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September 12,1980
Leopard Tales
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Pro tennis circuit
Intramurals to form
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Gold carpeting installed in the lower
floor of the Hubert M. Dawson Library is
to make a pleasant atmosphere for
studying by students, Rose Anne
Brasher, director of library services, said.
Carpet was installed from Thursday,
Sept. 4 to Monday, Sept. 8 by a Waco
firm.
Brasher said the carpeting, expected to
last at least 10 years, will reduce
disturbing footstep noise.
Brasher said the new library hours are
Monday to Thursday 7:45 a.m. to 10 p.m.
and Friday 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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You are umpiring a match
and have been the constant target of
one player’s verbal abuse. Eventually,
after you refuse to overrule a line
judge’s call in favor of that player, he
complains to the tournament referee
that you are incompetent and should
be replaced. The referee, casting a
vote in your favor, refuses to yield to
the childish player and leaves you in
charge. Now, are you going to sit in
the chair and allow that player to
repeat his stunt without penalizing
him more than one single point?
The McEnroe affair is a perfect
example why the point-penalty system
isn’t working. Some umpires seem too
gutless to stand up to domineering,
rambunctious players.
\ Perhaps the only other major reason
why more penalties aren’t imposed is
that a few players threaten to walk out
of a match if heavily penalized. John
McEnroe and Illie Natase have been
the only competitors to do so, but such
an occurrence in a major televised
tournament would cause infinite
problems.
Say 15,000fans pay to see Connors
and McEnroe go at it, but as usual,
“Junior” starts his immature stunts.
This time, however, an umpire deals
him justifiable penalties under the
A.T.P. rules for misconduct.
Last year, the association of Tennis
Professionals adopted a new point-
penalty system to help clean up the
game. It allows the umpire presiding
at a match to penalize any player a
point for misconduct after a warning.
If the player is persistent in abusing
proper etiquette, he can then be
penalized a game, a set, and even the
entire match. Sounds like a great
deterrent, but it doesn’t work.
Teams consisting of 8-12 players
wishing to participate in the
intramural flag football program may
register at Dale Wells’ office in the
rear of the gymnasium. The
registration began Sept. 10 and will
continue until Sept. 26.
“I’m hoping to have a lot more
teams that we’ve had in the past,” said
Wells, the director of recreation and
intramurals at TJC. Wells also
remarked that the program would
accept all of the teams that sign-up on
the sheets posted near his gym office,
thus eliminating a limit to those who
want to play.
Registration for the four other
intramural events are as follows:
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Leopard Tales Sports Editor
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The racketball competition will
begin Oct. 2, while the free throw
shooting contest will be a one-day
affair on Oct. 21
Players wishing to participate in
those sports may sign up on the
registration charts at Wells’ office.
The pool and table-tennis
tournament will begin Nov. 5. There
will be a sign-up sheet posted in the
recreation room of the student union
for these events.
We have cliffnotes,
dictionaries, thesaurus,
Hallmark cards, and a
large selection of
paperbacks.
It accomplished nothing because of
situations such as the U.S. Open’s
semi-final match between John
McEnroe and Jimmy Connors.
McEnroe went so far as to
demand —not once, but twice —that
the tournament referee replace the
chair umpire. These incidents,
needless to say, accompanied much
arguing and bickering.
Before long, five-set match was
completed, McEnroe had been
penalized one point, but . think of it
this way:
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McEnroe, in his apparently
discouraged state, stalks from the
court in disgust. Then you have quite
a few discontented fans and an
unsatisfied television network.
But should tournament referees,
umpires, line judges, and the general
spectators be at the mercy of an
unhappy player? Such will be the case
if the supporters of tennis do not
realize that this system must be
enforced religiously regardless of the
circumstances.
In the intersest of fairness, the
umpires must buckle down and hand
out the penalties as needed without
hesitation.
In a recent W.C.T. match, Illie
Natase was penalized a complete game
during the deciding third set for
conduct much less ignominious than
that of McEnroe during the Open.
Although Natase’s penalty was
proper and well-deserved, it certainly
isn’t fair for some umpires to draw the
line long and wide while others simply
scribble at it.
For the fun of being involved in
professional tennis —whether it be as a
spectator or an official —the A.T.P.
needs to make a decision quickly:
either locate and use a crew of umpires
that has the guts to dish out penalties
when they are needed, or abolish the
point-penalty system altogehter and ’
allow the umpires to face the problems
as they pop up —with no particular
rules to help them.
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Leopard Tales (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1980, newspaper, September 12, 1980; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1380170/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Temple College.