Thursday, May 3, 1984/The Battalion/Page 15
endl selected best tennis player of 1983
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t Rambis'o/i| £fv YORK — Well rested
g forwardV^ ^ a y s °f leisure and
as faced a [/ting a nice Florida suntan,
1 Lendl was upbeat about
inson, wliu^tiling except his tennis
ailed a si»U e -
ing blitz inifcf act > after receiving an
, turning jK Wednesday as the out-
lowoul tiing tennis player of 1983,
^ hard as till said: “I’d like to repeat
in' /•v'n'lii n cxt year, but the way my
,nieandw '>s!game is now, I think I
o happen H orec t 1 ancein g° lf - 1P
ing happet'j P roblem Wllh Lendls
kind of soi
ic Mavericbi
nine nothind
ole in the il
game is that he hasn’t been able
to play for almost two weeks be
cause of a hamstring injury in
his left leg. Tuesday was the
first day he practiced without
pain.
With the $500,000 Tourna
ment of Champions beginning
Sunday at Forest Hills, bringing
with it possible matches against
old rivals like John McEnroe
and Jimmy Connors, this
doesn’t allow Lendl much time
to find his form.
“I definitely didn’t have as
much practice as I would have
liked,” Lendl said, “but I’ll prac
tice as much as I can the rest of
this week. Obviously I would
like to do well, and I’ll do the
best I can under the limited cir
cumstances.”
Lendl was still overjoyed at
Wednesday’s award, which car
ried a prize of $10,000. Al
though he failed once again to
capture a Grand Slam
championship in 1983, the 24-
year-old Czechoslovakian was
judged by computer rating to
be the outstanding men’s tennis
player of the year.
McEnroe, the Wimbledon
champion and Lendl’s personal
choice as the No. 1 player for
1983, was a close runner-up in
the computer ranking while
Connors, who beat Lendl in the
final of last year’s U.S. Open,
was third.
Lendl won 68 of 81 matches
in 1983 for an .839 percentage,
good enough to bring him eight
championships. But although
he says it doesn’t bother him
particularly, he continues to be
haunted by his failure to win
due of the four Grand Slam ti
tles.
“Obviously I would like to
win some,” he said, “but I’m not
running out of time. I still have
a few years left.”
If he had his druthers of the
Big Four, Lendl would prefer
to win the U.S. Open because of
its strong field of competition.
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aseball: An Italian dream
ed
its
United Press International
BtSBURGH — David Fa-
of nearby McKeesport,
nsylvannia may make it into
or league baseball via
m. Italy, and that country’s
npic team.
righthander in the Italian
Hill League, Farina keeps
who raiikJig his mother, Molly Fa
ll seven I , hot to gel her hopes up
ilHe’ll catch on with the
. gritan professional baseball
blishmenl.
v arina wants to break into
1 U majors intensely. But his
Dodgers. ■ r wanls even more for
’ l , , v eldest of three athletically-
t-hander ntedsons
te gani^ Olympic Games in
0 against ^tigeles may be Farina’s
and Hhance to fulfill his life-
,atcr : Hmbition — making it to
miim- major leagues.
,e b (avid will fly his mother to
fornia to see him and the
htec ‘ ll! ia ns take on the Olympic
dugoiiu u j n t ) ie non _ me dal compe-
n.
tenders itp,
' lt * 111 [fs definitely David’s dream
iinair ee some thing happen (with
1,1 , | American team) from this,”
bes '' ina’s mother said. “Baseball
lS ?8 e ’ jHife and il is his dream to
rmgApn j|L t j le jj g j_| e f ee i s if j ie
Jp’t make it this year, he’s
no1 S°* n 8 lo ma k e > l -
Jn high school, he had a
n'ti nil with the Pittsburgh Pi
le tiiu , S) | )Ut t j lat was j ast L j nie i
■ading al , W of j f ee i he’s qualified for
it that ft
theft*
qualified
major leagues, but I’m his
ie in
iklahonts Hing out his 90-plus mph
Conte T iiigs for Parma Parmalot,
this p 1S | ina led the Italian Baseball
n strikeouts the last
years while compiling re-
f 14-2, 17-2 and 16-2.
king it' 111
The Soon
f'etence r«
>t) gantf*
iiied Big I
lived in Italy before emigrating.
“We had to provide marriage
licenses of my in-laws and all
kinds of documents,” she said.
The league’s American scout,
John Noce of California, writes
to schools about good players of
Italian descent, she explained.
The first time Noce contacted
David at Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio, Farina declined
to join the league.
“The second year he (Noce)
came back to the house one
day,” she said. “David loves
baseball. That’s all he talks
about. And he thought he
didn’t have anything to lose.
This is his fifth year over there
Farina, who had starred for
several local sandlot teams, quit
a construction job to accept the
offer in Italy in 1979.
He and his wife, Janet, leave
for his apartment in Parma in
March, then return to McKees
port in September or October,
where they live with his mother,
his brother, Deron, 18, a foot
ball player at the University of
North Carolina, and his sister
Donna, 24, who quipped, “I’m
not athletic.”
Molly Farina spoke of David’s
“gorgeous” trophies and med
als, won in world tournament
competition with Parma, noting
her husband, David, who died
in 1976, would be proud.
“He was an avid baseball
player,” she said. “He coached
Little League. He worked every
day of his life with David and
his brother, Dom. This would
be his dream. He taught them
all he knows even up until
1976.”
ar
said he qualifies to play
Italian Olympic team be-
years " se i ie ; s Italian-American —
5 has 1 ;e 0 f h[ s four grandparents
•d ana W
ja to
sntucky Derby field still
", pt down to final 20 horses
United Press International trimmed to 20 just before the
3, said afjUISVILLE, Ky. Normally
Jpon, unremarkable occur-
the the arrival of horse vans
jng to Churchill Downs Wednesday
0 n the oeiled an inordinate amount
[iiniei^itteution.
Ii built fRtpie directly connected
ecause lb the 110th running of the
jgh” Uucky Derby Saturday —
m hot walkers to owners to
pro 1 * 1 oners — were, in particular,
Ic Ban 1 cerned by the sight of truck
e en at l( s L os i n g around corners of
>ney sin Kcrowded lanes woven
gh the barns of Chur-
backstretch.
jat’s because all of them
ifraid those vans might be
ng in still more candi-
for the already too-large
bv field that must be
post positions are drawn Thurs
day.
“It seems the cast of charac
ters is changing daily,” Harold
Rose, owner and trainer of Rex-
son’s Hope, complained
Wednesday. “Il makes it really
difficult to try to figure out
what’s going lo happen Satur
day.”
Instead of reducing and clar
ifying the field for the Derby,
the withdrawals of early favor
ite Devil’s Bag and Santa Anita
Derby winner Mighty Adver
sary Tuesday did just the oppo
site.
Devil’s Bag, the two-year-old
colt of the year in 1983, had
withdrawn Tuesday because the
3-year-oldwas not conditioned
to run the 1 '/i mile race.
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too may be afflicted with that
old urge to play ball.
Dom, a teacher and baseball
coach at nearby Serra High
School, and his wife will visit
David in Italy this spring before
the Olympics.
“I’m just wondering what’s
going to happen when he goes
there now,” Farina mother said.
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