University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 3. 1991
Sports
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Edberg bounces McEnroe while Agassi advances
The Associated Press
WIMBLEDON, England - Defending champion and top seed Stefan Edberg used a couple of short streaks to bounce John McEnroe out of Wimbledon today.
Edberg beat McEnroe, a three-time champion, 7-6, (7-4), 6-1, 6-4, and moved into the quarterfinals.
Top women's seed Steffi Graf and fifth seed Mary Joe Fernandez rolled to easy victories and advanced to a semifinal meeting.
Graf defeated seventh seed Zina Garrison 6-1, 6-3, gaining revenge for her loss to Garrison in the 1990 semifinals. Fernandez won 6-2, 7-5 over fourth seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
Edberg ran off 15 straight points midway through the second set and then won 16 of 20 points in a third-set spurt.
The Swede won the tie-breaker to end a first set that went entirely on serve. The 16th-seeded McEnroe seemed to sag after the tie-breaker
"He outplayed me. When it really came down to it, he just played a little better than I did," said McEnroe, who complained about a few line calls but avoided any major verbal explosions.
"The game is suited to grass, it's a natural," Mr. McEnroe said "Anyone who volleys that well is going to be the winner." He preferred to play a lot of other guys.
Edberg said he thought the match would have been tougher.
"I still believe he can play some very good tennis out there, but he's not as consistent as he was before," Edberg said of McEnroe. "He has lost a little bit of his speed, but he still a lot of greatness out there."
Unseeded David Wheaton reached the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Jann Gumarsson Monday. He was third seed Ivan Lendl in four sets.
Also advancing to the quarterfinals was French Open champion Jim Courier, who defeated 14th seed, Karel Novacek of 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
His next opponent will be sixth
seed, Michael Stich, who rallied to win the final three games for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 1-8, 7-5 victory over Alexander Golovkin in the semifinals of the French Open
The fourth-seeded Courier, whose best previous Wimbledon performance was reaching the third round, easily 13 games in his last two victories.
"it's kind of unexpected to me, because I'm not a natural grass-court player." Courier said. "I'm going to be in the quarterfinals."
Wheaton and a couple of other U.S. citizens — Andre Gassi and Tim Mayotte — had won third-round matches Monday.
Agassi. Wheaton and Mayotte have taken Wimbledon by storm.
The three Yanks have been checking out tourist sites, blowing kisses to girlfriends, showing off their new cars, and showing some excellent tennis on the side.
"The excitement of Wimbledon speaks for itself." Agassi said, "Just being here at Wimbledon and having a good time is much more than anyone really deserves.
Agassi, who defeated Dutch teenager Richard Kriajek 7.6, 6.3, 7.6, stuck with his traditional all-white suit and sunglasses for a few games Monday.
Wheaton, showing off his stars and stripes bandana, wiped out Lendl. The Minnesota boomed 16 aces in the first of the two-time Wimbledon findlist.
But Wheaton was not yet ready to party.
"You can do that if you beat him in the finals of the tournament, but when you're in the middle of the tournament you're still trying to win the whole thing," he said. "It's not just one match. It's not like a boxing match where you knock the guy out and go celebrate."
Mayotte, who smiled through the last three sets of his first-round comeback victory over Michael Chang and then blew kisses to his girlfriend, laughed his way to another victory Monday.
Randall looks forward to challenge of playing for Chicago
Childhood dream comes alive
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
Former Kansas forward Mark Randall, selected 26th in last Wednesday's NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, played for the world championship to playing for the world championship.
Randall, who worked out with the Bulls June 21, was projected as a mid-to-late first-round pick. There were 27 first-round picks. Randall said he tried not to get nervous as the round came to an end.
the bottom of the round I was hoping I'd go to Boston or Chicago."
"My heart started pounding a little more around 13, 14 and 15. Ramp up," he said.
"I love the possibility of going to Chicago, living there and playing for the Bulls," Randall said. "The fact that I am a player in the champions is an incredible thought."
While many of the league's top prospects attended the draft in New York, Randall opted to watch from a寓舍rado house with family and friends.
"When Commissioner (David) Stern said, 'The Chicago Bulls with the 28th pick select Mark Randall of Kansas,' the place went wild," Randall said. "He got 'Mark Ran' out, and that was it."
Although he is relieved the draft process is finished, Randall realizes the challenge ahead of him.
"To play with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen — it's going to be great," he said. "I'll course, it isn't great." I'll Till they go. I'll Till they go in there and work my butt off
and show them I can play. '
One week has passed, and Randall has talked briefly with the Bulls' front office and Coach Phil Jackson.
