PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY MARCH 7, 196 7 I PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tankers Settle for Second as Hoosiers Triumh By JIM LaSOVAGE Associate Sports Editor Special To The Daily EAST LANSING - Indiana swam as if it expected everyone else to concede the meet in the first day. Michigan State swam its best, and for a time was convinced that it could beat Michigan out for second in what most spectators thought was the real contest of the meet. But Michigan swam better than either of them, only to settle for its seventh consecutive second- place finish to Indiana. The other seven teams . .. well, they all showed up. To the surprise of many, Michi- gan substantially cut the Hoosiers' victory margin of last year, and to the charging of the Spartans, practically overwhelmed them by Increasing last year's margin. In- diana totaled 444, Michigan 396, and State 308. And just as last season, the Hoosiers' victory margin can be ac- counted for in the two diving events alone, in which they outscored the Wolverines by 51 points. In the one-meter event Indiana cop- ped first, second, fourth and sixth, 500-YR. FREESTYLE -- 1. Robie (M). 2. Walsh (MSU). 3. Webb (I). 5. O'Connor (M). 10. Bisbee (M). 11. Salassa (M). Time - 4:43.08 (Big Ten, NCAA record). 200-YD. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY-- 1. Knight (Minn). 2. Utley (I). 3. Hopper (OSU). 11. Williams (M). Time-1:5.77 (Big Ten record).' 50-YD. FREESTYLE . 1. Milne (P). 2. Groft (M). 3. Hogan (W). 7. Wiebeck (M). Time--:2.25. ONE-METER DIVING -1. Sitzber- ger (I). 2. Young (I). 3. Knorr (OSU). 5. Meaden (M). 10. Brown (M). 11. Walmsley (M). Points- 831.20. 400-Y]D. MEDLEY RELAY-1. In- diana (Hickco"', Perkowski, Berry, Padgett): 2. MICHIGAN. 3. Minne- sota. Time-3 :33.72. 200-YD. BUTTERFLY -- 1. Robie (M). 2. Berry (I). 3. Arusoo (M). 7. Bisbee (M). Time-1:53.55.+ 200-YD. FREESTYLE - 1. Walsh (MSU). 2. Windle (I). 3. Bachmanl (11l). 5. Wiebeck (M). 7. O'Connor (M). 9. Salassa (M). Time-1:43.5 (Walsh set Big Ten record of 1:43.- 39 in pre-lims). I00-YDI. BREASTSTROKE -- 1. Scheerer (M). 2. Pope (1l). 3. Perkowski (I). 7. Mahler (M). Time -1:00.50. 100-YD. BACKSTROKE-1. Dilley (MSU). 2. HickCox (I). 3. Skoglund (N). 5. Kingery (M). Time-:53.10 (Big Ten recordY. 400-YD. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY- 1. Webb (I). 2. Williams (MSU). 3. Usrey (I). 5. Arusoo (M)" 7. Robert- son (M). 9. Williamis (MW). Time - 4:13.72 (Big Ten record). . 400-YD. FREESTYLE RELAY -- while Michigan managed only fifth, tenth and eleventh. At three meters Michigan fared a little bet- ter, taking second and fifth, but the Hoosiers still dominated with first, third, seventh and eighth. Olympian Triumphs Olympic gold medalist Ken Sitz- :erger successfully defended his titles on both boards, for Indiana. One of Michigan's best performan- :es was turned in by sophomore Jay Meaden on the high board. Meaden, described by coach Gus Stager as having the "best poten- tial on the team," finished second in the event. Teammate Fred Brown chopped off a few more Hoosier points by finishing fifth. Meaden also finished fifth on the low board. The meet started with one of Michigan's strongest events, the 500-yard freestyle. Captain Carl Robie won the race setting an ex- cruciating pace. It paid off in a Big Ten record of 4:43.08. Bill Farley, Michigan's assistant swim- ming coach, was the previous rec- ord holder. Robie's time also bettered the existing NCAA mark. Teammates Mike O'Connor, Lee Bisbee, and John Salassa added points for fifth, tenth, and 1. MSU (Walsh, Langley, Rauch, Dil- ley). 2. MICHIGAN. 3. Minnesota. Time-308.6.. (Big Ten record). 