European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 20, t9s8 the stars and stripes Page s3 commentary they a/1 want 2nd shot at Mercer an item for he toss and found Ray Mercer. Baum Tolder gunnery surge and army Champion. . Amateur Champion. Maybe olympic Champion last seen Bosh in Germany in May 1s&?. Win Ning e third Singhi Usa eur title. It found left him tit 19ss Usa eur boxing Clamp on ships in Ecsi Berlin Mia him. Even James Graves misses Ray Mercer. Graves 9 the Berliner favored la strike heavyweight Gold in ibis weekend s Usa eur tournament. Craves would be favo cd for zilch if Mercer were in i Emcel. And Yel craves says this "1 Don t think i could be beat him lost year. Bui i wish he had comeback. I Tould pc loved to Mecl Mecl him where in the no club at the Library in the ring most definitely says Hai a very Tail one two. If 1 can go under Neath that one live and j is a Strong one two i can beat him. Of course he has a one two of mine to worry about. Nothing wrong with a Little conf you Don t question Graves Confidence. Not to his Tuff. Nat when this 200-Pound virginian stands on inc gym Mal ready to throw punches. Who you do is remember Graves record. He lost in last year s super heavyweight semifinals. Whit Bucky Fox makes him a heavyweight Champion in 1988? this year ii different,1 he say. I m a whole lot stronger mentally and physically while Graves trained for thursday s opening of inc four Day Usa eur tourney. Mercer trained stateside for the . Olympic trials scheduled for july 5-10 at Concord Calif. At 27 Yean old. Mercer has a solid shot at winning Gold in soul he proved that on april fools Day. Nobody fool. Mercer pounded Jerry Goff for a unanimous decision in the heavyweight title match of the . Amateur championships in Colorado Springs Mercer s . Amateur performance might Veblen the loftiest in Usa eur history. Yea Bone Crusher Smith vaulted from Sunburg to world boxing association heavyweight Champion but head Long since left the army. V corps coach Dave Oliphant saw in Germany 10 years ago. Oliphant coached Mercer to Hii first Usa eur Crown three years was a no nonsense Type in the ring says Oli Phanel. He influenced my other fighters. I Call peo ple like Mercer Oliphant s latest heavyweight is Carl pitl ruin of Fulda he hoping to duplicate the 8th army Lille Bewon in Korea. Ask Hitman if he s relieved Mercer is gone and the sergeant from North Carolina says. I a Challenge anybody in my weigh class Pittman is not exactly a Mercer Type lock. For one he s 30. For two. He lost to 22-year-old grave sin a Worms smoker three months ago. Piltman blames that loss on two Law blows thrown by Graves. Graves says Poppycock or something similar. Pitman or Graves might have to punch past Nornberg s Wilben Young for the heavyweight owns the Vii corps Crown. He wants to pad his trophy Cue in sunday s Lille round and he sorry it wont be against Mercer. I would be wanted to Lake Mercer on says Young. After Huberty i wanted thai s Don Huberty the Wurzburg Boner who might became a trivia answer to who was the last victim in Ray Mercer s Usa eur career Huberty lost a decision to Mercer in last year s Usa eur final. Since Huberty lasted All three rounds be considers it a moral Victory i though he d come alter says Hubeny. But it seemed he wanted to dance around Anil around me. He probably knew he could t Knock me out like Oiler Guys around Here. I have a hard Hubeny has since leaped to super lobe rid of Ray Mercer no. He really misses the Baum older bomber. Say h Liberty in a Way 1 wanted to fight him one More hit Eunmi bold. Porsche unhappy with indy Progress by Hank Lowenkron Indianapolis a porsche s debut at the Indianapolis motor Speed Way has been Hurt by a ease of miscalculation says at Holburt the director of the German Auto makers indy car pro Gram. The porsche powered March driven by Teo Fabi who set one and Bur tap qualifying records As a Rookie in 1983, sits in the Middle of the sixth Row in the tentative starting lineup for the May 29 race. The a hid an aver age Speed of 207.244 rope in its 10-mile Lime trial. Holburt a five time Simsa sports car endurance Champion and a former indy car Driver who finished fourth in 1984, admits starting a learn from scratch in the technically advanced indy car series is very Lough. Time is an tic use Bui it s some thing everyone is working against Holburt said. Some people do belter with in than others. We Haven t done very Well with it. The Lime available for adapting inc engine to the Chassis has been i m not very Happy. I went slower than i did in 1963." said Fabi. 33, who resumed 10 the indy car circuit this year after i rec years