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some with w/d, rent-$315 & up. United Realty. 694-
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REBATE $1,200.00 June Student Special. 1-year lease.
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Sublease 2bdrm/2bath. Colony Apartments. Available
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Summer only leases available. Special summer rates
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Large 6bdrm/3bath family home in the country on 26
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30-foot RV set-up for student living. Includes storage
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Beautiful 1/3 carat marquis diamond engagement ring;
have all papers: $800. 693-7299.
Bedroom full-bed $80, queen-sz. bed $50, night-stand
$25, storage closet $70, floor lamp $15, papasan love-
seat & chair $200. 268-6855.
Living and dining room kitchen table $15, 3 chairs $20
each, sofa $30, drafting table $80, executive chair $70.
268-6855.
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Workers needed for lawn maintenance company thru
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Vet student must sale Oak Creek, 14x80, 3bdrm/2bath,
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Domestic Services now hiring for part-time day-time
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Experienced painters and helpers needed. Part-time.
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Leasing agent needed for small apartment complex.
Drop resume by 1300 Walton Drive, C.Sta.
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Partners Food Delivery now hiring drivers. Apply in per
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Need female roommate(s) for large 3bdrm/3bath duplex.
Own bdrm/bath. Now thru Aug.20th. $200/mo. 846-
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The Battalion
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Monday • June 9, 1997
Inflated salaries, egos
start early in baseball
A few weeks ago, I
spoke to an
acquaintance of
mine, who was con
cerned about her son,
Jamie, and his fledgling
baseball career. Jamie
had played organized
baseball in a church
league for the past few
years and his baseball
skills were improving
rapidly enough that he was
ahead of many of his teammates
in terms of ability.
This came as no surprise to
me, as Jamie had always been an
intelligent lad who enjoyed and
even studied the game of base
ball for most of his nine years.
My friend’s dilemma was how
she should handle her son’s suc
cess on the diamond.
Jamie was nearing the age
when the obviously talented
players were being encouraged
to leave the church league,
which is centered around partic
ipation and inspiring self-confi
dence. Instead, all the adept
youngsters would be moved to
the more challenging Little
League, including Jamie, where
he was more likely to hone his
burgeoning skills, albeit at the
risk of his losing his feelings of
athletic superiority.
My friend was warned by
peers that if Jamie didn’t make
the “jump” soon, he would
miss his window of opportunity
and fall so far behind the Little
League kids that he would
never have the chance to real
ize every kid’s dream, of play
ing in the Big Leagues.
Does anyone else see the
beginnings of a problem here?
Jamie was being asked to for
sake the fun he was having in a
lower-key, fun-oriented league,
to join a more stressful, compet
itive league whose sometimes
win-at-all-costs mentality has
been known to foster poor
sportsmanship and values
among its players.
Sounds like just another
symptom of the competition-
Sportswriter
Matt Mitchell
Junior journalism major
crazed society we live
in. It’s just a shame
that it should come so
early, and at the
expense of such inno
cent and impression
able young athletes.
From an early age,
parents and coaches
alike spot the talented
kids and, faster than
you can say signing
bonus, shove the
players into more and more
competitive leagues.
Summer leagues like Connie
Mack and American Legion
force-feed a steady diet of base
ball and heady self-importance
to players who would otherwise
be acclimating themselves to the
responsibilities and pleasures of
being ordinary teenagers, with
out the ego-trips provided by
aluminum bats and hyperbolic
coaches.
^ ^ As it is, the
game is tainted by
hulking, undisci
plined hitters, who
now rely more on
the weight room
than batting cages
to boost numbers.”
All this might be more palat
able if the brand of baseball we
watch was that much improved
because of this early rush to
stardom. As it is, the game is
tainted by hulking, undisci
plined hitters, who now rely
more on the weight room than
batting cages to boost numbers.
With a shrinking strike zone,
protecting these free-swingers,
pitchers often fail to learn the
subtleties of their craft and settle
for velocity as opposed to tech
nique, then watch as surgeries
and torn rotator cuffs rob them
of their careers.
Today’s fans decry the Major
League’s inflated salaries, but
it’s obvious that they are apro
pos of the status that is
bestowed upon today’s coddled
diamond darlings. Prep players
are often offered more money to
forego higher education to begin
their careers in Class A Flyswat
City. Even if these would-be mil
lionaires elect for the college
game, it usually only takes one
solid season to attract the inter
est of teams who are willing to
throw gobs of money at them.
