THE MICHIGAN DAILY ruIn
'M' Gymnasts Vie for'
NCAA Title
By JAN WINKELMAN
Michigan will make a bid for its
first NCAA gymnastics title tomor-
row and Saturday when its squad
of five gymnasts travels to Albu-
querque, New Mexico, site of the
meet.
The Wolverines will compete in
preliminaries tomorrow afternoon
and evening. Qualifiers will parti-
cipate in the finals on Saturday
evening.
Michigan Is A Favorite
Michigan will be one of the
favorites in the meet. Their aver-
age team point total for the dual
meet season is the highest in the
country, but only barely exceeds
that of Illinois, Southern Illinois,
and Southern California.
"Southern Illinois, Penn State,
Southern California, and the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley
will all be tough," Coach Newt
Loken said.
Loken emphasized that "team
averages are extremely deceptive
since judging standards are not
uniform throughout the country."
Penn State Defends
Penn State is defending cham-
pion. Their five-man team will be
seriously challenged by the Wol- and Paul Levy on sidehorse, Ralph On paper, at least, Michigan
verines and Southern Illinois. Bromund on still rings, Phil Bol- stands a good chance of doing
Penn State's Greg Weiss and ton in tumbling, and Barry Spicer well. Osterland led all rebound
Southern Illinois' Fred Orlofsky in free exercise. With these men tumblers in the country with a
are two of the country's best all- not traveling, the showing of all- 92.9 average in dual meets this
around men. Last year Weiss beat around men Larose, Lascari, and season. Lascari's average on paral-
Orlofsky for the NCAA all-around Hynds becomes crucial. lel bars was second in the country
title by a slender .32 point margin. Southern California has a top- behind Weiss of Penn State. In
The Michigan contingent con- notch man in Robert Lynn. He is tumbling averages Michigan also
sisting of Arno Lascari, Lew Hy- defending NCAA champion in free placed well: Hyman was eighth
man, Jim Hynds, Gil Larose, and exercise. This year he was all- and Osterland third.
Captain Tom Osterland will all around medalist in the Western Larose Has Recovered
have to perform at their best if Collegiate Gymnastics Champion- Larose, now that his finger has
the Wolverines are to win. Forty- ships. recovered from the conference
one teams are entered in the com- Southern Illinois, besides Orlof- meet, should seriously contend for
petition. California has a full 10- sky, boasts Bruno Klaus. Klaus all-around honors. He ranked fifth
man team; Illinois and Southern beat Orlofsky March 3 in the all- in the country in parallel bars,
California each have seven men around of the Interstate Cham- still rings, and free exercise.
traveling to Albuquerque. pionships at Normal, Illinois. * * *
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A slip by Osterland or Hyman
could be fatal to Michigan's hopes
for the championship. Each will
compete in only two events. Oster-
land is a favorite to take the
trampoline championship. Hyman
is being counted on by Loken to
place highly in tumbling.
Supporting Cast Missing
The Wolverines' high cumula-
tive dual meet average was due in
large part to the strong support-
ing performances of Lew Fenner
Illinois, MSU Strong
Illinois and Michigan State are
also teams that can not be ruled
out of the title. Illinois' Ray Had-
ley was Big Ten all-around cham-
pion and Hal Holmes and Bill
Lawler are favorites in tumbling
and sidehorse.
Michigan State has all-around
men Jerry George and Gani
Browsh in addition to their spec-
tacular sophomore still rings artist,
Dale Cooper.
If Michigan barely loses the
championship Saturday, Coach
Loken can point to a fluke and
will probably be right. An event
entirely unknown to Big Ten gym-
nasts will count equal with the
regular events. This event is rope
climbing for speed. Loken ad-
mitted, "Gil (Larose) is about as
strong as anyone in the country,
but he could not begin to match
the times made by some of the
boys on the West Coast."
Habs, Leafs
Seek 2nd
In Playoffs
By The Associated Press
Strategy, counter-strategy and
personnel changes highlighted the
four National Hockey League
camps during yesterday's break in
the first round of the playoffs.
The teams ;resume action to-
night with Montreal entertaining
Chicago and Toronto playing host
to New York. Montreal and Tor-
onto each lead their best-of-seven
series, 1-0, on the basis of home-
ice victories on Tuesday..
The Black Hawks, last year's
Stanley Cup championsfi had some
regrets, but no beef as a result of
the first game setback.
Didn't Capitalize
"We didn't capitalize on our
chances when we had a man ad-
vantage four times in the first
periodY Hawk Coach Rudy Pilous
said.
