European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday july 27, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 25chapman buddy Chapman is free at last. Free from the shackles of Usa fees Continental sports conference where As director he Root for anyone \ now he san mar Honcho at Ramstein. Call him ram Rod. Quot when i changed in a a diehard a Chapman said As if he were Bruce Willis. Chapman spent the second half of 1987, plus �?T88, �?T89 and the first half of 90 running the Csc. Like the Rodeo Man he is he broke the league of bucking bad habits. He also tied the league to a couple of shaky rules like allowing eight football teams to reach the playoffs Chapmans last Day As Csc director was May 31. After three years of making Bronco Tough decisions Quot we re going to miss him a head football referee Tom Villegas of Pitburg correctly concluded. Not that Chapman misses the Csc Job. He fits his Ramstein Post like a Hoe in turf. Which is exactly what he wielded while fixing Ramstein s track before saturdays exhibition football game against Hahn. A a in a trying to make the place look like Ramstein Man a Chapman said in his Louisiana drawl. A gotta be proud. Make the place clean and get the spirit back.�?�. Commentary As the game progressed Chapman moved to the sideline. Right in front of him Ramstein a Tony Phillips barely missed catching a to pass. A a we re looking Good a said ram Rod. A just some mental mistakes. J nothing hard work fix. The kind of work Chapman used to fix the rams Field. A the Field looks great does no to it George Price does no to have nothing on us a Chapman said referring to bit urge a legendary athletic director. A look at the fences. Ram Blue Ana Silver. Beautiful huh a Chapman 44, sounds like one Happy chief master sergeant which is nicer than he Felt in his last Days As Csc director. He admits he left his Post in Sembach partly out of frustration. He was tired of various bases he say which failing to support had other disappointments i. Failing to Start Competition Between Csc champions and army champs 2. Not continuing the Safe All Star football game. Mostly Chapman feels Content with his accomplishments As Well he should. He proved to be one of the most capable Csc directors in history. The Chapman charge account a pulling off the 1987 Safe All Star football Belgium takes senior la title Ramstein a West Germany a Belgium clinched the title of the european Little league senior division 1315 years championships by beating saudi Arabia 7-2 thursday. Jim Russell was the winning Pitcher for Belgium which finished 7-0 to avoid taking on 6-1 Kaiserslautern military Community in a playoff. Belgium advances to the senior world series aug. 13-18 at Kissimmee Fla. Andrew Waller smacked a two run Homer to Pace Belgium. Doug Rosenbaum went 2 for 4 with a double and run batted Fox game. It died after that but at least Chapman sparked the renewal of a game that had been dormant for 15 years. And what a game. The Csc beat the . Sports conference 20-16 at Lakenheath when bit urge a Dwayne Harp made a Crackerjack to catch of a 17-Yard pass thrown by Ramstein a Jeff Wilson with 2 45 left. A if anything stands out if s that play a says Chapman a telling Torrejon that the Csc Fly to Spain anymore for football. Too expensive not to mention too draining in Germany teams that left the raiders out of the Csc after going the Long distance route in 1986 and 87. A cracking Down on football fights. Chapman stepped right in and tossed out players for brawls for either two games or the season depending on the viciousness. The hockey games turned Back into football games. R. A allowing More army players in Csc football. Now teams can go 10 Miles off base to recruit army Guys with the quota liberalized to 14 army players for Soester Bergi Wiesbaden arid Zweir Ficken 12 for Pitburg Sembach Span Dahlem and Rhein main and nine for Hahn and Ramstein. A bulging Csc football rosters to 60 players this year. That works until the Safe title game when Csc and . Rosters must shrink to a ridiculous 40, a starting seven Man officiating Crews for football after years of six Man Crews. Chapman also solidified the officials into designated Crews. A organizing football officials under the Csc directors office a the got everyone on the same Page a said referee Harold