European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 25 Mannheim s Mark Union left takes punch while beating Heil Crofal i it cowl Clark fur the "86 welterweight Crown. Landon fights for his titles by Bucky Fox suit writer you could Call Mannheim Mark Landon a fighting Man and you d be on the Mark. For one he s a Boner. A usar Purgold medallist thanks to his sweep through the championships last week in Berlin. For two he s a Soldier. Forget that he rights for 21st support come. He s no support Soldier no Cook no club manager no gym attendant. He s a gun idling mud trudging infantryman. Yeah i m in the infantry say Union a specialist who specifically fights for cob 4th in 8lh inf div a Grunt. Rifleman. One of inc Guys who lives in the Landon lived in Berlin last wee while winning his second army in in rope welterweight Crown in three Yean. He s Back in Mannheim for today s 7 , clash Between Usa eur Cham pions and British interservice champions. That Roar at the Benjamin Franklin Village sports Arena will be for lao Lon tie Only Mannheim Boxer on the in bout card. Not Hal Landon will gun Tor knockout just to please his fans. He s a smart fighter Uyi Bill Ross the Mannheim coach who trained the Usa eur boxers this week. He does t Knock everybody out. He s not a single knockout puncher. But he wears them Down. He s one of the few Amateur boxers who knowhow to go 10 the look How Landon won his welterweight lilies. In 1986, he took the usage urinal on a 5-0 decision by Banting the breath out of Heilbronn s Michael Clark. Said a weary Clark i did my Best o defend him off but i burned out to 19bs. Landon won a 5-0 title Deci Sion Fay firing through the jabs of ans Bach s Calvin Beach. The Vil corps Corner was unimpressed with Landon. Said Beach i thought i landed said Beach s coach Al Johnson "1 thought Calvin won. He threw More punches. The object of Amateur boxing is Landing punches for Points. Why did Landon win his name. That Means everything. It s hard to beat a Lantan looked relieved when he heard the judges decision in Ibe Beach fight. He walked into the outstretched arms of Ross to quietly celebrate 21sl support come j Only title of Ihu Sarteur tournament. He s mad Al himself said says he made it Loo close. 1 thought he won All Ihrcke rounds. Hish Arub were too fast for said Landon we knew i was faster Titan him. 1 wanted to throw combinations and us out move laterally and throw honks. He was easy to hit with Hooks because he s Landon added "1 thought i made it which brought up an Ever pre sent question for the Mannheim mauler Why not go for the Lull i Don t go for the knockout he replied. If 1 kept punching and he did l fall i d be All punched out. So kept building up sometimes thai building Lead 10 a enemy crumbling. Take his usar eur semifinal against i Essen s an Thony Mcneil. Lanton built Points by pounding Mcneil s lanky body. That led to two standing eight counts against Mcneil. Mcneil s coach Dave Oliphant baited the bombing with 14 seconds left in the fight thai stoppage angered Mcneil. He wanted to lost the Lull nine minutes with a Man he called a Damn Good fighter. He keeps coming. He never slops. He has a lot of endurance and a lot of snid Oliphant Lanton s a Goodman. He s one of the smartest boxers Here As far As tactics and using his punches. He s also one of the More elusive men on his Lanton 11, Learned this bloody sport while growing up in had five older Brothers to push past. I guess being the youngest of five boys they All boxed 1 guess 1 had id get involved Taid Lanton. I had to Box them or they d kick my ass he started boxing at age ii in the police athletic league. Three years later in 1934, be leaped from High school to the army. He landed m Mannheim that october. Landon Hopes to carry his latest welterweight tide to the . Olympic Eastern or we tem trials in june. Ross who has been coaching boxing41 years and is trying to place Landon at the trials through the department of the army Calls his Champion one of the top 10-percent welterweight i be seven years of boxing. You wonder How Long Lanton want to continue giving and taking punches. Ill Stop boning before Loo Long he says. But if the olympic trials is As far As 1 go maybe i la hop. Everyone says quil but i never do. Maybe 1ii gel Lucky and make Good Money with that. Union smiles. Such a Nice looking Guy. He does t look like fighter. Tonight he will. Gym from Page 23 Etc event in which Amanda finished on lop. Hahn j Alison Rygler vaulted to a 9.80 for her first placing followed closely