PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUAR'Y' 7:.1964 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7. l9~lL a. ava a. a a..avvaaavi " avvx -a AUSTRIANS ARREST TRIO: U.S. Olympians Saddled With Three-Way Loss Gym Men Face Iowa Hurdle INNSBRUCK, Austria W) - America met disaster on three fronts in the Winter Olympic Games yesterday when Jean Sau- bert finished far back of a trio of flying Austrians in the ladies' downhill ski race, a Yankee bob- sled cracked up on the crumbling Igls chute and three members of the U.S. squad ran afoul of the law. The U.S. morale, already shaken shaken by a series of- disappoint- ments in competition, was jarred, when two tobogganists and a skier EUROPE STOP TOURS (Student Travel Overseas Program) Golden Bear and Empress Series This is one of the finest student programs developed. Annually 15 to 20 students from the Uni- versity of Michigan participate in these tours. Contact Conlin Travel for all information. were arrested on charges of steal- ing a car and disturbing the peace. These early morning high jinx and subsequent unfavorable re- sults took some of the edge off the ninth day of the games, featured by a sweep of the Austrian frau- leins in the ladies' downhill and a near tragic accident of Larry Mc- Killip's U.S. sled on the bobsled. run. McKillip's four-man sled hi; a rut and cracked its steering wheel during a training dash and only the quick-thinking and steel nerves of the steersman from Sar- anac Lake, N.Y., prevented a ser- ious mishap. Miss Saubert of Lakeview, Ore., finished a disappointing 26th in the 1.6-mile ladies' downhill test on Mount Hoadl. ATTENTION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS and FACULTY Conlin Travel Bureau, Inc. has developed over the past 6 years to service the needs of the University of Michigan students and faculty. Call NO 5-9151 All tickets sold at official airline rates By LLOYD GRAFF "On paper Iowa could beat us." This is the cautious comment of Gymnastics Coach Newt Loken in speculating about tomorrow's meet with Iowa and Illinois at Cham- paign. The Hawkeyes are loaded with talent in the person of George Hery, Glenn Gailis, Elliott Pearl, and Bill Sayre. These four athletes are all prov- en standouts in their various for- tes. Hery, a 26-year-old California product, is a serious challenger for the national title in both floor ex- ercise and trampoline. He will give Fred Sanders and Gary Erwin a real challenge in the bouncing event and Mike Henderson will have trouble in the free ex. Glenn Gailis is good in every- thing and competes in just about every event in the meet. Pearl is superb on the still rings. His scores have been well into the nineties in his last few meets which means he should be tops in this category. Bill Sayre's special strength is the trampolinet The Illini are not notably strong Russ Maintain. Olympic Lead INNSBRUCK, Austria (P) - The medal standings in the ninth Win- ter Olympics after the ninth day of competition: this season. To make matters worse for them they lost their fin- est gymnast Bill Silhan because of an injured knee. Their best men are Bill Polaski in free ex and tumbling, Llewelyn Ifland on the tramp and Don Ballou on the high' bar. None are expected to be too close to first place. So the meet really shapes up as a preview of the Big Ten cham- pionship with Iowa and Michigan the chief protagonists..Arno Las- cari, captain of the Wolverines, will not compete because of a still sore elbow. Rich Blanton, the tal- ented sophomore from Denver, is lost for the season with a muscle tear in the upper arm. This puts a considerable burden on the other sophomores who have shown quite well in meets thus far. John Cashman has consistent- ly scored around 90 on the high bar. Ned Duke has looked good on the rings and parallel bars, and Nakamura First Nakamura Co-op captured the I-M 880-yard relay title last night with a time of 1:44.0. In the residence halls and social fraternity, divisions four teams qualified for the finals to be held during the Michigan-In- diana-Notre Dame triangular meet Feb. 14. Dave Brod has come on very quickly in tumbling. The sophs must come through if Michigan is to win the meet. RICH BLANTON ... out for season 'EVERY POINT IMPORTANT': Tankers Tackle Strong MSU By BILL BULLARD v " NO 2-5587 Orient Russia Austria France Finland Norway Germany United states Sweden Holland Britain G 9 3 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 S 8 4 4 2 5 3 1 1 1 0 B 5 3 0 2 4 3 2 1 0 a 0 mmommImel UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN GROUP FLIGHTS to EUROPE All students, employees, and accompanying families eligible A dual swimming meet against ichigan State in which Coach is Stager contends every sin- eone of the 11 events will be ucial is on tap for Saturday ternoon at 3 p.m. in the Matt Ann Pool. Stager has figured out that with few breaks the Spartans could 11 a five-point upset. On the her hand Michigan could pos- ily win by a substantial victory. Michigan State will be gunning r only its fourth, victory in 41 tempts against Michigan. The >artans have not beaten the Wol- rines since 1956 and Stager has i 8-1 record over Coach Charles cCaffree in the series. Michigan enters the meet with 2-1 dual meet record while ichigan State boasts a 3-1 sea- a* mark. The Wolverines have len to defending Big Ten cham- on Indiana and the Spartans ye lost to powerful Minnesota. To start off Stager figures the olverines for a 'first place in t medley relay and the Spartans r a first in the freestyle relay. this prediction holds up, the ne individual events will decide e outcome of the meet. Sophs Pitted The second event on the pro- am should be one of the most teresting. It will pit two sopho- ores, Michigan's Bill Farley and ate's Jim MacMillan, against eh other in the 200-yard free- yle., MacMillan swam a 1:48.0, a innesota pool record, in winning t event last Saturday. Farley t a varsity and pool record of 1:47.9 against Princeton last Sat- urday. Stager said that Farley would be favored to win but that it wouldn't be much of an upset if MacMillan won. He commented, "Bill has the edge experience-wise. He has a clock in his head. He al- ways knows exactly how fast he's going. He knows he'll have to do better than a 1:48.0 to beat Mac- Millan. "The way I look at it MacMillan