STHE MICHIGAN DAILY I' Gymn astics By AL JONES Hayslett, the Wolverines put on a tain for the 19 ier big year behind, but great showing-one that'had even Cole and Haysle etter one in the future. Illinois coach Charles Pond wor- with a great futu is the picture on the Mich- ried about the outcome. Wiese, Warren n'nastics scene. as coach For the first time in seven years, The only thre ken prepares for the 1957- the Illini were afraid of losing year's team by g n. their clamp on Big Ten gymnas- captains Nick W e 1957 Big Ten meet, the tics. Not until Frank Hailand and Warren, and7 nes finished second for the Mike Karon of Illinois placed one- Wiese was an all traight year, which is the two in the final tumbling event finished eighthi place a Michigan gym did the Illinois team clinch the in that event, a as ever achieved in the championship, outlasting Michi- good on the ring Team Faces Another Big Seaso 957-58 campaign. tt will be Juniors, ure ahead. , Armstrong Go ee lost from last ,raduation are co- Wiese and Wayne Bob Armstrong. -around man who in the Conference nd was especially gs. ference. Credit to Coach, Team owever, the manner in which climax was reached is a It to Loken and his, team. oughout the season, the gym- s were unable to match the les of the year before. uring the 1955-56 season, the verines had gone undefeated Lual-meets, and had finished id in the Big Ten and fourth he NCAA meet. This marked best year that a Michigan gym i had ever had. - the beginning of last year, >ekd like they might be able to up to this reputation, as they ed up their 11th and 12th ght dual-meet victories over :onsin and Minnesota. uis was the end. In the next ;, Michigan fell to Illinois,, the erhouse of Big Ten gymnastics ng the past six years, by the e of 63.49. ter a 75-35 swamping of Indi- the next night, the Wolver- dropped two more meets, los- to Iowa by one point, 56% - and Michigan State, 581-/ Regains Prestige ken's squad was able to regain ige with subsequent defeats .linois Navy Pier, Northwest- and Ohio State, but it still e into the Conference meet ing a fourth-place label. tat label didi't stick. Headed d Gagnier, Ed Cole and Jim gan, 1431-1111/. The big surprise was the man- ner in which the Wolverines out- classed the rest of the field. Teams like Iowa and Michigan State, which had defeated the Wolver- ines in dual meets and were fa- vored to finish higher in the Big. Ten, fell by the wayside. MSU scored 68 points for the third-place spot, while Iowa set- tled for fourth with 68. Best Performances The heroes in the Wolverine comeback were Gagnier, Cole and Hayslett in particular, although the whole team turned in some of the best performances of their ca- reers. Gagnier finished first in the parallel bars for ' the second straight year, and also tied for the Conference all-around title with Abie Grossfeld of Illinois.- Both of these performers were in the 1956 Olympics at Mel- bourne, Australia. Grossfeld was a member of the TUnited States team, while Gagnier represented Canada: Cole came through with his greatest routine ever to edge rival Joe Tim of Iowa and capture the Big Ten trampoline championship, while Hayslett finished a surprise fifth in the all-around, and gained many valuable points for Michi- gan. All three of these top perform- ers will return this year, with Gagnier now a senior and the cap- Warren specialized on the side horse and parallel bars, while Armstrong was' exclusively a side horse performer. The rest of last year's team will be back. Besides Cole, Loken has four other top trampolinists in Frank Newman, Dick Kimball, Chuck Clarkson and Jack Eckle. These five make up one of the strongest teams in any event,,al- though K i m b a 11 concentrates more on diving, since he is NCAA high- and low-board champ. Replacements for the three graduates are plentiful. Loken had one of the strongest freshmen groups in history, headed by Al Stall, who was Michigan AAU all- around champ last spring. Windsorites Follow Two other Freshmen, Wolfgang Dozauer and Nino Marion, both from Gagnier's home town of Windsor, Ontario, finished two- three behind Stall in the AAU's. Besides these three all-around performers, other freshmen are Bill Skinner, whd has great poten- tial in the tumbling, event, and Barry Feinberg, who works almost all the apparatus. Loken hopes that he can shape these new prospects . into top- notch performers who can cap- ably support the strong point- gathering. nucleus that Gagnier and Hayslett form in the all- around field. In his sophomore year, Gagnier scored more than half the team's GYM CAPTAIN-Ed Gagnier, undoubtedly the greatest gymnast in Michigan's history, tied for the Big Ten all-around champion- ship and took first in the parallel bars last season. Ie'll be back to lead the Wolverines this year as captain. points in dual meets, and again last year he was consistent in tak- ing three, four or five firsts in al- most all the dual meets. He is one of the greatest col- legiate gymnasts in the country, and, judging by Hayslett's per- formances as ,a sophomore last year, he too will be in the top circles this winter. Loken Quiet As far as the perennial question of how the team will do this year, Luken is mum. He admits that "the picture looks bright, but re- member last season. We were sup- posed to be better then, too." There is always the great block in any other Big Ten team's path -Illinois Pond has a powerhouse of Illini performers year after year, at present headed by Gross- feld and Don Tonry. "I can't ever predict that we will be stronger than them,' Loken states. "We beat them in a dual meet two years ago, and it could happen again." If it does.happen this year, the Wolverines might break that for- mer top mark of second in the Big Ten. If not, they will have to play second fiddle to the Illini. Even so, it's becoming an honor to finish second to the champs from Champaign. BEST IN THE WEST-Ed Cole, Michigan's great gymnast, captured first place in the trampoline event in the Big Ten championships last March. 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