European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 26,1987 the stars and stripes sports letters Paga 23 Dot editor approximately two weeks ago i read an article in the sports Section about Camp new Amsterdam s Deci Sion to drop several sports from the Continental sports conference. The morale. Welfare and recreation offi cer gave the reason As having Only one Revenue producing source on Post the Bowling Center. He further Winlon to list several sports under consideration for being dropped the firs being bowl ing. A one who travels throughout the Benelux area to numerous Bowling tournaments it is easy to see How popular he sport has became. 1 am sure i am not alone in stating that bowlers in the military Are not getting a fair return on their investment. My fellow bowlers and i spend a lot of Money every year supporting the Post Bowling centers which in turn support nearly every other activity on Post. We ask Little in the Way of recognition just maintain the lanes prop Erly Ana provide a atmosphere conducive to Good Bowling. It seems All we get arc annual increases in costs and fewer benefits. What do you think would happen if you charged ii a game to play Basket Ball and a Quarter for shoe ? when was the last time you saw a live bowl ing event on an when was the last time you saw any Bowling even on an maybe what bowlers should do is to take their business to lanes on the Economy where it is More expensive but appreciated much More. Let theother sports support themselves. James p. Grhim shape Belgium dear editor As a football fan and fan of Quarter Back Doug Flutie j was absolutely enraged at the reporting of the bean redskins playoff game in the Jon. 5 Issue of Slars and stripes. The kind of insinuations and outright falsities which the article s author. Dave Goldberg made casually would make b reporter for the notional enquirer flinch. For starters the article introduces flu lie As a la sol  now i would say in All likelihood a Good so percent of All nil players and All Heisman trophy winners prior to Flutie have acquired sufficient mate rial wealth to be rightly called millionaires. Why does or. Goldberg find it indispensable to include this fact about Flutie mention was later made or Chicago halfback Walter Payton without any reference to his financial situation even though his net Worth probably surpasses logarithmically that of Flutie. The article then stated that Flutie was forced into service As the Start ing quarterback because of the ineffectiveness of backup quarterbacks Mike Tomczak and Sieve Fuller. Is this to Menn flu lie would jus As soon collect his fat paycheck silting on the Bench and that Mike Ditka had to hire an Arm contortion specialist just to Jet Flutie onto the Field Doug flu tic the Man who inspired millions Ai Boston College with his Hustle team spirit and sense for he extraordinary finally the article Stales the redskins. Literally allowed nothing but a 50-Yard to pass from Flutie. In other words Flutie and the bears with the exception of the to pass and Payton s previously mentioned Rush ing performance compiled a net offensive Yards total of nothing Zero. However when one turns the Page to read the line score Flutie is attributed with 127 Yards passing which Means 77 Yards in addition to the to pass. In other words or. Goldberg s statement literally is a lie. Such partial sports reporting has no place in a National newspaper which in t based in a particular City. Next time i would Hope that stars and stripes will censure the entire article and that Dave Goldberg unless he aspires to spend the rest of his journalistic career in Federal courts will keep his personal vendettas against particular athletes to himself. Charles c Baylor Augsburg Germany dear editor first of All i would like to congratulate Stan and stripes for its exceptional High school sports coverage. Its involvement in High school sports is also commendable by involvement i am talking about in All Europe selections. Player of the week Yea Rand Ben Abrams commentary As Well another extras. As you can see i am supportive of High school sports in stars and stripes despite the snubbing of fullback Mike Brown for All Europe the oversight of Wurzburg s Brown is a debate for another time. My complaint rests with the an evening news which has never Cov ered High school sports since i have been Here 1985. High school sports involves Many students players and parents and has a positive effect of the Community As Well As morale for soldiers with nothing to do. Not enough Lime in a newscast for it my solution to that would be to Slop showing reports that came off esp a nth sports and others and use original journalism that concerns us in Europe. Lloyd Guy Al Tongen Gen Muy Dallas romps Over lakers from press do Pitche Dallas the los Angeles lakers the Aba s winning St learn playing their fifth consecutive Road game bowed to the Dallas Mavericks 132-117 saturday. We caught a team that s tired and replayed he Besl to could  Dallas coach Dick Moi i said after the Victory. This game was Good for the Aba. Ii did t Hurt it a by. We probably could have beaten anyone the Way we played Mark Aguirre scored 35 Points and