Page Si, THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 25, 7969 Page Si~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 25, 1969 Players continue dispute 'I'swimming due for crash NEW YORK (A") - The baseball willing to pay money into the fund pension dispute, which has inter- but will not agree that the play- fered with the start of spring ers own any share of television re- training and threatens the exhibi- venue. tion schedule and possibly the re- The television money was boost- gular season, is an involved tug- ed to $16.5 million a year in a' of-war between the players and new three-year $49.5 million con- owners. tract with the National Broa'd- , Representatives of the Baseball casting Co. for a game of t h e Players Association met briefly week, World Series and All-Star Monday with federal mediation Game telecasts. officials and then went into an- The owners also have placed other session with the owners in restrictions on the use to which an effort to settle the thorny dis- the pension money may be put, pute. excluding the players' request for The players want increased permission to start severance pay. pension benefits, disability bene- The players asked the Federal fits, retirement at the age of 45. Mediation and Conciliation Serv- -improved widow's benefits, health ice to step into the picture last care benefits, changes in life in- Friday, claiming that an impasse surance. coverage and severance had been reached in the negotia- pay. tions with John Gaherin, the own- They are also asking for a spec- ers' representative. ific percentage of national tele- Gaherin declined an invitation vision income to be diverted to the to meet with the mediators. He pension fund. The owners are said he didn't think the negotia- M Gymnasts unspeItaeular in defeating haprless Ilni By DAVE BEEMON "It's tough for any team to score a 190 every weekend.". Thus Coach" Newt Loken expresses his lack of concern over the less than spectacular performance of Mich- igan's gymnastics team last Satur- day. Coming off from a fantastic 190.8 total against Michigan State, the team scored below this by al- most four points at Illinois. With the season's show-down coming this Saturday against Iowa, it is crucial that the Wol- verjnes be in top form. Loken feels that his team is just that, despite the underpro- duction at Illinois. "I'm not dis- appointed with our overall score. Any away meet has it's effect, with the different atmosphere and different equipment. I feel that we are ready to go against Iowa." Indeed, the slight lag in point production was a combination of several factors. As to the Illini equipment, one observer remark- ed, "The long horse had to be 17th Century vintage, and on the tram- poline, Michigan men were jump- ing higher than the beams in the ceiling." Mike Gluck also had his prob- lems with the apparatus, as he scored an un-Gluck-like score of 8.40 on the sidehorse. Loken ex- plains, "I'm not overly concerned with Mike's performance. He was going great, but just missed his dismount. The horse was new and his hands just slipped." The Michigan team was not exactly pushed to perform their best. After the first two events, the Wolverines were leading by more than three points, and the meet was practically theirs al- ready. Michigan grabbed its, lead with a fabulous exhibition on the floor exercise, coupled with a hor- rendous exhibition by Illinois on the side horse. Loken stated after- wards that several gymnasts used the meet as an opportunity to try out new variations in their rou- tines. The only event over which Lok- en expressed concern was t h e vaulting (long horse), in which the Wolverines scored a mediocre 25.62. "We will put in overtime on the event in practice." As the sports world trembles over the on-coming-clash this Sa- turday at the Events Building, the Michigan gymnasts will be pre- paring themselves diligently. This meet will be conducted in the Wolverines lair and on Wolverine equipment. The danger of concus- sions caused by trampolinists hit- ting ceilings is a distant one in- deed, unless Dave Jacobs really cuts himself loose. Looikng forward to the I o w a meet will be sophomore T i m Wright, whom Loken states, he is "extremely proud of". Wright had his best day ever on the tram- poline Saturday, as he racked up his first 9.0-plus score. Also performing well in Illi- nois was standout Ron Rapper, on the parallel bars, whose mother gave him extra incentive by showing up for the meet. In addition to the incentive of being under his mother's watchful eyes, Rapper, along with the other members of the team, gained strength from a supply of fudge. 