Just last week, the Houston
Astros selected Rice slugger
Lance Berkman with the 16th
overall pick in the Major
League draft, after which
Berkman promptly stated his
estimated value.
“I think last year’s pick in the
same slot got just over
$900,000,” Berkman said. “So I
would assume the number
would be around anywhere
from $1 million to $1.2 million.”
Not bad for one really good
56-game season and some help
from the common element alu
minum. You have to think Class
A Kissimmee got a real bargain
if, and this is no foregone con
clusion, the cash-strapped
Astros can sign him.
The best player in the draft,
Florida State outfielder J.D.
Drew was passed over by
Detroit with the first pick
because he was reportedly
going to break the bank in
Tigertown. So much for “just
happy to be here.”
I told my friend, as well as
Jamie, just to have fun and let
the rest take care of itself. After
all, if today’s Major Leaguers are
who we’re asking our kids to
emulate and one day imitate, I’d
just as soon as Jamie develop his
other talents. Signing bonuses
be damned.
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Relative unknown
wins French Open
PARIS (AP) — Two weeks ago,
most people had never heard of
Gustavo Kuerten. Guess what? The
20-year Brazilian nicknamed
“Guga” is a Grand Slam champion.
Kuerten routed Sergi Bruguera
6-3, 6-4, 6-2 Sunday to win the
French Open and become the
lowest ranked player (No. 66) to
capture a Grand Slam title.
The victory capped one of the
most improbable tournaments in
Grand Slam history, with a player
coming out of nowhere to beat
three former French Open cham
pions en route to his first tour-
level victory of any kind.
Kuerten is the first
Brazilian man to win
a Grand Slam, and
only the third
unseeded player
to win the
French Open,
following Marcel
Bernard in 1946
and Mats
Wilander in 1982.
Kuerten had never
advanced past a quar
terfinal in any tour-level
event and was playing only the
49th match of his career. Three
weeks ago, he was playing — and
winning — a small-time satellite
tournament in Curitiba, Brazil.
Yet, Kuerten sailed through a
field decimated by upsets, beating
former champions Thomas
Muster (1995), Yevgeny Kafelnikov
(1996) and Bruguera (1993, 1994)
along the way.
Kuerten’s victory followed
Saturday’s surprise in the
women’s final, where No. 9 Iva
Majoli stunned Martina Hingis in
straight sets to become the lowest
seeded Grand Slam champion of
the Open era.
Urged on by his grandmother,
Olga, and other family and friends,
pumped up by chants of “Gu-Ga!
Gu-Ga!” Kuerten played a virtually
flawless match, seemingly oblivi
ous to the grandeur of the occa
sion, grinning throughout.
“I did every shot perfectly,” he
said. ‘‘Today was my best match
of the tournament. I didn’t think,
‘Wow, it’s a final and I have to
win.’ I just play like I practice. I
was pretty relaxed.”
The match lasted 1 hour, 50
minutes, the fastest final since
1980 when Mats Wilander beat
Vitas Gerulaitis in 1:46.
Kuerten bowed deeply to six
time French Open champion
Bjorn Borg, who presented him | ^
with the trophy. He also embraced
Guillermo Vilas, winner in 1977,
before holding up the cup and
kissing it.
“It was the first time I really
believed that I had won,”
Kuerten said.
He dedicated the vic
tory to his father,
who died while
umpiring a ten
nis match
when Kuerten
was 8 years
old.
‘‘He was
the person 1
really loved
and I miss him a
lot,” Kuerten said.
‘‘This trophy and
this tournament goes to
him, and I’m sure he’s really
happy right now.”
An hour after the match, a
samba band struck up Brazilian
rhythms inside the Roland Garros
complex, with fans chanting, “Gu-
Ga! Gu-Ga!” Kuerten emerged on
a balcony with hi$ coach, Larri
Passes. He struggled to pop open
a bottle of champagne before
spraying the bubbly over his fans.
‘T never won a title — that’s
why I don’t know how to open
champagne,” he said.
Hailing from the seaside town +
of Florianopolis in the southern
Brazilian state of Santa Caterina, j
Kuerten is a scrawny 6-foot-3 1
surfing enthusiast who looks as if
he could have walked straight off
the beach.
Dressed from head to toe in the
colors of Brazil, he wore a blue
and yellow shirt, blue shorts, yel
low socks, blue shoes and a check
ered bandana. The only white in
his outfit was a small stripe down
the side of his shorts.
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