1650-YD. FREESTYLE -- 1. Roble (M). 2. Windle (I). 3. Glick (MSU). 4. O'Connor (M). 8. Williams(W). 9. Robertson (M). Time-16:42.76 (Big Ten record). InO-YD. FREESTYLE - 1. Walsh (MSU). 2. Hogarn (W). 3. Milne (P). 5. Wiebeck (M). 11. Groft (M).Time :46.17 (Walsh set Big Ten record of :46.02 in pre-lims). 200-YD. BACKSTROKE - 1. Dilley (MSU). 2. Kingery (M). 3. Hick- cox (I). Time-i1:56.23. 200-YD. BREASTSTROKE - . Scheerer (M). 2. Perkowski (I). 3. Usrey (I).. 6. Robertson (M). 10. Mahler (M). Time-2:11.45 (Big Ten record). 100-YD. BUTTERFLY-1. Lindley (W). 2. Hopper (OSU). 3. O'Malley (M). 4. Bisbee (M). 8. Arusoo (M). Time-:52.53. THREE-METER DIVING - 1. Sitz- berger (I). 2. Meaden (M). 3. Young (I). 5. Brown (M). Points-888.05. 800-YD. FREESTYLE RELAY - 1. Indiana (Utley, Cordin, Webb, Win- die). 2. MICHIGAN. 3. MSU. Time- 7:01.12 (Big Ten, NCAA, American record). eleventh, respectively. But the ands off the record with a 16:42.- another of Michigan's strong Wolverines didn't take much of a 76. O'Connor finished a strong points as sophomore Tom Arusoo Lead as the other two of the top fourth and Tom Williams and garnered a third behind Berry. and three teams were also dominant fohn Robertson added eighth and Bisbee added seventh place points. in the event. State placed four ninth. Another standout for the Wol- :nen in the scoring places (the Robie went into the race with verines was senior Paul Scheerer. top twelve) and Indiana placed a definite plan. He wanted to swim v three. the first 1000 yards in 10 minutes. Scheerer successfully defended Identical Format His actual split was 9:59.6. both his titles in the 100- and The format was the same in the Robie added a third title to his 200-yard breaststroke races. In the punishing 1650 - yard freestyle. collection in the 200-yard butter- 200 he established a new Big Ten Michigan and State each placed fly. In doing this he once again record of 2:11.45, topping his own four in the' finals and Indiana had 9to beat Kevin Berry, the 1965 mark. His time for the 100 placed two. Once again Robie Hoosier ace who won the gold !n 1965 still stands as the confer- came through with a Big Ten rec- :pedal in the 200-meter fly in the ence best. ord. He hacked almost eight sec- Olympics. This race proved to be Breatstroke was a pleasant sur- prise to Stager and the Wolver- ines. In the past two years Scheer- er alone has carried Michigan through these events. But this Year he had support. In the short- 'r race Jay Mahler placed seventh. while Indiana was able to send )nly one man to the finals, and State had two in the consolation finals, both behind Mahler. At 200-yards, Robertson brought in a sixth place and Mahler was tenth. Scheerer's two victories also place him in the elite in Big Ten Swimming. Like Robie, he has won six individual titles in h' hree years on the varsity. He be a mes only the fifth man in B: the only br astroker ever to ac omplish this. Of the other fou two w, re freestylers and two we: backstrokers. Michiga. State had two doub ,inners in backstrokei' Gary Di ley and free styler Ken Walsh. Di ley became the sixth man in tb Big Ten to win three titles in eac >f two events in three years b taking honors in the 100-and 204 Li e- S C-~ yard backstiokes. He bettered his , ; :' r 0 yaL's. ner nc ; it to :53.10. In the 200- vard variety, Dilley st a terrific c , but tired at the end to miss the e::tiig records by a disap- , intin +0.03 s-cond. Doff At this ]paint Michigan's lone Ile b. c stL oker in the two events de- 1- h ! '! . : not l- some sp tal medal for his efforts. he Kinger .ad been preparing to y ;hree weeks ago was swimming the 0- .est times of his career during )ractice. Then he