by Heidelberg s Cindy card who scored a 9.75. Amanda finished tied for fourth with her 9.60 score the uneven bars were dominated by the ram Sicin duo of sue Hagelin and Michele Rogers who scored 9.0 and 8.9$, respectively. Hauser took third with an 8.80. And on the floor Rogers placed be Hind no one As she danced to a 9.80 finish. Bui All around it was Amanda who did consistently Well to earn the title. The Junior compulsory class i was a different Story. In thai division Nalmberg s Karey o Neal dominated most of the events. She finished first on the vault with a 9.3 5, tied for first on the uneven bars with British school of Brussels Nick Carrington with an 8.70, took second place on the balance beam with an 8.20 and fell to fourth on the floor with an b.65. All of those wins added up to a 34.90 total and the All around title. The 13-year-old o Neal has five Yean of gymnastics experience and also has been a member of a German learn. There she feels she met her big Gest Competition although she pointed to de Anna Palmer of harm As the toughest Competition at this meet. Palmer finished second All around with a 33.65. Her Best finish was on the beam where she earned the firs spot and an 8.65. Otherwise she finished consistently in the lop six. This was the second year Palmer at tended the Competition. Last year she did t place. This year she said she was glad to have made it to the finals. But had t dreamed of scoring so High Brussels dominated the third fourth and fifth All around spots. Carring ton s 31,3s put her at third Lucy Wai ters followed with a 30.35 and sue Robershaw earned fifth with n 30,25 total. Heidelberg s Filar Reyes look first on the floor exercise with a 9.35. Mannheim s Wilson sets vault record by Ben Abrams prep of Otic editor Bremerhaven my German coach would t let me a anything under 14 feel this week and or. Blank Mann Heim track coach Hurt Blank told me had la do 14 feel to beat scan Smith and win inc championship. So t did 14 feel that s How Mannheim s Jay Wilion explained his Dodds record setting pole vault Friday in the Central euro Pean track and Field championships at inc Noresce stadium. The official re v of measurement of the bar showed that Ilion actually had gone 14 reel 14 i Inch. Wilion needed Ionly a is-9eftor1to erase the Mark of13- accents i Smith established exactly one wee before. Wilson Wilson and Smith matched that Friday. Then Wilson broke inc record on his Sec Ond attempt at 13-9. He cleared the Baron the first try by unsealed it with his hand on his descent. Ichii the bar again on his second attempt but it stayed i place after wiggling for a Tew seconds which Musi have seemed like an eternity to Wilson. Wilson immediately went for 14-0 and cleared the bar with Case on his firs bid. He later tried 14-3 but did t succeed. Wilson s record was tic second established in this steamy weather. A few minutes before his Effort the Wiesbaden girls 1,600-nh Ler relay least broke one of the oldest Marks in Chebook. Keri Holtham Theresa Pugh Trina Lattany and Stephanie Mcneil legged the four laps in 4 03.69, taking almost two seconds off inc 4 05.7 record established by Wiesbaden a dozen years ago. That quartet was Thea Williams Lisa Furman Jane Gober and Cheryl Gober. Two More records almost went by the boards. Lisa Whitebead of shape tried for a High jump record of 5-41/, but she just skimmed the bar off its base on her third iry. Stuttgart s Lavon Allen scratched on his last triple jump Chance he Hud gone 48 feet 5 inches two jumps previously. His last Effort was past inc winning Markby a Good distance but he scratched by about Hal fan Inch. That leap looted Tike it May have had enough distance to erase the 48-11 Amark set by Frankfurt s Doug Henderson in 1972. It was the third straight triple jump title for the so Ulgart mar and marked a improvement of More than 6 feet since he won As a Sophomore. Wiesbaden Tell another shot sit break ing the 1,600 relay record in the final because Friday s achievement came inthe preliminaries. The rest of the Day was fairly routine. Wiesbaden s Jason Biko won the in a Breeze Hilling the Lape in 4 00.03, and shape s Don Wilson Cap lured his second straight discus title witha 147-3 heave in the other boys events a Funburg j Cheryl Craney won the girls shot put with a loss of 34-7, and Baum older s Jocclyn Hubbard prevailed in the triple jump with to 35-7 Effort. In the Only girls running final marm Neim t Tiki Suarcz nosed out shape s Candace Barry in the 3.000 Melon Suarcz turned the distance in 11 01
