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Thursday, February 7, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Former KU great battles disease
By KEN DAVIS Sports Writer
When John Trombolb came to the University of Kansas in 1950 from Wichita, he was like many other freshmen. He really knew what field of study he wanted to pursue.
For some, that is a problem that is harder to resolve than it is for others. For Trombold, the answer came in a very unusual manner.
He missed his first semester at KU in 1960 because of a blood disease that sent him home and led to a splenectomy and 38 blood transfusions.
Now he is Dr. John Trombold, director of the Scripps Cancer Center in La Jolla, Calif., where he serves as an inspiration to people who don't have lone to live.
But now Tromboid, who went on to become the first All-America baseball player at KU in 1954, is trying to battle for own potentially fatal illness. Trombord, 47, has hemolytic anemia, a blood disease that includes many of red blood cells in the body in half.
"The thing that bothers you about this disease is the unpredictability." Tromboidal leukemia can last for years. There's no way of knowing. You just have to make the most of each day and try not to get sick.
MOST PEOPLE WHO suffer from hemolytic anemia go through the same type of experience that Tromboid had when he came to KU.
"The first I knew about a blood disease was in the summer of 1853," he said. "At the time I was trying out for the Brooklyn and the St. Louis Cardinals, I really felt tired."
"The problem was there but it was gradual and I didn't notice it for a long time. I had the headache, dizziness and I was blinding. I student hospital and they couldn't find anything wrong. Then I went to my own doctor. Then he found that I had bone marrow failure.
"I missed an entire semester and I had my spleen out in 1950. I came back and played freshmen baseball the next spring. I felt really strong and I had no problems ever with it for half years ago. What I have now is related in some remote way to what I had in 1950."
WHEN TROMBOLD returned to KU in the spring of 1851, he knew what he wanted to study—medicine. But at the same time he played baseball.
He hit 430 in his junior year and he scored 128 in KU basketball players ever to be so honored. Trombolli and his father and younger brother also played baseball at KU. All three were first-time starters.
1945, Trommel signed with the Chicago Bulls for $1 million; years of minor league ball in Fopka and Colorado Springs. Colo. He was going to the University of Kansas College of Medicine.
"I was good field—no hit," Trombold said. "I would've played longer but I just couldn't pull the ball to right field."
FLOYD TEMPEL, WHO took over as base ball coach at KU in 1854, remembers Trombold as a clutch hitter and an outstanding fielder.
Temple said, "At that time, college baseball wasn't as popular as it is now. So, if you were recognized as an All-American you really had some talent. If he had been a pallid hitter, he probably would have set a home run at KU. But his strength was to left-center.
"John was an outstanding player."
Trombold's disease tires him tremendously and as a result has slowed his athletic participation.
"That really bother me," Trombald said. "I love athletics. I can still play doubles now, but I have to stop and take a breather now and that. Raquette and singles games."
"IF THINGS STAY the way they are, I'll be happy. If it gets worse . . . It would be hard for me to give up athletics."
But Trombold isn't slowing down in his duties as a doctor. He puts in 50 to 60 hours a week as a director of the Cancer Center and in private practice.
Trombold was a staff doctor at the hospital for 11 years. In 1974, he started the Cancer Center, which is based on the University of Utah and pain for dying patients and their relatives.
The program receives no government funding, but is given $100,000 budget from the hospital, which was founded 54 years ago. The program received $27,000 from Browning Scripses of the newspaper family.
"WE SPEND A LOT of time figurating out 'ways of dealing up a hospice setting,' he said. "We spend too much on the past. This is something that has been needed. It should be provided for all terrestrial inhabitants."
"The important thing is that we don't want to isolate people. Of these people aren't going to die tomorrow. They might
not die for weeks or months. And I believe people who have cancer have a fear of being alone. That's worse than a fear of dying."
No one can accuse Tromboid of failing to wear the cap. He keeps the busy and he even has an accident in KU. He returns to Lawrence every year for a Club week for former KU letterman.