in formula one. What i like about the sport is having a Chance to win and i can l win Al indy with ibis car. When you Don t have any Chance to win it s the renowned Genron Auto maker which has had so much Success in sports car racing ran into immediate problems last fall when in came to the indy car series with a porsche Chassis powered by a porsche v8 engine. The Chassis we set aside this year j to in favor of the. Proven March fib while development work on the new engine continues. We re continuing to work with it the Normal developmental things try ing the whole evaluating process where in shortcomings Are and trying to fix its Tine tuning Holbert said thai Chassis is improving but we have a new Holbert said the entire Quaker slate porsche team both in Germany and the v. $., underestimated the Challenge. I m not Sun who underestimated he meal he said the technology the refinement has taken a pretty big step from 87 to 88, thai was Tome thing hardly anyone could anticipate and even in trying to equal the pre-98level of performance we perhaps did Undre Simale How difficult in the car qualified by Fabi Lack the horsepower to compete with the new Chevrolet is engines which propelled the five fastest cars in last weekend s Lime trials Holbert said. The Driver however is the one ingredient of the team Over which Holburt is not concerned. We Don t have to guess about our Driver. We have a known Quantity that we can count on Holburt said. We be seen Teo give us very accurate reporting of the car. He wants that car to be Rigel and we Haven gotten it right Cyl. Holburt went to Germany this week la work on possible solutions. I d like id come Back with about Johore horsepower but that s nol Likely to happen be said. There s no doubt thai we re Itzy on porsche it working to develop its own Chassis and an engine that will prove More successful on the circuit but the combination won t be ready until 1989, said. We did t i pct to come Oul win Ning Holburt said. We thought we would be very very competitive and in would be the team s thai would influence the performance More than the Holbert and Fabi Boih believe the Job of making porsche a Winner on the indy circuit will be accomplished. We Don i win to be naive. We know there s a huge task but we re Here and there s � commitment Holburt said. There is no question Hal Well continue ,., the Foci is that there is Only positive activities happening now la gear up and get our twill Inlo inc program and get it fixed it s a Lille bit discouraging to come Here in 88 and do a slower tap Lime than � said Fabi an italian. Bui Iii is a Long term project and i have 10 look for Ward. Sooner or later it s going to ii Well. Porsche is Able to produce a win Ning car. I just have to wait a mavs Tarpley wins Aba 6th Man honors new York a Dallas Center Forward Roy Torpley the first Reserve in Aba history to finish among the lop 10 in rebounding wednesday was named Winner of the league s sixth Man award for outstanding contributions by a non starter. The 7-foot Tarpley who started in Only nine of the 81 games in which he played averaged 11.3 rebounds 13.5 Points and 28. J minutes helping the Mavericks compile a 53-29 record. Tarpley a second year pro received 67 Voles from an so member panel of Media members. Utah s Thurl Bailey who ranked second on the Jan in scoring and rebounding with averages of 19.6 and 6.8, respectively received the other 13 Voles. I just want to keep improving and contribute As much As t can to the team s Success Tarpley said. "1 thought Early in the year that Roy would be a candidate for the award first year Dallas coach John Macleod said and the More i saw of him the More convinced i became that he s the logical Choice. When he comes in he impacts the game. He runs the floor rebounds blocks shots i like what he although Tarpley Learned of his award tuesday night the Aba officially bestowed the Honor for out standing contributions by a room tartar wednesday climaxing Tarpley s comeback from a Batik with Alco hol and chemical abuse last year. He finished seventh in the league in local rebounds the Tinct Reserve in Aba history to finish among in top 10 in rebounding. That total included 360 offensive boards the fourth highest in the Aba. Under the Aba drag program Tarpley voluntarily submitted himself for ire Aimeul for alcohol and Chemi Cal abuse last summer. Miller Lite makes a 11,000 donation to a National Chanty chosen by the recipient of the award. Tarole picked Virgel an Ami drug program for Leen agora 14and Over Oleky Pierce of the Milwaukee Bucks won the award last year. Other previous winners were Bill Walton of the Boston celtics Boston s Kevin
