European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Usa Reud Boxen in a Waco bantamweight match in Frankfurt in 1957. Heard anything about him i d appreciate your dropping me a line if you know anything. One Guy counted 32 unanswered punches a hit me with they told me i came out of one Clinch and started walking in the opposite direction so he merely circled around so that he was in front of me in position o hit me some More in the stands my Girlfriend Joannie Mcleod 0 wag irom Ketchikan Alaska got sick and threw up a. Slider told his Wile i m never Gonna watch another fight he never knocked me Oft my Leet. I Learned that night that i could Lake a punch. Tex Guilory stopped it at 2 38 of the first and i Fried to decide what treatment i d give it finally settling on something i saw Archie Moore once do sort of throwing his hands Down in disgust. Without actually arguing Over the Rel s decision Nice Light Ezek Al Leroy Roker said to me. It s supposed to be a Novice fight. You Ain t no Novice sol. Minerva whined. Shaddue a Little Punk the first Guy to Roach to in the locker room was Dennis Magnuson who d been our line coach. He Hurt you he Hurt you he said. No he helped me for i was carefully checking All parts to Sec what would t respond. Oddly enough i was t Cul. I m checking and i m lumped up a lot bul hey i came away clean wast a minute Watt a minute a jaw it Don t work right there it s of. No. Now it s stuck again. Owl yep it s Oft the hinge. A Well. By the time t got outside the Arena lights were out and i was alone. And i had no ride Home on the coldest night of the Winter. So there i was on the Highway thumbing it and what stops but a jeep bearing two old mess sergeants with a six pack of Beer. Say did t you Light tonight yeah in you can Call in you Wanna Beer of Man do so i m Silling there drinking my Beer thinking about my try that s lost or Ever and Hall the Beer is sloping Down my Latigue jacket because i can t get my Mouth Loo close. And then i just started singing softly to myself. Mambo Rhino Mambo Sis what s that you say son nothing Sarge. Just Well the postscript to this is that i never got my try but i get out of the motor Pool. I guess they had some concern for their vehicles alter All. And into the gym where i mopped and swept and helped run the Post sports programs. I made a name Lor myself As one of the nastier res in the wac s volleyball league. Or. Hun Lei was on leave when i got the Job in special services and he was not at at Happy to hear that i d landed a cushy Deal like thai not Al All. When the 1957 football season came around i d been transferred to a re detail. Repair and Utility Courtesy of or Hunter. 1 raked leaves Etc. Maj. Slider was gone and the new Guy did t have the clout to get me out of my Post for football try. But he was working on ii he said i used to sneak Oil my detail to practice Wilh the rhinos. Hell i was indispensable a big name irom the 56 Rhine league championship team. It was Only a Mailer of time until they got me out right right Tho Deal collapsed when i broke my cheekbone in practice. A Freak thing. A fat Assed Lummox named Tom Burbank Tell on me after the play was Over. There was a Nasty scene when the doctor in the German dispensary where they took me tried to gel my Contact Lens out and could to. I be never been Able to Wear pm since. And finally they took me up to the Post Hospital in Lan Stuhl where they extricated the Damn thing. 1 guess i blacked out because the next thing i knew i was lying on a bed in the Hospital Ward and everything was darkness. I had patches Over both eyes. And the first thing i heard As t was coming out of it was the Louisiana twang of or. Hunter,., you know your rights under article 31, uniform code of military Justice the Damn Guy was Reading me my court martial rights. Failure to repair to proper place of duty i a. Bugging out of her a detail. They had me. Or did they my buddy Don Gursoy was the first Guy to visit to and i told him Quick go Down to the orderly room and see if the pass Box is locked and ii it in to pull my pass and bring it to to was Back in 10 minutes with a big smile on his lace. He had in. The dummies had t locked up the Box my defense at the court martial i was out on pass Why were you Oul on pass because i d pulled a guard duty that the rules on that were kind of ill defined. Well i beat it and or. Hunter nearly went berserk and i was busted reduced in Grade. Gosh they look my stud wipe away. It was the second time i d had one and lost it. I did t feel comfortable with it anyway. And of yes he gave me a never ending succession of article 1 5s, company punishment restricted to quarters. And put me to work scrubbing the Barracks floor with a Brush. Big Deal. I was a Short timer. 1 was rotating Home. I was a vet Tough see they could t break me my last duty assignment was writing a Safe Lerm paper Tor it. Rada our company commander. If you gel me an a on it you get a three Day pass he said. I did it on Rommel. I spent some swell Alt croons in the Post Library researching this gent. I got him his a. I Gol my pass. He outranked or. Hunter what do i remember about Rommel could t Strelch the Supply lines. Did him in. Bear thai in mind if you re Ever planning to conquer North Africa. Well i made it to the jeep thai took me to the train that look me to Bremerhaven to the troop ship. I made it just ahead of Marcel Millet a French creep whom i owed $35 he had threatened Ell sorts of terrible things. I did live Days processing out at fort Dix. And you know something. I was scheduled for a night up on the last night of thai Strelch what a night up me the shortest of the Short Well see about thai. I called Rny buddy in new York. He d just gotten Oul of the service i told him to Fin that Damn thing. So he phoned up the orderly room at the reception Center. This is col. Ring of the fort Hamilton naval base. Do you have a pvt. Zimmerman there yes we do. Well that Man has a car Here thai to shipped Over from Germany and it s Gonna be sent out to Forl Sill okla. Unless that Soldier comes Down and signs it out and i mean now so i hear the a announcement pvt. Zimmerman pvt. Zimmerman report to the orderly i reported. Soldier do you have a car you shipped Back Tram Germany a car that s Al Forl Hamilton gee i Dunno Sarge i shipped one Well dammit Soldier get your ass in of new York and claim that thing. They re sending in out to fort Sill "1 got a night up Well. I la get you Oul of it. Geez Wotta of Sarge going Down there right so my last Day in the army was spent nursing a severe hangover. Which i guess is a pretty Good capsule of my two years working for Uncle. Sunday september 25, 1968 the stars and stripes Paga 17