LAST FALL AT THE K-Club banquet,
the Blame Trombone club of the beginning
of the Trombone club tournament,
the scholarship at KU earned for baseball
scholarship, scholarship, named after
Trombone Club, named after
accident three years ago, went to first
brainian Brian Gray, Newton junior, this
"There's a lot of nostalgia and sentiment in that scholarship." Trombold said. "The school has been good to us and I miss being close to the campus.
"We're really going to beef up the baseball program at KU. I have a real burning desire to help build a baseball stadium. It upsets me when we try recruit that we don't even have any stands. One of them is an old Fletch Floyd Tiemann Stadium. I build a beautiful stadium."
Trombold says that his disease has helped him understand his patients. But the uncertainty of his illness is a reason for concern.
Yet Trombold is living proof of the guiding force at his Cancer Center—to live as well as you can for as long as you can.
"It's like they say, it seems like it always gets the good people, 'Temple said.' But he was a real competitor and a leader on the front lines. He knew where to go because he's carried the burden as well as he has."
Bicycle racer soft-pedals Olympics
By PATTI ARNOLI
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For most amateur athletes, the ultimate goal is the Olympics. But for Steve Tilder, a candidate for the U.S. Olympic road racing team, the Olympics is just another race.
Tilford, who is taking a semester off from the University of Kansas to train at the Olympic Development Center in Colorado and to learn how to manage change to make the country's 10-man team.
Tilford, however, is not certain anyone will go to the Moscow Games. He said the morale of the athletes at the development center was "definitely down."
"It's a hilly course, but I'm light and a woman," she said. "But sure of my chances because there are quite a few good riders here that are older than I am for only 18 Maybe I have a 50 mile race."
"I'M 95 PERCENT sure there's not going
to be an Olympics for U.S. athletes this year," he said.
"For the cyclic, it's not the biggest thing we do. We're playing in the Olympics, But for other athletes, like the women's volleyball team, this is it. The women have been here training for three years."
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Springs since Jan. 1, trying for one of the six spots on the individual squad. The individual race is 125 miles long. There is also a four-man team that races 100 kilometers.
Editors note: This is the seventh in a series about KU's ties with the Olympics. The series will continue next week.
"We've been doing a lot of racing here," he said. "I've never ridden so many miles in all my life."
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When he isn't racing, Tilford runs to stay in shape. He competed in the KU Turkey Trot last fall and placed sixth, although he arrived two minutes late.
"If I would have been on time, I probably would have finished second or third."
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Women's track team faces top competitors
The KU women's track team travels to Norman, Okla., tomorrow for an 18-game trip to the Big Eight. The Jayhawks are tuning up for the conference championships
THE MEET, the Oklahoma Track Classic, will be KU's first look at concession shop Missouri. Oklahoma and Kansas State Jayhawks against the Nebraska Cornshurers, who beat KU and seven other teams at the Nebraska Invitational last season.
Although there will not be team scoring, KU coach Teri Anderson said yesterday that coach would be would
valuable experience for her team.
"This will be good preparation for the Big Eight Championships next week in Lincoln," Anderson said. "We will get to know you better and an idea we have to stack up against them."
THE JAYHAWKS will compete with no spinner Lori Green-Jones, who has been out all season, and their top shot-mitter, Robin Small.
Small injured her left arm when she fell on the ice while running to class earlier this week. X-rays showed no broken bones and the sprained arm is not affected by competition this weekend. She should be ready for the conference meet.
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - Walter Davis scored 21 points, including a game-winning 10-foot jumper with three seconds to go, to pace the Phoenix Suns to a 97-86 come-back victory over the Kansas City Kings in an NBA basketball association last night.
The Suns, down by seven points, 76-69,
going into the final period, outscored the
135-46 to tie the game 82-82 on a layup
in Len "Truck" Robinson with 7-10 remaining.
The Suns, with 14 seconds left in the game and the score tied at 95, called a timeout. They then inbounded the ball to Davis who then set up and for his game-winning shot.
After calling a timeout, and with three seconds remaining, Kansas City inbounded the gate to Gas Gerard for a final shot just in front of the butt. But Gerard, who led scores on the road, was unable.
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