Brad Davis came off the Bench o scone 21 As the lakers yielded a season High no Roundup Point total and had their six game win Ning Streak snapped. The lakers Are now 32-9. Aguirre really came to play. He played really Well. Davis was unbelievable. He gave us the needed lift we had to have com ing off the Bench Motta said. Our intensity from the first to last Sec Ond was the same. It s the first time i be Ever seen that with a Mavericks team said Aguirre who needs just two More Points to join the 10,000-Pointclub, i did t know he needed two More or i would have put him Back in there Malta said Aguirre scored his Points in three Peri ods and watched from the Bench for All but two minutes of the fourth Quarter. Lakers coach pal Riley refused tomake excuses for his team. We just got our tails ripped royally he said. They just blew us away. It was embarrassing. 1 could think of a myriad of excuses but they just did a Job on us. We just have o lick our wounds and come Back tuesday night. Davis gave them a big Ifil. He s a Veteran with a lots of savvy. If you dont respect him he will kill  Davis who scored his season High said he just got into the flow of the offence and the shots began to  Dallas led 102-89 at the end of Hie third Quarter and built the Lead to 22 Points Midway of the fourth Quarter. The lakers leaders of the Pacific division were led by magic Johnson who scored 25 Points and Mareera Abdul Jabbar who had 24, Sam Perkins had 11 Points and 12 re Bounds for the Mavericks who Lead the Midwest division with a 26-14 record. The defeat was Only the third in Lak ers last 17 games in other Aba games saturday hawkt97,snkrsoaks87 Atlanta Dominique Wilkitis scored 41 Points As the Atlanta Hawki snapped a four game losing Streak with a App nou Mark augure. 2 Points Short of 10,000 Victory Over Seattle. Wilkins had 12 Points in the third Quarter when Atlanta stretched a 51-49 half list Lead to 73-65. The sonics were never Able to get closer than five Point the rest of he Way. The Hawks built the margin to 77-65 Early in the final Quarter before Seattle reeled off seven consecutive Points on baskets by Xavier Mcdaniel and Alton Lister sandwiched around a three Point shot by Dale Ellis who paced Seattle with 27  104. Pacer 10 Indianapolis Waller Davis scored 25 Points rallying Phoenix from a 16-Point deficit in the fourth Quarter and Mike Sanders hit a rebound Baskett the Buzzer to give the suns a narrow Victory Over Indiana Davis had nine Points in the last seven minutes of the game. The pacers who had scored the first six Points of the final period for their biggest Lead at 93-77, missed their next eight shots from the Field and were out scored 15-1 in a six minute Span. Spurs 108, kicks 101 san Antonio Texas David Greenwood scored a season High 31 Points to Lead san Antonio Over new York. Trailing 82-81 after three quarters the spurs opened the fourth period with a see Aba on Page 26 islanders Edge Nordques in of 2-1 fran press did Attucha Quebec Ari Haa pm scored at 2 28 of Over Lime to give the new York islanders a 2-1 Victory Over the Quebec Nordques on saturday night. Duane Suiter entered the puck from behind the Quebec net and Haanpaa beat goalie Mario Osselin from the Slot with a Low shot to the stick Side Gosselin had turned in a Stellar performance in the third period blocking 13 shots by the islanders to Send the game into overtime. Gerald Diduck also scored for the islanders while Biff Destago connected for Quebec. With the score 11 Early in the third second period Gosselin blocked pal Fla Ley s Point Blank shot from the Slot then stopped Duane Suiter less than a minute later. Late in the period Gosselin gloved a shot from the right Point that went through a crowd of players in front of the Quebec net. Nil Roundup Billy Smith in goal for new York also played a solid game. The islanders were minus coach Terry Simpson who was suspended for one game after a Bench Clear ing Brawl with the Philadelphia flyers. In other games saturday Niina a Tamea 3 Boston Rick Middle Iott scored two goals and broke a tie Early in the third period and Dwight Foster had one goal and three assists As Boston Defeated Cal Gary for its fifth consecutive Victory. Mid Jelon broke a 3-3 tie with Bis 13th goal of the season 17 seconds into the final period then added another score by poking a rebound off the backboards Talo the net at 13 48, me was assisted on both goals by Foster and Cam Neely. The flames struck Back quickly for a tie after each of Boston s first three goals before going Down to their sixth defeat in their last seven games. Devils 4, flyers 3 East Rutherford no. Mark Johnson scored a pair of first period goals to Lead new Jersey past Philadelphia. Johnson opened the scoring at 13 19 As he converted pm 4 Power play with a 50-fool shot from deep in the Slot beating flyer goaltender Glenn Resch through a screen he scored his second goal and i5lh of the sea son 5 33 later As he banged in Aaron Broten s rebound giving the Devil a 2-0 first period Lead. The devils got the game Winner on a third period goal by Peter Mcnab who stole the puck from de tenser Tian Brad Mccrimmon and broke in on the Fly see nil on Page 26