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Wednesday, March 31, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Bill Clarke 'beats' all opponents
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
Bill Clarke, KU's. 1 tennis player, has this bad habit of biting people.
Not with his first, but with his serve. It's not that he ting to be mean. Rarely does it.
It's just that Clarke's serve is a lethal weapon. The big 6-4, 200-pounder is going to et go with one of those bombs one time, and then the opponent must have it too. It did not hurt you right in the kisser.
and this night you give the message
"I hit people all the time," Clarke said. "I"
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got a guy from USC (University of Southern California) last summer at the NCAA's in a doubles match. Almost every time I play I hit people."
But with 11 matches remaining, Clarke, a starter is starting to feel the pressure of being missed.
Carke's been moving his opponents down in more ways than one. Those who've been lucky enough to escape the pain of one of his serves have fallen victim to his winning ways. Right now the casualty list is at 10—everybody he's played this season.
"On the southern trip (during spring break) I started thinking about being undefeated because we were playing every day," he said. "Now that I'm not playing every day, I think that thins will change and I won't be thinking about it."
Clarke 's been undefeated before. When he was a senior at Shawnee Mission South High School he won 31-0 and won his second straight Kansas high school singles championship. But he'll tell you things are different now.
One of the things that has helped him to be a teacher is that he said, is the development of his backhand.
"in high school, I could get away with anything," Clarke said. "In college, I've had to learn to do other things. I can't just beat people with my serve."
It may sound strange but I didn't hit a backhand right before last month. Clarke
Carke said he has also been helped by losing weight.
Herzog says Royals better
"I'm 10 or 15 pounds lighter this year," he
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)—Only the four division champions in the major leagues won more games than Kansas City last year, and manager Haily Herzog figures this season's Royals' team should be even stronger.
After Herzog was named to replace the fired Jack McKeen last July 24, the Royals compiled a 41-28 record, finishing with a 3-0 win over the Brewers. The city's 20-year baseball history. After Herzog's arrival, they raised the team batting average by 13 points to 267 and lowered the staff earned run average from 256 to 251. They played Oakland in the American League West.
Herzog cities two reasons for predicting even greater things for the youthful Royals.
"First of all, we will open the season with a stronger pitching staff," he said. "Secondly, I know a lot more about my players, and they know what I expect."
There are other reasons for Royal's fans to view 1976 with unprecedented optimism. First, bassman John Mayberry and third drummer Bill Show all show the signs of beating superstars.
Mayberry signed a five-year, $1-million contract this spring after finishing runner-up to Boston's Fred Lyman in the 1975 voting American League's Most Valuable Player.
The powerful 26-year-old left-handed hitter last year set the following club record home runs, 34; RBI, 106; total runs, 349. The league average, 547. He hit 291 for the season.
Brett, who bats all and throws right,
smacked 195 hits last year to lead the
league, and his .308 average was tops
among the Royals.
The pitching staff was bolstered last year by the addition of right-hander Dennis Meyer.
Omaha farm club, and a bevy of promising youngsters.
Leonard was named the Royals' pitcher of the year after compiling a 15-7 record. Joining Leonard in Herzog's starting rotation as spring training began, were Steve Busy, Al Fitzmrish, and Paul Spiltorff, the only left-hander in the group.
Busy, who hurled no-hiters in 1973 and 1974, seemed on route to a second straight 20-victory campaign when a line drive by the Raiders elbow late last season. He finished 18-12.
Herzog plans to work Doug Bird, for several years the bullpen ace, into the starting rotation. This means that Marty Pattin, veteran right-hander, and Ray Sadecki, veteran left-hander, will anchor the bullpen, Steve Mingori, another left-hander, will be counted on to toughen the bullpen.
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“It’s been a lot easier to win this year,” he said. “Everybody’s more entrusted, trying harder, and we’re doing better. When everyone’s winning, you feel you have to win because if you don’t, you feel like you’re left out.”
Clarke, along with his doubles partner Tim Heathead, made it to the final 16 teams in doubles at last year's NCAA meet. This year the twosome had trouble.
"I hope I can stay undeleted for awhile," he said. "I have to have a good record to carry on, but they have narrowed the field by two-thirds so that I've got to have a good record to get in."
Clarke wouldn't speculate on how long his unblemished record would continue.
"We're just erratic," Clarke said. "We've been hitting the ball too high over the net and giving them (their opponents) the authority to play offense and put us on the defense."
But that's only in doubles. In singles he knows there aren't many players that are maneuvering.
"I think I can play with anybody in the country," he said. "Amateur-wise I'm not afraid of anyone. But I'll still lose to a lot of them."
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