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...Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, West Germany's fine jumping team was having things its own way last week. With only two competitors still to jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing...
Passing for touchdowns is a habit for Winterbauer; he did it twenty times in his Yale career, which ended this afternoon. In fact, on one drive he had to do it twice, as the first toss, to Dick Winkler, was nullified by an offside. Undis- turbed, he waited a play, then fired to Mike Cavallon to make it official...
Gene Coker, a standout performer against Princeton, will start at fullback, and Winterbauer will be in his usual quarterback slot. The starting halfbacks will be Dick Winkler and Herb Hallas, who caught a 53-yard pass from Winterbauer in Saturday's game, only to have it called back on a penalty...
...Winkler repeated the same fault with an aged chestnut gelding called Alpenjäger. With a total of eight faults, that still gave him the lowest score of the evening. The band struck up the German anthem, as it did night after night throughout the show. By last week, the Germans had won seven of the total 14 jumping events, Mexico and Spain three each, the U.S. one and the Canadians none...
...association. West German breeders and trainers worked patiently with whatever material they could find, achieved miracles with gentle handling. (Says Dr. Rau about Germany's Mexican rivals: "They use wires and poles to make them lift their legs. The horses learn, jä, but through fear.") Said Winner Winkler to an American newsman last week: "You have wonderful horses, but you do not organize, you do not train enough. We work harder than anybody...