Modern Gymnast - May 1969

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NCAA ALL-AROUND COMPULSORY PROGRESS? .. This is only the second year for AA compulsories in the NCAA Championships so it is difficult to make an in depth study of progress. However there are already many interesting facts to note. For instance in 1968 ten of the competitors totaled over 100.00 for their Compulsory and Optional routines with four of these over 105.00 and one (Sakamoto 110.45) over 110.00. In comparison only three gymnasts in the '69 championships totaled over 100.00 for their clo routines and only one (Nissinen 108.20) went over the 105.00 mark. In '68 there were 21 gymnasts in the AA finals in '69 just 14 (18 qualified but 4 scratched). In '68 two of the gymnasts (Sakamoto & Dennis) scored higher on their compulsory than on the optional, and the average difference between the clo for the top ten men was less than on the optional, and the average difference between the clo for the top ten men was less than one point. In '69 the average difference between the clo of the top ten was 3.25 (The smallest difference, Nissinen .20, the largest Dickson 7.75). If Dickson's compulsory had been on a par with his optional he would have scored 105.20 or over 2 full points ahead of a second place winner, Emery (102 .825).

ADDING IT UP we would have to say that there has been negative progress in the compulsory NCAA All-Around Competition for the past year. Is there a reason? Well, I suppose we could rationalize a bit and say '68 was an Olympic year with more emphasis on compulsories with a larger number of competitors involved, more clinics and workshops stressing compulsories and many more Pre-Olympic competitions where the compulsories were used. This may be an excuse but it is not the answer to building the USA into an International power in Gymnastics.

The answer is not excuses, but more work on the compulsory exercises FOR ALL AGES. LOOKING AT THE RECORDS ... While we are discussing compulsories and International Competition let us take a look at the record and see how some of our top USA Gymnasts have scored clo in International Competition in past years.

HIGHEST USA COMPULSORY & OPTIONAL TOTALS IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Gymnast Compulsory Optional Total Sakamoto ('64 Olympics) 55.90 56.50 112.40 Tonry ('62 World Gomes) 55.00 56.70 11l.70 Mitchell ('64 Olympics) 55.30 55.90 111 .20 Banner ('60 Olympics) 55.35 55.70 111 .05 Lynn ('62 World Gomes) 55.05 56.00 111 .05 Beckner J. ('56 Olympics) 55 .30 55.70 111.00 Barak ('64 Olympics) 55.25 55.70 110.95 Vega ('62 World Go mes) 53.95 56.85 110.80 Thor ('68 Olympics) 54.50 56. 10 110.60 Scrobe ('52 Olympics) ? ?

110.40 Stout ('52 Olympics) ??

110.1 5 Grossfeld ('60 Olympics) 54.60 55.45 110.05 Weiss (,64 Olympics) 55.15 54.75 109.90 Roethlisberger ('68 Olympics) 54.40 55.30 109.70 Hug ('68 Olym pics) 54.15 55.45 109.60 Orlofsky ('62 World Gomes) 54.60 54.95 109.55 Cohen ('66 World Games) 54.15 55.10 109.25 Shurlock ('64 Olympics) 54.90 54. 20 109. 10 Simms ('56 Olympics) 54.05 54.3 5 108.40 Beckner D. ('56 Olym pics) 53.40 54.90 108.30 Lascari ('66 World Gomes) 53.25 54.80 108.05 Fruedenstein ('68 Olympics) 53.70 54.30 108.00 O'Quinn ('60 Olympics) 53. 70 54.30 108.00 Tom ('56 Olympics) 52.65 54.70 107.3 5 Roetzheim ('52 Olympics) ? ?

107. 10 Allen ('68 Olympics) 51.50 53.95 105.45 Holder ('52 Olympics) ? ?

103.60 Blattman ('52 Olympics) ? ?

102.40 D'Autorio (,52 Olympics) ? ?

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These are th e Gymnasts who, according to the records we have available, have scored over 100 points in Internationol competit ion. Many of these Gymnasts may have been in several International meets but we have used only their best score.

We did not have the compu lsory and optional scores available for the '52 Olympics and the previous Olympics had a different standard of scoring so it could not be evaluated with our present system.

THE MODERN GYMNAST MAGAZINE

Official Publication of the United States Gymnastic Federation

CONTENTS VOL. XI

MAY 1969

NUMBER 5

NOTES FROM THE EDITOR ... ... ... .. .Glenn Sundby MG MADEMOiSELLE .... ........ ... ..... ..Kathy Rigby CHALK TALK.... .... .. .. .. ....... ..... .. .... .... .. .. ......

MG NCAA REPORT.. ...... ... .......... .... Jerry Wright VIEWPOINTS ... .. ........ .. ............... Dick Criley MG INTERViEW .... .... .. ...... .. .Criley and Sundby ALL AROUND .... .. ........ ...... ...... .. ...... .. .. .....

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COVER, Bob Emery, winner of the Nissen Award ond Silver Medalist All-Around ot the 1969 NCAA Championships.

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In this issue we feature Kathy Rigby as the MG Mademoiselle for May. There really isn't too much more that can be said about Kathy that has n't already been said. She has a list of gy mnastic accomplishments and honors that goes on forever and it's still growing! At present she is rated number one in the U.S.

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1ST ANNUAL NCAA TRAMPOLINE CHAMPIONSHIPS Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Apri I 19th, 1969

1969 NACGC AWARDS Report by HARTLEY PRICE, Chairman NACGC Honor Coaches' Award Committee The winner of the 1969 N ACGC Honor Coac h's Award is William Matthei of Georgia Tech, Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Matthei has been in contention for this award for the past five years. He was one of the pioneers who helped to keep g}mnastics alive during the 1930s.

Bill Matthei of Bay View High School in Milwaukee, who was born in 1900 in Boston , Mass. , has graduate degrees frern Normal Co llege ( 1925)' Univ. of Wisconsin (1927), Northwestern Univ. (1939) and Indi a na Univ. (1942) .

Bill joined the Boston Turners in 1910 and has been active in gymnas ti cs as a competitor, coach , official , promoter ever si nce (Capt.

Normal gym team , 1924-25) a lmost 60 years.

He was a referee in Big Ten (Western Conference) 1924-1 964, longer tha n any ath letic officia l in any major conference in U.S. A. Teams coached by Bill Matthei have won I national , 5 Midwest , 13 Milwaukee and II Wisconsin state championships.

