European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 2, 1989 the stars and stripes Page for feb 2-3-4-5 unless otherwise dated Safe will holds its men s championship next week at Torrejon a Spain. The six team tournament opens sunday and runs through wednesday feb. 8, with the top two teams from each conference competing in a single round Robin. Action opens sunday with we Brucken the Continental sports conference runner up playing Aviano the Mediterranean sports conference Champion at noon. Four More games Are slated for sunday . Champion Greenham common is. Mac runner up san Vito at 2 . Chicksands the . No. 2, is Csc Champion Hahn at 4 . Wei Brincken is Greenham common at 7 . And the two Mac teams at 9 . Monday s and tuesday s games will be at 10 ., noon 4 ., 6 . And 8 . The order of games monday will be Hahn Wei Brincken Chicksands san Vito Aviano Greenham common Wei Brincken Chicksands and Hahn san Vito. On tuesday the two . Teams Lead off at 10 ., followed by Hahn Aviano san Vito Wei Brincken Greenham Hahn and Aviano Chicksands. The championship game is set for 6 . Wednes Day. An if necessary game played Only if an undefeated finalist loses the title game will follow immediately. The Safe women s tournament will be held at Raf Ben Waters England feb. 12-15. Vii corps has its usual menu of six double head ers scheduled for sunday. In East games Neu Ulm visits Ansbach at Katterbach gym Goppinger plays at Niernberg in Darby gym and Munich is at Augsburg Sheridan gym no. 1. In the West league it s Heilbronn at Schwabish a mind Hardt gym Schweinfurt at Aschaffenbur ready Barracks and Stuttgart at Wurzburg. Games Start at 1 . For women and 3 . For men. V corps has three makeup twin Bills scheduled for this weekend including a men s showdown Between Wiesbaden the West Region Leader and runner up Baumholzer. Unbeaten Wiesbaden travels to Baum older on sat urday and bad Kreuz Nach hosts Wil Flecken at Dex Heim. Sunday s Only action sends Hanau to wild Fleck in. All three matchup Start with the women s game at 1 ., followed by the men s contest at 3 . This weekend was originally set aside for an All Star break in the v corps schedule but the league will hold its East is. West All Star game at the end of the season. A Battle Between the top two teams in the 7th  training come men s league shapes up this weekend with front runner Bundlach hosting second place Vilseck in a doubleheader sunday. The games Are scheduled for 11  And 1 30 . The other men s doubleheader has Grafe Wohr hosting Amberg sunday with games tipping off at 1 and 5 . The Only women s game has undefeated Grafe Wohr taking on Vilseck sunday at 3 . 21st Talcom has a break in its schedule this weekend with league play resuming feb. 10. In German league basketball Giessen hosts i6u Hagen Bayreuth visits ludwigs Burg and Braunschweig plays at Gold Star Hagen in 7 30 . Games saturday. Charlottenburg of Berlin hosts Bam Berg and Ulm plays at Leve Kusen in saturday games starting at 8 . On sunday Munich will play Host to Cologne. Boxing an invitational is scheduled for saturday ,g-ua-1 Hanau s Pioneer Cavern starting at 6 .weigh-ins.will be from 10  Until noon. There will a Spectator admission for the program which will have open and Novice bouts. The downhill was scheduled for wednesday. The world championships for men and women in this Cross country skiing and shooting Competition will Start tuesday and continue through sunday. Feb. 12, at Leistritz Austria. A . Team is entered. Pitburg s Mike Mark fieldhouse will be the site of the minors migration tournament Friday through sunday. The Competition starts at 6 . The first Day and is open to anyone. Pitburg Racquet Allers Willie and Jan minor for whom the event is named Are also the contacts for the tourney ets 450-6 1 75 or civilian 06543-6606. The shape pizza bowl is the site of the Saab invitational through sunday. The $7,000 International tournament began wednesday. The b shift starts thursday at 8 ., the c shift Friday at 8 . And the next three shifts at 10 ., 3 . And 8 . On saturday. Sunday s Competition starts with the g shift at 10 ., continues with the final shift at 3 . And winds up with the semifinals 8 . And finals which match the top 24 bowlers from the team event. Six games Are rolled by each entry in the team event. Pitburg and we Brucken will be the Sites sat urday for the Continental sports conference s biweekly Bowling Competition. At Pitburg Ramstein leads off against Hahn Fol Lowed by Rhein main is. Pitburg Hahn is. Pitburg and Rhein main is. Ramstein. At we Brucken it s Prum Sembach Wei Brincken Oesterberg Sembach Oesterberg and prism Wei Brincken in that order. Bowling at both places starts at 1 . West Germany opens defense of its Davis cup championship with a world group first round match against Indonesia Friday saturday and sunday at Karlsruhe. Boris Becker Carl Uwe Streb Eric Jehlen and Patrik Kiihne Are scheduled to play for the Ger Man team. Two singles matches Are scheduled the first Day the doubles match on saturday and the reverse singles on sunday All at Karlsruhe s Europa Halle. Berlin hosts Mannheim and Landshut plays at Frankfurt in two of five Friday night games in the German league. Also on Friday Kauf Bucuren visits runner up Rosenheim Disseldorf is at Freiburg and Schwenninger at first place Cologne. All Friday game Start at 7 30 . On sunday Frankfurt plays at Mannheim 7 .Cologne at Disseldorf 2 45 .Rosenheim at Schwenninger 2 45 .Berlin at Kau Beuren 3 30 . And Freiburg at Landshut 6 30 . While the elite of Alpine racing Are competing in the world championships in Colorado top skiers from Usa eur and Safe Are competing this week with some of the Best military racers from other coun tries in the British International interservice championships in Meg eve France. The men s and women