found himself in he hospital with mononucleosis. Kingery did not leave the hos- aital until two days before the meet began. He finished a dis- heartening fifth in the 100, but he came back in the 200 with a Iowa Ends Gymnasts' Six-Year Reign By DOUG HELLER Special To The Daily IOWA CITY-This is the year the Wolverines had a nightmare. Why this year in particular? Because even the gymnastics team lost. After six straight Big Ten titles, somebody finally proved! they were human. Not that they went down easily. Michigan went into the last two events of the team championships on Friday almost two and a half points ahead of the hometown Iowa Buckeyes. Then the roof caved in. Team scores of just over 25 on the parallel bars and rings were woefully inadequate compar- ed to the mid-27's received 'by Iowa, and the Hawks rushed by to capture a 187.05 to 184.87 victory. .It was over. Fast, clean, and wait till next year. Thirty-seven people were in the fieldhouse stands by unofficial count when the meet convened at 11 o'clock on Friday morning. Loyal Iowans, who claimed that 3,000 showed up for the Michigan State-Iowa dual meet, provided all sorts of excuses. "The meet received no buildup." "Classes were in session." "We didn't understand what they meant by preliminaries." Actually the first day prelims were the team championships and Sat- urday's 'finals" were the individ- ual championships. "They had the nerve to charge us $1.00 for tickets." The first event, the long horse, threw a scare into the spectators as Michigan State and Illinois, tied for third with 5-2 records in dual meets, monopolized the event. State, paced by defending al- arounddchampion Dave.Thor's 9.175, edged the Illini 26.775 to 26.75. But Hal Shaw of Illinois stole the show with a 9.37, al- though he didn't perform his unique routine, the "O'Shaw," "be- cause it wouldn't give me enough points." Michigan, with Chip Full- er's 90.75, and Iowa followed close- ly in that order. To save. time, the next three events were run simultaneously, and although this made things difficult for the scorers, a few pat- terns became quickly evident. The first was an end to a serious chal- lenge posed by Michigan State. MSU droppedto a 22.35 on the trampoline, which was even top- ped by Ohio State's mediocre gymnasts, making this the only event where the Buckeyes beat anybody in anything. Meanwhile, Michigan was hav- ing its hour of glory. Led by a 9.45 by Dick Jacobs and a 9.2 by the injury-ridden Wayne Miller, com- bined with top-flight jobs by Vic Conant and Mike Zadel, the Wol- verines picked up a 27.7 on the trampoline, and qualified one, two, three, and five for the individual championships on Saturday. A 26.1 on the side horse wasn't half as bad as the earlier dual meet against Iowa indicated it might be. Then came the climax. The excellent floor exercise per- formances of Phip and Chip Fuller, 9.4 and 9.2 respectively, were al- most expected. But Dave Jacobs INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS VAULTING-1. Shaw (111) 9.325. 2. C. Fuller (M) 9.2. 3. Calhoun (111) 9.125. 4. P. Fuller (M) 9.05. FLOOR EXERCISE - 1. Towson (MSU). 9.5. 2. Jacobs (M) 9.15. 3. (tie) P. and C. Fuller (MW) 9.0. SIDE HORSE-i. McCanless (Iowa) 9.5. 2. Smith (MSU) 9.25. 3. (tie) Thor (MSU) and Hoescherl (Minn) 9.2. 6. Baessler (M) 8.85. 8. Geddes (MW) 8.6. TRAMPOLINE-1. Jacobs (M) 9.45. 2. Holveck (1111 9.1. 3. Rollo (Ili) 9.05. 4. Miller (M) 9.0. 5. Zadel (M) 8.95. 7. Conant (M) 8.8. HIGH BAR - 1. Schmitt (Iowa) 9.45. 2, Weber (I11) 9.2. 3. Sasich (M) 9.1. 6. Vander Voort (M) 8.75. PARALLEL BARS-1. Goldsbor- ough (Iowa) 9.3. 2. Heller (Iowa) 9.15. 3. (tie) Dickson (Iowa) and La- zar (Iowa) 8.9. RINGS-1. (tie) Hatch (Iowa) and Croft (MSU) 9.2. 