Honors a nd cita tions rece ived by Mr. Mat-

The first an nu a l NCAA Tra mpoline Championships at the University of Michigan all in al l turned out to be a great affair. The man-toman competition is really tough on the bouncers but excit ing for the crowd. The Univ . of Michigan took the top honors in the tea m competition ,

NEW NACGC OFFICERS, At the annual meeting of the National Association of College Gymnastic Coaches held during the NCAA Championships a new slate of officers was elected for the coming '69路'70 season. Pictured above, Otto Ryser (outgoing president), cong ratulates Frank Woolcott the new NACGC president, Doug DeWitt the new Vice Pres., Bill Vicent the member at large (Bill by the way received the "Cooch of the Yeo r" Award for the NCAA College Division) and Dick Aronson who wos elected to Sec路 Treos. office for another term.

thei include Ohio State U. (1954) , University of Michiga n-Big Ten Coaches (1960)' Gymnastic Hall of Fame, Los Angeles ( 1961) , Univ. of III. (1964) , C ity of Milwaukee (1966) , Milwaukee High School Coaches ( 1966) and now the NACGC Honor Coach's Award ( 1969).

1969 NACGC HONOR COACH'S CERTIFICATES Two NA CGC Honor C oach 's Ce rtificate s were awarded in 1969 to: A. CARL PATTERSON - 192 3- 1968 Acclaimed " The Coach of lhe Year" at the 1968 NCAA cha mpionships a nd e lected to the presidency of the N ACG C for the coming year, Carl returned to hi s home in Somerton , Penn. Not long afte r on April 16th in the prime of life Carl passed away . He is mi ssed by a ll (see MG May 1968).

VIN CE NT 01 GIOVANNA-19051948 Dr. Vincent DiGiovanna served as gy mnas-

DR. Coach of the year goes to Hal Frey (California)

followed by Co lorado State in second place, with Iowa and Southern Illinoi s tying for third spot. In the individu a l fin als it was Michigan aga in , with George Hunt zicker a nd Dave Jacobs both coached by Newt Loken battling man to man to the end , with J acobs getti ng the thumbs up from the judges and Huntzicker getting tossed to the lions for second place. Homer Sardina of So. III. pl aced third , with Stormy Eaton of New Me xico fourth, Tim Wright of Mich . fifth a nd Barry Siotten of Iowa sixth.

tics coach at Southern Illinoi s University from 1929 to 1943. At the time of hi s death in 1948 he was teaching at Was hin gton State Univ.

Coac h DiGiovanna was both inspiring and stimulating to a ll hi s s tudents , varsity gy mnasts a nd fellow faculty members . Those who were fortunate enough to have been assoc iated with " DiGi " remember him as an exce ll e nt teacher a nd coach.

NACGC CERTIFICATE OF HONOR In 1969 the NA CGC Certificate of Honor to : BUD WATSON - 1899- 1969 Bud Wat so n was a catcher on the trape ze in Ringling Bros. C ircus for ma ny years . H e ca me to Wes t Palm Beach , Fla., in 1954 a nd sta rted working w ith the Recrea tion Dept.

Bud began a gym nast ic team there a nd coached Gail Songerath , who was on the 1960 U.S .A. Women 's Olympic tea m, the 1961 Touring T ea m a nd the 1962 World Games Team.

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Second place teom, Penn Stote

1969 NCAA GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Apri I 3-4-5/Edmundson Pavilion/ University of Washington

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ByJERRYWRIGHT This report could be titled "The fantasy adventures of Mike Jacobson and his sidekick , Bob Dickson ," because it is asking almost too much to believe it is a true story. However, it is true, but I am still tempted to change the names to protect the innocent (?).

Coach Mike Jacobson and his University of Iowa team pulled off the impossible as Coach Jacobson, in his first year as a varsity coach, led his team to the NCAA team championship (the only problem with this is what are you going to do for an encore Mike ?), an Iowa team that, by the way, barely made it out of the Big Ten conference meet.

The team finals were never seriously in doubt as Iowa led by a fairly comfortable margin after the side horse event in which they outscored their opponents by .5 tenths in spite of having an 8. 15 count in their total.

The rest of the meet was a story of excellent Iowa team spirit and a doggedness on the part Individual event winners (All Americans)

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of each man - particularly Bob Dickso n, who was steady as a rock , scoring 53.00 in the AA in spite of an 8.0 on the side horse.

I n this observer's opinion the Pe nn State tea m appeared to be the more tale nted team , but they could not complete their routines cleanly and beat themselve s. In FX Penn State's first ma n scored onl y 7.9, Swetman had only 8.7, Emery had 8.85, a nd C la rk mustered only 8.45 . The sa me thing ha ppened to Penn State on side horse as the first two men scored 8.2 a nd 8. 15.

No s mall a mount of praise should be handed the fine young Iowa State tea m as the y stayed right with the veterans a nd refused to knuckle under the pressu re. Their only fault lay in their yo uth as their routines lacked difficulty and polish that another yea r or two will correct.

With the team almost entire ly freshman and sop homores the future could indeed be bright for ISU. The climatic point of the mee t came on the PBs as the Iowa team perfor med on the H B before the y worked PB and so PBs was their las t event. The Iowa team had to average someth ing li ke 8.7 in order to insure their winning th e meet , which is not quit e like last year when Californi a had to score a 9.35 average on their last two men to win but nevertheless still not a giveaway. Roge r Neist start ed with an 8.4 which did not take any press ure off: Rich Scorza sco red 8.8, an d the press ure lift ed a little: Mike Proctor put the icin g on the ca ke, however, with a steady S.S5 , and it was a ll over: Bob Dickso n, with no pressure on , still came through with another 9.0 performance as though so meone forgot to turn off the mac hine (Bob's sco res were: FX-S.8, SR-9.1, LH-9 .0 , PB-9. 0, HB-9. 1).

Indi vidual Finals Floor Exercise Jim Fisher of Sacramento State, the Far Western Co nfere nce champion , came through with a good 9.0 on so me uniqu e floor work than included a fro nt saito to immediate split.

Proul x did very clean work after starting with RO-F F-double back but finished with a pike back that seemed less than desirab le for the difficulty of the rout ine. George Greenfield used a double twi st for a mount. Dave J acobs had a double back mount a nd a I V2 front saito. Towson presented a perfect blend of forward tumbling, backwa rd tumbling, balance, flexibilit y a nd strength movements , and the judges had a n easy time picking a winner.

Side Hors e Neville of Indi ana State had a preponderance of behind the back work but lost points on hi s break into scissors. Emery did hi s fourth complete side horse routine in three days , although this one was poss ibl y the lessor of the four still a n outstanding show on thi s apparatu s.

