University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 8, 1979
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Hosking wins with injury
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When Mark Hosking, KU's 10.1 men's tennis player, strained a back muscle Friday afternoon in a match against a colleague from the team's regular season play had come to an end.
But Hosking came back from the injury to score a 6-4, 7-5 victory over nationallyranked Juan Farrow of Southern Illinois University-Edwardville in dual-match competition Sunday afternoon at Edwardsville.
The Jayhawks best Southwest Baptist 8-1 and lost to SIU 8-3 in KU's final dual matches before the Big Eight Conference tournament in Oklahoma City. May 16-18.
FARROW WAS THE N-1. i-ranked player among National Association for In-
KANSAN Sports
toreligleague Athletics schools. He had defeated six All-America selections on the way to a 31-0 spring mark before Sunday's loss.
Hooking said he was not intimidated by arrow's ranking because he had beaten the Seiko.
"I didn't think about winning or losing," I
hasked said, "partly because I didn't know
him."
Bill Krizman gave the 'Hawks their only other singles triumph, a 63-5, 7-6, 6-marathon against No. 1 Raine O'Jada. USA was junior champion of Finland in 1984.
OTHER SINGLES results were: No. 2, Arjan Fernandei beat Chet Collier, 16-5; 4-7, No. 4, Bill Rusick beat Wayne Sainey, 16-6; 2-6; 4-4; No. 5, Scott Whaley beat Rick Wertz, 5-7, 6-4; 6-4; and No. 6, Farruh Sidigt伤 Joe Ryusser, 16-2; 6-2; 1.
In doubles, Farrow-Fernando beat Hosking-Collier, 6-4; 2:8; Rusick-O'Tala beat Krizman-Sewall, 6-3; 6-4; and Whaley-Siddigi defaulted to Wertz-Ruysser after one of the SUI players suffered an injury in the second set.
Sports still man's domain
A year of work on the University Daily
A karson sports desk ends today with the final
week of the season.
The past two semesters, which I spent first as associate sports editor and then as sports editor, had their ups and downs. On the whole, they were rewarding. This spring semester, I had some especially gratifying moments as sports editor.
One of those came early in the semester when the Kansan broke the Bud Moore contract payoff story. The Kansan was the first newspaper, or medium of any kind for the Kansan football team, fired in November as head football coach, bad agreed to take a $78,320 settlement.
SCOOPS ARE not always hard to come by. All that one took was a routine Sunday afternoon phone call to athletic director Bob Marcum.
Another good moment was opening the sports section of the Kansas Reals edition. The five pages of sports stories in it were the result of many hours of planning, editing and proofreading at the University Printing Service, where the Kansan is printed.
My pride in that special edition of the Kansan must have been fairly deep. I and several others agreed to tate about 1,000 of them to Memorial Stadium so they could be distributed to people who might not have made it to the regular drop boxes on campus. On Saturday of the Relays, the papers all seemed to disappear into the arms of some spectators. But the muscles from carrying them to the top of the stadium seem worthwhile.
SIDELINER
THE BEST part of being in charge of the
Nancy
Dressler
production of the Kansan sports page was
the period praise from readers and fellow
partners.
--in the Derby, respectively, are scheduled to leave Louisville today.
That praise seemed especially special following the Moore story. I was approached by several writers at the next home men's basketball game. They congratulated me on being the one to break the story. Well, at least they seemed happy in voice. It was hard for them to be swallowing a few lumps at the same time. No one likes to get beaten for a story.
But there also seemed to be another hidden emotion in their reactions. It's the kind of thing I've gotten used to in the past year. No matter how much I try not to let it get in the way, it still does. I'm a woman in what is still very much a man's field.
MY WORK has been primarily in the realm of women's athletics, where there is no conflict for me. I have enjoyed, however, watching a few male writers grimace when I've walked into a woman's locker room with her. I am not an sympathize with the frustration they felt.
I have no desire to enter a men's locker room because I think there are other ways to get the story, such as asking a player to dance until he leaves the dressing room.
Bid seeks second racing jewel
BALTIMORE (AP)—Spectacular Bid is expected to have between five and seven rivals, including four who ran behind him in the Kentucky Derby, when he goes after the second jewel in the Triple Crown May 19 in the Breaking Stakes.
The Derby champion, owned and trained in Maryland, arrived yesterday at Pimlico Race Course's Preakness Barn, accrue-ly to the Derby's "Delp" on the short flight from Louisville.
