'PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25.1964 PAGE SIX TUE MICHIGAN DAILY WE~NE~flAY. NflVI~MflVfl~ ~ s:.ari s:+uarca..a f Al %Y a L'4lliAJPA2 LL # OW01 JLUUI { FIFTH IN A ROW: : ' -; > Gymnasts Shoot for Title By LLOYD GRAFF It is a custom of gymnastics coach Newt Loken to inscribe the names of any of his men who take Big Ten or NCAA awards on one long white wall in the gymnasium where the team prac- tices. The wall is now almost threel quarters filled with names. This year's team might well force himI to start looking for new walls. Michigan has won four straight Big Ten gym titles and has to be WOLVERINE FULLBACK MEL ANTHONY (37)'takes a hand- DON UNVERFERTH (26), THE, OHIO STATE quarterback, behind, the blocking of fullback Wil- off from quarterback Bob Timberlake (28) and heads upfield. lard Sander (33), manages to get off a pass before Wolverine end Bill Laskey (83) flattens him. Anthony led all Wolverine rushers Saturday with 63 yards in Unverferth was usually not so lucky as he managed only six completions in 20 attempts. 19 carries, and in addition, he surpassed Timberlake in total rushing yardage for the season to lead Michigan with 579 yards. '4 Roses Now Bloom as Woody was Hazed Bolton's loss will not be felt this year because tumbling hasi been deleted from the list of: gymnastic events. Another charge is the conference team title will1 be determined on a basis of dual meets. Thus each dual meet will count as a Big Ten meet and the performers must be solid in theirF routines for the entire meet sea- son. The Big Ten meet will court only for individual champion-I ships. Loken, an ebullient man, often gets lost in his own superlatives when he starts describing his gymnasts. "We're very strong in every event," he says in a tone that doesn't hide his excitement. He can look at every piece of apparatus in the gym and see a potential Big Ten champion dili- gently practicing. In free exercise, Mike Hender- son is hoping to win back the NC- AA title he won in 1963. Hender- son, a compact and springy 150 pounder, slipped slightly last sea- son in free exercise, while devoting much of his energies to tumbling. With no tumbling this year, Loken looks for Henderson to reach his best form ever. And if he doesn't, there are a couple of identical twins, Phil and Chip Fuller from Pensacola, Florida, who might just pass him up. - Promising Soph The high bar is another strong- hold for Michigan. John Cash- man, who was hitting scores of 91 and 92 toward the end of last year is back as a junior, but a sophomore named Gary Van der Voort is threatening to eclipse him. Vander Voort is the prize sophomore on the team. "His rou- tines are really honeys. He was great when he came here, and he's improving all the time," saysa Loken. He was Illinois state all-around champion two years ago. On the high bar and the parallel bars her ranks with anyone in the Big TenE and is solid in the rings. He givesI Michigan the all-around man ther team lacked last year with Arno Lascari sidelined. The Wolverines were relativelyE weak on the sidehorse last year with Paul Levy the only consistent performer. Loken is looking toI sophomore Art Baessler for con-t siderable support this season. Alex Frecska, who did extremelyc well in the Big Ten meet last year after a slightly disappointingt dual meet season, has sufferedl an appendectomy and subsequent six week layoff. so he is con- r siderably behind in his condition- ing. Another Michigan performer, Rich Blanton, knows the frustra- tion of injury and incapacitation which Frecska is experiencing. He sat out all last season with a shoulder injury sustained while executing a move on the still rings in the first dual meet of the season against Ohio State. But Blanton, with a whopper of a scar as a souvenir from surgery, is completely recovered. Loken is ex- pecting many points on the rings and parallel bars from him this season. Basketball Tickets Today is the exchange day for students, faculty and staff for two basketball games, next Tuesday's home opener against Ball State and the game at Co- bo Arena in Detroit Dec. 14 against nationally-ranked Wi- chita. Tickets for the Ball State game will be sold in the main lobby ticket window of the Ath- letic Administration Bldg. and those for the Wichita game will be sold in the back lobby of the building at the swimming pool ticket office. Both win- dows will be open all day from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Tickets for both games are $1 and must be paid for in cash. The Cobo Arena seats are regularly $2 seats, but reserved seat tickets are being offered at the discounted rate to members of the University family. Faculty, staff