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Thursday, April 22, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Daksa dreams of tennis success
America, they say, is the Land of Opportunity. It's the one place on earth where you come true, because it provides potential and actualism is essential.
That's the storybook concept people like to promote during the nation's bicentennial. It's a silly concept, of course, a laughable idea. But for Astrid Datsk, the nation's best female dishin' women's tennis star, it's not far from the truth.
No, she didn't arrive on an immigrant bargain at the Ella Island, wearing tattered clothing, in 1937.
WESTERDAY, she was smartly dressed in the latest tennis attire, and her mastery of English was evident through her expressions.
"The thing is that we don't have athletics in our universities, high schools or elementary schools," said Daka, who goes into this morning's first rounds of the tournament's No. 1, played aerial.
If Daksa had wanted to study physical education in Sweden—something she now does at KU—she'd have a tough time just getting into a school. There's only one university in Sweden, and her mother, she said, and it accepts only 50 new students a year.
"THEERE ARE NO SCHOOLARSHIPS or athletics (in
swedish schools). 'Daleaon said, 'and what I wanted to
do was get the students in school."
an education. And I also wanted to see what America was like.
"I didn't think about staying all year when I came, but I really like the competition and everything that
For Daksa, what comes with competition is victory. In the past two years, her dual match singles and doubles record includes only two losses. Her record this year stands at 21-1.
"I THINK WE HAVE every chance to play very well," Dakas said about KU's prospects in the tournament. The tournament, which ends Saturday, will be played on the Robinson and Allen Field House courts.
"We're a well prepared team," she said. "Our coach, Tom Kiviste, has done everything possible to help us. We've put in a lot of hard practice, and there's really no room for mistakes." So I think we really have a chance to do very well."
Last year, the University of Oklahoma won the tournament. The Sooners edged out Central State of Oklahoma—Daksa's team–for first place honors. But Central State was at a disadvantage.
Daksa called that the start of a series of events that brought her to KU.
"AT THIS TIMES LAST YEAR, our team wasn't allowed to play. The staff and she also tipped Tey (the Central State athletics department)
didn't think we were good enough. So we just brought four people instead of six, and we still ended up second.
"That brought about the resignation of my coach,
and he is going to have a tennis team any more.
I need to leave."
What kind of tennis player did Kansas get? Would you believe a Swedish national champion?
"I looked around and thought KU was a very nice school, and I heard it was very good academically. And I found out that it really was, so I talked to the coach, John Sample, and he talked to Mr. (Bob) Billings."
"I won the Swedish open junior championship in 1972 when I was 17," Dakan said. "It was on a clay court and we played against Switzerland again and Sweden against France, Belgium and Germany. My last year, as a junior, I got third in the European junior championship."
BILLINGS, A LAWRENCE businessman with an interest in tennis, provided the money for Daksa to come to KU. His wife had died shortly before and the family would be benefited as a source of funds for KU tennis scholarships.
"I'm sure I'm going to go to Wimbledon one day," she said.
With a dream like that, the Missouri Valley tennis championships should be a breeze.
By KELLY SCOTT Sports Writer
What began as a fluttery fever in his chest last Wednesday afternoon has ended the baseball season for University of Kansas baseball player Randy Troust.
Doctors don't know what's causing the air to leak from Trautt's lung and to cause pressure in his chest, but it's a serious enough warrant at least a month of complete rest.
Randy Troutt feeling better, but can't play
"I feel 100 per cent fine now." Trout said yesterday in the patients lounge of
TROUT, THE TEAM'S designated hitter, said he would check out of Watkins Hospital tomorrow or Saturday, but the other any other KU basketball games this year.
Doubleheader today begins busy weekend
By JOHN HENDEL
Pitching can be a headache for any baseball coach. And in the next few days KU coach Floyd Temple may be suffering from one such headache.
The Jayhaws play five games in three days beginning with a 2 p.m. doubleheader today against Washburn University at Quigley Field and ending with a weekend series in Lincoln, Neb., against the Cornhuskers.
THE KU PITCHING staff, thin throughout the season with only six pitchers, will really get a workout. It's so thin, in fact, that Temple said he would start two pitchers against Washburn who haven't seen much action this season.
Sports Writer
Loren Taylor, the first game's starter,
has pitched only 4-2/3 innings this season.
That's coupled with his last season total of only 2:2/3 innings of work.
Starting the second game for the Jayhawks will be Stan Messner. Messner appeared in three games last season, pitched 143 innings and was used extensively as a pinch runner.
TEMPEL SAID HE hoped Taylor and Messner could go most of the way in the games today because he wanted to save some nitchers for the Nebraska series.
Randy Trout, batting .328 as this year's designated hitter, will be replaced by Bill Griffin. Trout has been lost for the season with a chest aliment. Griffin is returning to the team after finishing spring football practice
The Jayhawks, 15-10 on the season, beat Wainbran twice earlier in the Topper Kickoffs.
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Trouft said he was in his car when his chest first began to bother him. He hadn't been practicing with the team for four days because of a twisted knee.
Watkins. "And it's not something I'll have to worry about later. With four to five weeks' rest, the doctors say I will be totally recovered."
WHEN FIRST REPORTS of Trautt's illness came out, there was speculation that he had the same pneumonia and pericardium inflammation that kept Donie Von Moore, a center on the KU basketball team, from playing during the 1975-76 season.
But Trout doesn't have Moore's illness. Trout's doctor, David Hiebert, Lawrence Brinker, played with him in the jayhawk line-up by next week, but he shouldn't try to play immediately. He may be able to play in the Big Eight tournament, and there are 35 games for the jayhawks. May 8-12.
Trout, a senior in business, played down the effects of his absence from the team.
“IT'S A REAL GOOD club, and there are good bats.” he said.
But Trout said he was sorry that of his four years as a KU player, this year the was his first year in the KU.
This year, Treault said, the players on the team have eliminated a lack of competition and the players. As a result, the tension of previous years has evaporated.
"One reason is that eight of the players are secure in their positions," he said. They don't have to play with one eye on the bed before getting out of getting pulled for mistakes."
"I's really strange not to be playing," Trout said. "I've played all my life—Little
Trout, a Seattle native whose parents now live in Topeka, said the major effect of his abbreviated season was the possibility of taking a heavier load in summer school. Trout has an offer to play for a semi-professional baseball team in Topeka this summer, but hasn't decided whether he will play.
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