European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 28,1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 58 begin Chase for vacant titles writer Heidelberg everything is wide open Susa eur Golf tournament time Rolls around. None of last year s champions is Back As 1988 play gets under Way this morning on the Par 72, 6,378-Yard Heidelberg Golf club layout. The 72-Hole tournament with a total of 58 golfers gunning for the open masters 40 and Over and women s championships runs through sunday. Open division Champion Juan Carlos Perez who won a sudden death playoff on the third extra Hole from v corps teammate Mark Johnson at july is gone. Johnson is still around but he has civilian Zed and in t eligible for further Competition. Also among the missing Are masters Champion Bill Bewley of the 7th army training come and women s defender Ruth Ann Allen. The highest placed 1987 open competitor Back for another shot at the championship is Vii corps Tim Strutzel. He finished fifth at Rhein Blick with a 310 total. This year he qualified at Stuttgart and finished third in the Vii corps Competition six strokes better than Usa eur Golf his 1977 Usa eur final score. Augsburg s Jesse Horn won the Vii corps title this time around with a 300, one stroke better than a Firnberg s Darryl Donovan who warmed up for Theu Sarteur with a 75-69-75219 second place finish in last week s Heidelberg invitational. Vii corps has three other golfers capable of going four rounds in the 70s. Mike Button of Stuttgart turned in a 307 during the qualifying tournament an Wurzburg s Joe Moseley and Niernberg s Francis Algermissen both qualified with 315s. Shape s Bill Schaffer turned in the most impressive 1988 qualifying score when he walked away with the 21st support come title by 26 strokes. He recorded 77-71-75-71294 Over the same Hei Delberg venue on which the 1988 championship is scheduled. Schaffer competing for Vii corps finished12th last year with a 322. Berlin s Rick Glenn shot 71-72-73 to win the 54-Hole Berlin qualifying tournament and figures to be a Strong contender for the title. Burt Jones followed Glenn in the Berlin eliminations with a 235 total. Other pome open contenders appear to be 26thsupport group s Mark Mazejko and Grant Brewer and v corps Scott Elliott and Jim Adrian. Mazejko had a309 and Brewer a 316 qualifying at Heidelberg. Elliott and Adrian turned in 318 and 319, respectively Arthe Niblick. Larry Galaviz of the 26th support up posted the lowest qualifying round among the masters. He turned in 70-73-77-75295 at Heidelberg an improvement of 36 strokes Over his 1987 Usa eur performance. Berlin s Ben Davis also had a splendid qualifying tournament posting 74-73-74221 in his three rounds. Other top masters golfers appear to be Augsburg Sken Hines and Galaviz teammate Norman Patten. Hines posted a 309 total in route to the Vii corps title and Patten finished with 311. Only eight women Are competing this year and Pir Masen s Renee Brown should have a lock on the championship. She won the 21 St s qualifying tournament with a 359 total. Molly Westgate of Worms was a Distant second in that meet with a 386. They were the Only golfers who averaged better than 105 in this year s pre usar eur action. Lots to Chew on in Bull Durham by George f. Will the Washington Post what s this summer s most entertaining movie for grown ups the cast includes no cartoon rabbits about everything. Bul Durham is about baseball and love and what else is there yes there Are other things such As presidential politics and Roger Rabbit. But baseball properly practice and appreciated is a form and object of love and thus touches at least tangentially All of life s great themes. One such theme is the dignity of honest mediocrity even in the unforgiving Merito Cracy of professional sports. Another is the necessity indeed the obligation for special discipline on the part of the especially gifted. In Olden Days most baseball movies went like this. Boy meets baseball and Falls in love. Then boy meets girl and inexplicably one grand passion should suffice Falls in love yet again. The girl s role is to Satin the bleachers beneath a Broad brimmed hat and look anxious in his adversity an adoring in his inevitable Triumph Over it. Bull Durham is different in two particulars one of which is the girl who is decidedly no girl. The other is the Ball player who is no Lou Gehrig. He is not the Pride of the Yankees or even of the Dur Ham bulls. Annie is More than 30 Summers old Butis a fetching sight wearing a Short off the shoulder dress and As exquisite accessories batting gloves. She pitches Whitman and Blake to students of English at a Community College and also at one Ball player each session. Annie the thinking person s theist believe in the Church of baseball takes one player As her Lover each season but snot by her lights promiscuous i am within the framework of a baseball season,monogamous." furthermore i d