4ie fudge was provided by one of the gymnasts' mothers, and was evaluated by one partial observer as "mighty good indeed." tions had reached an impasse Later Friday, Gaherin agreed to meet Monday with the players' representatives headed by Marvin Miller. the executive director. Bowie Kuhn, the new baseball commissioner, said he believed a settlement could be reached this week. He arrived in New Y.o r k from Florida hoping to speed mat- ters along. The San Francisco Examiner reported Monday that Miller has called a meeting in New York Tuesday with player representa- tives of the 24 clubs. The Examiner said the players expect to vote on an offer from the major league owners and it is possible the deadlock could end Tuesday. Meanwhile training camps are opening with most of the regu- lars missing. Miller had advised the members of the association not to sign contracts or report to camp until the dispute is settled. Players are formally required to sign contracts by March 1. Un- til then, a player is not considered+ a holdout. Slugger Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins has b e e n thinking about getting together with other top major league stars in an effort to end the pension battle. Killebrew told Arno Goethel, baseball writer for the St. Paul Dispatch, that he has decided against a move to create a coali- tion of the game's biggest names. "I've thought about getting to- gether with the best-known ve- terans," Killebrew said from his Ontario, Ore., home. "But I realize this would hurt the players association immeasurably. It could even put an end to the association. "It's important that we have faith in our player representatives and the man, in charge of the association." Baseball's 13th leading h o m e run hitter said he didn't think the boycott of spring training "is a good thing at this time, when1 there have been so many detrac- tors to baseball. "I feel an obliga- tion to my family and myself, first of all, then to the ball club, then to the players. Certainly I feel obligated to the fans." A member of the American League All-Star team eight times, Killebrew said he has no quarrel with Twins' President Calvin Grif- fith, but added: "What bothers me is that certain owners want the players to eat dirt." He said Griffith was not in- cluded in th~at category. Meanwhile, Griffith has report- edly countered by lashing out at what he called the socialite ball players who are boycotting spring training pending completion of! pension negotiations. BASEBALL'S NEW COMMISSIONER GOES TO BAT-Commissioner Bowie Kuhn visited the New York Mets camp Sunday and tried out his batting. From left: Mets general manager John Mur- phy; Steve Renko; Kuhn; Dick Rustock; John Ribby; and manager Gil Hodges. PRO GRAB: Star Michigan hurlers head totiwrd pro diatmonld careers By RQBIN WRIGHT The disease that continually plagues college baseball has again hit the Michigan club.a The special phase of the winter' professional baseball draft has .robbed the Wolverines of their two prize senior pitchers-Jack HurleyE and Dave Renkiewicz. Hurley was the first draft choice of the Minnesota Twins. AlthoughI he has not officially signed yet,i he is expected to make an agree- ment with the Twins later this week. Hurley won three of seven deci- sions during the 1968 season, butj also played the outfield because ofI his hitting skills. He finished the season with a .440 batting average. Drafted by the Seattle Pilots, Renkiewicz signed with the new expansion team of the American League after sitting out three pre- vious drafts-once when drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and twice by the Chicago White Sox. Renkiewicz explained his move, "With an expansion club I'll have a better chance to move up quick- ly. Also, if I waited until the end of the season for the summer draft, I'd have nothing to nego- tiate with. I would have finished my college career and must either sign with a team then or never." The most experienced pitcher on the staff, Renkiewicz had a five win and five loss mark for the 1968 season with a three and one Big Ten record. The senior from Wyandotte, Michigan, felt his absence would not. make a great deal of differ-t ence on the season outcome. He commented, "The team has a goodI sophomore staff. They don't have1 experience, but we didn't have much last year and we still did all right. I don't think I'll be missed." Assistant baseball coach Dick Honig disagreed, "The loss will By ROD ROBERT "I total surprise they signed. "This will put more pressure on our sophmores. But I think the pressure is not totally unexpected. Even with Renkiewicz and Hurley we would need a strong group of younger arms on the staff in order to win. "We're sorry to lose them, butj we're not going to fold." In addition to Renkiewicz the Wolverines also lost hurler Steve ,Evans, who went to the St. Louis Barring any unforeseen events of catastrophic proportions. Michigan will finish second to Indiana in the Big Ten Swimming Championships