 He was also a keen bowler, averaging scores as high as 297, and won numerous awards and money prizes in his Army bowling league.In 1974, while stationed in Germany he killed a 13-year-old boy, James McClister, the child of American expatriates, and was court-martialed and convicted of manslaughter and larceny (he claimed that the boy's death was the result of an accident on a moped which he had stolen.