Page 16 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1978
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Young tennis stars warned by elders
By MILTON RICHMOND
United Press International
NEW YORK — Systematically,
almost deliberately, some of today’s
biggest stars are destroying the
game of tennis, and to make it
worse, they’re so indifferent, so in
sensitive, so utterly stupid, that
they can’t see they’re demolishing
themselves as well.
Don Budge can see it, though.
So can Jack Kramer, Fred Perry,
Rod Laver and Ellsworth Vines.
Among some of the great women
players of the past, Alice Marble,
Doris Hart, Helen Hull Jacobs and
Margaret Osborne duPont are able
to see what is happening also.
All of them, along with a half
dozen other former standouts, have
put their signatures to a strong,
thought-provoking open letter ad
dressed to Today’s Stars from Yes
terday’s Champions.
The letter is conspicuously dis
played across two entire pages in
the September issue of Tennis
Magazine but judging from those it
was generally directed at, players
like Hie Nastase, Jimmy Connors
and young John McEnroe, it might
as well have been written on the
wind for all the good it figures to do.
The letter starts off by saying:
‘‘This letter is an urgent appeal
that we — as tennis champions of
the past — address to those of you
among the stars of today who, we
believe, are damaging the game by
your conduct.
“Tennis has given you, as it gave
us, much in terms of satisfaction,
recognition and opportunities for
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games
What’s in a name? Unfortunately
for Southwest Conference football
coaches, odd and off-the-wall sur
names don’t make for trips to the
Cotton Bowl.
As in every year and every con
ference, the SWC has its share of
non-everyday last names, he it
Belcher and Burgers of Texas A&M
University or Mudd and Box of
SMU.
These are the kind of names that
will throw Mutual Radio Network
mikemen into a tizzy come Saturday
play-hy-play, or at least yield some
giggles from the press box.
The TCU Horned Frogs’ 1978
football roster has the largest
number of names to choose from,
with 107 listed on the varsity and
freshman squad rosters. Junior
linebacker Charlie Abel will surely
be qualified as “Able Abel” at some
point in the season. And won’t
writers have fun with the likes of
Donnie Ashenfelter and Robert
Hoot?
When a question arises with the
TCU squad, get the answer from
Chris Judge. Then of course there
could come some confusion be
tween Duncan Still and Bobby Es-
till. And why not ask Brad Goen
where he’s goin’?
The Mustangs of SMU will have'
their share of plays on words in the
roster. A pair of sophomore re
ceivers in tight end Gleen Box and
split end Jack Boys could some day
replace the M&M cliche with the
“Box and Boys boys.” And announ
cers will have fun with David
Dykhuizen. All Mustang followers
know there’s a Ford in the Mustang
tank, and running back Lee Jeane
could have a future as a promoter of
denim trousers.
The Aggies will introduce Temple
Aday from Arlington to the season.
And certainly Raymond Belcher and
Mark Burger can team up in the re
staurant business with the double
cheese Belcher-Burger.
Texas A&M has the only player in
the SWC with a double last name.
That’s freshman halfback Roger van
Sant from Houston Westchester.
Th e Houston Cougars have a
Black and three Browns listed on
the roster. While the Coogs stick
well with American names, sporting
three Joneses, a couple of Loves and
a pair of Taylors, names like Jugaj-
tis, Greenawalt and Jermstad add a
bit of flavor.
The Arkansas Razorbacks have a
Bobo and a Moon, to go along with
Bobby Duckworth and the reliable
Ronnie Trusty.
Texas Tech junior James Hadnot |
will continue to be a favorite among
surname enthusiasts, along with!
quarterback Tres Adami.
The Baylor Bears will try to prove 1
unbreakable this year with freshman
Bobby Glass of Duncanville joining
brother Bill Glass. That twosome is
following in the footsteps of dad Bill
Glass, former Baylor All-America.
Andrew Melontree, a 200-pound
defensive end, won’t be picked on
often.
The Texas Longhorns are now
down to just two Campbells with
Tyler’s Tim and Steve. But the
Johnsons and the Joneses still prove
somewhat confusing. If the radio
and tv announcers thought Russell
Erxleben was a tough name to pro
nounce, wait until they try Terrance
Tschatschula.
The conference does have its
share of presidential namesakes.
The 1978 rosters show 11 Johnsons,
seven Taylors, five Wilsons, four
Adamses, two Carters, Jeffersons
and Jacksons and one Harrison,
Washington, Monroe, Polk and
Hamilton.
personal growth beyond the scope
of the game. And that’s to say no
thing of the huge financial rewards
you’ve received that were un
dreamed of when we were in our
primes.
“But how have you repaid it?” the
letter goes on. “By debasing tennis
—> its standards, its traditions, its
reputation — and jeopardizing its
future.
“We recognize that much of the
problem can be traced to the influx
of big money into tennis during the
past few years. The frenzied pursuit
of money, though, is no reason to
cheapen the game.
“Let’s make it plain: we re not
knocking everybody . But you guilty
ones — you know who you are.
You’re the players who berate and
attempt to intimidate officials, who
make obscene gestures at linesmen
and fans, who use the foidest lan
guage at the least provocation, who
default using transparent excuses,
who smash racquets, who do ‘your
own thing’ with little or no regard
for the wishes or sensibilities of
those about you.
"We re particularly distressed by
the influence your behavior is hav
ing on young players. More and
more kids are stretching the rules
whenever they can; more and more
are arguing vehemently about line
calls, throwing temper tantrums
when they can’t get their way. And
why not, they say. If you, the pros,
can get away with it, why can’t they?
“But you can’t get away with it
forever. ”
No truer words were ever said.
Under suspension now for what
the International Men’s Pro Council
calls “aggravated behavior over the
past two-and-a-half-years,” Nastase
is ineligible to compete in the U.S.
Open at Flushing Meadow.
If that bothers him at all, he
hardly shows it. He should worry.
What’s another tennis tournament
to Nastase, even if it happens to be
the U.S. Open?
Connors always was buddy-buddy
with Nastase, even looking up to
him when he first started.
Now Connors has the idea he’s
above tennis itself.
Certainly above the press, to
which he gives no interviews.
That strikes me as rather ridicul
ous considering how he went out of
his way to make himself available
and even court the press when he
first was starting out.
I distinctly remember how Con
nors attended a news conference to
which he wasn’t even invited a few
years back. Nastase was supposed to
have been the key figure of the oc
casion, but Connors, who came with
his then manager. Bill Riordan,
talked up a blue streak and plainly
welcomed all the attention he was
getting from the press.
He figures he doesn’t need it
anymore, he has all the money he
wants, so why even lower himself by
communicating with those who pay
to see him play t h r0U nU
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