Liehr of Iowa (9.4) was excellent except he almost lost it all preparing for hi s di s mount. Ramsey looked off balance throughout a nd did not lift his scissors, especially hi s reverse scissors 9

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JUDGES: Front row L to R, Arno Lascari, Don Ohannes, Grady ,Mathews, Tad DiNicola, Don Nelson. Back Row L

to R, Chris Weber, Bruce Davis, Frank Cumiskey, Larry Bonner, Ted Muczyczko, Bob Hall.

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but finished with an excellent dismount (could be described as double Russian). Nissenen was going great until he has a stop of .3-.4 in the middle of his routine. McCanless looked a little rough to this observer but came up with a fair score of 9.55 to win his second NCAA side horse title.

Still Rings Courchesne of Cal presented an excellent swing routine but probably could have us'ed one more strength part and appeared to be short on parts. Nissenen did not hold his cross but later did a nice back lever from handstand for his " B" hold. Froeming had an excellent mount and a great routine - to this. observer the best of the evening. Dickson appeared to be overscored (9.45) with shaky front lever, too long in "L" and other small problems but finished with a great double flyaway .

Hatch of Iowa overarched in several cases, missed his dismount but did some fine work otherwise. Vexler came through with another good performance, his third in two days , as his only serious problem was ' using too much strength on a front uprise swing to handstand.

Meythaler did not appear especially spectacular but again proved it is hard to beat a man that does not miss.

Long Horse Boger did cartwheel with \4 turn - to this observer that vault has some possibilities. Gauthier looked quite good as he scored 9.25. McCarthy of Illinois did a good handspring with J,.2 turn but had to bend at the waist for the landing. Second vault was a good Yamashita from the far end. The surprise of the vaUlting was Dan Bowles of Cal, who tied for first with some explosive vaulting.

The vaulting in general in the entire meet was improved in that there was a greater variety of vaults.

Parallel Bars Elias and Amerine scratched from this event as, for them, it had been a long two weeks. The weekend before both had gone through compulsories, optionals and finals for the college division meet and in this meet the same thing, and that's a lot of routines. Schanberger scored 8.8 with an excellent路 press but a poor stutz.

Dickson came through wiih another steady performance with his 8.9 coming mostly because of his poorly executed mount. Swetman was a surprise, scoring only 9.25 on what appeared to be an excellent routine. Dunn did a fine job with a beautiful stutz to handstand. Emery shot the works and had a good thing going until he attempted a rudolph dismount and fell. Rapper came through with a solid routine that lacked only in elegance in some spots, suffering no significant breaks.

Horizon tal Bar Fukushima had several problems, an " A" mount, muscle on stalder, good hecht vault but fell down' on his hecht dismount. Swetman (8.4) had a stop (major break) but finished with a good hecht vault and a fine hecht dismount.

Grigsby just wasn't quite on target as he hit a beautiful routine only to lose it on his free hip immediate blind change. As he came out of the change he came out on the wrong side of the bar, however, he covered almost perfectly, changing his grip and doing an immediate cast front. He scored 9.4 but would have been around 9.6 or 9.7 had he completed his change and his cast front in a pike position as intended.

Manna of-New' Mexico was possibly the surprise of the entire meet as he did a job in what was probably the toughest competition in the meet (except possibly for the side horse).

Manna's execution was by the book, his difficulty was exceeded by few , if any , and he did not miss. His dismount, by the way, was a front saito from eagle giants - try that one for kicks.

Norm Hay,nie suffered a major break to lose his chance to win after leading th e field from the preliminaries.

Compulsories Nissenen was the only gymnast that looked comfortable on the compulsories, and he dominated the field in this area.

The story behind the compulsories probably lies in the variou s interpretations.

Floor Exercise: so me did jump turns, and some did walk-around turns ; some did a body waive before the press, most did not.

Side Horse: the mount and di smou nt were performed differently by different gy mnasts. Some did uphill travel , most did not ; some did two double leg circles before the dismount , some did no double leg circles .

Still Rings: The di smount was interpreted differently by different people, however, most gymnasts did a front off and not a si mple cast off.

Long Hors e: In this meet most of the competitors did a regul ar cartwheel , although the official language indicated it should be a cartw heel with a lhI turn.

High Bar: Very few could handle the routine but a pparently no interpretation problems.

Preliminaries Floor Exercise: Nothing of special note except Jim Fisher and hi s front saito to split ; Jacob s and Proulx with double backs, a nd Towson , who did a finejob but was shaky in places.

Side Hors e: Ramsey was great, as were about 10 other guys, a nd the entire Iowa team looked great, as did the Colorado State team.

Long Hors e : The nice thing about the long horse event was that it gave me an opportunity to watch the hi gh bar event.

H orizontal Bar: Mark Davi s warmed up with a double back clapping his hand s during the stunt. Three of four Penn State gymnasts mi ssed their rout ine s. Colorado State looked very good , with H a mmers doing a fine job but fa llin g on hi s di smo unt. Schmitt of SI U did a hecht with full for dismount. Mark D av is showed so me more of hi s tricks but .displ ayed poor technique. D yas of New Mexico looked like a fine young high bar prospect , and Manna was excellent. Sexton of Oklahoma did a fine job. Nissenen came through with a fairly stock routine but with a nice finish ; a hop change to immediate sole circle cast front saito dismount.

In closing thi s observer was quite disturbed to see ma ny gymnas ts changing half their clothes right on the floor - there see med to be no necessit y for it , and it seemed ill mannered and rude. Our sport does not need this type of display on the gy m floor.

their 12 routines in the prelims , a n additional six in the tea m competition as for Emery, Swetman, Dickson, Brent Simmons and Dave Butzman , plus the opportunity to compete again in the finals as did the first four. It is a wonder that a ny of them finished as high in the individual championships as they did. What is the incentive to such AA men if the specialis t is going to win it because he is fresher? N aturally the coaches are all fired up about the team competition , but so meone ought to show some concern for the gymnast. If the individual events are to be deemph as ized, why not run them first with the option for the gymnast who must compete in the tea m finals to let his afternoon event sco re count or to compete again with hi s team ?

I heard an increased number of comments about difficulty and risk with a lack of attention to basics and detail of performances . Coupled to this was a n expression of the need to get a n age-group program under way to teach the bas ics early. How long will lip service be paid to such talk before action is actually taken?

Congratulations to Nissen Award winner Bob Emery, a senior in pre-med with a B average and class president to boot. Balancing time for studies, gymnastics and the duties of office (w hich have become greater since Penn State developed an activi st atmosphere) has really occupied Bob's superior talents.

Memphis State, winners of the S IG L title , were unable to travel to Seattle but, ass ured of the continuance of their sport, will be in there striving to get to Temple for next year's N CAA's.

