Page 16-Friday, June 9, 1978-The Michigan Daily Tangled UpIn _ Blue by Henry Engelhardt The Eisner edge... ... making work fun Brian Eisner relaxed in his office chair and smiled as he talked about the Michigan men's tennis team he coaches. He smiled like the winner he is. Nine Big Ten championships in as many seasons here at Michigan. Four MAC championships at Toledo before that. He's lucky his "winning smile" isn't in direct proportion to his string of championships or nobody'd see the rest of his face. A boyish face at that. Eisner could easily be mistaken for one of his players. Maybe great quantities of winning keeps the hair on top of one's head. Bjorn Borg still has his hair. Jack Nicklaus has all of his. Maybe it's just the opposite, maybe Eisner wins so much because he isn't going bald. Or maybe he wins so much because all the best players enroll at Michigan. Or maybe Eisner sneaks a trick ball into matches and only coaches who sneak ina trickier ball can beat him. Work is answer Or maybe all those victories (Eisner has a 137-29 dual meet record) stem from a philosphy that attracts quality players and makes the mediocre strong. "Hard work is not just a means to an end, hard work is an end itself," Eisner says. This is not the most momentous statement of the century, but it holds a lot of truth. Trying to explain his team's domination of the Big Ten, Eisner says: "We just work harder than everybody else." Work hard and you'll win. How many countless numbers of coaches put that bribe under their athletes' noses (rather a rhetorical question)? And the only reply they get is a sneeze. Well, Eisner's theory is a little different. Hard work not only leads to winning, but hard work IS winning. There is much to be gained from working hard, whether or not you win the game or even put your seat socks on. Eisner says his players thrive on hard work. He says some have already come up to him, the season just ended, and expressed a desire to return-to the grueling afternoon practice sessions. These guys must've jumped one net too many, huh? Return to practice? ' Sweat is satisfying But that's where it's at. Self-satisfaction is a great feeling, and it's this feeling that a tennis player gets after a tough practice. A feeling of con- tribution, maybe not to anyone besides him/herself, but nonetheless, a sense of pride in a job fiendishly attacked. This "Miller time" feeling makes for happy players. Also for happy secretaries, professors, automobile workers and even sportswriters. It's a pleasant feeling to work hard, to your potential and beyond, to sweat your brains out and know you've done as much or more than you thought you could. Brian Eisner understands this and preaches such doctrine to his players. Asa result he wins and wins and wins some'more. He gets the best players in the area to play for Michigan, he makes decent players into good ones, decent teams into Big Ten champs. When you do it nine times in a row there's more involved than the serve that got away. His brown hair, mixing well with his deep tan, bounced across his forehead as he spoke. Eisner was in his element, talking tennis. "Our people just want to work," he said, "and they look back and hey, the work was ac- tually fun." AP Photo Captain Crunch Defending champ Guillermo Vilas smashes a backround return in quarterfinal action in the French Open in Paris. The Argentine won to advance to the semi- finals. Abraha-ms tops in AAUV dash LOS ANGELES (AP)-Guy Abra- hams, who finished sixth in the Mon- treal Olympics, closed with a burst yesterday to lead qualifiers for the finals of the featured 100-meter dash as the AAU Track and Field Champion- ships opened at UCLA. A native of Panama who attended Southern Cal, Abrahams raced to a 10.16-second clocking for the fastest time in the semifinals. Eliminated in the semis of the 100 MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP Cubs overpower eds By The Assciated Prss a one-hitter and Andre Dawson hit a Pete Vuckovich, 3-3, who checked the Rick Reuschel scattered seven hits three-run homer off Don Sutton as the Braves on seven hits before giving way' and Bobby Murcer ripped a three-run Montreal Expos beat the Los Angeles to Mark Littell with two out in the homer as the Chicago Cubs remained Dodgers 4-1. eighth. in first place in the National League ROGERS, 7-5, gave up a first inning IN THE American League the Texas East with a 10-1 victory over the Cin- homer to Reggie Smith, his 10th of the Rangers, backed by Doyle Alexander's cinnati Redsyesterday. year, then retired 19 batters in a row strong early inning pitching, withstood Reuschel, 7-4, retired the first 11 bat- until Steve Garvey led off the eighth by a late rally and defeated the Kansas ters he faced, struck out 10 and walked reaching second on a two-base throwing City Royals 5-4 last night in the first none. Cs error by third baseman Larry Parrish. game of a doubleheader. THE CUBS extended their division Ken Reitz drove in both runs with a SCORES lead to one game over Philadelphia, pair of two-out singles to give the St. NaonalLeague which was idle yesterday. The Reds, Louis Cardinals a 2-0 triumph over the s Aona g who entered the contest with a half- Atlanta Braves yesterday afternoon, Chicago. CiLcinuis at game lead over San Francisco in the tagging pitcher Preston Hanna with his Houston s.Pittsburgh,ppd. National League West, fell %~ game first loss of the season. Monlreal4. LosAngeles1 behind the Giants, who also were idle. The 23-year-old Hanna, 4-1, lost a pit- American League In other action, Steve Rogers pitched ching duel to St. Louis right-hander Texass. Kansas City 4 (first game) Chicago 2. Minnesota ) qualifying meters were Houston McTear, Eddie Hart, Harvey Glance and Delano Meriweather. Steve Williams and Clancy Edwards ran two-three to qualify for the finals in the first heat, won by Abrahams. Don Coleman, James Gilkes and Rey Robinson were the qualifiers in the second heat while defending AAU champ Don Quarrie, Steve Riddick and Hugh Fraser were 1-2-3 in the third heat. The 100 final will be run today. In the men's 400-meters, Maurice Peoples, the AAU champ in 1973 and 1974, posted a time of 45.65 seconds in qualifying, best of the day. The men's 400-meter hurdles was ex- pected to provide one of the meet's highlights and a possible world record, but those possibilities evaporated when Edwin Moses failed to show. Moses, who rewrote his own world's record in this meet last year with a 47.45 effort, phoned from Atlanta to say he had a cold and could not compete. BILLBOARD ..Men's tennis coach Brian Eisner runs summer tennis camps in the Ann Arbor area. Those interested should call 313- 665-7114. The adult camps are on weekends, while the junior sessions last either one or two weeks.