horse with only 25.15 and the eventful high bar. It was felt, by this observer at least, that Cal was underscored on the PE and SR which cou ld have made a big difference. Another story was Freudenstein's passin g up the All Around competition , staying out of the comp ulsories to be strong on Satur路 day, which he was, scoring 55.20 in the six Olympic events . . . Dan Millman passing up the All Aro und earlier in the season and forgetting about side horse, to work more trampoline, scored 55.80 in 6 even ts (countin g trampoline) and on and on and on!路 Temple's good young gymnasts were just pressured out but look out for them the next two years ,they are going to be tough! Iowa simply did not look cond itioned well enough to hold up except maybe for Bob Dickson who scored over 54.00 points in the all around the final night. In th e preliminaries Makoto Sakamoto and Dave Thor stood head and should ers above all others. Makoto scored 55.80 on the compulsory exercises with many spectators making the observation that they were seeing stunts performed as they had never seen them performed before, some even going so far as to say they looked like different moves. A back uprise on the rings that looked like a straight arm giant to handstand and pirouettes on the high bar that looked so smooth and easy made it hard to believe he was doing the correct routine. To top it off Makoto hit a fine si de horse routine with one obvious trouble spot of .2 ot .3 and appeared to deliberate for about a minute as to whether he should repeat-scoring .only 9.4 pn it, arid deserving it.
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Other notable performances in the com路 pulsory exercises' included Hayasaki's ring routine which scored 9.35 in spite of a break, Dave Thor on the side horse with 8.95 in spite of a stop, and, for the first time ever, I would imagine, one gymnast received a score of zero on his compulsory side horse and a zero on his compulsory high bar, end ing up with a total score, for 6 events of 22.95 (his 12 event all路around score was 64.75). The optional routine surprises included Dave Thor and Joe Fedorchek of MSU as Dave received the highest optional total All Aro und score of 55.65 and Fedorchek wa s 5th with 52.25. 12
free ex Toby Towson - (MSU) Sid Freudenstein - (Cal) Dan Millman - (Cal) Makoto Sakamoto - (USC) Dave Thor - (MSU) George Huntzicker - (Mich) Dale Hardt - (SIU) Rich Impson - (ASU) Final Scores - Medalist Entries : Depue (SFVSC) 9.1, Weiner (T) 9.05, Mayer (S IU ) 9.05, Warren (CSC LA) 9.0 , Casey (Co lo ) 8.85, Pomeranz (Colo) 8.80, Engle (Syra) 8.70 , Turoff (T) 8.70, So lomon (Spfd) 8.6 , Clarke (PSU) 8.55, Anderson (W. Chester) 8.45 , Jacki (ISU) 8.3, Bennon (Ariz) 8.10, Robella (Army) 8.10, Tubb (Furman) 8.05, Rogers (Ga) 8.05.
FLOOR EXERCISE ROUTINES , Mayer (SIU): Front step out, RO, back dive half, 2-foot takeoff jump, handspring , front fall, body turns, RO, FF , full, FF , st oop through to splits, straight-straight press; front , headspring, forward roll, pirouette, handstand, stoop through, half turn to jap splits; back extension roll; RO, FF, pike-open. Freudenstein (Cal): Straddle jump, front; RO, FF , Full twist, FF , jack-knife toe touch, chest roll , toe rise; headspring , RO, FF I pike arabian,
fall and turn to splits: stiff-stiff press, front ro ll , back handspring; front handspring, front , headspring, swedish fall; leg circle, s tand , RO , FF, la yout back, punch front. Huntzicker (Mich): RO, FF , FF, Double full , back extension roll; % turn, RO, FF, 1 Y2 twisting dive ro ll ; forward roll to swedish fall , spl its, press handstand; RO , FF arabian, front handspring, fall t o stomach; turn to seat, va ldez, RO, FF, FF, full twist. Millman (Cal): RO, FF, arabian 1Y2 t o hands, I
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stradd le cut, sit , back roll handstand , pike down; RO, FF, back with 11/2 twists, front headspring, kickup handstand, stp .down, turn, RO, FF, FF , pike back. Depue (SFYSC): RO, FF, Full , turn to swedish fall,
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front, handspring (along diagonal), to a thrust, turn under to a leg circle, splits, stiff-stiff press to handstand, scissors down; RO, side somi, fall to va ldez, handstand, lowe r down, RO, FF, layout. Towson (MSU): Handspring, pike front, handspring, forward roll, straddle through, press to handstand, half pirouette, pike dawn to stand; 2 s teps, RO, FF, whip back, back stepout, back walkove r, stradd le down to stradd le support, press to handstand '/4 pirouette, step down; RO, half twisting flip fl o p , handspring step aut, 3,4 pirouette t o handstand, forward roll, back flipflop , sp lits, swing rear leg around, pike to