I hope A BC cuts so me of the shot s we viewed over the monitors. Cameramen can have their fun, but let's prese rve so me dignity. It is great th at A BC even came to cover the meet. I hope you enthusiastic viewers write to let them know it, too.

The Big Ten raised some interesting questions at the coaches' meeting; we were given a copy of a sports column from the Michigan Dai ly, but si nce space is limiting in thi s issue, comment will be deferred to the next issue.

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JOHN HINDS (coach, Columbus H .S .): A trick I saw on high bar, but he didn 't throw it in the meet, was a full twist with back out. Also a nice double off of P-bars.

DAVE JACOBS (gymnast, Michigan) : The one that impressed me most was Nissinen 's double back off P-bars ; it was beautiful.

JA C K BIESTERFELDT (ma th professor, SI U): The side horse work - McCanless'loop with half dismount was beautifully done. There was also a very nice high pike back in free exercise.

KANATI ALLEN (gra duat e student, U. Wash.): One move I thought was very nice but not particularly unusual was handspring , ha ndspring (two-foot takeoff) walkout, to flying ca rtwheel.

ARMANDO VEGA (coach, NWLa): High bar has really improved, the difficulty is tremendous, but as far as free ex, nothing was really new except Gene's boy who did the I ~ - which he did las t year, but . . . the difficulty on the high bar, that 's the onl y thing I've seen so far. It makes the meet more difficult for the all-a round men.

RUSTY MITCHELL (coach, UNM): I think the boy for Sacramento had a unique thing in doing handspring, front to the splits; he had quite a bit of originality throughout his whole routine. The boy from Illinois who did the full twisting front from the near end (on LH )....

Throughout the whole meet, it was quite evident that Nissinen had much more s moothness as far as technique and execution . . . as a matter of fact, he's probably the on ly international gymnast in this meet.

BILL ROETZHEIM (coach, Proviso East H .S.): I don 't remember the name of the boy th at did it, but on the horizontal bar, I thought the most unique move was the underswing front piked . It's a very severe stunt to get rotation tucked , but when he did, it piked - he didn 't do it in the meet ; he did it in warmup - to me thi s was the mo st impressive stunt I saw performed.

VIEWpoints

By Dick Criley

A few observations abou t this year ' s N CAA's will have to suffice as VIEWpoints takes thi s occasion to live up to its multipurpose name.

Dr. Eric Hughe s and his University of Washington staff did an excellent job in the organization a nd running of the meet. No complaints thi s year. The Huskie Band set a li vely warmup pace during the finals. I wonder what message was intended by the individual who chose Wagner for background music in th e preliminaries - imagine " Ride of the Valkyries" for floor exercise' Special notice take n of the girls from the Greater Seattle Girls ' Gymnastic Team who flashed the scores.

Some coordination might be nice on the compulsories, long horse in pa rticul ar. FIG vault No.6 was na med (Hollander or cartwheel ), but the cartwheel with lhI turn forward was allowed because of a mixup in the drawi ngs. Once again the AA gymnast is put through a far greater test than any Olympic competition. Co nsider

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Dick (riley interviews Dove Jacobs

MG Editor Glenn Sundby and Dick Criley now take you to the floor of Edmundson Pav ilion just before the start of the individual event cham pionships. Tape recorder in ha nd , we as ked gymnasts, coaches and judges this question: WHAT WAS THE MOST EXCITING TRICK OR COMB INATION YOU HAVE SEEN AT THIS MEET? NO RM HAY N I E (gymnas t, MSU): T he trick I thought was done exceptionally well that turns me on every time I see it is done by my own teammate, Toby Towson: back, bac k with walkout , back bend to immedi ate splits. I think it's a n exceptional trick a nd done extremely well by Toby .

Roy Lorenz

RUSTY MITCHELL (aga in ): I thought of so me others: Joe Litow on high bar, coming out of hi s German, he started a back kip , then came out. I think so mething should be said abo ut Bob Dic kso n on a n outsta nding performance throughout the whole meet. This fellow Gardner from Kansas on rings did probably one of the finest jobs of anybody here in the meet , though he lost a few tenths on getting to th e rings and hit hi s feet on the rings on the dismount. He probably had the best swing of anyone on rings, and he's only a sophomore.

RAY LORENZ (coach, Chico State): I'd say Mark D a vi s' full -in off the horizontal bar ; he 11

did it in practice several times successfully, but somet hing happened, and he wasn 't able to throw it in his routine. I think that was one of the most exciting moves.

Ed Isabelle

Hal Frey

ED ISABELLE (assistant coach, PSU): Probably the most unique thing I've seen is the single pommel work on the side horse: double leg circles on one pommel and other types of combinations done simply on one pommel.

GEORGE SYZPULA (coach, MSU): Two Michigan State boys: Toby Towson's RO, ff, back, back into a slow back walkover into a very difficult straddle down and press up. Norm Haynie's complete routine (on H B) - and he stuck his double' HAL FREY (coach, California): Dave Jacobs' I ~ front and Tom C larke's Arabian I ~ looked pretty good, too. I thought that Mark Davis would show us the single individual skill of the evening, but he chose not to , I guess , because his hand grip wasn't feeling just right, I understand - the full-in fliffis off high bar. He 's been doing it all year, and he knows when he is secure enough to throw it because he is a veteran high bar man. I think that the floor exercise is st ill showi ng most of the innovations; in the other events , I don't really seem to see the si ngle individual skills .

ED GAGNIER (coach, Iowa State): As a coach , you are so preoccupied with your own tea m you really don't have time to watch other performers. I was real proud of the boys I had here. I t's their first year of competition in every case except one , a nd I feel that they learned a lot and should do even better in the future. If you press me , one of the most spectacular moves I saw was the move done by the boy from Southern Illinois, the full-in back out off the horizontal bar.

BILL VINCENT (coach, SFVSC): The boy from lowa- Hatch . His rings really impressed me. I was impressed by side horse too , especially Ramsey and McCa nless, and Scardina, the Denver boy from Taft High School right in the Valley , I just felt so bad for him ... a tremendous routine , he would have easily been in first place ... he got all the way to the end and blew a loop and fell off. That was the disappointment of the meet, I think.

Gerald George

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Bill Vincent

SAM BAILIE (equipment representative, Atlas): The Iowa victory was most exciting because I' ve looked forward to that for a number of years. As you know I was up there working with the ABC people, trying to help with the statistics , and the last few Iowa men that came up, my hand was shaking just as if I was out there coach ing them. I can't take credit for them ; Mike Jacobson did a great job with them , but I still have a soft spot there -I feel a little bit as if they were still my boys. There was something else, too , that I thought was great .. . you know that Iowa, though national champs legally, wasn't the Big Ten champs . . . when all was said and done , there were Michigan , Michigan, Michigan State and Illinois boys in the audience , when Iowa came on , they supported them 100%. I think this is good for gymnast ics , and good for people in general, when a week later you can forget that a close one was over, and they wished they were there , and now they 're really going to pull for Iowa.