at Madison this weekend. This should .come as no surprise, since the Wolverines have done the exact same thing for the past eight years. But this monotony of runner-up finishes could come to an end Unfortunately, instead of dethroning Indiana as champions, Michigan' could slip to third in the Western Conference. Results of the Big Ten Invitational this past weekend in Ann Arbor forewarn the re-emergence of Ohio State as a national swimming power. So, instead of thinking of upsetting the number one Hoosiers, the Wolverine tankers had better start worrying about holding their own as number two. Ohio State has captured more NCAA swimming titles (eleven) than any other team in the country. But the last time they won was in 1962, and since then, not much has been heard about swimming from Columbus. In fact, the Buckeyes fell to fifth in the Big Ten last year, their lowest position ever. Next year, however, could be a completely different story. Led by some promising sophomores, the OSU varsity showed flashes of brilliance before bowing to Michigan State 64-59 two weekends ago. BUT MORE IMPORTANT, the Buckeye freshmen have shown more than just a few flashes of brilliance this season. In a dual Imeet earlier this month, they blinded Indiana's highly touted fresh- man team 73-50. All year long Indiana Coach Doc Councilman has said, "Except for the diving, our freshmen can beat our varsity." Michigan Coach Gus-Stager called that score a fluke. "Ohio State was psyched up and shaved down for the meet. That's why their times were so good. Their coach had been telling his swimmers all year that they could beat, Indiana, and they did. But I doubt if they could do it again." Stager's doubts were confirmed last Saturday, as Indiana breez- ed through the Freshman Championships, amassing 410 points, far exceeding Ohio State's 297. Michigan managed 240 points for third place, but its final point total is somewhat misleading, as not a single Wolverine took first place. Only one captured second, while just two Michigan entries wound up in third. IF MICHIGAN has fielded a strong freshman team this year, the varsity squad would have an excellent chance to beat Indiana next year. But Indiana's frosh swamped everyone last weekend, while Michigan was surprisingly weak as they finished a distant third. A solid Ohio State squad grabbed second by beating the Wolverines in eleven of the thirteen events. It's possiblel that another Ohio State freshman team as good as this one is unlikely, in that case one need not worry about a Buckeye resurgence. Stager explained, "Ohio State has a new coach in John Bruce this year. At first ,it's only natural for some top swimmers to go to school with a coach who is trying to build up a good swimming program. But I don't think that will continue." Although Michigan has a reputation as a good school for swim- ming, this reputation has been waning in recent years. The last time a Wolverine team captured an NCAA title was in 1961, and the last Big Ten Championship team was the 1960 group. While the Wol- verines have maintained a hold on second place in the Big Ten, their rank in national contention has been slipping steadily. From 1962 to 1967, Michigan took either third or fourth in the NCAA's. Last year it fell to sixth. A look at the point totals in the last three years illustrates this slippage. The Wolverines slipped from 253 points in 1966 to 184 in 1967, and then dropped to 92 points last year, only three points ahead of the seventh-place finishers. MICHIGAN WILL HAVE TO intensify its recruiting of top high- school swimmers if it is to reverse this steady decline. When interviewed by the Daily last year, star junior Gary Kin- kead talked on this subject. "Michigan just doesn't have the recruit- ing program that Indiana does, and maybe that's the difference be- tween the two teams. Indiana's coach has recruited swimmers from six different countries. He recruits them from all over the place. He talks to boys, writes to them, does a lot of things that aren't done at Michigan. I'd never seen or even talked to Gus Stager before I came here as a freshman." Coach Stager feels that the amount of financial assistance he can offer is a major factor in his recruiting success. "I just don't have as many scholarships to work with as Indiana has. The Big Ten places a limit on the total number of scholarships that a school can give out. Michigan spreads them out fairy evenly over all the sports, so that each team can be good. Some schools concentrate their schol- arships in certain sports, such as Indiana does in swimming." If Michigan is to reverse its swimming decline, more effort must be concentrated on the swimming program-that is, while there is still a respectable program on which to concentrate. 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