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Tuesday, May 11, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Jeff Thomas will play No. 5 singles at tomorrow's Big 8 tourney
Clarke seeks revenge at Big 8
There's no one word to describe what happened to Bill Clarke, KU's No. 1 tennis player, at the Big Eight Tournament the last two years.
Maybe he choked. Maybe he clutched. He could have been psyched out. But whatever happened, Clarke plans to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Clarke's been waiting for tomorrow,
Thursday and Friday in Oklahoma City for
one year. Ever since he lost to Oklahoma
last year, Clarke has been waiting for revenge.
"That's been my goal all year—to win the Big Eight," Clarke said. "I've been ready to play last week. After my last three consecutive losses, I'm ready to play."
Clarke is approaching this Big Eight tournament a little differently.
"I'm just going to be relaxed," Clarke said. "I'm going to play aggressively, keep the ball in play and everything should work out."
Kirkland Gate, KU tennis coach,
believes Clarke will be read to play well at the
Nationals.
"Bill has had some poor losses going into the tournament," Gates said. "That's going to work as an advantage for him because now the pressure's off. He's out to win. Tres Mitchell, who owns 80-60 chance of beating him if he plays well."
But this year the whole tournament is different. The Jayhawks will enter the meet like everyone else because, unlike previous dual matches, won't affect the outcome.
Clarke isn't the only player who'll be trying to forget last year. KU finished a disappointing fifth after entering the moment with hopes of placing third or fourth.
At this year's meet, each team plays every other pair in a dual match. The teams compete in the school that scores the most points in the duals becoming the conference champ.
Softball squad takes full team
Despite a cut in funds, the KU women's football team today is taking its entire 20-member travel squad to the College World Series, which begins Thursday in Omaha.
A last hour fund-raising drive is making up the difference between what the women's athletic department has budgeted ($900) and the cost of taking the full team ($1,300), Sharon Drysdale, KU softball coach. said yesterday.
Already, a parent of one of the players has backed in to check for $10. Drysdale said, and the team's head coach, Dennis Schmidt,
"I'm hoping to have four or five parents contribute $100 each," she said.
Because every team plays each other, the bewilder may seem unimportant. No, so says the judge.
"a lot depends on the draw," Gates said, "because if you play a couple of tough teams back-to-back, and lose both matches, it takes the wind out of your salis.
"But if you can get some teams who are not as strong for our flat few matches, then you can glide into the big matches and be ready."
When Gates is talking about tough teams, he means Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Missouri. When he mentions teams whom he considers not as strong, he's including Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa State. Kansas State doesn't have a team.
"Oklahoma has that winning attitude behind them," Gates said. "Oklahoma State has always come close, but has never won at the moment." He said that hump. Missouri lacks a little depth at the bottom and Colorado has a good team, but Oklahoma is because of two of its best players have halted.
So where does that leave the Jayhawks? "We lack a little depth at the bottom to wade in," she said. "We are good play at the top (Nom, 1, 2 and 3 singles) then we might be able to win it, too."
Gates said he'd be happy if the Jayhawks finished anything above fourth place.
"This is the best opportunity any KU team I've seen has had to do well at the tournament," Gates said. "These guys are going to be a big asset in the KU tennis unp and the best in the league."
"Our players know what it takes to win. If you don't do the job, they've got no excuses."
Gates said he didn't know who the
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He plans to keep the same line-up that has posted a record of 12-11 this season. Bill Clarke will play No. 1, Tim Headle, No. 2, Mark Hosking, No. 3; Joe Ruyser or Hank Colman, No. 4, No. 5; The Thomas teams will be Clarke and Headle at No. 1, Buller and Colman playing No. 2 and Thomas and Hosking at No. 3.
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Squires fold as credit bid fails
NEW YORK (AP)—The American Basketball Association officially folded the Virginia Squires yesterday, but Jack Ankerson, the general manager of the team, said he expected its owners to continue fighting for its survival.
The ABA said Virginia "failed to cure its obligations to the league and to the players and thus the franchise is terminated," the fourth team to so under this season.
What college women are being pinned with.
The league also said a decision on the trade would Squares players would be made in a few years.
In Norfolk, Va., at the team's headquarters, Ankerson said: "As of yet, I have not been able to relay this to our people, the owners of the Squires. I think tomorrow or the next day I'll have a heck of a reaction."
As a woman ROTC student, I was in the position on the same footing as the team. There are 2-year, 3-year, and 4-year positions available. A young women enlistment program is also qualified to cover all scholarship which will cover the tuition fee as a cadet. Fulfillment is covered by reimbursement. Plus a $100 annual reimbursement. + plus a $100 annual reimbursement. + plus a $100 annual reimbursement. + plus a $100 annual reimbursement.
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The Squires had hoped to use a $100,000 letter of credit to pay off their debts and regain admission to the ABA, but apparently that bid failed.
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According to sources close to the team, 10 letters of credit amounting to $1 million were being held by a New York bank, one from each of the 10 ABA franchises that existed before the start of the 1975-76 season.
A source close to the league told the Associated Press: "Those letters of credit are applied to the ABA and really have no effect on how many clubs except that it's part of their responsibility as members of the ABA to make those assurances. It provides the ABA with a line of credit and insures stability for the ABA not necessarily for the individual clubs."
Dave Blutcher, a spinner and long jumper from Birmingham, Ala., has signed a national letter of intent with the KU track team.
Blutcher has personal belts of 9.5 in the 100, 20.6 in the 220 and 23-9 in the long jump. He is the second signe to be announced by the Jahwaks.
KU signs sprinter
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