European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 5, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 21prep picking Strack and Field Bible arrives it Isnit even Spring yet but the latest edition of the America in Europe High school track and Field Honor Roll already has hit my desk. Ramstein coach Bruce Steffensmeier has already updated his masterpiece to include All the 1991 achievements by Ramstein athletes athletes from other schools who have competed on the Ramstein facilities the 1991 Germany aaa championships and the 1991 Central european championships. The track and Field a a Bible is More Complete than the weekly Honor Roll the stars and stripes will carry once the season gets under Way March 28, because ours is based on winning times distances and Heights while Bruce delves into second and third place finishers in his records. It happens quite often that people who finish second and More than once in a while that third place people in some meets Post better Marks than people who win in other meets where the Competition might not be so Stern. The a amps logic for running winners Only in its weekly Honor Roll is that if three people in the same event happened to better the existing record a team conference world whatever a Only the Best one would be officially registered As a new record. The Steffensmeier production lists the top 10 female and male competitors in every category while the a amps Honor Roll carries Only the top three winning performances in each event and a amps also lists Only the top two finishers in each event in sundays summaries because of space limitations. Bruces compilations also include some times distances and Heights that Are better than the Dodds Marks because Dodds records can be established Only in the official conference championship meets in country championships and the Central european meet. During the mid-1970�?Ts, when the Europe wide championships were abandoned some communities picked up the Slack and staged invitational championships in which better than Dodds achievements were recorded. There also have been a few occasions when Dodds records were eclipsed in regular sea son meets and Bruce also lists those in his very Complete production. For instance Giessen a Mike Harris ran a 10.4 Century in 1985, but the record first established by Kaiserslautern a Clyde Wooten in 1963 and tied eight times since including by Vilseck a Emanuel Reddix last year is 10.6. Bruces records also show better than Dodds Marks in the boys 200 meters by a Steve Moore and incur like a Bryon Randolph 110-meter High hurdles by Mannheim Scorey Jenkins triple jump by upper Heyford a Mike Gray and High jump by Cairo a Eric Sullivan and Lahrs Phil Cady. Kaiserslautern a Alonzo Babers 21.5berlins Harry Smith and osterholz Sperry Hampton 14.4 and Frankfurt a Doug Henderson 48-11 and Troy Gray 6-91/ hold those respective Marks. The High jump is the Only girls event in the better than Dodds category. Lahrs Deb Mclnnis and Munich a Stacy Sanford have cleared the official height of 5-43/4 registered by Nairn bergs a Tarreka Smith two years ago. Troy Gray set his record in the 1991 Central euro Ben Abrams All Europe reminder coaches Are reminded that the time has come to get their nominations with Complete statistics and a photo for All Europe basketball consideration into the stars and stripes sports department. Already 13 nominations have been received but the deadline is Only a week away and every the civilian address is All Europe stars and stripes Postrach 11 1437, d610o, Darmstadt 11, Germany. Apo mail comes to All Europe stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. 1991 Dodds records 3 records were added to the latest edition of the America in Europe High school track and Field Honor Roll. Shot put Augsburg s Tarshia Bronner hit 43 feet 3 1/2 inches old record 38 feet 1 1/2 inches High jump Frankfurt s Troy Grey hit feet 9 1/4 inches old record 6 feet 9 inches 800 meters Wurzburg a Mike Daniels hit 1 53.3 old record 1 53.5 stripes athletes of the year. Gray was graduated last Spring but Bronner is still competing at Augsburg. Quot a a a Twenty six of Dodds elite basketball players took part in the two Day tryouts at Frankfurt High school Over the weekend for the team that will represent the territory m the Cholst France cadets basketball tournament april 18-20. And head coach Tom Leblanc feels he has another outstanding cast for the 12-team tournament. A we had very competitive workouts at Frankfurt last weekend and it was quite difficult to Cut the squad Down Terrell dial to the 12 players we picked to go to Cholst Quot Leblanc. Said monday. A the other coaches Karlsruhe a Darrell mood and Wiesbaden a Karl Wendell and i feel very Good about this years team. We done to have any giants but we have Good Overall size depth and quickness and we rate this years squad up there with the Best we be