has to swim a race to beat Bill and not the other way around.j There are two ways MacMillan Dates June 1st August 12 July 14 August 12 August 2 August 20 Route New York/Glasgow Glasgow/New York Detroit/New York/ Brussels/New York/. Detroit Detroit/New York/Paris London/Glasgow/ New York/Detroit Price Contact Leslie Thurston NO 3-5718 $31 1052 North Maple Rd., Ann Arbor Leslie Thurst6n $403.40 NO 3-5718 1052 North Maple Rd., Ann Arbor can swim the race. He can go out the first 100 in around 51 and then try to finish as fast as he can. If he does this, I think Bill will keep right along with the first 100 and then keep on top of him the rest of the way. "Or MacMillan could go out the first 100 yards in around 54. If MacMillan swims like this, I think Bill will carry the pace. He's too smart to get tricked into starting off this slow." Holds Ace Much of the uncertainty about the meet stems from the fact that MacCaffrrey can swim his ace, junior Dick Gretzinger; in - just about any event he chooses. Gret- zinger would be favored to win the individual medley over Lanny Reppert and Geoff D'Atri if he entered this event. Or, if Gretzinger entered either, the 200-yard backstroke or the! 500-yard freestyle ne would be expected to take a second place. Stager thinks that he might be, entered in the backstroke event to prevent a possible slam by Michi- gan's Ed Bartsch and D'Atri. "They can't afford to give us an eight point advantage by being shut out of the first two places in any race," Stager said. But if Gretzinger breaks up Michigan's slam in the backstroke, he won't be able to swim in the next event, the 500-yard free- style. This would leave the way open for a possible Wolverine slam in this event with Farley, and either Tom Dudley or Jeff Longstreth. However, Spartan senior Neil Watts could be put in the 500 with a chance to take second place. He has done a 5:10.8 time this season, very close to the clockings posted by Dudley and Longstreth. In the 200-yard butterfly, Mich- igan's Jeff Moore and State's Ter- ry Hagen are both around the two-minute mark. But Spartan Chuck Strong is also a chAllenger. Moore could finish anywhere from first to third. CHP r by Mike Block A Change for a Change In these days of the National Football League adamantly sticking to its antiquated tie rule and major league baseball games dragging on into the dusk, it's refreshening to find, a sport which is willing to make a rule change in order to better itself. Recently, such a sport has been gymnastics, or at least that portion of it as performed in the Big Ten. In the interim between last year's gymnastics season and the current campaign, the Big Ten coaches got together, and the majority of them decided that the prevalent system of scoring gym meets was faulty. Under that system, the four judges pre- siding over the meet ranked each gymnast's performance from one to 10 points. Then the top and bottom scores were discarded and the middle two averaged to give his final score, which was then compared with the scores of his competitors. According to Newt Loken, Michigan's gym coach, who has en- gineered the Wolverines to three straight Big Ten championships and the 1963 NCAA title, the conference coaches decided to adopt a new system formulated by George Bauer, the mentor of Wiscon- sin's gym squad. "It was decided that the old system was too sub- jective," said Loken. "In Bauer's system, each judge evaluates a different aspect of a gymnast's routine-in a sense he becomes an authority on a definite facet of the sport. He doesn't just watch the man perform and give a single decision based on the entire routine." Complications Arise .. . The new system is more complicated than the old one, but is, as Loken says, more exacting. It involves three methods of evaluating a performance: composition, difficulty, and execution. The highest possible scores on each are one, four and five points, respectively, so that the maximum tally for a gymnast is still 10. Judge number one is designated to rate the composition of each gymnast's performance. It has been generally agreed upon that for each gymnastic event, there are five basic moves which should be executed by each participant; each one is worth 0.2 points. If a participant fails to include any of these moves in his routine, he is penalized accordingly. The second judge is assigned the job of determining the dif- ficulty of a performer's routine. The actual computations behind this judge's score are somewhat involved and won't be detailed here, but it will suffice to say that each move in a gymnast's performance is assigned "A," "B," or "C" difficulty, according to the standards that have been set up for quite some time. The man's 10 most difficult moves constitute the final difficulty score. Judges three and four grade the execution, or quality, of the performance-they don't care about what he does, but how well he does it. They watch for breaks in form-a bent elbow or knee-or misses, such as the brush of a leg against the sidehorse. They then subtract from 0.1 to one point from the maximum of five for each mistake, and the scores of both judges are averaged. Trial Season.. "I was a little adverse to this new system at first," remarked the Wolverine bossman, "but on the basis of the few dual meets we've had so far, it seems to be working pretty well. We'll use itthe entire Big Ten season, including the conference meet at Wisconsin, and then we'll decide whether or not to make it a permanent thing. "One of the best parts of this method of scoring is that now the gymnast has a better idea of what he is required to do. For example, one of our men at the beginning of the season was having difficulties in rounding off (finishing up) his routine. This cost him points in his execution, so he paid some extra at- tention to it in practice, and this has paid off by adding about a full point to his overall score. Under the old system, he would have had a hard time figuring out which part of his'routine was at fault." Although the new scoring system won't be used in the NCAA championships in Los Angeles this March, Loken feels that because of it, the Big Ten representatives will be better gymnasts. "They'll know exactly what's expected of them as to composition and execu- tion," he said. 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