never sleep with a player hitting under .250 unless he had a lot of Bis or was a great Glove Man up the Middle. A woman s got Mohave standards.". But the real keeper of standards which is the movie s moral theme is crash Davis a Journeyman Catcher. He once made it tothe major leagues but Only for a cup of Coffee. Now in his 12th minor league sea son he is brought to Durham to teach base Ball s craftsmanship to a promising but unpolished Pitcher Ebby Calvin nuke Baloosh. When Annie asks crash in effect to compete with nuke for the privilege of being her Lover for a season he walks away commentary saying i m not interested in a woman who is interested in that in terms of physical skills crash is not much. But interns of character he is the keeper of the flame of craftsmanship. While Annie teaches nuke about Well life crash teaches him that his million Dollar does no mean he can get by with a five cent brain. In baseball concentration is required of everyone. Alas nuke is a male Bimbo an airhead who even has to be tutored by crash in the cliches that comprise the Basic interview. We be gotta play pm one Dayan a time. I just Wanna give it my Best nuke has no idea How much hard work is required to achieve excellence eve when nature has Given great Talent. It has been said that the difference Between the major and minor leagues i just a matter of inches and that is essentially True of the difference Between excellence and Mere adequacy in poetry or surgery or anything else. When nuke bounces into the dugout after one Good inning there s this Exchange nuke i was Good he crash your fastball was up and you curve Ball was hanging. In the show major league they would ripped can t you let me enjoy the moment crash the moment s crash has Learned the essential lesson of life nothing lasts. Everything must be achieved anew on the next pitch the next at Bat in the next game the next sea when you would fuel up for a matinee with jul fruits and watch a base Ball movie the protagonist invariably a Paragon of physical prowess and moral Vir tue would be begged by some boy to per form a heroic deed and would sweetly Promise to do so and would promptly de liver. But in Bull Durham there is the following Exchange the most satisfying moment in the history of movies Bat boy get a hit crash crash strikes out. And grown ups in the audience sigh contentedly. The have sat through their fill of syrupy sports movies that Are Sweet enough to give viewer diabetes. When crash says shut up and strikes out a grown up thinks happily now i be seen everything which As i said is what the movie is about. Kansas City s George Brett gets Extension on his Bat and his extraordinary career. Routine heroics obscure Brett s Banner year of 35 Kansas City to. A George Brett has been so Good for so Many years that Kansas City fans probably Are Start ing to take him a bit for granted. You be seen him do it so Man times you expect him to do it every time said royals manager John a than. You know it s humanly impossible but that s what you his heroics during a four game week end series at Home against the new York Yankees perfectly illustrated the super Star staying Power of the 35-year-old Brett. In one game he hit two Home runs including the game Winner in the eighth while stretching his hitting Streak to 12games. He has t gone More than two game this season without a hit and has raised his average to .336. He also has 16 Home runs and 73 runs batted in and ranks among the american league leaders Infix offensive categories. I think sometimes when you play with the Guy and see him every Day you can t help but take him for granted Watha said. But then you Start looking up the numbers of other greats who be played the game and you re really amazed. I still mar Vel at him All of the time and appreciate i More and More. Certainly i can t imagine anyone else i d rather have at the plate in crucial Brett is most proud of the fact he s Only been injured twice this year. He missed the june 16 game against Oak land after being hit on the hand by a pitch. In previous years Brett has suffered what seemed like More than his share of injuries. If i can keep up what i be done jus stay consistent to me it would be a tremendous achievement Brett said. Think it would have to be considered my Best year. I know i d be More proud of this season than any i be Ever had. I heard a lot of talk the last two years that my Best years were behind me and to Tell you the truth i was t sure if they were right. I did t know i was capable of hav ing this kind of even pitching coach Frank Funk in his first year with the royals has grown to appreciate Brett. I get the same feeling watching him play like i did playing on the same club As Henry Aaron Funk said. There just a certain Aura about him. I mean Here s a Guy playing every Day with Little nagging injuries and he never says any thing about an sports radio baseball Kansas City at Detroit 1 30 . Friday