Speed of Wiesbaden. A scheduling night basketball fridays and saturdays after years of a saturday night sunday format. Its a better sport in prime time. Chapman boasts a couple of other moves that i find questionable. First he pushed Safe to drop its most valuable player award in playoffs in favor of a sportsmanship award. Second he opened the football playoffs to eight of the nine Csc teams this year. Creeping socialism More like flooding. In both of those cases Chapman Bent too far trying to a com. Hofsas Bonafi tooth buddy Chapman is happiest at his Ramstein gym. F players were Hurt they if Small football bases Iodate everyone. So what if did no twin map so what it never made the playoffs Chapman pandered to the whiners which dulled what were Sharp edges. Chapman said his favorite sports wheels were bit urge a Price Ramstein a Walt Tragau Rhein Mains Doug Stanley Wiesbaden Salton Lee and the a Oesterberg gym staff Chapman is one of them now. He no doubt Aims to cooperate with the new Csc director who for the time being is 17th air Force mar director a1 Bianco until the permanent replacement is clinched. Foremost Chapman is rain Rod. He a already planning serious off season training programs at ram Stem. A a in be got a Home now a he said on his Field. Quot we re Gonna make things happen Quot to to and strip Kmic 13, Czechoslovakia 2 the Home team ended its run behind the pitching and hitting of Jake Muz quiz. From the Mound he struck out five. From the plate he drove in three runs. Czechoslovakia finished 1-6. In a late wednesday game Kmic beat saudi Arabia 13-7. . 10, Germany 8 the . Led 9-0, then held on for its 5-2 record. Ron Kentzel led the boys from England by going 3 for 5 with three Rols. He was also the winning Pitcher. Germany went 3-4. Spain 23, Italy 13 Maurice Butler and Billy Williams each drove in three runs to Pace Spain 2-5. Alejandro Ramos went 3 for 5 for the winners. Italy went 0-7. Clemson a Ellis Heads Safe hoops clinics basketball a Clemson coach Cliff Ellis is the Headliner for the Safe clinics for coaches and officials beginning next month Ellis fresh from coaching the tigers to the Mcaa tournament wifi be joined by Fite Cliff Ellis Clemson reached Caas. Clinics Start in late August Wake Forest coach Dave Odom and officials Donald Shea and Larry Rose. Ellis and Shea will teach at Aviano aug. 30-31, Mildenhall sept. 4-5 and Pitburg sept. 6-7. Odom and Rose Are scheduled for in Ciurlik aug. 30, Iraklion sept. 4 and Torrejon sept. 6-7. Sofit3aix a the air Force slow pitch tourney opens sunday and Safe is ready to step up to Bat. The Safe men who compete through aug. 4 at Pope fab in Fayetteville n.c., Are bursting with Ramstein players. The rams who won the Safe title last week Are represented by the coach Ron Simpson plus Donnie Brown John Greer Don Patrick Mark Webb Joel Obman Lester Banks Emery Shumaker and John Hernandez. The rest of the Safe men Are sem Baches Jackie Mills Spang Dahlem a Tommy Edwards Ankara a Bill Hardy Bent Waters Mark Peters san Vito s Steve Jones and Zaragoza a Dave Testerman. The air Force women a tourney will be at Maxwell fab in Montgomery ala., also through aug. 4.local Roundup the Safe women steam has the Ramstein coach Dan Colman and three lady rams Rhonda Barfield Tricia Parrish and Martina Wilson. Mildenhall has the most players four with Patricia Sewell Tori moms Cassandra Freer and Beverly Richs. Lakenheath has Anna Bossman and Elaine Green Aviano is represented by Jada Holland and Dana Gish and Wei Bricken s Cheryl Trapnell rounds out the team. A soldiers from Europe Are in fort Indiantown Gap pa., trying out for spots on the All army slow pitch teams. The men Are Hanau a Michael Peterson Bremerhaven Salbert Kemp Stuttgart a Ronald Degray and Giessen a Leon Bell. The women Are Stuttgart a Velma Damp Ier berlins Beverly Landis Heidelberg a Rose Ford and Heidi Zeller Schweinfurt a Connie Welch and Vicenza s Teresa Kemp. Cycling a a German French american Bike race will hit the Road aug. 4 at the Wei Brincken race track. Races will cover 40 Kilometres and 60 Kilometres. Entry fee is $10. Call Erich Voellmer at ets 494-7234. Golf a Missi Fruehauf of Ramstein scored a Hole in one at the Woodlawn Golf club tuesday. Fruehauf playing with Kathy Clark and Linda Orsak aced the 110-Yard no 5 Hole with a 7-Iron