He said that he had not signed a contract yet and that his role had not been discussed. However, he envisions himself as a reserve on a successful team.
"I enjoy all aspects of the game-defense, rebounding, setting picks." Randall said. "I'm going to be a role whatever I can help to the team win."
Williams was scheduled to undergo
surgery on his right shoulder this week and may have an operation on his left shoulder later this month.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said that playing for a talented team such as the Bulls would be an incentive to Randall, not a hindrance.
For Randall, the draft was the culmination of a lifelong dream.
"The better a team he goes to, the better a player he'll be." Williams said. "I'm excited for him to go to a team the quality of Chicago."
"My mom has a paper at home from when I was in grade school," Randall said. "They asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, I said. 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' Now that's going to become a reality."
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Ed Nagel, Detroit, Mich., hits a volley in the Mainline Tennis Classic at the Allen Field House tennis courts. Nagel defeated Rafael Rangel, a junior on the Kansas tennis team, yesterday
Cricket club loses practice time because of cracked pitch surface
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
As the Kansas Cricket Club prepares for a tournament Saturday and Sunday in Oklahoma City, it is 1-2 and without a practice field.
In past seasons Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets, has been the site of the club's practices and home games. However, team members said field conditions had deteriorated to the point that it was unusable.
In cricket, the ball must be bounced toward the batter. This bounce is achieved off the pitch, a 26-yd-by-4-yard, hard surface between the bowler and the batter. The problem facing the club is that the clay pitch at Shenk is cracked and in need of repair.
Pratik Devathaft, captain of the club, said a clay pitch should be renovated every other year. The summer was built in the summer of 1988.
Devaftahla, Bombay, India, graduate student, said the multipurpose
use of the field made it impossible to keep a clay surface intact. The use of the field by soccer teams also makes them more likely to hold a longer-lasting, concrete pitch.
Facilities operations has been unable to repair the field. Surya Rajan, Patna, India, graduate student, said that facilities operations could not repair the field early in the summer but that it was done 'improperly'.
Rather than digging a new pitch and filling it in with fresh clay, clay was simply spread onto the already cracked surface.
"They did it, but it didn't work." Rajan said. "It didn't last one afternoon. The clay cracked within four hours."
"We tried to play on it a few times, and a few guys got hurt because the ball bounced so unpredictably." Rajan said.
As the pitch must be level to get a true bounce, the effort was ineffective.
Facilities operations has not made a second attempt.
"They couldn't touch it until August," Rajan said. "Hoch has them all tied up."
Devathaff the club had been given permission to sub-contract. They hope to replace the clay surface with lime screening, a hard rubber substance also used to make baseball bases. The more durable surface would be hard enough for cricket and soft enough for soccer.
"Lime screening would save us a lot of headaches and save them a lot of headaches," he said.
The club has not been able to find a sub-contractor at an acceptable price. While they wait, they forge practices and play their home games in Kansas City's Swope Park.
"We can practice fielding," Davenhale said. "But batting and bowling have suffered because it can be costly to win." We've lost our home-field advantage.
Summer sport
Dan Schmidt, an offensive guard for the Kansas football team, looks on as Lawrence- and Kansas City-area children continue their game of kickball outside Robinson Center on Monday. Schmidt and other football team members volunteered their time for the National Youth Sports Program, which is for children from low-income families.
Ty Cobb portrayal goes to Pete Rose
Ex-ball club manager sports casual attire in story of baseball great's legendary life
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Pete Rose said he enjoyed portraying Ty Cobb in a television movie even though his banishment from baseball prevented him from wearing a uniform.
"The last thing in the world me or my people want is any problem with the commissioner of baseball or baseball in general," Rose said during a break in "Olympic" action at Cleveland Stadium. The NBC movie will air Oct. 6.
Rose had his hair sliced back and wore red suspenders, a wide tie and a high-collar pinstripe shirt instead of a button-down similar to the one Cobb wore.
"I've turned my life around and am going in the right direction."
Producers of the movie rewrite a field scene with Rose after major league baseball officials pointed out that Rose's banishment from baseball was in uniform. Rose agreed to a lifetime ban two years ago for gambling.
"This is a great opportunity for me. I really envision it." Rose said.
Rose said he was not upset that the script had to be changed.
"Ty Cobb played for the Detroit Tigers. And, if they said no uniform, that's fine," he said. "The show went on without the Ty Cobb uniform and playing outfield against the Yankees."
