THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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YM NASTS
ED HOWARD'S HEROICS
CLIMAX COMEBACK WIN
By JERRY CLARKE
Special To The Daily
PHILADELPHIA-A spectacular clutch performance by
Ed Howard, the last man to compete in the meet, led the
Michigan gymnastics team to victory in the finals of the
,CAA gym championships over Iowa State 164.15-164.05.
Howard, neding a 9.3 to put the Wolverines in a tie with the
Cyclones, scored 9.4 on the .horizontal bars under extreme
pressure to cap a remarkable comeback.
In fact, the entire high bar team came through with
superlative performances, as Michigan needed a 27.75 on
that event for a tie. Ted Marti started the event with a 9.25, but
when Sid Jensen missed, it forced Howard and Rick McCurdy to
come through. McCurdy scored 9.2 to set the stage for Howard and
the Wolverine junior reacted with a dramatic performance.
Michigan coach Newt Loken was ecstatic over the team's per-
formance. "It was a complete team effort, everybody performed well,"
Loken commented. The balance was evidenced by the fact that they
**outscored both Iowa State and Temple, the other finalists, in the side
horse. Dick Kaziny scored 9.35 and Ray Gura 9.05 to lead the team
to a fine 26.85 score on that event, normally the team's weak spot.
George Huntzicker's 9.2 led Michigan to a 27.00 on the floor
exercise. They held the lead after the first two events, floor exercise
and side horse but then the Cyclones hit a brilliant 28.1 in vaulting.
That score, coupled with 27.45 on the rings, gave the team a seem-
ingly insurmountable lead.
Sid Jensen hit 9.2 on the rings, and Skip Frowick had 9.05, as
the ring team posted 27.1. The Iowa State vaulting score eclipsed
the superlative 27.5 Wolverine performance on that event which
included Huntsicker's 9.3, McCurdy's 9.2, and a 9.0 by Gura.
Iowa State, led by all-around man Brent Simmons' 9.45, posted
27.5 on the horizontal bars while Michigan narrowed the gap to
27.85 on the parallel bars. Murray Plotkin posted a 9.1, Jensen a 9.3,
and team captain Ron Rapper a 9.45 to bring the Wolverines within
three-tenths of a point of the Cyclones.
Then Michigan had to sit idle while Dave Butzman, Iowa State's
other all-arounder, scored 9.3 to guide his team to a 27.45 on the
parallel bars, their final event. The Cyclones were then confident
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that the title was theirs, but did not reckon with the Wolverine hig]
bar team's ability to perform under pressure.
McCurdy remarked that his hands hurt before his routine an
that he was "afraid that I would not be able to grab onto the ba
when I jumped up."
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HOWE STARS
Wings earn playoff
spot
DETROIT (OP)-The Detroit Recd
*nWings clinched a National Hockey
League playoff spot last night top-
ping the New York Rangers 6-2
NHlL
Eastern Division
~W L T Pt.C
Chicago 44 22 9 972
Boston 39 17 19 972
Detroit 40 20 15 952
Montreal 38 21 16 92
Ne~w York 37 22 16 902
Toronto 29 32 13 712
Western Division
x-St. Louis 36 27 12 842
Pittsburgh 26 12 64
Philadelphia 17 35 24 581
Oakland 22 39 14 581
Minnesota 18 35 22 562
Los Angeles 13 52 11 361
x--Clinched division title.
Yesterday's Results
Chicago 4, Montreal 1
Boston 4, Toronto 2
Detroit 6, New York 2
Minnesota 1, Philadelphia 0
St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1
Oakland at Los Angeles, ind.
Today's Games
Montreal at Chicago
Toronto at Boston
Detroit at New York, afternoon
Minnesota at Pittsburgh
GF GA
240 168
274 215
241 190
241 191
231 184
221 237
223 179
181 232
197 239
168, 239
219 256
164 289
with inspiration from 42-year-old
Gordie Howe, who scored two
goals.
The Wings took command at
2:20 of the second period when Al
Karlander passed through two de-
fenders to Howe, who was coming
across the goal from the right.
He backhanded past New York
goalie Ed Giacomin for his 29th
goal of the season, late in the
same period, at 12:33, Howe took
a pass at the blue line and thread-
ed his way to the New York goal,
where he caught Giacomin lean-
ing and jabbed the puck into the
net with a backhand.
New York was a man short on
Howe's second goal, since Jim
Neilson had been benched for rap-
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ping Detroit defenseman Carl
Brewer while Brewer sprawled on
the ice behind the New York goal.
Garry Unger scored his 42nd
goal at 10:11 of the last period to
balance an earlier Ranger goal by
Bob Nevin. Unger's goal came
while New York was shorthanded.
Bill Dea scored the second De-
troit goal of the third period and
Pete Stemkowski the final one.
Stemkowski charged the untended
Ranger goal which was abandoned
in a last ditch effort by New York
to score.
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