PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, F'EBRUARY 23, 1967 PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1967 Gymnast Baessler Reflects Loken Despite fiendish torture dynamic BIC Duo writes first time, every time! BIC's rugged pair of stick pens wins again in unending war against ball-point skip, clog and smear. Despite horrible punishment by mad scientists, Bic still writes first time, every time. And no wonder. BIC's "Dyaxnite" Ball is the hardest metal made, encased in a solid brass nose cone. Will not skip, clog or smear no matter, what devilish abuse is devised for them by sadistic students. Get Sthe dynamic sic Duo at your campus store now. WATERMAN-BIC PEN CORP. MILFORDSCONN. BIC Medium Point IN By JON SISKIN Art Baessler slammed his fist violently against the table. "We want to win this meet with Iowa more than anything. For the seniors on the squad, this next week and a half is the most im- portant period in our gymnastic careers. We've got a streak going in winning the last six Big Ten crowns, and we're not about to let the seventh one get away." Baessler, the Michigan side horse specialist who placed third in the Big Ten last year, has grown accustomed to the winning spirit of Coach Newt Loken and Michigan gymnastic squads over the last few years. He and all the other members of the team realize that a loss to Iowa Saturday would virtually extinguish all hope for their seventh consecutive league championships. Should the Hawkeyes win, it would give them a final league record of seven victories against no losses. The Wolverines would finish at 5-2 in a three way tie with Michigan State and Illinois for second place. If this comes to pass, Michigan would have to place first in the Big Ten Meet and Iowa finish fourth for the Wolverines to win the title out- right. Baessler notes that "if we beat Iowa. both squads would enter the conference meet with identical 6-1 records, and our chances for the championship would be greatly enhanced. A first place finish for us in the Big Ten meet then would be good enough to wrap it up." Baessler, a vital cog in the Wol- verine gymnastic machine, has been involved in the sport since his freshman year in high school. "I attended Lane Tech high school in Chicago, where I tried out for the football team my first year. After my failure on the grid- iron, I decided to go out for gymnastics." He had first become interested in gymnastics when, at the tender age of five, he worked out on ap- paratus in a Chicago YMCA. "I worked their for about four years," Baessler reflected, "and my inter- est perked up again in high school." His decision to come to Mich- igan was based on several fac- tors. "I visited the campus a cou- ple times, and really liked what I saw. My main area of interest was in chemical engineering, and Michigan offered an excellent en- gineering program. In addition to this, coach Loken's recruiting pitch was so appealing that I could hardly turn him down." Baessler certainly must have been sold on the University, be- cause he rejected a scholarship offer from Iowa. "Even though Michigan didn't offer. me a scho- larship, I still was so impressed with what it had to offer aca- demically and athletically that the decision wasn't even close." scascn. Coach Loken has the con- Although he worked as an ail- iiderce in us, and we believe we're aroound performer in high school. more than equal to Iowa's cial- his sole concern at Michigan has le'ige" been the side horse. "Colleges Btessler expects that some of aren't interested any more in the t e flaws in the Michigan State all-around men, because it's tre- mendously hard to gain profici- meet will not be present this time ency on all pieces of apparatus. Wayne Miller, who missedi the At the start of my freshman year MSU encounter due to severely the coach and I decided that I srraijed ankies, will rtturn to the would devote all my time to pol- lineup and will undoubtedly add ishing my routine on the horse." I.oints to the Wolverine total Baessler, in regard to the Iwa "Wayne's a fantastic competitor meet, is hopeful. "There are seven and he always seems to come up with a brilliant performance in the clutch," he exclaimed, He has been disappointed with the overall spirit in football and basketball games here at Mich- igan. "The only time the tans seem to fire up is in a tight situa- tion; at other times it's really tough to work up any enthusiasm whatsoever." Last summer he worked in a warehouse hauling crates from May through June in order to earn enough money to travel to. Europe for the second half of the se1nors on the squad. Over the: last two years we've become very close, and t.is meet xith Iowa is the final regular meet of our careers. We're so fired up that it s corceivable that we'll hit our rou. tines better than we have this NHL ROUNDU P: Rangers( By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Bob Nevin scored a goal with the game just 70 sec- onds old and goalie Ed Giacomin made it stand up with his seventh shutout of the National Hockey League season as the New York irit vacation period. "I earned $1,000 in two months which enabled me to make the trip." "I met Chris Vanden Broek (A fellow gymnast who works on the high bar and side horse) in Aus- tria and we bumped around Eu- rope for two months. We went as far north as Berlin and as far south of Florence. We traveled in a VF, and the total cost of the trip was only $800. I'll never for- get the experience, and I hope to some day do even more traveling over there." Afte' graduation, Baessler plans to enroll at the University of Illi- nois for graduate work in business. Before that, however, there's the meet with Iowa, the Big Ten meet, and then the nationals. "Just to know that there will be no more meets after this year is hard to realize. After eight years of hard work and competition, I think all of us seniors will die a little at the end of the season." A Big Ten championship certainly w o u l d make the dying a little bit easier. Scores NBA Chicago 117, New York 103 Boston 135, Baltimore 120 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Eastern Michigan 99, Alma 64 Louisville 86, Drake 63 Marshall 77, Miami (Ohio) 62 No. Michigan 105, Michigan Tech 66 Cincinnati 92, Wichita 63 No. Carolina State 65, Georgia Tech 61 Toledo 93, Western Michigan 71 Florida 90, Florida state 75 Virginia Tech 87, Richmond 80 North Carolina 79, Maryland 78 U. .11 aipWings Rangers blanked the Detroit Red Wings 1-0 last night. The victory was the third' straight for ' the second-place Rangers and moved them to with- in 10 points of the league leading Chicago BlackhHawks who were idle. Detroit has lost five of its, last six games. Nevin scored his fifteenth goal of the season on a play made pos- sible by a fine effort by Phil Goy- ette.' Goyette fought off Alex Del- vecchio and Gary Bergman be- hind the Red Wings' net, and got the puck to Nevin who was un- guarded in front. Nevin's short blast beat rookie goalie George Garner cleanly. 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