MIKE JACOBSON (coach , lowa ): I've got to be a little prejudiced , especially about my own team. Mike Proctor on P-bars was only our third man a nd hasn 't hit all year, but we've had confidence in him , and he came through - did just a simple move like 11 peach for a mount and hit it well. It was our last event , and we needed him , and he came through , so I'd have to say that was the most exciting moment for me.

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Jim Curzi

RICH GRIGSBY (gymnast, SFVSC) : A couple of side horse routines I saw were real good and Towson's complete routine. I can 't think of any individual tricks ; nothing reall y fantastic has been done here.

ARMANDO VEGA (again): I was very impressed with the side horse and with the hori zontal bar.. The difficulty is just improving so much. In free exercise, I'd say Toby Towson. His technique, his way of doing things is rea ll y wonderful. On rings, there 's so many boys who were so good ; it's really very difficult to say which was best. Ju st say that gymnas tics in general is improving.

GERALD GEORGE (co ach, LSU): The most exciting trick I've see n has been a hop pirouette to one bar and snap down I Y2 (somie) off parallel bars. It was done 10 practice.

JIM CURZI (assistant coach, Ill. U.): One of the most exciting things I've seen was Norf!1 Haynie on the high bar, formerly from Cahfornia , now from Michigan State. He did a solid, international-style exercise on horizontal bar.

I think he should win tonight.

Gordon Maddox

GORDON MADDUX (coach, Cal State L.A .): Two things stand out: one the high bar.

I think the high bar is just a great event and there have been practically no flaws , just minimum breaks. I've enjoyed that , and I've really enjoyed the top four guys on side horse. .

CHARLIE POND (coach, Illinois): The thmg that impressed me here is that a Big Ten team won the Nation al title and the first five No. I qualifiers a re members of Big 10 gymnastic teams. I think you are pOSSibly go mg to see a sweep by Big 10 at hletes. If you had Michigan in as a tea m, they 'd be either first or second on a National team level. That might not be what you wanted Glenn, but that's the way we coaches in the Big 10 feel about it.

GLENN WILSON (coach, Arizolla): I think th at the thing I'm most impressed with in t~is meet is the fac t that every team has great high bar men. I've never seen as many high bar men with as many top tricks as we've seen here today. As a matter of fact , there are probably 15 that are equally as good as the 6 who are in (the finals). It 's a question of who IS the best and that's why we're here today. That's what gym nastics is all about.

ARNO LASCARI (judge, former member. of U.S. Nationa l teams: When I was JudgIng these guys , I was a lmost overwhelmed with the talent , but, it was almost tragic the low scores I had to give to this treme ndou s talent because of violations of the Code. It hurt , but you gotta go by the book. You know, compared with 8 yea rs ago , these guys and what they ' are doing is just about overwhelmmg.

CAPT . ORWYN SAMPSON (co ac h , Air Force): The thing that is exciting to me is the atmosphere, the personality, that this meet exhibits, that is, one of almost electricity. You know th at this is our nation's Best talent and tonight they eit her do it or they don 't. Every performer up th ere has a chance to win , like in long horse , the difference between first and sixth place is about a tenth of a point. The guy who wins it will be doing the exceptional vault flawle-s路sly . I think every event is the same way.

Charlie Pond

i..A Orwyn Sampson

Steve Johnson

STEVE JOHNSON (coach, CSU): The high bar warm-ups last night were outstanding. To me , Grigsby 's dismount , cast front pike out of a n early pirouette is just amazing. That has to be the best trick here. As far as other performances: McCanless on side horse was outstanding ; he 's aggressive and strong ...

One negative comment: I thought the teams th at performed Friday had a lot of misses .

I don 't think that the atmosphere was real conducive to a good performance. When you see misses, it's contagious and the teams competing in the preliminaries had low scores , but they worked hard and, today, the scores came up a bout 2 full points-for Iowa. Today was a much better meet and the top 3 tea ms were excellent.

BOB DIC KSON (gymnast, 10IVa): Needless to say, I was exuberant about our team .

They did a tremendous job. I n the final a nal ysis. I think this meet had more superfantastic gy mnast s than a ny I ' ve ever seen.

You can just look a round and be amazed at any time on any apparatus, even during warmups. I think gymnastics has taken a fanta stic turn for the better in just the past couple years.

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2. Emery, Penn State

5. Fukushima, Washington

6. Ela ss, NW Loui siona

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Mauna Nissinen, Washington Bob Emery, Penn State Jim Amerine, Southern Conn.

Dick Swetman, Penn State Sho Fukushima, Washington John Elias, NW. Louisiana

4. Swetman, Penn State

108.200 102.825 101.275 100.925 99.900 98.925

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Toby Towson, Michigan State Dove Jacobs, Michigan Tom Proulx, Colorado State George Greenfield, Calif.

Rick Simmons, Iowa State Jim Fi sher Sacramento State

18.95 18.15 18.15 18.05 17.95 17.95

2. Jacobs, Michigan

1. Towson, Michigan State TOBY TOWSON (MSU): Handspring, pike front, handspring, front roll to straddle to press to handstand; half pirouette, step down, RO, If, whipback, layout walkout into back limber (hold back limber in straight split position, then turn to stradd le), straddle down to straddle L, press back up to handstand; v.. turn; step down, RO, If, with V2 twist, tinsica, 3,. one-a rm pirouette, If to straight splits, pull leg around to back, stoop up, RO, If, full.

OA~E JACOBS (Mich): RO, If, double back, bock extension roll, to stand; run, full twisting dive roll, swedish fall, turn to stroddl.e stand, press to handstand; step down, 13,. front to front, front roll, neck kip to stand, RO, 2 If, full.

TOM PROULX (CSU): RO, If, double bock, half turn, swedish fall, half turn to splits; press to planche, come down and roll out,. Ito to stand, cartwheel, front walkover, neck kip, reverse pirouette, step down from handstand, lunge;

3. Proulx, Colorado State RO, If, Arabian, front handspring, Swedish fall, half turn, Valdez to handstand; RO, If, full.

GEORGE GREENFIELD (Cal): RO, If, double twisting bock (stick), bock extension roll; step down, Russian front, step out, RO, If, pike bock to front support positionk turn to straight splits, turn, straddle press to handstand; Russian front. heads pring, front drop, straddle cut. turn to single leg circle, stand; run, RO, If, full.