taken to the tournament a Leblanc added. Nairn bergs a Terrell dial 6-6 and Wiesbaden a David Cole 6-0 return from the squad which finished second to a team from Harlem a Riverside Church last year. Others selected for Dodds seventh team in the 11-year history of the tournament include sons Terburgh a Justin Cole 5-9 and Burnell King 6-1heidelberg a Lamar Cox 63 and George Ackers amps plans when he erased a 6-9 Mark by Cady turned in it a 1984only two other Dodds records were established last year. Augsburg a Tarshia Bronner hit 43 feet 3vz inches in the shot put to erase the 38-1v Mark set by Lahrs Danielle Larose in 1990. Wurzburg a Mike Daniels took two tenths of a second off the record Heidelberg a George Jackson set in 1973 with a 1 53.3 clocking in the 800 meters. Troy Gray and Bronner were the 1990-91 stars and son 6-1mannheim a Mike Balistrei 5-8 ram Stcin a Louis Foust David Cole 6-0berlins Kali Robinson 5-11giessen Sloby Jordan 6-6hanau Scory Whitaker 6-5 and Munich a Atila Barlas 6-5 i. A we generally fare pretty Well against the european teams but the Riverside team we played in the finals last year was a notch above the rest of the Field a Leblanc added. A that team is coming again this year and in a sure it will be very Good Dodds has finished second three times in the tournament and Bamberg a Rodney Harrell and Wurzburg a Mike Brown former stars and stripes players of the year have walked off with most valuable player awards. The Dodds team has a series of weekend Battles against German teams before heading for France. Its first encounter is against the Junior team from to Langen at Frankfurt High school saturday at noon. Tha stars and st toss Strawberry defends criticism in new Book Vero Beach Fla. A Darryl Strawberry said he was merely speaking the truth when he criticized new York fans and his former team the mets in his upcoming Book. A the Point is i think this is a matter of telling the truth a said Strawberry whose autobiography a Darryl a is scheduled to be released in the near future. A a lot of Guys write sports books and done to really say the truth. They go around it. In my Book i speak out on my experience in new Strawberry played for the mets for eight seasons before he signed a five year $20.25 million contract with the los Angeles dodgers As a free agent before the 1991 season. In the Book Strawberry discusses his drinking during and after the 1986 playoffs accuses the mets of insensitivity toward Black players and describes his Battles with alcohol and wife Lisa. A i Felt As if i were playing baseball at dred Scott memorial Park in downtown Johannesburg instead of in the Middle of new York City a he writes adding later that there was a different Standard for Whites like Keith Hernandez and Blacks like cookie Wilson or Dwight Gooden. Strawberry also suggests Gooden May have used cocaine during the 1986 playoffs and world series. In a news conference at the dodgers Spring training Complex tuesday Strawberry continued his assault on the team and people he left behind. He referred to the new York Media with whom he battled As being a a sick and said mets general manager a1 Hara Zin a knows nothing about Harazin and mets chief operating officer Frank Cashen declined to comment. A a in a shocked he did it a Gooden said of Strawberry a comments. A it was his a i done to understand Why he would want to alienate the people he really cares about a mets Pitcher David Cone said. A a we re talking about Darryl a Best friends. Its very confusing. You done to do that to Strawberry reiterated statements in the Book that he a was no to surprised to learn that Gooden needed treatment for cocaine addiction following the 1986 season. A the pressure was so intense it made everybody do crazy things a Strawberry wrote of that world championship season when he separated from his wife after striking her and breaking her nose. A i know there a no excuse for hitting your wife just like there a no excuse for being an alcoholic a he writes. A but the truth is that in Man alcoholic and i hit Lisa so hard i sent her flying backward and broke her nose. In a sick to my Stom Ach Over what i did and How 1 Hurt her and i blame asked about How a Book of this Type jibes with the Christian Faith he discovered last year Strawberry replied a a in a not trying to justify anything. In a talking about my life in new York. I got a Chance to Tell my life Strawberry said he considers himself to be a victim of new York during his years there and reiterated earlier statements that he so glad to be out of however he insists he remembers fondly people he played with and harbours no lingering bitterness toward the City or the team. A i have no More of that bitterness and frustration inside me toward new York a a he said a because in a no longer there. A what i did is Tell about my experiences in new York. It s my Book. Its a great Book. In a proud of