Meanwhile Toe Blake, the Habs'
coach, warned his team yesterday
they'll have to tighten, up if they
hope to get by Chicago in the semi-
finals.
"The fellows just relaxed after
we got a 2-0 lead," Blake said.
"The Hawks are too good a team
for us to make mistakes and ex-
pect to beat them." The Hawks
only goal came while the Cana-
diens held a one-man advantage.
Plans New Strategy
In the Ranger camp, player-
Coach Doug Harvey said he plans
new strategy for the second game.
He declined to reveal it, then ad-
mitted:
"You can plan ahead all you
want, but strategy always goes
screwy. We're just going to have
to check hard and dig hard and
map our strategy as we go along."
The Rangers also learned that
they will see more of Toronto's
flashy right-winger Eddie Shack
tonight. Shack rode the bench for
most of Tuesday's 4-2 victory be-
cause, according to Coach Punch
Imlach, "he's lost something, and
I don't know why."
It marked the first time this
year that the popular Shack had
been benched, but after a workout
yesterday, Imlach said that he
would be used in tonight's battle.
-Day-Bruce Taylor
PLAY BALL!-Those famous baseball words were heard for the first time this year at Ferry Field
yesterday. Michigan coach Don Lund knocks the mud out of his cleats while conversing with the
umpires prior to yesterday's first intrasquad game of the year. Lund has some key positions to fill
if his team is to retain its hold on the Big Ten championship.
Lund Holds First Squad Game
By BILL BULLARD
The Michigan baseball team had
its first outdoor scrimmage of
the season Tuesday afternoon and
Coach Don Lund says it's a little
too early to tell much about the
team from it.
As far as Coach Lund is con-
cerned, the first "true test" of
the squad will come in the 11
games in Arizona during spring
vacation. "Right now we're just
trying-to give the players we think
will be our first stringers a chance
to show what they car( do," he
said.
Lost Key Men
The defending Big Ten cham-
pions have lost several key men
from last season's team and soph-
omores and veteran reserves are
being counted on to fill the voids.
Lund commented about the sopho-
mores that, "You hope that they
can help." After his sophomores
played such a great part in last
season's success, Lund can only
hope that this season's sophomores
will be as helpful to the team.
Pitching especially needs bol-
stering from sophomores. With a
spring tour schedule of 11 games
during nine days and a regular
season schedule of 25 games in 41
days, more than one or two cap-
able pitchers is necessary for a
successful t e a m. Fortunately,
Michigan has three veterans -
Fritz Fisher, John Kerr, and Franz
Neubrecht-to build a pitching
staff aroind.
Fisher Won Three
Fisher is a junior who won three
of four Big Ten games last sea-
son and had an earned run aver-
age of 1.74. His won-lost record
for all games was 6-2.' Kerr and
Neubrecht didn't see as much ac-
tion as Fisher last season but
their experience will be an asset
this season.
Two excellent prospects are
junior Dave Roebuck, a transfer
student from Wheaton College,
and sophomore Jim Bobel. The
two, righthanders and the left-
handed Fisher played under Lund
last summer for Huron, S.D., in
the Basin League.
Other pitchers on the team are
junior John Lengemann and soph-
omores Bob Dunston, Tom Pritch-
ard, Dick Ruud, and Wayne Slush-
er.
"The pitchers have been work-,
ing hard," Lund said. "They're a
little ahead of the hitters right
now.
'.,Senior Joe Merullo was moved
from third base to the first string
catching job after the loss of Bill
Freehan. Backing Merullo up is
junior Ron Lauterbach.
Returning to the infield are jun-
iors Joe Jones and Dick Honig,
last season's starting second base-
man and shortstop, respectively.
The pair worked together last sea-
son to become about the best de-
fensive combination in the leagiue.
Many times their efforts paid off
with a double play to get a Wol-
verine pitcher out of a tough sit-
uation.
Positions Filled
Positions opened at first and
third base have been filled by
sophomores Dave Campbell at first
and junior Jim Newman at third.
Newman was moved from his out-
field spot of last season for the
infield job: Sophomore Harvey
Chapman will likely play often at
either first or third. Sophomores
Bob Cantrell and Gary Phipps also
will help out at infield positions.
Captain Ed Hood and juniors
Jim Steckley and Dennis Spalla
are veterans returning to the out-
field. Sophomore Ron Tate is ex-
pected to be the best rookie out-
fielder. Others in the outfield are
juniors Mike Shirley and Dick Post
and sophomore Charles Heaven-
rich.
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