European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. February 23, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary corporate Bucks revive oiling programs multiple Choice time. Army skiers do a Stellar impression of a. Joe Montana. B. Richard Nixon. C. Busier Douglas. D. Aranqua Sanchez. E. All of the above. Ifju picked e. Our right. Army skiers act As if the re pulling one out in the fourth Quarter. Re bounding from political oblivion. Bouncing off the Canvas. Overcoming All Odds. Arr skiers simply never quit. No matter that Usa eur Spons and recreation championships were pushed off the Cliff in october. So soldiers have to pay their own Way to Alpine meets. So Only a Glove full showed up to race this week. Army skiers still refuse to abandon their championships. The numbers holding Down the Snow fort look As hopeless As. Well. Sanchez facing Steffi Graf before slamming the German in the French open. Just 30 Arr skiers showed up for tuesday s slalom in Gar in Isch a Mere 36 soldiers snapped on skis for wednesday s giant slalom. And cd they raced. Despite the pathetically Low numbers they insisted on holding the army euro Pean ski championships. Of. The skiers complained about Susareu Headquarters killing its once proud championships. About How. Without Usa eur s Money soldiers can barely afford the costs drive hotel food of a trek to Garmisch. About How. Without usar eur s stamp soldiers have a Tough time convincing commanders to ice them off work to race. Skiers like Jim Watson of Wiesbaden and Ian right choreographed How they Lap danced out of their offices in Lime for the Alpine meet. Then there was Vincnza s Brian Skinner who dominated military skiing in the first half of the 1980s. He was in Garmisch monday but had to return to Italy and miss the races partly because they weren t official enough to justify missing duty. Stuttgart s Stephen Hughes the men s open Sla Lom Champion said. A lot of people can t get off. Without this being an official Usa eur championship. Of can t get the right letter to gel off. Most commanders won t let Guys another Stuttgart skier giant slalom Winner Karen while said. Last year was Tough not enough Snow. But the Competition was much tougher too. Now there arc just three of us women when we stand at the end of the race All of us will get medals. It s indicative of what happens when Usa eur Ducky Fox for Sas by John Hrovat Phillipsburg s Brad Mcclave sets fur a run during the at4t-Snonsorcd army european ski championships. Kills and yet. Army skiers refuse to throw in their poles. Their next Mountain the All services ski championships on March 1-2 in Garmisch has nearly melted. The air Force was All set to sponsor it. But last Friday Safe s sports office said forge tit because of slim army entries. Even the armed forces recreation Center which set up the army races and planned to Drill in Gates for the All serv ices meet said no Way. Arc gave the army More bad news when it cancelled the v corps meet for this weekend in . But at the army awards banquet wednesday sol Diers counterattacked. They told arc s race director Bernhard Bruckdorfer. They want to take on Safe mighty Alpine racers. How could they still hold the All services meet Bruckdorfer said he could run the races on two conditions i. 50 skiers must sign up with their $10entry fees. 2. A sponsor must surfaced with $2.000. Bruckdorfer s endorsement excited Frank White head of the Stuttgart contingent. He offered to organize an army team and gave out these phone numbers for interested racers 421-4232/4116 or. At Home. 07157-7996. Bruckdorfer said he Hopes an outfit like Burger King or Mcdonald s Forks Over the $2,000. That would help pay for judges starters course Upkeep and trophies for a slalom and giant slalom. At phoned in about double that for the army meet and in the end soldiers won trophies much Slicker than the plaques and medals Usa eur used to dish out. Which is maybe what Gen. Crosbie Saint had i mind when he marched army championships off to the free Market. He wanted army sports to find their level in the Market place. If More soldiers could make their Way to these new championships they might find a finer operation than when Usa eur ran them. As John Wotch. The Stuttgart master Champ in the slalom said we re still struggling to Sec How this year. Air Force skiers struggled. Safe dropped skiing but airmen rallied to run their own Alpine championships. They even Hung around Gar Misch to race against army skiers who still had Usa eur s muscle behind airman a performance was so impressive us afe s sports office put skiing Back on its Board. Not enough Cross country skiers warranted nordic races but some 70 skiers Are signed up for the Alpine Safe giant slalom starts monday and the slalom tuesday in has a great Deal going. It has lined up Michelob. Michelob Light or Pepper and Hertz to Pav for the races banquet