European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. May 23, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 21prep pickings one Dodds record was smashed and another was equated last week in in country and Central european qualifying track and Field Competition Augsburg a Tarshia Bronner tossed the shot 43 feet inches in the Southern regional at Ansbach to blast the old Mark of 37r5%, set by Lahrs Danielle Larose in 1989, out of the listing. Bronnert a toss of the 8-Pound, 13-ounce shot even surpassed the 42-2-% record set by Wiesbaden a Stefanie Bertram in 1982 with the 8-Pound sphere., Vilseck a Emanuel Reddix made the logjam around the 100-meter Mark even Rhory cluttered Withan official 10.6 clocking in the same Southern regional. He joins Kaiserslautern a Clyde Wooten who set the record Way Back in 1963, Munich a Brian Mcfarland Madrid a Bill took Wiesbaden a Mike Davis and bit urge a Ken Smith on the top rung of the 100-Rccord-holding ladder for the second straight week Riddix was Well under the 10.6 clocking with a 10.52 time a he had a. 10.54 in the last regular season meet a but the event was hand timed and the 10.52 was bumped up to 10.6 under track and Field rules. Bronner Reddix and All other track luminaries went for More records in this weeks Central euro a pea championships at Munich s Dante stadium wednesday and a a Heidelberg a boys and girls prevailed in the big schools soccer tournament last week the boys beating Pitburg 6-5 in the shootout after the two teams battled to a 1-1 tie and the girls toppling Kaiserslautern 2-1 on Shannon Gulyasy penalty kick. 1 this week its Small schools time. The boys play at berlins the girls at Bonn. Karlsruhe and Hahn boys won the a North and Bennor. Regular season championships respectively and automatically qualified for. The tournament they also won their tournaments. So the. Tourney runners up a Enenora a Brussels and a North osterholz advanced. The a South posed a different picture Munich Berlin and Augsburg tied for the league title in an a a i cat him he beat you you beat me Cycle that put All the marbles in the tournament Basket a and Augsburg fell by the wayside., the Bonn Vilseck and Karlsruhe girls All won thebe Abrams Bennor a South and a North conferences with perfect regular season records Bonn for the second St Raigh t year a and All won in As t week a ton r n a me n t. Competition. A a so the Small schools girls tournament should be quite competitive. Rounding out the six least Field for fridays Competition Are Brussels from the Ben enor. Fulda from a North and Augsburg from a a South. Augsburg finished second in the tournament after finishing third Iti the regular season. By Ivy a Yyi y a a by by by a Fey Fenety a new senior All around Champion is guaranteed saturday when the. Three Day Central european gymnastics Competition concludes because three time Winner Heather Forbes of Ramstein has graduated 1 a the tournament unfolds thursday through saturday advancing from the class 4 beginners group., through the class 5 intermediates to the class 6 advanced performers. A Forbes is still scintillating in gymnastics. She made the team As a freshman at Western Michigan University and broke the school record with a 9.5 score on the a Nevin bars. 1 Frankfurt coach Pat Farrell will be making her last appearance As a Dodds gymnastics Mentor this week. After 20 years in the system Pat and her husband Buzz will be leaving Dodds to return stateside. A 1 Pat Farrell was in on the beginning of the Dodds gymnastics program first coaching in 1972, when Wirz Burgh a Marlene Verny staged a one Day clinic and then held a one Day meet under the auspices of the girls athletic association. The Gaa held a Dodds wide tournament in 1974, and gymnastics advanced to interscholastic level the next year. Farrell a Frankfurt Junior High school team won the 1 976 Junior title and her senior teams prevailed in 1981, 1982 and 1988. She also has been the Frankfurt volleyball coach since 1985, when her team won the big schools tournament Quot a a a a. A. ? Frankfurt. International school successfully defended its title in the International schools. Softball conference in both regular season and a tournament Competition last week As Stephanie Zijlstra tossed a one hitter in a 6-0 Victory Over the Hague in the to Virney championship game. Fis was Isa in regular season strife. Although softball Isnit a Odds sanctioned sport outside the ., soft Ball players Are eligible for Dodds varsity letters under a memo of understanding agreement Between the school system and the Usa eur youth services program. Many Slu dents participate in the program with is teams to their respective communities hut accent and shape compete As integral Heth school teams in the Issac. Shape nudged 1-0 in last weeks third place tussle Quot we have established a solid eight team conference which is Quile competitive and i fee Well be. Able to keep softball in the area on a really viable basis even if Dodds never incorporates it into its official said accent conch Dick Brown a prime motivator in the organization of the Woodbridge was t quite As fortunate in its bid to retain its Championship. The warriors and american school of London shared the Regular season Chantri Enship. They met in the title game of the tournament and Asl