PACE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1967 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1967 Cagers Seek To, Close Ohio State 'Road * * * * * * * * Backstroker Kingery Rules Tank * Territory Show' Must Find Anti-Sepic' Formula By GRETCHEN TWIETMEYER He's been a finalist in the NCAA 200-yard backstroke for two years. And this year only an - Olympic silver medalist has beaten him. Impressive. But for Russ Kingery's pinmate, Judy Goodlad, a former back- stroker herself, his real attraction is his ears. "He can wiggle them," she giggles proudly. Demonstrating this ability he laments, "My ears have been this size since I was five. Kids used to call me everything-Dumbo Ears, Elephant, Francis the Talk- ing Mule (my middle name's Fran- "I'd love to take a year off and cis)." li TestsBucks, G ophfers just to read and write. Sometimes I By JOEL BLOCK On top of that, Kingery is what I have a compulsive urge to put " Like kissing your sister," is Judy calls "a real ear:" "Lots of With two non-spectacular swimming teams slated against the things down on paper, like before what Ohio State basketball coach sophomores go to him with prob- tankes this weekend, and these the last dual meets before the Big the nationals last year I stayedFred Taylor says abot his team's lems and he talks to them and'm up late that night writing and 2-2 Big Ten away record. fires them up. He's sensitive and nhthe next day I swam my best But the Buckeyes' 1-3 showing very thoughtful." Not for Russ Kingery, who still remembers how close Ohio times." at homeus more like kissing your Born At An Early Age State came to beating Michigan at the end of last season. In The other thing the backstroker dog. But Kingery feels it took him his opinion, at least, the meet scheduled for 3:30 today will be decided to do was pay more at- When the Michigan cagers step a long time to get that way. "I partly a grudge meet. tention to the other guy. Kingery on the court of Yost Field House learned to swim at a very early Michigan swimming coach Gus Stager does not demean the smiles, "My first three years at at , 1:30 this afternoon, they will age," he reminisces, "because we Buckeyes, observing, "Their coach, Bob Bartels, tries to pace his team Michigan, I used to argue with ';be facing the only squad in the lie era lake and I'd always BgTnwihhsfrdbte liverunniginto twhenI'dar- so that they really put out late in the season. That's what they did Gus (Stager, Wolverine swim- Big Ten which has fared better e last year and that's what they seem to be doing now." ming coach) whenever I didn't RON SEPIC BILL HOSKETe rad than at home. n't put my face in the watei'sd Stager designated the sprints as OSU's strongest area, where like what he made me do. Natural-- Losing three out of four games they taught me the backstroke" two juniors, Tom Laken and Tom Call, are possible threats in the tly.he pegged me as a guy who been putting out only enough to at St. Johns Arena is incongruous At about 3, Kingey decidedSig Ten.As detriedg toagive ohimhaNAroughemtime.awinladualremeetsgbecause, rughenoughenoOgh has h an all-timem At about 13, Kingery decided Big Ten. As defending champion of the NAAU one meter and plat- But I've concentrated more ing the best time of the season home winning percente of .818), he was serious about swimming. form events, he pointed to Chuck Knorr to give Michigan divers a working this year and I think his (as he did earlier) puts the bur- but dropping two games by a sin- For two years, he was a high point battle. opinion has changed." den of maintaining the position gle point each is a catastrophe for school All-American. Then he The Buckeyes will attempt to provide Kingery's nemesis with on the holder." Ohio State basketball. transferred to Lawrenceville Pi'ep H asobeieeeh hsMwuaudinYorey Tom Hopper, who swims both the backstroke and the individual "I try to helpe rs swimmersum School in New Yersey, where he Ityt epohrsimr u nYu y broke the school medley. Stager has juggled the events to make the playoff e en out because I know how tough it times in practices that can beat On Jan. 14, the Buckeyes were rerd nh yd b stre more interesting: "Much to Kingery's distaste, we're putting him is to Gary Diley, whom he feels is the coasting along with a good sized record in the 100-yard backstroke. st be in their position. It's hard'bgcnedrfrteBgTnledoe nin ntescn Coming to Michigan he observed in that medley too, to give him practice for the nationals." when you're trying to prove your- big contender for the Big Ten. lead over Indiana in the second a major change in the atmosphere. Michigan's last dual meet at 7:30 Monday night with Minnesota self in swimming, go to school, and "In high school I did as much will be the final chance to experiment. The only person Stager fears maintain stable emotions." Always Behind utes and 37 seconds, Ohio State work but it was a low-keyed type [ere is Marty Knight, a sophomore with impressive times who cild The new sense of direction front He gins likes to ice eut in suffered a steere case of paralysis of competition. Also, at Michigan go either backstroke or freestyle. which both Kingery and Judy feel swim with the distance freestylers, ly zero points as Indiana sneaked I got more individual attention. has made him "more mature" haswnyzI Unilhs eio ya,:oevr .::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::::::::.:.::::.".::::..:::":::.:::....................... .. .....h sm d i m r aue a who are always ahead of me. It by 8 1-80 Unttl hisssns or yerye ho, evew...r, .............................:........ ............:..........................................::::..::.:.,::::::.:..::::.:::::.,:.:,.,:.:: canged his swim m ing, too. He whsrul a s a ea f m .I - 0 .ingeryju..didncageaiesimigtokoHesure feels good in meets to have Taylor's cryptic comment for the Kigery just didn't have the s year I stayed awake worrying until swimming in general. "When I now puts the emphasis on strat- everyone behind me." Indina debacle was "It was a of a ctampion. He reca three 'or four in the morning the started out, the sport was every- ey.IThough most people would think little hairy failing to score in those I t y A4 Russ Kin gery CHALLENGE "Cypernetic Challenge in the University" "STUDENTS SEE that in spite of all the pseudo-democratic rhetoric indulged in by the deans of students, no shreds of power will come to them."--Weiss DR. JOHN WEISS Asst. Prof. of European History of Wayne State University Ivy-League Nears Peaee With NCAA NEW YORK (AP)-Agreement is imminent in the academic dispute between the Ivy League and the National Collegiate Athletic As- sociation that will allow Ivy teams to compete in postseason cham- pionships next -month, the Asso- ciated Press learned last night. A formal announcement is ex- pected within the next few days. "Agreement is very, very close," a spokesman for the NCAA told the AP. Teams that probably would ben- efit immediately from a settlement i ncl1u de Princeton's basketball team, third - ranked nationally; Yale in swimming, Cornell in hockey and Columbia in fencing. Ivy League teams did not par- ticipate in NCAA championships last year when the league refused to go along with a resolution adopted at the NCAA's 1966 con- vention that athletic eligibility must be limited to students with a 1.6-or roughly a C-minus- scholastic average. night before a meet. I swam every race at least a hundred times in my mind, and the actual event, it was anticlimactic. I was exhausted before the gun even sounded." Useful Lethargy The turning point in his life was last summer, when a variety of things changed his outlook and, consequently, his swimming. King- ery spent a leisurely couple months as a lifeguard, swimming only when he felt like it. And thinking. The first big thing Kingery did was reduce by 35 to-40 pounds. "It was the first thing I've ever want- ed to do that I've actually done. I felt so good afterwards that every- thing else has been easy." The Hulk. a moniker that stuck even after his mass diminished, also changed his views about thing; I wanted all the fame that went with it. But I realized it should be put into perspective, and now I swim for self-satisfaction." The Book, Too Other things suddenly became important, like what would hap- pen after he graduated. He de- cided to apply to Michigan law school, and later go into public relations. All of which necessitated a higher gradepoint. Accordingly, Kingery compiled a three-point last semester, which "was rough work because I'm tired after practice and there's always the temptation to turn on the TV. "It's easy to rationalize cutting classes, too." An English major, he laments the fact that he only has time to read books for his courses, adding, "Strategy can make a race and you aren't really good until you can use it," he explains. "For ex- ample, Carl Robie had been win- ning the 1000-yard freestyle all year but last week he decided to set a record in the event. He also broke the 500 freestyle,' but that wasn't planned." Wiley Strategy Kingery also described some of his own wiles with Charlie Hick- cox, Indiana's sophomore back- stroking prodigy. "At the Minne- sota relays, I was in better condi- tion and beat him easily. Knowing that he's fast, I tried to upset him at Indiana by getting out in front where he couldn't see me. It worked. Last weekend I just kept a slight lead on him from the start." Most of the season, Kingery has backstroking is just a weird-look- ing way of relaxing, there is a moment of shock when watching Kingery and Dilley in action. Dil- ley bounces. This, Kingery explains, is be- cause, some backstrokers think they get more power by raising themselves out of the water. It wouldn't work for me." About his skill, Kingery also notes that backstrokers are "built funny," that swimming doesn't built up biceeps and deltoids, it builds up side muscles. Though life seems practically ideal for the senior swimmer, there are hints that he has not totally lapsed into a world of plenty. "Before meets, he still bites his fingernails down to pulps," com- ments Judy. C'1 11 7 last few minutes." Their home game with Iowa was hairer still. The Buckeyes com- pletely dominated the first half, 1. .. ... ;C:} ; . '4YM # M ti'" ' t 4 G G C F F G G C F F The Lineups MICHIGAN Bankey (6'1"1) Pitts (6'3") Dill (6'10") Stewart (6'6") McClellan (6'4") OHIO STATE Rowley (6'1") Swain (6'4") Hoskett (6'7") Sepic (6'4") Miller (6'4"). 