The rewritten script left Rose portraying Cobb meeting with Ruth in a New York hotel room. Ruth asks for advice from Cobb, as Detroit's manager, on whether he should manage the Yankees.
Rose said his familiarity since boyhood with Cobb made it easy to portray him, even without the uniform. The former Cinema Reds manager of the Knicks in 1985, with his 4.92nd hit, Rose finished with 4.256.
"Not only did I chase all of his records . . . I heard many stories about Cobb and so many stories about Ruth, I'm probably the only basis for a baseball player, who feels like I know both of those men," he said.
Stephen Lang plays Ruth in the movie, directed by Mark Tucker, who is an acclaimed film critic.
'Not only did I chase all of his records . . . I heard so many stories about Cobb and so many stories about Ruth, I'm probably the only baseball player, ex-baseball player, that feels like I know both of those gentlemen.'
Pete Rose
Elsewhere."
Rose said that when he made an appearance he always insisted promoters understood his ban from the game.
He learned last week that his banishment limits what he can do in baseball on a minor-league level as well.
Rose was a guest on the field at Reading Municipal Stadium in Pennsylvania when the Philadelphia Phillies' Class AA farm club retired Mike Schmidt's minor-league number June 20.
Baseball commissioner Fay Vince concluded that Rose's appearance violated the lifetime ban, but he decided not to take any action against his confusion about the restriction and he considered it a minor infraction.
Rose said the ban on baseball did not mean a prohibition against covering the game as a sportscaster in Cincinnati. However, Rose said he hit three home runs in reviews at Riverside Stadium to avoid questions about his activities.
Rose agreed to be placed on baseball's ineligible list in August 1989 after an investigation into his gambling activities. Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti said he thought Rose had bet on games involving the Cincinnati Reds, the team he managed.
Rose later served five months in prison for failure to pay income
He said he had about 30 more days of community service to perform at a youth facility in Cincinnati as part of his sentence.
"Slowly but surely, I'm getting my debt nailed back to society." Rose said.
The Associated Press
Elderly athletes compete
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When it comes to competitive athletics, 73-year old Richard Bernabe looks up to his father.
"You got to like what you're doing. Why else do it?" said the elder Bernabe about competing in the U.S. National Senior Sports Classic III.
Orlando Bernabe sets a good example. At 96, he's a 100-yard spinner, a state champion bowler and horseshoe pitcher.
'I'm very proud of my dad. People sometimes think he's my brother. We look alike and he's in great shape. Dad's been my catalyst. As old as he is, he can do things most people in my age group can't do.'
— Richard Bernabe tennis competitor
The six-day, Olympic-style sports festival ends today. Nearly 5,200 athletes ages 55 and older have been competing in 18 sports ranging from swimming and golf to 3-on-3 basketball and a triathlon.
Among the participants, there are several sibling combinations, even triplet sisters, a number of spouses and daughters of father-son, mother-daughter pairs.
But the Bernabes have the distinction of being the oldest parent-child couple. They are beginning to grow accustomed to the attention they have been receiving since Dad won his second game last year. Senior Games earlier this year. Since arriving in Syracuse, they have been interviewed on national television.
"I'm very proud of my dad," said Richard Bernabe, a New Jersey silver medalist who is competing in tennis. "People sometimes think he's my brother. We look alike and he's in great shape. Dad's been my catalyst. As old as he is, he can do things most in my age group can't do."
"It's fun to run," said Orlando Bernabe, who finished third in a three-man race losing the 85-plus, or the rookie qualifier and a 93-year-old.
Orlando Bernabe said he was too busy building a business and comfortable life for his family to try sports. But in his retirement years, he focused on bowling (an all-bowling game), cycling, bowling, horseshoes and sprinting.
"I could run a little more. One hundred meters isn't far," said Orlando Bernabe, who needs a 73-year-old son to convince people of his age. "Maybe I should train, huh? I really never run for anything. I just want to know if I have been training. I think. I wish I had known that before I came."
Neither father nor son pursued competitive sports in their early days. Richard Bernabe played tennis for fun as a teenager but did not get into basketball. He retired from the family's scraper business in Whipnaw. N.J.
"I do these things, and I want to do good. It's not worth doing it if it's just 50-50."
Jointly undertaking life's activities is not something new for Richard Bernabe and his father.
"I don't want to let him stay still. If
what would happen to his breath?
"We were in business together for 40 years." Richard Bernabe said. "All of our lives we've done things as a team. We go bowling together. We play bocci together. We run together, we even garden together."
Richard Bernabe does not mind the teasing his father does about having won more medals than his son.