The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1991 Page: 10 of 16
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
2-B
Wednesday, Fotminry 20. m\
Magic sparks Lakers
past Rockets 112-103
HOUSTON (AP) — The Los
Angeles Lakers allowed the
Houston Rockets their time in
the first half but the second half
was played on Laker time.
The Lakers did not lead in the
.game until Magic Johnson’s
3-point basket with 8:02 left
Tuesday night and the spark car-
ried the Lakers to a 112-103 vic-
tory, their 10th triumph in 21
games.
“Thp "game showed how our
season has been going,” fakers
coach Mike Dunlcavy said.
"We’re struggling in the first
flqlf and doing well in the sec-
ond, half.’’
• Johnson had a triple double
' with 18 points, 17 assists and 10
rebounds and James Worthy led
six' teammates in double figures
with 27 points as the Lakers fi-
nally overcame Houston’s hot-
shooting guard tandem of Ver-
non Maxwell with 24 points and
Sleepy Floyd with 32,
"Hitting some shots at the end
was what .turned it around,"
Johnson said.
“We said ‘let’s hang in there
until we start hitting.’ You knew
the odds were against them.
They had control of the first
half, we weren’t hitting
anything.”
After the Lakers took their
first lead on Johnson’s 3-poin-
tcr, Floyd, who hit five Houston
baskets in a row in the fourth
quarter, tied it at 90 before two
baskets by Vladc Divac put Los
Angeles ahead to stay.
The Lglyers attacked Hous-
ton’s pick and roll that has been
so effective for them directed by
Otis Thorpe.
"Thorpe was the major em-
phasis of our game plan,” Lak-
ers coach Mike Dunlcavy said.
“Our defense stepped up and did
the job.”
RSS rolls to 7-2 win
LUMBERTON — The
Ross S. Sterling Rangers
continued to stcamroll
through District 19-5A with a
7-2 victory Tuesday night
against the Lumberton Raid-
ers.
The Rangers were led by
Jeff Miles, who earned his
first hat trick of the season
with four goals.
Keith Lewis, Sterling’s
leading scorer with 23 goals
and the district’s top point
earner, scored two goals on
the night while freshmen,
Jesse Lcija made one goal in
the rout,
Mike Gill added to his
assist total as he contribute
on four of the RSS goals.
Head coach Jim Richter
has nothing but praise for
Gill.
“Mike has the ability to get
it (ball) right in there and on
to someone’s head." said
Richter.
With a strong wind in their
face, (i)c Rangers scored four
goals while scoring three
with the wind.
Richter said that even
though the score indicated
Lumberton was a below aver-
age team, it was anything but
that.
“We’re playing pretty
good right now.” he said.
"Wc’rc playing with confi-
dence and it doesn’t matter
who we play. Lumberton
wasn’t a bad team. They’ll
beat some tcaips but right
now wc’rc playing well.
We’re on a roll)” said
Richter. ,
His Rangers will hope to
keep the roll going Friday at
6 p.m. in Stallworth Stadiunj
when they face last season’s
cellar dwellers, the Silsbcc
Tigers.
White-winged doves continue to
expand from the Rio Grande
Nature and man caused doves to migrate to areas outside the valley
.AUSTIN (AP) — They once
lived solely in the Rio Grande
.Valley, feathered jets that black-
ened the sky on their daily
feeding sojourns from Texas to
Mexico and back.
But agricultural practices and
natural disasters combined to
deal a heavy, blow to their
populations; and now white-
winged doves outside the lower
Valley outnumber these inside
the traditional • home range.
And their numbers outside the
Valley are growing annually as
the former tropical resident
proves that necessity is more
than the mother of invention. It
is, in the final decade of the
1900s, part of the process of the
expansion and survival “"of a
species.
“There have been some in
San Antonio all along,” said
Gary Waggerman, Texas Parks
and Wildlife biologist and
whilewing expert. “They really
started building up in San Anto-
nio and Austin after the 1983
freeze.” That freeze devastated
citrus trees that had served as
nesting sites for the birds.
“Prior to that we didn’t even
do any counts except in the
Valley,” Waggerman said. Now
San Antonio has around 180,000
whitewings living inside Loop
410 and possibly 250,000 inside
its outer Loop 1604. The num-
bers have grown enough in the
Hill Country that TPWD will
conduct its first ever nesting
count around Austin in 1991.
Waggerman $aid about
300,000 whitewings live and
nest in the four-county area they
happening with the doves.
"They've always been in the
Valley,” McKinney said, “but
San Antonio and Austin are
outlying populations that spread
from there. 1 don’t doubt that
call home in the Valley. Last happened many times
year, for the first time, whitew- before. You have to look at it in
ings outside the Valley outnum-
bered those living in their
traditional area, mostly in Hidal-
go and Cameron counties.
Amazingly, where the birds
live outside the Valley, "They-
’re almost always associated
with towns,” Waggerman said.
“Probably because you have
trees of better stature for nest-
ing. They need old, riparian,
heavy brush — a thicket with a
canopy,” he said. “If they can
find that, they can nest.”
Throw in abundant water and
year-round feeding programs at
many people’s homes and you
have all the elements whitew-
ings need to live. A string of
habitat losses in the Valley and
a prolonged period of warm
weather provided the impetus
for leaving the warmth of South
Texas.
