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...this year? The top seed will be Jose Luis Clerc. You never heard of him? A relative unknown, despite his ninth-place world ranking. Clerc's obscurity symbolizes the problems haunting the only world-class tennis tournament that can be reached on the Green Line. Last year he beat one James Scott Connors, whom the tournament committee had paid in the neighborhood of $50,000 just to show up and help sell tickets. With Connors out of the lineup early, sales slumped and the tournament ended up just breaking even. Which, considering the huge amounts of money it had lost...
...women's meet was a very different story. with Oxbridge winning seven of the nine events. Boasting six world-class sprinters and hurdlers on the team. the English easily captured the 200-meter, 400-meter, 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles and the two sprint relays, and then finished off the afternoon by edging Harvard's Kim Johnson in the shotput...
Tracy and sister weren't always close, though. Amy, a sophomore at Florida and a world-class swimmer in her own right, recalls that from the ages of 14 to 17 she had trouble dealing with Tracy's meteoric success...
Gaines admits that he doesn't enjoy the rigorous training necessary for world-class competition--swimming five hours a day, 20 miles a week. "If an average bystander compared our regimen to any other sport he'd say swimming was the hardest to train...
Cincinnati Coach Dennis Pursley also holds to this view. "There are many more coaches now that are good enough to train world-class swimmers," he said recently. And Pursley himself is one of the best examples of this around. Coming to Cincinnati from Louisville's Lakeside club in September, 1979, Pursley guided the Pepsi Marlins to a national championship in less than a year, with what many feel was the best coaching job in the country...