on an exhibition basis. The Csc waifs would be smart to become the five alive Wilh that a a ticket. In re where they stand Ramstein the defending Champion rams were ready 10 repeal when the Csc Rug was pulled oui from under says coach Mike Hallemann. In and Stevenson arc searching for German players. If none surfaces the rams want to play in the a a even if thai Means they can t comp Cic for a would take inc place of defunct Cologne in the Northern division and open at i Irwin may15. Ail the rams needed was an of from ram Sicin s brass. That brass said yes. Simbach. The tigers Safe champions in in and 85. Also wanted to join the a a. Coach Mike own says he has players and equipment. He cancelled Helmig to help them find German a Lavers. Then icy would fill Ansbach s void in the Southern division. So Inbach s athletic its it said no. Rhein main. The rockets had players and equipment. They had a new coach in Doug Stanley son of Warren Stanley who coached Lliam to Safe titles from 1981 to 83. Doug who doubles As Rhein main s and says we wanted the Csc to play. We were All ready to go. We had Brand new equipment in. La s Over to the Day Doug wanted i join the a a. But asked for a one year waiver on German players. We wanted in keep the rocket team and a Chance at the championship. Our commanders Are interested in the 1111 a hts we bring Back says Doug. The said no. If so Adan. The flyers saved Csc Luw Ball in 1984 if they had folded. The league would in died. They played on Despic a 1-23 Campaign. Last car were the talk of the town. Now we re the talk of the town because we re Flat the flyers might nine joined the a a league but they discovered Helmig revised German player Rule Loo late. By then. Marti be had joined the a a Mainz rangers coaching staff and taken five flyers Wilh him. Marline Hopes to regroup the flyers for 1989 to join the i a or a bom Agam Csc. Span Dahlem. The sabers finally made a mine in 1987. They beat Wiesbaden in the Mil ional before losing to Ramstein for the Csc Lille no this. It looks like we were left High and dry says coach Angel Santana. He asked and Kathy Mateva about joining the a a. Then i looked at a Man. Says Malejka. The a a learns were Loo far Tor her busing budget. Csc baseball is probably too far gone Buback lost leagues rarely return. Check the Federal league. Or the Liefl. Maybe there s a rhyme in there after All h or it i one. Two. Us Ilir Nihl i r Ilin f in the cd a. Tow 9lvi vat sir Lewis a 2-Gold Seoul Man 1984 hem out us. Might drop 200, -400 relay b Bernie Wilson los Angeles a Matching Jesse Owens once May be enough for Carl Lewis who s not As smitten Wilh pursuing four Gold medals As he was four can age. Wilh the Seoul olympics in sight Lewis says he is focusing More on the 100 meters and the Long jump and leu on the 200 me ters and the 400-meter won a Gold medal in each of those events in the los Angeles olympics match ing Owens Feal of i9j&.bui thai was 1984. P. Circumstances Are different now. The 26-Yeiir-Oid Lewis says. I do have the feeling and i do have he desire to try for four Gold but right now the scheduling is really Bod for that Lewis said like i said i m gelling Down to the end of my career not the end. But we re talking about being Clow and probably my last olympic. I would like to really be the Best 1 could be. It s so difficult running the relay be cause they want you to run a million race. If that s what they want to do. That i Fine. But i d like to really focus on the other events a lot this year the 200 Sciera is one of them but it will probably be Oul because says the Sec Ond round of qualifying in the octo Colosc . He is just nol enthused about the relay team even though he anchored it during world record performances at the 1983 world championships and at the 1984 olympics. I be been historically on the relay i be been on inc fas Lisl learn 10 Ever run Lewis said. But in really Geti difficult because in always becomes a Power struggle if you have logo 10 this meet and you have logo to that meet. Being person who does multiple events. I really need to focus on training More instead of going to different my. So Init cad of getting in so Many Dif Ferent Power struggles i think this year i May Jusi relinquish my spot if 1 were tomake the team. I Haven t nude that Deci Sion final yet. But Hiji s Jusi a thought at this Point despite finishing a disappointing fifth in 10.29 seconds in the 100 at the mount san Antonio College relays last week end Lewis says he feels better than he did prior to inc 84 Sayi he i drawing motivation from his showdown Wilh a Minn Ben John son in the 100 Metcen at last summer s world in lowered the world record by .10 of a second to 9,s3. Lewis was second in a personal Best 9.93. At first Lewis said he thought he Hadron a technically poor race somewhere around 10, or 10.09 seconds. Then when i saw the Lime the Emo Tion changed. I fell hey. Wail a minute. I must have run a Low 9.9 or maybe a High 9.8. Running thai Type of race running that fast it was stimulating to me. And that i inc Way i look at it. I can run a Tot faster 1 can do a Tot of things better. Going into Rome that was my first 100 Meien since the 1 a meet so i really Wain t As prepared a i should have been. Bui i really competed i mean tha Iwai the thing about n. I a enl Oul there with inc intention of winning and went above the level i thought i could have Al that Point. So i think thai putting that with being More prepared. I can run Futor. And that s Why i m excited because i can run faster nol hey let s go ,1 bul hey 1 can run 9.8. I believe ran probably the Nee of hit life and 9.83 and i fed 1 can run thai and in won t be the race of my life. I feel i can run real Nee and run that fail. So that s exciting. That Means a
