SOKOL CONVENTION AND FESTlV AL The 21st convention of the Slovak Gymnastic Union Sokol of America will open on June 17th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the 14th National Gymnastic Competi· tions and Sokol Gymnastic Festival in Commemoration of the l00th Anniversary of the World· Wide Sokol Movement will have its main event on Sunday, June 24th, at the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There will also be Sokol Centennial Celebrations in Vienna, Austria during the last week of June, 1%2.
* VIDEO UPSET The annual USC· UCLA cross town duel meet was video taped and shown the next afternoon on Hollywood's KTTV·TV Sport Spot. It went over great with the audio ence, so much so that we can expect to see more Gym· nastic meets and Exhibitions televised next year. (P .S. : UCLA won the meet) .
Gymnasts Lindy Bare of UCLA and Bob L ynn of SC top scoret 0/ the recent UCLA·SC meet which was televised, being interviewed by Bill Welch, KTTV·TV sports commentator.
Gary Chamberland oj Pasadena, 1962 Junior National AAU Tumbling Champion.
JR. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS J erry Todd's Gymnastic squad from Pasadena City Col· lege (California ) successfully defend ed their title in New York to win the 1962 AAU Jr. National Gymnastic Cham· pionships with 58%, points. Temple University was second with 38% points. Dennis W 01£, lone competitor from Southern Illinois . Univ. was the top All·Around performer and made enough points to have put So. Ill. in the third team spot if they would have been eligible. Gary Buckner from PCC placed second All·Around and Cohen from Temple placed third . The high score of the meet went to Russel Mills from Yale for his Side Horse performance, a 9.8 on the com· pulsories and a 10.0 on the optional to average 9.9. The boys from Pasadena came home with 4 first places ; John Sunderland, Rope Climb; Gary Buckner, Horizontal Bar; Dick Nicholas, Parallel Bars; and Gary Chamberland, Tumbling. Bill Wolf from PCC competing All·Around reo ceived the highest scor e on the Rings, but as he was the 1961 Champion in this event he was not eligible for the award and it went to his brother Dennis who was close behind. Other event winners were, Poteck from New York in the Free·X event and Orlick from the West Side Y won the Long Horse Vaulting.
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RECOVERING Lewis Hyman University of Michigan Trampolinest who was seriously injured when he' spun out of the Trampoline and over the head of the spotter while doing a triple twister in the NCAA champion ships, has come out of his coma and on the road to recovery according to coach Newt Loken.
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NAMES N' NEWS BARBARA GALLEHER, 1961 National double gold medal winner was headlined in the Newspapers recently as the Triple Twist Girl from Texas. Barbara was appear· mg at the Photographic Fair at the Armory giving an exhibition on the Trampoline . . . Prof. FRANK J . THOMPSON is now writing Gymnastic articles for Physi· cal Power magazine . . . LARRY BANNER won the All· Around, USC won another team trophy and youngest of the four fabulous SAKAMOTO BROS. (who is still in J r. High School) took first place in the Long H orse Vaulting at the recent SPAAAU Senior Championships.