European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Net gain of a Tennis game you done to Havo to play Tonnia Lika Aca Stafanek Barto Gat a Arciana on tha court. However the better you play the More Cal Orlea you Are Likely to bum up. By Sally Squires the Washington Post or an estimated 23 million americans regular exercise is a love match they play Tennis. Since its introduction in England 120 years ago As an aristocratic Lawn game Tennis has grown steadily in popularity. Today about one in 10 . Households contains one or More Tennis players according to the . Tennis association. The sport requires Speed agility and Power. Players often lunge across the court and Spring to the net which can cause injury for those who Haven t done adequate warm up exercises. Quot we have an old saying you get in shape to play Tennis you Don t play to get in shape a said Bill Norris men s Trainer for the association of Tennis professionals tour. A beginners Don t get much of an aerobic workout because Tennis requires skill to keep the Ball in play. A study by the Tennis association found that during an hour on the court beginners typically spend about 5�?~3 minutes picking up balls. But More experienced players a those who can hit both forehand and backhand shots and get most of their serves across the net a can Burn up to 450 calories an hour playing singles said Jack Groppel a physician who Heads the Usta s sports science committee. Quot playing Tennis can be a tremendous aerobic activity Quot he said. Doubles on the other hand provides a far less strenuous workout. Only the Best players those who go All out during each game Are Likely to  heart fates to aerobic Levels Groppel said. Regardless of a person s skill Tennis a experts said All players need to spend time warming up with sprints or fast walking and stretching exercises. Carol Teitz associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Washington a division of sports Medicine recommends flexing wrists stretching calf Muscles and loosening Heel tendons and shoulder Muscles. These exercises help avoid Shin splints ankle sprains or knee injuries and other muscle problems. The most common injury players suffer is Tennis Elbow a painful inflammation of the Tendon that runs from the wrist to the Elbow. Quot it can come from a bad backhand Ora bad grip Teitz said. Quot or from stringing the Racket too tight from a Racket that is too heavy or from overuse Quot rest is the usual remedy. Dehydration also poses a frequent Hazard for Tennis players who tend to lose a great Deal of fluid playing in the hot Sun. That Means eating foods with a High water Content such As Melon salads peaches and pears. It also includes drinking at least four to six glasses of water1-before going onto the court then consuming at least four ounces of liquid every time players switch sides readers action Linea Afes employees excluded in promotion it this concerns the cafes Europe policy concerning its so called Quot open to All Quot sweepstakes giveaways. Specifically the recent advertisement in the stars and stripes stated Quot the sweepstakes is our Way of saying Quot Welcome Home Quot to soldiers and airmen who served in desert storm a said col. Norman e. Williams cafes Europe commander. A it s also saying Quot thanks Quot to european service members and families who supported the troops in Southwest Asia and kept the Home fires burning Quot two paragraphs later Quot All Active duty military authorized retirees and . Civilian customers and their families can enter the sweepstakes As Many times As they like. Cafes employees and their families Are not eligible to  Why Are service members like myself discriminated against in aafes1 special promotional programs because my spouse is an employee of cafes secondly who Are these . Civilians and their families who can enter without restriction please Don t insult our intelligence with the old saw of collusion or fixing of the sweepstakes. The common sense answer is to use an outside source Agency to select the winners. The term Quot All Quot is a Misnomer and could be a violation of Federal truth in advertising Laws sgt. 1 St class Vincent Tracey Heidelberg Germany be sgt. Maj. Michel j. Bolduc he cafes Europe s sergeant major replies we Are truly sorry you and others with a tie to cafes could t participate. For what it s Worth we wrestled with the eligibility question for a Long Lime. Clearly we did t want to exclude anyone but finally determined we must follow the Standard commercial practice of making employees and their family members ineligible to avoid any possibility of collusion since we had entry boxes in Page 16 a the stars and stripes our stores throughout Europe an outside Agency  have provided the necessary safeguards. The . Civilians and families you ask about Are i d. Card holders who Are authorized Exchange customers paying Back Bas a without interest i am extremely upset with the army s handling of a financial matter that has surfaced since i returned from operation desert storm. While deployed to the persian Gulf my Bas Basic allowance for subsistence was supposed to have been stopped a As it usually is any time you go to the Field. For whatever reason and i really done to care whose fault it is the Money was not pulled out for the entire period we were gone. Now i m being told the army is going to pull out $516 this month to reclaim the whole amount at once. It was not my fault that the Bas did t come out when it was supposed to and there was t much i could do about it from the Middle of a combat zone. The whole unit is in the same boat they paid it to me one month at a time so Why can t they take it Back one month at a time my wife was told she was supposed to set aside the Money each month so that it would compensate when they took it All Back at once the actual Money is not really that big of a problem but it is the principle behind All this. Why should a service member or his her spouse have to set up a savings account in order to have enough Money to feed the kids when the government decides it is time for the Money to come out what if i had been deployed for the original year that i was supposed to would they pull out $1,548 in one month i asked the finance people Why they could t prorate it to come out one month at a time and was told that any Money that comes out of the service member s paycheck in a pro rated payment is charged 9.5 percent interest an exception could be made if the unit would admit to the Quot fault Quot of the paperwork screw up. Then the commander could sign an mfr stating that none of this was the fault of the service member and life would be Good. Weil now the argument is going on Between the s-1 and finance about paperwork. Meanwhile the service members Are left having to pay Back the whole amount this month. Chief warrant officer 2 Boyd a. Tackett Iii a Liesheim Germany a sgt. 1st class Ronald Flynn staff finance no office of the Deputy chief of staff resource management he Usa eur replies All is not Bleak. The debt management act of 1982. Requires that All debts to the United states not collected in Lump sum be subject to interest charges. For debts caused by administrative errors the interest can be waived. The sergeant major of your servicing finance office has stated that the failure to collect the Bas on a monthly basis was an administrative oversight and no interest should be charged. Contact the chief pay and exam Branch of your local finance office to arrange for a proration of your Bas collection your letter presents a Good Opportunity to remind All Usa eur soldiers who deployed to operation desert shield desert storm and provide Comfort to. Review Les _ forms to ensure that All Quot deployment Quot entitlements have been paid and. More importantly stopped properly. To write us -. Readers action line is the readers Quot court of last resort a striving to answer some of the questions about life overseas in a military environment or questions about policies and guidelines when other avenues for answers Are not readily available. If you have a question and Don t know where to turn for the answer write to readers Acton line co the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. Alt tetters must be signed and preference will be Given to those seeking information of general interest to our readers. Monday August 12, 1991