3. Gunny (MSU) 9.1. TEAM COMPETITION RESULTS (High Scoring Team in Parentheses) VAULTING-1. Shaw (111) 9.375. 2. Thor (MSU) 9.175. 3. C. Fuller (M) 9.075. 5. P. Fuller (M) 8.925. (Michigan State-26.775.) FLOOR EXERCISE - 1. Towson (MSU) 9.45. 2. P. Fuller (MW) 9.4. 3. Thor (MSU). 4. Jacobs (M) 9.25. 5. C. Fuller (M) 9.2. (Michigan- 27.85.) SIDE ORSE-1. Smith (MSU) 9.3. 2. (tie) McCanless (Iowa) and Slotten (Iowa) 9.25. 6. Baessler (M) 8.9. 8. Geddes (MW) 8.75. (Iowa - 27.3.) 'rRAMPOLINE - 1. Jacobs (M) 9.45. 2. Miller (M) 9.2. 3. Conant (M) 9.05. 5. Zadeli (M) 8.95. (Michi- gan-27.7. ) HIGH BAR - 1.1 Schmitt (Iowa) 9.35. 2. Weber (111) 9.2. 3. (tie) Sa- sich (M) and Silhan (111) 9.15. 7. Vander Vodrt (M) 8.8. 9. Paris (M) 8.75. (Iowa-27.15.) PARALLEL BARS--1. Goldsbor- ough (Iowa) 9.25. 2. Heller (Iowa) 9.1. 3. Hinrichs (Minn) 9.05. (Iowa -27.35.) RINGS-1. Siorek (Iowa) 9.5. 2. Hatch (Iowa) 9.15. 3. (tie) Groft (MSU) and Gunny (MSU) 9.1. (Iowa-27.41.) the answer, and the gymnasts ap- :5.7tplcseodoDiey peared equally puzzled. Loken ex- Walsh picked up the first place plained, "from being shaken on nedals in the 100-and and 200- the parallel bars the stage was =set yard freestyle sprints. In both for a mediocre ring performance." races he set new Big Ten records luring the afternoon qualifying Loken added that "now that trials, with a :46.02 and a 1:43.39. we're number two we can try In the shorter race, Ken Wie- harder." beck placed fifth for Michigan Saturday's finals before 150 with Bill Groft taking eleventh. people were, to say the least, an Wiebeck, O'Connor, and Salassa anticlimax. There was a full day's took fifth, seventh and ninth, res- schedule of the top eight finishers pectively, in the 200. of the previous day vying for in- Spartans Grab Another dividual titles. Michigan State took one other But in the case of the Wolver- first, in the 400-yard freestyle re- ines, there was no real motiva- Lay. In this race, Spartans Walsh, tion. Gary Langley, Don Rauch and Loken's first words were "we've Dilley set a conference record of now recovered from the first 3:08.68, to erase the mark set by shock," but it wasn't entirely true. Michigan last year. The Wolver- Only Dave Jacobs distinguished ines finished second. himself, winning the trampoline Indiana won the other two' team and placing second in the free events. In the meet's finale, the exercise. 800-yard freestyle relay, Bill Ut- It was basically a day for gym- ley, Scott Cordin, Ken Webb, and nasts taking pictures of gymnasts, Bob Windle, shattered every ex- w ith no real pleasure. The m ost readyg ec d :The B ogsT e, a A , morbid event of. the day was re- ready held the Big Ten, NCAA, corded when Indiana, which qual- and American marks with a 7:02.6 ifiedtwhen ndornthehfinalstiming last year, and they lowered ifled two men for the finals, it to 7:01.12. Michigan again watched in horror while one fell wudu eod off the trampoline and the other wound up second.. fell off the rings. In all, the big three stood far above the masses, taking five Michigan State's all - around first places each, as ten confer- champion Dave Thor had to ence and two national marks were scratch in two events because of bettered in the meet. Michigan injury. And Wayne Miller, instead led in placing 37 men in the fin- of settling for an easy second als, while Indiana placed 35 and place on the tramp, piled all sorts State 30.,These same three team§ of difficult maneuvers into his promise to be among the con- routine and was rewarded with tenders in the NCAA meet to be fourth place. held in East Lansing for three It was that kind of day. days starting March 23. Al :."r.