RICK SIMMONS (lSU): RO, If, whipback, If, full (stick); drop to seat, back extension roll to handstand ; stand, handspring, front, headspring, Swedish fall, turn to straight splits, straddle press to handstand, roll out, back If to momentary handstand ;. step down, RO, If, pike Arabian, straight legged rail out to front support; turn to seat, Valdez, stand; Russian front, RO, If, layout.

JIM FISHER (Sac. SI) : Front, walkout into RO, If, full; Japanese jump, neck kip with half turn, forward roll,

backwards carthweel out, side aerial, Swedish fall, forward roll, straddle, press to hand stand; step down, handspring, front somie to immediate straight splits (pe rpendicular to direction of travel), forward roll out, inlocote kip, bautista, step down, RO, If, pike back.

BOB DICKSON (Iowa) : RO, If, Arabian walkout, hand spring walkout, V2 pirouette turn; RO, If, full , roll extention; turn, tinsica, RO, Arabian dive roll, spring out and drap to front support and turn to straight splits; straddle press to handstand; turn, step down, RO, If, full.

BARRY SLOTTEN (Iowa): Russian front, heodspring, front, Swedish fall; turn to straight splits, press to handstand; step down, turn, front handspring to full twisting dive roll; stand, jump with V2 turn, bock limber; RO, If, full , If, bounce to immediate front handspring; lower to Japanese splits, bock extension roll, stand; RO, If, full.

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SIOI HORSI

1. Keith McCanless, Iowa 2. Dennis Ramsey, Brigham Young 3. Ken Liehr, Iowa 4. Mauna Nissinen, Washington 5. Tom Neville, Indiana State .6. Bob Emery, Penn State 16

19.05 18.70 18.70 18.60 18.40 18.30

1. McCanless, Iowa

2. Ramsey, Brigham Young KEITH McCANLESS (Iowa) : Bock moore uphill, bai lie, bock moore downhill, bock tromlot up, hop moore, ci rcles, break out irita reverse scissors, 3 regular scissors, circles, pommel loop push-down, loops, walko round, loop with V, twist di smount.

KEN lIEHR (Iowa) : Bock moore uphill, circle, '!I. bailie, immediate stockli in, circle, bock moore downhill, loop around, stockli in, circle, front break out, reverse scissor, leg cut, 3 front scissors, leg cut, circle, bock tromlot, hop, 2 loops, loop with V, twist dismount.

DENNIS RAMSEY (BYU): Tromlot to immediate loops on the pommel, to loops on the end, shu rlock up, break into 3 front scissors, 2 bock scissors, double, moore, double, bock moore, tromlot down to the end, walko round, Sha klin, russian di smount.

TOM NEVillE (Indiana St.) Reverse moore, ci rcle, boilie, circle, reverse moore downhill, circle, back tromlot up,

3. liehr, Iowa circle, circle, break in front to reverse scissor, leg cut around, 3 front scissors, circle, ci rcle, bock tromlot down, durham, immediate walko round, immed iate Japanese dismount.

BOB EMERY (PSU): Russian moore down, bock shtuck in, moore, moore, russia n down to the end, uphill travel, downhill t ravel, ci rcle, loop, touchback, moore, kehre in, undercut to bock scissor, 3 front scissors, 2 circles, trovel down, loop, hop around, loop off with bock turn.

DOUG PEAK (lSU): Mount with reve rse bock moore, russian, side travel down, stockli in, break into reverse scissor, 3 front scissors, side trovel down, loop, loop with half.

BOB MEDINA (SFVSC): Rear in, one double, russian, immediate travel, one double, rear in, holf alternate, 2 front scissors, half alternate, bock scissor, one double, moore, immed iate moore, immediate travel, immediate walkaround, olympic off.

KEN BRONNER (USC): Bock moore, direct tramlot on one pommel; front scissors and bock scissors; russian, immediate trovel out, russian to russian on end to wal karound and off.

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IONSHIPS

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RINGS

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Paul Vexler, Penn State Wa rd May thaler, Iowa State Bob Dickson, Iowa Cha rles Froeming, Michigan Don Hatch, Iowa Dave Ca rrier, New Mexico

18.65 18.60 18.60 18.50 18.50 18.25

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2. May thaler, Iowa State PAUL VEXLER (PSU): Straight body pull to inverted hong, straight body inlacate, rise to handstand, lower to cross, layaway, front uprise to L support, straight-straight press to handstand, lower to inverted, cost out, dislocate, dislocate, double.

WARD MAYTHALER (lSU): Pull, jam to cross, L cross, pull to support, straight-straight press to handstand, straight arm giant to handstand, lower to inverted, forward roll, german giant to L, hollowback press to handstand, german giant to' handstand, to L cross, lower to cross, cost, dislocate, double bock.

BOB DICKSON (Iowa): Pull straight arm, straight body to inverted hong, straight arm giant inlacate, straight arm giant inlocate, stra ight arm bock uprise, handstand, straight arm regular gia nt, lower to front lever, bock kep, L, hollawback, lower down to Iympic cross, turn out, dislocate. double flyawav.

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3. Dickson, Iowa CHARLES FROEMING (Mich): Dislocate, straight arm shoot to handstand, giant, bird up, L cross, pullout to L support, hollowback press to handstand, lower to inverted, roll around, bounce cross, layaway, dislocate, double bock.

DON HATCH (Iowa): Straight arm reverse kip, to L cross, press to maltese cros s, layaway, straight arm shoot to handstand, straight arm giant swing, cost from handstand, shoot to a cross, pull to L cross, pull out to L support, hallowback to handstand, reverse cost, bock uprise, cross, layaway, dislocate, giant dislocate, double.

OAVE CARRIER (UNM): Cost. inlocate, stiff arm bock uprise, flange down through maltese, through bock lever, pull to cross, pullout to L support, stiff-stiff press to handstand, fall out. bock uprise, cross, poll out. Maltese, dislocate, full.

ERIC COURCHESNE (Cal): Pull to inverted hong, bock rise,

ha ndstand, front giant, handstand, bock giant, handstand, lower (straight arm) through lever, pull to cross, press out. immediate hollowback press to handstand, giant, dislocate, full twist.

BOB EMERY (PSU) : Dislocate, shoot to handstand, forward giant to slow press to handstand, drop 'way down and bounce to cross, forward roll, kep to L, straight body press to handstand, giant dislocate, full twist.

