European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 29, 1990 the stars and stripes sports Calendar for. Nov. 29-dec. 5 unless otherwise noted basketball the 30th shape International military tournament opens tuesday at shapes main gym near Mons Belgium with the . Team coached by Bob Abbott defending its 1989 championship. The tournament runs trough dec. 8. The tourneys eight team Field will be divided into w groups of four. The . Squad will compete in group a against Greece France and the United King Lom. Group b includes Italy a the 1988 Champion and $9 runner up a Belgium Germany and the nether kinds. Tournament games Are scheduled for noon 2 30 ., 6 . And 8 30 . Tuesday through Friday. The . Will play England tuesday at 2 30 ., France wednesday at 8 30 . And Greece dec. 6 at 6-. The top two teams in both leagues Advance to the Jec. 7 semifinals. The first place team in group a plays he runner up in b at 6 ., and the first place group b team faces the a runner up at 8 30 . Also on dec. 7, there will be Consolation games Between the fourth a a Jace teams at noon and the third place teams at 2 30  The semifinal losers play dec. 8 at 6 ., and the championship game is set for 8 30 . The v corps league opens with a thursday night Lens game Giessen at Hanau in the Caldwell gym. Ripoff is 7 . A full schedule of menus and women a games is on tap Tor saturday and sunday. On saturday bad Kreuz Nach plays at Baum older Hanau at Frankfurt Wil Flecken it Wiesbaden and Giessen at Darmstadt in a Benham men. Sundays schedule has bad Kreuz Nach at Giessen Baum older at Hanau and Frankfurt at Wil Flecken for menus and women a double headers and the Darmstadt women at Mainz. All the weekend game times Are 1 . For women and 3 . For men except at Babenhausen saturday when the women a game is at 3 30 . And the menus contest at 5 30 . The 21st Talcom league schedule for this weekend has been diminished by two cancellations and a postponement. Left on the slate Are two menus games a Mannheim at Lan Stuhl saturday at 2 . And Wei Brincken at Kaiserslautern sunday at 2 . Worms dropped out of the menus league cancelling Friday and saturday games. Sundays Pir Masens at Karlsruhe menus women a double header was postponed and will be rescheduled. The Continental sports conference continues this weekend with three Friday night matchup four More saturday and one sunday. Rhein main visits Lindsey Pitburg is at neighbouring Span Dahlem and Hahn at Sembach on Friday with Ramstein hosting Oesterberg at Sembach Zweig Rick in at Lindsey Sembach at Pitburg and Rhein main at Span Dahlem on saturday. Oesterberg and Ramstein clash again sunday at Sembach. Gym floor resurfacing forced the Ramstein Home games to be switched to Sembach. Friday and saturday night games Start at 6 . For women and 8 . For men. The Ramstein Oesterberg double header sunday starts at 1 . With the women a game followed by the menus contest at 3 .boxing Rhein main will hold its first fight night in Many years saturday night in the Pitts memorial gym. The program will offer approximately 15 bouts in the open Novice and sub Novice divisions. Admission is free. The fights begin at 6 ., with weigh ins from 10 . Until noon saturday. Contact 330-6062 for More  the armed forces ice hockey club faces a Tough game against the Canadian forces Lahr gunners team thursday in the Peter Cunningham memorial Arena at Wei Brincken. Face off is at 8 . The gunners Lead the league at the Canadian base. A fisc beat the eve Pitburg German club 14-9 last sunday to improve its German Lande Sliga record to 4-2. The Pitburg Blades military team hosts eve Herne of Dortmund at 7 . Sunday at the Eis spor Thalle just outside the bases main Gate. The Blades Are 3-2 coming off last saturdays 10-5 Victory in Krefeld against  football the  european championship will be held at Wil Flecken Germany Friday saturday and sunday. This is the first dec unit level tournament and will match the champions from six major commands in double elimination Competition. Four games Are scheduled for Friday starting at 10 30 . A five game slate saturday starts at 10 ., and sundays championship is set for 11 ., followed by the if necessary game. Friday and saturday games will be played at 90-minute intervals. The German league has cleared Friday saturday and sunday for the round of 16 in the German cup series. Play opens at 8 . Friday with Schalke at Bremen Essen at Uerdingen and vib Stuttgart at Munster. Saturdays 3 30 . Games have Frankfurt at Saa Brucken Meppen at 1fc Cologne Duisburg at by Berlin and Wattenscheid at Hamburg. Sundays game at 1 45 ., sends Kassel to  racing four German tracks will be Active this weekend with Dortmund operating saturday and Frankfurt Hanover and Millheim sunday. Frankfurt a program is its last of the year. Racing starts at noon at each  storming into Alpine season by Piero Valsecchi Milan Italy apr Alpine King Pir Imin Zurbriggen and five top women skiers Are gone but a major element of the world cup season is Back after being i in Short Supply for three years a Snow. Early storms in the Alps have led to optimism after three seasons of dry warm weather that disrupted the racing Calendar and crippled sponsors. With the world cup schedule set to resume this weekend organizers Hope the november snowfalls will allow a smooth Start to a season in which Marc Girardelli Alberto Tomba and a group of scandinavian youngsters seek to replace the retired Zurbriggen a four time Overall world cup Champion from Switzerland. Austrian Petra Kronberger a goal of a i second straight women a Overall title has been made easier by the retirement of five top challengers including 1988 olympic medallists Michela Figini and Maria 1 Walliser. The 1990-91 skiing program including the world championships in Saalbach j Austria that begin in late january also i will feature changes in some downhill i races. 