and awards. The skiers will handle transportation hotel food and lift tick Safe did was throw its weight behind organization and publicity. That has attracted one of Safe s strongest men s open Fields starring . Military team qualifiers Jim Ouellette of Wiesbaden and i at Arnone of there s the question asked by Bruckdorfer quo Vadis. Army sports where is it going in deed. It could be climbing Back with Safe prom Ising to Host a stronger army team in an All Serif pcs meet next White said competitive skiing based on Usa eur slopping its sponsorship if we Dan i gel it together skiing will die. We need to organize and advertise. And gel door morale sponsorship. It s up to us . Army skiing does t have Usa eur Back ing. But army skiers have lifters finish Strong in armed forces meet compiled by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Power lifting paced by five Gold medal winners. Usa eur and Safe lifters distinguished them selves in last week s armed forces Power lifting championships at fort Indiantown Gap. A. The Gold medal quintet All stationed in Germany included the army s Miguel Taoy of ecu Ulm James Bornhop of Bamberg Suiaunoa Faamausili of Parma sons and Thomas be Noil of Baum older and the air Force s Clarence fielder of Berlin. All five were among the 13 lifters selected to compete for the armed forces in inc . Power lifting federation National championships at hol Lywood. Fla. July 6-8. Lifters from Europe also picked up a Silver medal two bronzes and three fourth places. Fielder won the 114-Pound division with a total of 1.135 pounds. Fielder assigned to Tempelhof a. Set meet records of 281 pounds in Bench press and 451.75 in dead lift. Roosevelt Thomas of Schwa unfurl placed third in the 114 class. Taoy look inc 148-Pound title with a 1.465.75 total. Bamburg s Bornhop and Tony Cam local Roundup Cron of Raf Alconbury England finished one two at 242 pounds. Bornhop totalled 2,006 pounds and Cameron was runner up with 1,802. Navy lifter Gary Gainous of holy och Scotland finished fourth in the 242 Competition with a 1,691 total. A Amatuli set a Bench press Mark of 551 in capturing the 275-Pound Divi Sion with a 1,950.75 total. Be Noil won the super 275-plus class with a Tola of 1.844.25 pounds. Michael Hancock an army Lifler from Garls Ludl Wisl Germany and Ben Johnson of san Vito As Italy finished third and fourth at 165 pounds lifting 1,587 and 1.526 pounds respectively. Usa eur s Arthur Crone of Sand Hofen. Germany placed fourth at 198 pounds despite an injury. David pall away a former Safe competitor at Benl Walers England set three records in the 123 division. Pat away. Now stationed at Andrews fab. My. Set Marks of 501.5 in squat 551 in dead lift and 1,288.75 for total pounds. He broke his own record in dead lift. The army won the team championship Wilh 37 Points followed by air Force 36, Navy 24 and marines 18. Skiing the Safe men s team finished third out of nine entries in the annual British services ski championships earlier this month at me give France. It was the Busl Safe finish since the air Force first entered the meet in 1979, according to team Captain Dieter Krause. Jim Durtschi of Spang Dahlum finished eight Overall to Lead the Safe team with Torr Jon s Mike Balfany Lith George Curley of arc Cham common. England 16th and Tim lit Liefield of Hahn 17th. Those were the lop four from Safe in slalom giant slalom and downhill combined stand Ings. Guy Worthington of Rhein main Scott Sanders of Torr Jon Graham Smith of and Krause of Oberammergau were the other men on the Safe team. Christine Kreiselmeier of Wiesbaden Judith Wanke of Brorn Craven and Ellen Berggren of were the women skiers for Safe at inc British meet. They combined Wilh other women from armed forces squads without full female contingents to form an International team that finished third Overall. Four British forces teams plus Australia France Italy and West Ger Many were inc other military teams entered. Baseball the Mannheim Klee Amigos of the Tele 5 German Ameri can league will hold their first tryouts of the season saturday at 2 . At Woods memorial Field in Benjamin Franklin Village. Point of Contact is Martin Helmig at civilian 0621-412529. The Munich padres of the a a league Are seeking players for this coming season. Those interested should Contact Steve sick at 440 6070/8338. Also players arc being sought by the Augsburg athletics of the a a league. Point of con acl is Vince Spur lock Al civilian 0821-403362. The Frankfurt giants will hold their Pricr season meeting saturday atthe Stadt Frankfurt Gasthaus across the Stercl from Edwards Cavern. Call Mike Arthur Al civilian 06101-47841 after 5 . For More information. Boxing kit Zingen s Harvey Barracks will Host an open Novice Box ing night March 3. Weigh ins Are at 8 . And fights Start at 6 . Cost is s2 for adults and is for children. For More information Call ets 350-6306