prevailed 10-4. The eagles Polly Farmer won most valuable player recognition. Woodbridge heat London 11-1 in the losers bracket championship game to get its shot at the eagles. A a a and another Dodds school sports year comes to a close. All that remains Between now and wrapping up the 1990-91 sports year is the naming of the annual stars and stripes athletes of the year the in office deadline for nominations is june i and the outstanding performers should be announced the following week a Vicenza a Howard Buckner and Croughton skis tie t rav Veek we re the 1989,-90 ath Leles of the year. Both have been graduated. So new names will be added to the roster this year. A Trio Stan and Stripe. Angel Fernando s Chance to ascend by Mike littwin the Baltimore Sun Fernando Valenzuela is Back in baseball and this has to be Good. He Wasny to gone Long a just a few months just Long enough for us to understand How much we missed him. 1 know i missed him from the minute the los Angeles dodgers Unar countably and certainly unto manically Cut him at the end of Spring training. They Are the same dodgers who once Long ago deserted Brooklyn. Fiat Ever the franchises assets you want to count soul among them. Finally the California Angels have picked up Fernando and sent him to the minors to scrape off the rust. Soon hell be Bank in the major leagues and though its a stretch to say All will then be right with the world All will be right with a Small part of it anyway. V if its 50 years since Joe d. And ted Williams had their now much chronicled too much chronicled season of wonder it is 10 years since Fernando a Nia took hold of the baseball have been Many great players but none quite like Fer. he was More than a Pitcher and More than a phenomenon and More than a Point of Pride for mexican americans eager to find a hero of their own. He was was mystery. _ it was fitting somehow that in his Windup Fernando a eyes would search the sky As if to suggest his strength and his majesty were otherworldly. So much was strange about him. There was the body the Pitcher As Reubens might envision him and remember he threw that wonderfully idiosyncratic uni la ble unobtainable screwball. He was if any baseball player Ever was if any person Ever was not Only that. He intrigued us in ways that we could a Only dimly understand. Mostly it was the Roy Hobbs in him. He landed unannounced in the Middle of our world a ageless rootless and inexplicable he was the Only player in be Ever heard of w Here the team furnished his birth certificate. To authenticate his age. And to prove he was real since he spoke no English he remained a Garbo like mystery in Ruhp 1 Irti Irwy the Mart oct a edges. In his Rookie season inthe time a of Fernando mania there was the pilgrimage of Gringo reporters which i joined to his Home in Etchol Aquila in Sonora Mexico. It was a Small Village featuring dirt roads and houses with dirt floors and a baseball Diamond with a dirt Field Fernando shared his House with his parents and with 11 Brothers and Sisters. There was no rum Ning water. R the year before he came to los Angeles they put in electricity which amounted to a single precious fragile wire attaching each House to the comforts of the modern world. In Fernan does there was one Light bulb. By the time Fernando made it to l.a., there was a camera Crews landed nearby in helicopters to the amazement of the Village where children still chased after each visitors car for the adventure of it. A wonderful Story developed. When Fernando in ado it big and was making millions he wanted to build his family a Nice House. He built them a mansion right on the same spot where their Little hut had been on the same spit of land his parents could never consider leaving. The Story grew and the leg end with it. He won his first eight games and the by Young award As led his team to the world championship 1teammate Reggie Smith said he was touched by god. But eventually inevitably he grew mortal. Not since 1986 Fernando had a winning record. And this year after the Baltimore orioles crushed him in a Spring training game Fernando was exile. A the news was troubling. Was t Fernando always to be a dodger but then we were reminded that the dodgers sold Duke Snider and they even traded Jackie Robinson who quit rather than face the indignity of it. Set nothing is forever. Besides Fernando is 30 now in his 11th season and a grown up. He Speaks English. He a another guy1 out there trying to make the incredible living available to major league athletes. Where did it go wrong a the innings and All the screwball undoubtedly took their toll on his Arm. The baseball people say there a no snap left in the screwball and his fastball though Nevei overpowering is even less so now. Those arc baseball explanations however. Maybe its simply that he lost the magic. The Angels who feature sex dodger Fernando Valenzuela. Long after Fernando mania Dave Parker and Dave Winfield. In their lineup Are obviously a team rooted in. Nostalgia Mak. Ing Thoni the perfect match for Fernando they offer him the Chance for a Happy ending or at least a happier one. Its certainly i a n oppo r t u Nily for us to see i in again and re imagine the glory Fernando was All about the Power of imagination anyway. The Way they Tell us baseball is supposed to be a and almost. Never is