and students must present ID's to be eligible for the tickets and the limit for both games is two per person. Sale of the Cobo Hall seats will continue until Dec. 12 or when they are sold out. There are a couple other sopho- mores who threaten to force vet- erans to take notice. Chris Van Broek, an Ann Arbor product, is a scrappy all-around man who is steadily improving. Ken Williams, "a darkhorse on the parallel bars," according to Loken is looking very strong. Michigan's first meet is the Midwest Open, December 4-5 in Chicago which will be a testing ground for the team. The first dual meet will come January 15. If this Michigan gymnastics team is as good as it looks on paper, Loken may not only finish' all his walls this season, but he may have to start the ceiling, to. 'I NEWT LOKEN favored for a fifth, although Michigan State and Iowa might dispute that. The team has lost but three men from last year's squad with ten veterans coming back with letters. Triple Threat Leading the list of returnees is Captain Gary Erwin, who Loken calls "just a terrific trampoline man." Erwin is Big Ten and NCAA champion, yet is still work- ing hard for improvement. Prob- ably, what pushes him on is not the opposition, but his own team- mates, Fred Sanders and John Hamilton. The trio is unquestion- ably the strongest in the nation, after taking one, two, three, in NCAA finals last year. Hamilton, however, is plagued by an ailing knee "which nakes him a ques- tion mark for the season," ac- cording to Loken. The team has lost Arno Las- cari, an outstanding all-around performer, who was beset by in- juries all last season, Paul Levy, a sidehorse man, and Phil Bolton, and excellent 'tumbler, by gradu- ation. POISED UNDER THE BACKDROP of a portion of the 84,000 fans in Ohio Stadium Saturday, Michigan quarterback Bob Timberlake sets to pass. Timberlake, who has received attention as a possible, All-American and was accorded fourth place in the Heisnian Trophy balloting, leads the Wolverines in total offense for the season. Icemen Set for Canadian Trip By DALE SIELAFF "We've got to experiment. This is our only chance to get in shape under game conditions before our regular season opens," said hockey coach Al Renfrew Monday. Renfrew is looking for "a couple of tough battles" this weekend de- spite the fact that the games against the Chatham Juniors and University of Western Ontario are not counted toward any cham- pionship. "Our lines are undecided, and we've got got three goalies," Ren- frew commented. "We'll switch things around and see what we can come up with." Michigan's defending WCHA, Big Ten, and NCAA national champions play their first game against the Chatham Junior in Chatham, Ontario, this Friday night. Chatham is the defending' champion of the Border Cities League, a rough amateur league that includes squads from Detroit and several Ontario cities. "They've already played 15 games, so they're probably in bet- ter shape than we are. They're a great hockey club, and they have everybody back, plus six newcom- You Know It, Honey ers," Renfrew stated. "One good skater they have is Mel Wakabay- ashi's 'brother." Wakabayashi, a junior, was one of Michigan's stand-outs in last year's WHCA play-offs, and is back for his second season. Play in Ontario Saturday the team moves into St. Thomas, Ontario, for the game with Western Ontario. Renfrew calls both teams "great clubs, who play the game pretty much like we do. I can't say how they stack up against the teams we'll play here, because ,I haven't seen any of them this year. We certainly can't take these games lightly." One line that Renfrew cited as being set is the Wilfred Martin- Alex Hood-Marty Read line. All holdovers from last season,' the three veterans figure heavily in Michigan's plans for the coming season. The travel squad is allowed only 17 players, and Renfrew has named two of his three goalies to make the trip. Junior Tom Leon- ard and sophomore Greg Page will be alternating in the nets this weekend as Renfrew tries to re- place Bob Gray, last year's goalie, and his substitute, Bill Bieber. Picked Third In 'the pre-season coaches' poll, the Wolverines are picked for third in the WCHA behind the University of Denver and North Dakota, last year's second and fifth place teams. Photography by JIM LINES Captions by BOB LEDERER HIGH AND LOW TACTICS of Wolverine defensive ends Jim Conley (82) and Bill Laskey (83) create a rather embarrassing situation for Ohio State signal caller Unverferth (26) who con- sequently must-eat the football. Unverferth's containment by the Michigan defense was a major factor in the Michigan victory. 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