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lONG HoRSI

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Dan Bowles, California Jack McCarthy, Illinois Lorry Bassi st, UCLA Cliff Gauthier, Denver Rick Simmons, Iowa State Doug Boger, Arizono

18.40 18.40 18.375 18.3 25 18.05 18.00

1. Bowles, California

3. Bassist, UCLA

2. McCarthy, Illinois

DAN BOWLES (Cal) : Yamashita (for end), Yamashita w Y2 twist (for end).

JACK McCARTHY (Illinois) : Yamashita w Y2 turn (near end), Yamashita (for end).

LARRY BASSIST (UCLA): handspring (for end), Yamashita (near end).

CLIFF GAUTHIER (Denver): Yamashita w Y2 twist (for end), Yamashita (for end).

RICK SIMMONS (lSU): Yamashita (for end), Yamashita (near end).

DOUG BOGER (Arizona): Yamashita (near end) cartwheel with Y4 turn forward.

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P-BARS

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Ron Rapper, Michigan Dick Swetman, Penn State Tom Dunn, Penn State Bob Emery, Penn State Bob Dickson, Iowa Fred Schonberger, Denver

lB.70 18.40 18.30 18.05 17.95 17.85

2. Swet ma n, Penn State RON RAPPER (Mich): Cast, support, straddle cut, l, hollowback press to handstand, stutz ha ndstand, bock to ha ndstand, stutz handstand, layaway, front uprise, moore, cas!, back uprise, st raddle cut, layaway, fro nt uprise, reverse swinging pirouette, 1-a rm handstand, back off with a ha lf.

DICK SWETMAN (PSU): Peach, nea r handstand, layaway, front uprise, hop pirouette, cast with ha lf twist, front uprise, moore, l , straight-straight press to ha ndstand, back toss to handstand, back toss through and handstand, stutz to handstand, fro nt uprise, front off with ha lf twist.

TOM DUNN (PSU): Peach handstand, stutz layaway, front uprise, swing pirouette, cast, back uprise, straddle cut, l, hollowback, pirouette, stutz handsta nd, layout bock off.

808 EMERY (PSU): long jump into glide, back cut-catch, peach, glide, swing pi rouette, stutz, cast, back uprise,

double cut-catch, l, stiff-stiff press, stutz, layaway, front uprise, rudolph.

808 DICKSON (Iowa): (On the end) Cast support, swing pirouette, stutz hand, cast to uppe r arms, back uprise, strodd le cut, layaway, front uprise, Japanese moore to l, stiff-stiff, 1-a rm, stutz, layaway, front uprise, front off.

FRED SCHON8ERGER (Denver): Peach to handstand, pirouette, swing down, cast support, cut-catch, l, hollowback to handstand, st utz, peach, glide kip, cut-catch, lay back, front uprise, barani.

JOE lITOW (PSU): Jump in from side, gl ide, sta lder to handstand, pi rouette in, stutz, drop peach, glide, half twist, front uprise, straddle cut-catch, l, straight arm-stroight body press, back off.

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Bob Manna, New Mexico Richard Grigsby, SFV State Mauna Ni ssinen, Washing ton Norm Hayn ie, Michigan State Sha Fukushima, Washington Dick Swetman, Penn State

18.85 18.70 18.65 18.45 17.80 17.55

1. Manna, New Mexico

2. Grigsby, SFV State BOB MANNA (UNM): Cost half turn, stoop, straddle back kip, double german, holf turn, free hip, pirouette, in [ocate, feet on-feet off (inside), hop, stoop, 2 inverteds, eagle, front off.

RICHARD GRISGBY (SFYSC): Jam, cast with half twist, stoop to 2 in locates, 1 eagle, hop out with half twist, whip change, hecht catch, cast with half twist, kip, immediate pirouette change, immediate free hip, immediate whip change, immediate pirouette change, cast, front pike.

(Performed tucked in the finals. ) NORM HAYNIE (MSU): Power uprise, stoop through into 2 inlocate giants, pop out into front giant, immediate hop into a switch arm grip, swing under to a vault, catch, back kip to a germon giant, suck out of german giant with a half turn, under bar swing, stiff arm-stiff body kip, into 1 back giant, immediate crossover into czech giants (back giants in inlocate position), hop out into back giants, immediate double flyaway dismount.

3. Nissinen, Washington DICK SWETMAN (PSU) : Cast, full twi st, catch, kip, hop to reverse grip, giant, stoop in, eagle, inlocate, 2 inverts, dislocate, hop out, immediate hecht with half twist vault, half turn, kip, pirouette, giant, blind turn, hecht.

PHil FARNUM (IOWA): High start, % giant, reverse sta lder, 3,4 giant, stoop, takemoto, immediate full twist, swing, half turn, change, blind kip, giant, full pirouette, to half mixed grip, hop out, immediate pirouette, giant, free hip, immediate double flyaway.

RICH SCORZA (IOWA) : Overgrip, cast with Y2 turn, stoop, dislocate, one eagle, hop, full twist (reverse of on Ono), into an Ono, flank vault, reverse kip, german, half twist, blind kip, reverse pirouette, giant, double flyaway.

BOB EMERY (PSU): High start, roll on one arm, reach back, reach undet, vault, half turn, kip;2 giants, stoop in, takemota full twist catch, kip kip change, 2 giants, rudolph.

JOE lITOW (PSU) : High start, front stalder to immediate giant, straddle catch, suck through, kip, giant, change,

\'ault, back kip, german, extra seat circle, half turn, straight body kip, giant, pirouette, stalder, to cross pirouette giant, straddle hecht.

TOM SEXTON (Okla) : High start to handstand, pirouette, straddle, California hop, front giant, hecht: reg ro sp, flying kip, pirouette, California hop, stoop, Invert, eagle, invert, hop, pirouette, 1 giant, high double flyaway.

DICK HAMMERS (CSU): Jam cast with reverse pirouette, California hop (out of overgrip giant, release grip on bar at end of swing before going over top, then regrasp in under grip giant). Weiler kip, pirouette, higgins change (in overgrip giants, do a reverse pirouette into eagle ~rip). eagle, eagle, double grip hop to pirouette, free hiP, blind change, vault6catch, kip hop, pirouette, toe on-toe off, double twisting flyaway.

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ond place because Sexton scored only 7.6 in his favorite event, the high bar.

PASADENA CITY COLLEGE

NATIONAL INVITATIONAL April 12th, 1969 A large turnout and turned·on crowd were treated to an internationol flavor gym meet at the onnual Pasadena Invi· tational as Masaguki Watanabe of Japan thrilled them wjth a 9.7 hi·bar routine and easily won the AII·Around title.

Sadao Hamado, also of Japan; Mauno Nissinen of Finland, Dave Thor of Michi· gan State and Steve Hug (the high school Olympian) 011 helped to make it a great competition.