1990-91 world cup ski schedule men sunday a Valloere France super giant slalom. Dec. 8-9 a Val do Sere France downhill super g. Dec. 11 a a Estrere Italy slalom. Dec. 14-15 a Val Gardena Italy two downhills. Dec. 16 a Alta Badia Italy giant slalom. Dec. 18 a Madonna i Campiglio Italy slalom. Dec. 21-22 a Kranska Gora Yugoslavia slalom giant slalom. Jan. 5-6 a Garmisch Germany downhill super g. Jan. 12-13 a kit Buhel Austria downhill slalom combined. Jan. 15 a Adel Boden Switzerland giant slalom. Jan. 19-20 a Wengen Switzerland downhill slalom combined. Feb. 9-10 a Val d Sere France downhill super g. March 1-2 a Lillehammer Norway slalom giant slalom. March 8-10 a Aspen colo., downhill slalom giant slalom. March 16-17 a Lake Louise Canada downhill super g. March 22-24 a Waterville Valley ., slalom giant slalom parallel slalom. Women saturday sunday a Val Soldana Italy slalom giant slalom. Dec. 8-9 a alte Markt Austria downhill super g. Dec. 14-16 a Meiringer has Liberg Switzerland downhill org. In two of the menus downhills the Start ing order for the top 15 will be decided by practice times. The fastest qualifiers will be allowed to chose in which spot they would like to Start. Italy a Alberto Tomba. Aiming for Overall title giant slalom Supert dec. 21-22 a Moraine France downhill slalom combined. Jan. 6-7 a Bizeau Mellau Austria downhill slalom combined. Jan. 9 a Bergen Germany slalom. Jan. 12-13 a Maibor Yugoslavia slalom giant slalom. Jan. 18-19 a Meribel France downhill super g. Feb. 8-9 a a fronted Germany downhill super g. Feb. 10 a Wiesel Germany giant slalom. Feb. 23-24 a Furano Japan downhill super g. March 2-3 a Morioka Japan downhill super g. March 9-11 a Lake Louise Canada downhill slalom giant slalom. March 16-17 a Vail colo., downhill giant slalom. March 20-24 a Waterville Valley ., slalom giant slalom parallel slalom. Berg austrian Gunther Mader and rising r norwegian Star Lasse Kjus have difficulties in at least one of the four events. Tomba a double Gold medal Winner in the 1988 Calgary olympics said he will compete in the super g a against the wishes of his family a to try to keep up with Girardelli. A i must pocket Points from three disciplines if i want to win my first Overall title a Tomba said. A Girardelli is the Clear favorite. I come just behind him along with Furuseth Mader and possibly Nyberg. My teammate Ghedina could be a big  the 23-year-old italian from Bologna nicknamed a la Bombay because of his powerful aggressive style missed most of last season with a fractured Collarbone from a fall in a super g race in Val do is Ere France. Tomba enters sundays super g race in Val Loire France with 22 Points from the 1 slalom and giant slalom held at mount Hutt in new zealand in August. Nyberg 21, who is being compared to retired compatriot Ingemar Stenmark is tied for the Lead in the standings with 25 Points thanks to a giant slalom Victory in new zealand. German Veteran Peter Roth also has 25 Points after winning the mount Hutt slalom. And in the downhills in Wengen Switzerland and Lake Louise Canada Only the 30 fastest skiers in practice will qualify for the race. Those changes Are considered a first step toward major reforms sought by the . Ski federation in the 23-year-old world cup rules. The americans say the changes would Benefit competitors and their sponsors. Some leading makers of ski outfits such As Rossignol and Salomon have suffered substantial losses because of a drop in Winter tourism in recent years and have sharply reduced their sponsorship in ski racing. Chive bigger Cash bonuses from fewer world cup races which traditionally Are concentrated in european and North american resorts Over Winter weekends. A new marketing strategy also is being pushed by the americans and is Likely to be approved by the International ski federation Early next year. . Officials had threatened to pull out of the Competition and organize an alternative circuit if their demands for an overhaul of the world cup circuit were not met. Men and women skiers each will compete in 31 races this season which ends March 20-24 in Waterville Valley  Two menus races already were held this summer in new zealand. The austrian born Girardelli who one of the reforms sought by the . Ski federation would allow skiers to re competes for Luxembourg is considered be a a a a the Best All around skier among the men following Zurbriggen a retirement. A but he recently had knee surgery and suffered a lower Back injury that sidelined him several months last year. Girardelli is Strong in All four disciplines a slalom giant slalom super giant slalom and downhill a and has won three Overall titles one less than the record held by Zurbriggen and Gustavo Thoeni. Zurbriggen who Defeated norwegian Ole Christian Furuseth by 123 Points 357-234 for the Overall title last year retired at age 27. Tomba and Furuseth considered Girardelli a toughest rivals in the Overall Are Superior to Girardelli in the slalom. But both avoid the downhill thus losing Points in that discipline and in combined events. Other contenders such As Italy a Kristian Ghedina Young swede Fredrik by Austria which Hopes to succeed Switzerland As Europe a skiing superpower will rely on Mader and Rudolf Nierlich the reigning slalom and giant slalom Champion. Michael Tritscher is Strong in the technical races such As the slalom and Veteran Helmuth Hoe Flehner is a top Down Hiller. Ghedina 21, won two world cup downhills last season and has greatly improved in the super g and giant slalom. The women who did not race in new zealand begin their Competition with a slalom and giant slalom in Val Soldana Italy this weekend. Several of Kronberger Stop challengers have retired including Figini Walliser and Brigitte Oertli of Switzerland yugoslav Mateja Svet and american Veteran Tamara Mckinney related Story on Page 23