s giant slalom Are scheduled for thursday and the men s slalom will conclude the meet on Friday. Melissa Campanile of Hohenfels got the combined Usa eur Safe team off to a Victo rious Start sunday by winning the women s slalom. The 6th International adar Hallen Cross Berlin an indoor Motocross will be held saturday in Berlin s deutschland Halle with the action starting at 6 . And ending about Midnight. Top riders from the United states West Germany France Austria and other nations will compete on 125cc bikes. The German thoroughbred season for 1989 swings into its second weekend with racing at Gelsenkirchen saturday and Dortmund sunday. First races Start around noon. Some big nil stars becoming free agents by Dave Goldberg new York a Many will be household names. Some May even be leg ends. On wednesday Many of the nil s biggest stars became free agents when the league puts into effect its new contract plan. A Radical departure from the old free Agency system it is being imposed unilaterally without a Union contract and will unconditionally free More than 600 players. Each team will be allowed to protect just 37 of the average of 59 on its roster. You la see super bowl players pro bowl players very big names said Tex Schramm president of the Dallas cow boys and a member of the owners management Council. But there will be reasons for them they la be bad medical risks they la be older. A lot of them will be getting Good salaries own Homes in the area things like that. They won t want to  under the old plan players offered a con tract by another team could move Only after Weir team waived its right of first refusal Ine new team would also have to compensate the old one with draft picks. Only two players in 10 years moved under that system most recently line Backer Wilber Marshall of Chicago who signed a $6 million five year contract St year with Washington. He joined the ked Sims after the bears declined to match the offer and Chicago got two nest round draft picks in return. Parts of that system remain in effect protected players whose contracts have expired still would be subject to first refusal and teams signing them would have to part with draft choices. The rest under contract or not will be free until april 1 to go elsewhere without compensation. Although few teams have identified unprotected players the consensus is that most will protect younger players with potential while leaving older More established players unprotected. The older ones have less incentive to move and High salaries or injury problems make them unattractive to prospective bidders. The Chicago bears for example have already said Schramm they will not protect three starters from their 1986 super bowl champions including 31-year-old linebacker Otis Wilson and cornerback Mike Richardson 28. Wilson coming off reconstructive knee surgery vowed to return to haunt the bears. The new York giants will probably leave unprotected 29-year-old nose tackle Jim Burt who has a history Lofback problems and starting guard Billy Ard also 29, whose reaction May be prototype for the free agents. I like it Here and i like the giants organization very much says Ard who is making an estimated $300,000. But this is kind of interesting. If some teams gives me a Call says they like me and offer me a fair contract i d be foolish to say  others Likely to be set free include quarterback Danny White and defensive tackle Randy White of Dallas running Back Tony Dorsett defensive end Rulon Jones and cornerback Mark Haynes of Denver running Back Ottis Anderson of the giants defensive end Bruce Clark and nose tackle Tony Elliott of new or leans and Center Dwight Stephenson the perennial All pro Center of the Miami dolphins who missed All of the 1988 sea son with a serious knee injury. Stephenson is a classic Case of a player who would t want to leave and who is unlikely to get a maj9r offer because of his knee problems. So is 33-year-old Reggie Williams of Cincinnati who could be left unprotected because he would t leave town he s a Cincinnati City councilman. The irony is that neither the owners nor the Union is Happy with the plan aimed at pleasing . District court judge David Doty who is presiding Over the antitrust suit filed by the Union at the end of the 24-Day strike. All we Are doing is trying to conform to what we think will be acceptable to the courts says George Young general manager of the giants. A lot of teams Aren t really Happy about it but i think we understand that it s a Way to avoid getting attacked on the antitrust  the Union meanwhile continues to ask for unrestricted free Agency. What does this do for a Dan Marino or the other top players on a roster at some Point during their careers All play ers have to be free says Gene Upshaw executive director of the nil players association. Interestingly this plan frees More players than the current Union proposal which seeks free Agency for All those with six years or More experience. That would be Cut to 5-year-men next year and continue to decrease. According to management Council figures there Are 445 6-year men in the nil but 200 of them have Long term contracts leaving just 245 who would be free agents under the Union plan. The management Council says its new plan would set free 617 players. To determine who is protected each team first lists its players by time played during 1988 at each position. It can then substitute players from injured Reserve or other Reserve lists and each position and add first or second year players who might not fit in the playing time category. In each Case the substituted player would have to replace someone at his own position. But there Are , for example can protect just two quarterbacks but could protect third by listing him As a special teams player if he holds on extra Points Andfield goals