European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Page 34 the stars and stripes sports sunday August 21,1994 cardinals replace president St. Louis a Mark Lamping was hired Friday As president and chief executive officer of the St. Louis Cardi nals replacing Stuart Meyer,.who is retiring. Lamping a former executive of an Heuser Busch cos. Inc., which owns the team resigned monday As commissioner of the St. Louis based Continental basketball association. Meyer who has held the position since january 1992, recently displeased club chairman August a. Busch Iii for want ing to extend the contracts of manager Joe Torre and general manager dal Max vill through 1996. The team was Strug gling at the time and shortly after that Meyer offered to resign. But on Friday Meyer insisted that he had decided last year to take advantage of an Early retirement program offered to salaried employees. Company official said they persuaded him to work for one More year to help steer the club through labor negotiations with players. Meyer 61, is expected to work part time As the team s sole representative to major league baseball on labor issues. Reformulated the Revenue sharing plan that owners have presented to the striking players. Meyer said Lamping was picked As his successor from a Field of four or five candidates. During the news conference at Busch stadium Lamping said he had two objectives when he assumes his new duties Onset. 1. That also includes being presi Dent and chief executive officer of civic enter corporation which runs Busch stadium and the nearby parking garages. First we must provide St. Louis witha winning baseball team he said. And second we will manage the financial Sid of the club to protect the Long term stability of the  Jackie Joyner Kersee soars 23-4 Friday in Brussels Belgium to win the Long jump. Christie Powell stay h of Brussels Belgium a Lin Ford Christie continued his reign Over the 100 meters in the Van Damme memorial on Friday As Mike Powell and Colin Jackson moved a Victory away from sharing a pot of Gold. In the women s 100, Gwen Tor rence edged Russia s Irina Privalova who had been unbeatable since the . Star beat her in the Goodwill games. Powell provided the Best drama witha comeback Victory Over compatriot Kareem Streete Thompson to keep his perfect. Record in the Golden four meets alive with Only Berlin to come. Jackson cruised to an easy Victory inthe 110 hurdles. After winning in Oslo and Zurich Victory in Berlin on aug. 30 will give him at least half of 20 kilograms 44 pounds in Gold. Four athletes went into the Vandamme with a shot at Gold but Amer ican Derrick Adkins finished fourth in the 400 hurdles and Kenya s Wilsonii Peter lost in the 800. After winning a highly charged 100in Zurich on wednesday Christie re confirmed his supremacy Over Ameri cans Dennis Mitchell and Jon drum mond in a time of 10.03 seconds even though he was slow but of th6 blocks. Torrence ran the second Best Tim of the season in 10.83 seconds easily beating Jamaica s Merlene Ottey. Jackie Joyner Kersee also get re Venge in the Long jump. After she was beaten in Zurich by Ukraine s iness kravets and Germany s Heike drechsler she upstaged them with jump of 23 feet 4 inches. Drechsler was second at 23-0. A town storms through to title game by the stars and stripes Kaiserslautern Germany Kaiserslautern big bats earned the panthers a spot in today s army european men s softball championship game with pair of easy wins saturday. The hosts and champions of Region ii routed Frank Furt 26-7 in a mercy Rule shortened game then came Back to rip Region Iii King Nurnberg 15-6 in the win ners bracket final saturday evening. Terrell Burton waved the biggest Bat for the winners with three Home runs and six Bis in the winners bracket final. The panthers await the losers bracket survivor re Gion i Champ Babenhausen Nurnberg or Region ii runner up Karlsruhe in today s noon title game. Babenhausen and Karlsruhe were playing an elimination game at press time last night with the survivor advancing to today s 11 . Loser bracket final against Nurnberg. Babenhausen was relegated to the elimination game when they fell to 10-3 to Niernberg in their second game of the Day. The rail gunners opened with a 7-3 men s dec softball Conquest of Karlsruhe. Frankfurt 9, Vilseck 4 the Falcons opened with a win Over Region Iii run Ner up Vilseck jumping ahead with four runs Iri Sec Ond and closing the door with four More in the  James Nicholson hit a three run double and was one for one at the plate. Stephen Prosser was 3-for-3and scored twp runs. Timothy Hassan was 2-for-3 and scored twice. " -. The scrappers standout was Tim Mono onion who went 3-for-3 with double and two singles. A town 26, Frankfurt 7 Kaiserslautern raced ahead with seven runs in the fourth inning added five in the fifth and eight in the sixth. The tournament has a 15-Nin-mercy Rule. Frank Furt scored its runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Panther Brit Britton went 5-for-5 with three Bisand three runs scored. Arnold Benson hit a Home run Kaiserslautern scissors by the stars and stripes Wurzburg Germany Wurzburg can forget about taking the title three years in a Row. The lady bears made a first Day exit at the women s army euro Pean softball tournament opened sat urday. Only Baum older and Heidelberg remained in the winners bracket after sat urday s Early games. Women s dec softball Wiir Burg lost to Baum older 7-3 in the opener and then absorbed a 14-12defeat at the hands of Region ii runner up Kaiserslautern to go o-for-94 in Post season play. The rattlers failed to place first or second in the Region Iii playoff Sand earned saturday s berth Only As hosts. Kaiserslautern s Jodi Thompso knocked in the winning run in the top of the Lith inning when she connected for double. In other games saturday the Vilseck scrappers shut out Kaiserslautern 7-0. However Baum older then Knocke Vilseck out of the winners bracket by whipping it 18-8. Numerous errors committed by Vilseck were cited for its loss brought five to the House and came across the plat four times in saturday s carnage. Nurnberg 10, Babenhausen 3 the knights slapped the rail gunners with four run sin the second inning and put the game away with three in the third. V a.  a Nurnberg s Walter Carter went 2-for-3 with a Home run and and three Bis. Leroy Henley and Matthew Reilly each also went 2-for-3. Rail gunner Keith Mitchell scored two of Babenhausen s three runs and went 2-for-2. Karlsruhe 7, Frankfurt 3 10 innings Frankfurt tied the game at 3 on Charles Christian two run single in the sixth but a four run 10th sent the Falcons Home. Babenhausen 5, Vilseck 3 Babenhausen came from behind to Send Vilseck Home with a four run fourth inning. Title string the Babenhausen rail gunners hit three Home runs and pummelled the Nurnberg knights 21-10. Lolita Lyles hit two Solo homers and ended the Day with a total of four Solo Home runs. Babenhausen then lost to Heidelberg 13-10, despite the other two Solo homers from Lyles. Both teams had 13 hits four games Are scheduled today with the championship game slated for 2