General Assembly, Golden Act and Flying Paster, who finished second, third and fifth
SCREEN KING, who finished sixth in the Derby, is to arrive at Pimlico on May 17 by way of Belmont Park in New York, where Lums Barr has the rest of his stable.
Decisions are expected shortly from trainer David Whiteley on the Preakness status of Pen-Y-Bryn's Landing and from trainer Billy Turner on whether William Reynold's Czaravich will run in the Preakness.
But while I'm willing to be courteous and wait, I have found men athletes aren't willing to do the same. Women sports writers, despite what some people may wish to think, are not a new commodity, and they don't show signs of going away.
IN FACT, they have been around longer than many organized women's athletics. Mary Barger, now in her 65s, is one example. She has been covering the tennis, track, football and basketball of Atlantic City and was a mentor to the Winston-Salem Journal since 1944.
More recently, women have infiltrated the sports desks of the New York Times, whose sports editor is Le Anne Schreiber, and she has recently added its third woman sports writer.
Closer to home, Cattie Burnes covers the Kansas City Kings for the Kansas City Times. Barbara Cayedow is sports editor of the Hutchinson News. Athletes in Hutchinson were released to talk to a woman writer because of percent of Cayedow's staff are women.
THE TREND is for the number of women in sports writing to increase. But the assumptions about women writers by the men with whom they work are that women don't know anything about how sports operate. Many still think women don't know what sports are, so they build up a sweat, or how it feels to suffer an injury, and be forced out of a crucial game.
I've gotten those vibrations when I've been in traditionally male bastions, such as Ted Owens' office following a men's basketball game. I was a minority of one both there and in the press area at the home games this past season.
Women everywhere seem to be demanding what they view as their rights to equality. I'll never be "iterated," but I do think women sports writers deserve the same courtesy and respect from athletes, who are not allowed to judge that each of them give male sports writers
And I'm not certain whether sports writing is a part of my career ambitions.
As one of few women to be sports editor of the Kansas, I haven't always been seen on TV.
By DAVID COLBURN
Snorts Writer
Ineligible Thies ponders future, 3-school exchange player sharp
While his teammates prepare for the Big Eight conference tennis tournament, David Thies must be content to dream of competing next year.
Ties is ineligible to play tennis this season because he is a transfer student who came to the University of Kansas and Boston College. Tennison and East Texas State universities.
"I SIGNED in early April, and my hand was trembling," Thies said. "I really wasn't ready to sign."
Two years ago, as a Shawnee Mission East High School senior, Twases was one of Kansas' top prep players, placing second in singles in the 5A state tournament.
Last spring, he started considering transferring to another school.
He said he was recruited by several schools, including KU, but chose Clemson initially because of its reputation and tough schedule.
"I was unhappy on the team," he said. "I contacts with the Clennon coach, four times, and I am asked to weighiftigh, and the school's distance from home were reasons for leaving, he said.
Thies did not leave Clemson empty-handed, however. He won the Atlantic Coast Conference 6. no single championship his first, and last, season there.
that the idea that to transfer to East Texas State came during the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics national tournament in Kansas City last summer.
"I HAD A friend on the East Texas State team that won the NAIA doubles." Thes said.
Eligibility also was a factor in his decision. NAIA rules require a transfer student to sit out of competition for one semester. The National Collegiate Athletic Association imposes a full year of inability on transfers.
But the pace at East Texas State was too slow, Thes said, and he began to think of transferring to his third school in two years.
"It was too easy going," he said. "I wasn't getting motivated, in school or in tennis."
So he decided to return to Kansas and attend KU, even though he would have to sit out a year by the NCAA standards.
THEIS SAID that he did not regret his decision and that he was happy with the KU tennis program.
"It's exactly what I want," he said.
work for something, but all I'm working for is to keep my game at a fairly decent level."
Jiahawk couch Torn Kivisto said that Jiahawk had been eligible this season, he would have been still competition for the beating and Celtic Collar, KU5 to two players.
"When Dave can sustain concentration, he is as good as anybody he'll meet," Kivisto said.
Thies said that getting motivated to practice with the team was difficult for him in light of his negligibility.
EVEN THOUGH HE practices with the Hawks, keeping his game sharp is difficult without competition, he said.
"There are times I don't want to practice at all," he said. "You have to
"I's bound to hurt me some." Thias said of his layoff, "but I play enough tournaments in summer to keep my game going.
"I love playing too much to ever let my name go downhill."
David Thies
Staff photo by CHRISTODD
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