32 24 4 40 42 20 42 25 22 41 I. r~i UC1U carrying a comfortable 10-point lead into the locker room at inter- mission. But in the second frame their margin sifted away like sand and the Hawkeyes came within a point with 2:39 left. Iowa coach Ralph Miller pulled an unusual strategy from his playbook as Iowa froze the ball for the next two minutes "WANTED A society for the prevention cruelty to undergraduates." of Gymnasts Recover trom IVMJ setback; Championship Picture Remains Unclear I' "THE SOCIAL ROLE of the American college helps to explain the brutal fact that ultimate authority is vested in men who are quite ignorant of education."-Weiss SUNDAY, FEB. 19, AUD. A, :30 P.M. Co-sponsored by Honors Steering Committee and the American Culture Student Association CO-OP OPEN HOUSE Sun. Pickerill Feb. 19 Co-op 2:30- 923 S. 3:30 Forest By JON SISKIN One loss doesn't make, a season. Maybe history can repeat itself. Sure, Michigan's gymnastics team lost a heartbreaker to Mi- chigan State in a tension-cram- med dual meet Wednesday, and it will take a little while to forget what might have been had a few breaks been reversed. But last year the identical thing happened, and the Wolverines re- grouped to come up with a specta- cular showing in the league meet to win their sixth straight Big Ten crown. Reflecting on the MSU encoun- ter, coach Newt Lokcn had a few wistful post-mortems. I just can't say how proud I am of the way the boys performed. After Michi- gan State jumped off to their early lead, we could have easily folded up. It's tough to pick up as many points as we lost in the first three events, but the tramp and high bar teams came through to wipe out the deficit and give us the lead.' A Miss Is As Good As .. . The Spartans fought back to win the parallel bars and the rings to squeak by with a 190.8- 190.425 triumph. "It was just one of those things," 4oken philoso- phized. "We lost a full point in vaulting because of a foul. This is comparable to a broad jumper missing entirely on his final at- tempt. "We also missed a routine on the rings, and weren't as sharp on a couple of others. You can't put the blame on one individual, though, because in a meet with as much pressure as this one the un- expected is liable to occur. "A boy may hit his routine per- fectly in practice, but the nerv- NEWT LOKEN I El_ __ ousness and jitters brought about by the meet situation can cause slight flaws which lower his score." - With the loss to MSU, Michi- gan's Big Ten mark stands at 2-1, with wins over Indiana and Illi- nois. MSU has a 5-1 record, with its only loss meted out by Illinois last weekend 189-185. Iowa is the sole remaining un- defeated squad with an unblem- ished 4-0 slate, while Illinois is 3-2 with losses to Iowa and the Wolverines. Loken claimed before the start of the campaign that this year's race would be extremely closely- contested, with Michigan, Michi- gan State, Iowa and Illinois all having a shot at the title. Up to this point, the forecast has proved true. , Although the Hawkeyes are un- beaten, they must still face both the Spartans and the Wolverines. State travels to Iowa City this weekend, and Loken predicts that if they perform as they did against us, they should come through with a victory." Everything, of course, will de- pend on 'how well the Wolverines fare in the conference meet sche- duled for March 2, 3 and 4 in Iowa City. If they can repeat their per- formance of last year, the league trophy will be in Michigan's pos- session for the seventh consecutive year. The Wolverines are expected to have no trouble in winning today's meet at Minneapolis. Minnesota has an inexperienced squad with only six lettermen returning, and presently is winless in the Big Ten. Dick Hinrichs on the parallel bars and Bob Hoerchel on the side horse have been impressive along with senior captain Dave Naftalin. Long Drought Wisconsin, the other participant in today's meet, has not won a league championship since 1923. The Badgers have found the going' rough again this year, managing only one conference triumph thus far. Loken realizes that next week his squad faces a supreme test against Iowa, and it is essential for Michigan to out-perform the. Hawkeyes. "I know the morale is as high as it has always been; the loss to Michigan State will make the boys work even harder from here on out." The Wolverines have done it before, and there's no telling it won't be done again. and 38 seconds. Charity Pass Then Hawkeye forward Gerry Jones took a deflected pass and attempted a shot from under the board. -OSU center Bill Hosket fouled Jones who calmly flipped in the ensuing free throws to beat State 73-72. The Buckeyes will not prove easy prey for the home-loving Wolverines. Junior center Hosket and senior forward Ron Sepic (who both played different posi- tions last year) are the two ma- por infectors of the OSU plague. Wolverine center Craig Dill wall have three inches over the 6'7" Hosket but he'll have all the com- petition he could want in the Buckeyes' leading shooter, scorer, and rebounder of last year. Hosket was a cornerman for OSU last year and averaged 20 points and 11 re- bounds a game. As a sophomore forward two years ago, Sepic lead the team in rebounds and was second leading scorer. Coach Taylor switched Nim to guard last year and he slipped to third in OSU scoring. Back at his old corner position this year, Sepic hasn't found his old shoot- ing eye yet but his importance has been on the defensive side. 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