Larry McKinneys resource
protection director "for-' TPWD,
said the changes that have
allowed whitewings to expand
their range are the very ones
that account for evolutionary
” changes in species. It is, howev-
er, too early/ to tell if that’s
terms of thousands of years, and
that’s difficult for us to com-
prehend because it’s not our
time scale.” ,
Basically an expanding
population would have to be
isolated and able to adapt to a
nontraditional climate for a long
enough period of time to estab-
lish new genes and entirely new
habitat, McKinney said. Right
now, though, all Texas has for
sure is a whitewing population
clearly on the increase in some
non-traditional areas.
McKinney said, though, that
he said, just go ahead and enjoy
the whitewings that now live
around them.
“I don’t think we’ll ever have
a blanket population,” Wagger-.
man said. “The typical South
Texas brush just won’t support
the birds. I do think the popula-
tion of the birds north of the
Valley will continue to grow
and we’ll hold on to our birds
down here. The northern birds
are just a plus.”
Notes on the white-winged
dove:
— Recognition: 11 to 12
inches long^gray-brown with
large white patches on its wings,
tail-long and fan-shaped with
white patches at comers, often
seen in flocks
____— Habitat: Deserts, farmland,
reforestation,C conservation and woodlands and residential
acquisition of native brush areas
along the Rio Grande remain
important for Valley whitewings
and for other species. Most
prominent among those are
ocelots and jaguarundis.
TPWD currently has 2,000
acres of habitat in the four-
county traditional home range,
Waggerman said, and is helping
in planting of native species on
a naumber of tracts acquired by
the federal government. Mean-
while, Central Texans should.
areas
— Nesting: A flimsy saucer
of twigs 4-25 feet above ground
in a shrub or small tree; lays two
buff, white or cream-colored
eggs; incubation about 14 days,
by both sexes; young leave nest
15 days after hatching; often
nests in colonies; raises several
broods each year
— Food: Seeds of weeds and
shrubs, acoms and nuts, and
occasionally insects
Economic fixes
through baseball
My hat is off to-the men who
are now running the baseball in-
dustry. Every economist in the
world is struggling to find a way
to solve th<?economic plight that
has struck our nation and indeed
our world.
Baseball owners, players, and
agents have found a way to
painlessly pump millions into
the stumbling economy.
Give players with mediocre
statistics for two seasons five-
year contracts worth $12 million
or so. Give top stars, men who
can really play this school-yard
game, $25 million over the same
period.
Spend, spcniL spend.
Think about the “trickle-down
effect” at work here. I’m no
Nobel-prize winner (I made a
“B” in economics but I sat next
to a really smart guy) but when
these guys become millionaires,
they probably buy new houses,
new cars, new clothes and every
electronic gadget available to an
American civilian. Think of
what Jose Canseco’s compact
disc collection must look like.
With these multi-million dol-
lar salaries being handed to
young men, who arc demogra-
phically in one Of the highest
spending categories, surely our
economy receives some boost.
Maybe they save a little, but
they can’t help buying, some
new things when they leap into
that next highest tax bracket.
Taxes, they’ve got to pay them
don’t they. Unless they have a
sharp accountant.
Oh yeah, accountants and la-
wyers and other professional
services. They make a bunch of
money and they spend it, and it
just keeps multiplying. More
money injected into the
economy.
And free agency. These guys
can up and move every two or
three years with new and bigger
contracts and no ceiling on the
upwardly rocketing pay scale.
Who benefits? Real estate,
more new houses, movers, inter-
ior decorators, do I have to go
on?
That’s got to be why these
people arc spending this kind of
money. Surely it can’t be be-
cause nobody knows how to es-
tablish an equitable and fair way
of paying grown men to play a
boy’s game* , •
You sec, once you understand
the grand scheme, these owners
don’t seem so foolish.
When I was eight or nine, I
can remember going to the groc-
ery store with my parents on Sa-
turday, the day after my father
had received his paycheck.
And, judging by the crowd at
the store, a flock of others were
Glenn
McLaren
there with the same mission and
ammunition.
What took place was a spend-
ing frenzy. People with money,
product, to buy, money being
spent. The American way. Ex-
cept at the $50 and $100 level.
'- These baseball guys should be
patted on the back for elevating
the scenario to the billion-dollar
level. '
With all of this cash sitting ar-
ound, owners could have shaved
a few dollars off the cost of tick-
ets or a quarter off the price of a
hot dog or made those ^silly
foam, #1 hands a dollar cheaper.
But what would that have done?
It would have appeased the fans
who go to games, those who
support the teams. But for the
entire economy, what would be
the benefit.
But how shortsighted! The
owners’ move has kept all of
that ticket and concession mo-
ney coming in, coupled with the
television revenues that have in-
creased to a level close to the
GNP, and now they have the re-
sources to pull this country out
of this economic slump.
I can’t wait for it to carry over
into other industries. Imagine
policemen making $750,000 a
year and teachers pulling down
$1.2 mill a year, with incentives
for each kid that makes a 106©*
on the SAT.
Sportswritcrs making
$150,000 per story, like some
pitchers who will make about
^that much per start. What a day!
Those teachers and cops and
writers would also spend and
more money would be out there
for everybody and, before you
know it, this economy thing
would be forgotten.
So, you sec, this isn’t sonic
runaway "'escalation of salaries,
some ridiculous situation that's
gotten out of hand. It’s all part
of the plan. It’s the smartest
thing I’ve ever heard of.
Genius, pure genius.
Editor’s note: In addition to.
his work hefe with the Baytown
Sun, Glenn has written several
books and magazine articles.
Among them arc “Jim Bakker:
Our Next Great President,"
(1986); “UFO’s: I Went to Pluto
With Elvis,” (1988); and “The-
League of the Future the
USFL,” (1987).
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