High bar was the most outstanding event as dismounts were hechts, hechs with a full twist, double flyaways, cast fronts, pike cost front, pike jacknife full twist, full twist and a double twisting fly· away.

Denni s Ramsey was fantastic on the side horse, as was Tom Proulx in floor exercise as he hit his double back mount beautifully. Nissinen won the P·bars stand· ing up a ·double back for his dismount.

Event Results AA: Watanabe, 55.6; Thor, 54.4, Nissinen, 53.1. FX: Proulx, 9.35; Watanobe, 9.2; Greenfield, 9.05. SH: Ramsey, 9.65; Wata· nabe, 9.15; Bennon, 8.9. R: Gillespie, 9.1 5; Watonabe, 8.9; Nissinen, 8.85. PB : Nis· sinen, 9.4; Thor, 9.1 5; Watanabe, 9.8.

LH: Thor & Grigsby, 9.4; Proulx & Wata· nabe, 9.3. HB: Watanabe, 9.7; Hamnus, 9.5; Hug, 9.45.

HOMESTEAD

NATIONAL INVITATIONAL Homestead High School March 8, 1969 The annual Homesteod Notional Invi· tational is sponsored and financed by the Northern California Gymnastics Officials Association as a means of raising fund s to send officials to Notional Champion· ships, clinics, and the like. This year, for example, two officials were sent to Penn State for the FIG judges course.

The meet is designed somewhat like the Pasadena National Invitational in that the best available gymnosts ore invited to porticipate each year ond their ex· penses are paid. One difference is thot the meet is essentially an all·around meet.

AA: Steve Hug 54.45; john Elias 53.40; George Greenfield 53.20; Rich Grigsby 52.60; Gory Diamond 52.25; Sho Fukus· hima 51.90; Minoru Mori sak i 51.45; Craig Dickson 50.60; Steve Radomski 48.75. FX: Minoru Morisaki 9.25; Gory Diamond 9.20; George Greenfield and Steve Hug (tie) 9.15. SH: Steve Hug 9.3; John Elias 8.95; Rich Grig sby 8.65 . R: Eric Courschsne 9.4; Steve Hug 9.15; Steve Radomski, Rich Grigsby and Gary Diamond (tie) 9.05. LH: Rich Grigsby 9.35; Minoru Morisaki 9.2; Steve Hug 9.1. PB : 26

Steve Hug 9.15; Rich Grigsby and George Greenfield (tie) 9.0. HB: Minoru Mori· saki 9.5; Dove Niemand 9.3; George Greenfield 9.25. TR: Vic Paul 9.1; Jim Turpin 8.95; Kent Umbarger 8.65.

AA: Dave Butzman, ISU , 100.15; Brent Simmons, ISU, 98.95 ; Tom Sexton, OK, 98.66. FX: Rich Simmons, ISU, 8.950; Dennis 8erg, CU, 8.875; Tom Sexton, OU, 8.850; Ken Snow, KSU, 8.800; Bob Ito, ISU, 8.750. SH : Russ Hoffman, ISU, 9.375; Doug Peak, ISU , 9.275; Pat Ed· words, CU, 9.000; Richard Schubert, KU, 8.450; Ramon Repp, OU, 8.425. SRi Ward Meythaler, ISU, 9.425; Kirk Gard· ner, KU, 9.350; Pat Edwards, CU, 8.975; Rick Orna, OU, 8.95; Roy Rettberg, OU, and Dennis Mazur, ISU , (tie) 8.875. LH : Rich Simmons, ISU , 9.1875; Bob Pierson, KU, 8.925; Brent Simmons, !SU, 8.9125; Dave Butzman, 8.9125; Ken Snow, KSU, 8.8375. PB : Dave Butzman, ISU, 9.150; Jim Johannesen, OU, 9.025; Brent Simmons, ISU , 9.000; Eri c Singer, CU, 8.975; Don Graves, ISU , 8.90. HB: Ben Blea, CU, 9.250; Dave Butzman, ISU ,

The Tigers won five· of six events.

Senior David Porch finished his college ca reer by maintaining hi s title as MVC free exercise champ. He was closely fol· lowed by Don Rutherford who finished second.

The side horse was the Tigers downfall and first place went to Bob Carroll of Wichita State. MSU pushed ahead on the still rings and freshman .Jim Clemons, of Everidgeville, III. took first spot with MSU sophomore Jerry Knight at second.

Don Rutherford of Memphis State claimed first on long horse vaulting, pushed by Jeff Miller who placed sec· ond. Miller continued his winning streak by taking a first on porallel bars. Jim Clemons took the horizontal bar event with teammate Don Rutherford running a close second.

Jeff Miller of MSU won top score hon· ors with 44.6 points; Jim Clemons of MSU placed second with 44.1 , and Young of Wichita State took third all·around

SECOND ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE.lNVITATIONAL GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS Lowell Technological Institute March 7, 1969 The Second Annual NE Invitational Collegiate Championships was held on March 7, 1969 at Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell , Mass.

Once again there was a large field of competitors from NE colleges and uni· ver sities except members of the EIGL. Southern Conn SC (coach Abie Grossfeld) won the team championships for the second yea r in a row and placed many team members in championship positions.

Because of the success of the meet it is anticipated that the 1970 champion· ships be expanded to include EIGL members but place those strong er team s in a different division. Outstanding gym· nasts from the colleges will be able to advance to the finals with the EIGL team s.

Team: So. Conn ......... 137.40 MIT ......... 107.14 Univ of NH 99.72 LTI 72.40 USCGA 41.17 38.85 Newton JC AA: Antone Capitao, SC 43.37; Fronk D'Amico. SC 41.30; Dick Hood, MIT 35.97; Stephian Clancy, NJC 33.90; Ted Colburn, USCGA 32.72 . FX: Tony Tam· burri SC 8.50; Stephan Clancy, NJC 7.7; Fronk D'Amico, SC 7.5. SH: Jim Yearwood.

SC 8.45; Mike Devorki n, MIT 8.40; Mike Shay. SC 7.7. R: Antone Capitao. SC 8.8; Fred Hatfield, SC 8.4; Jim Ball, SC 7.7.

LH : Joy Ely, USCGA 8.45; Frank D'Amico.

SC 8.4; Dick Hood. PB: 'Antone Capitao.

7.7; Tom Hafer, MIT 7.55; Frank D'Amico, 7.2. HB : Fred Hatfield, SC 7.60; Frank D'Amico, 7.35; Antone Capitao, 6.55.

BIG EIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS Iowa State Team Standings: 1. Iowa State ..... .... ..... .. ..... 1 61.825 2. Oklahoma ...... I 49.725 3. Kansas ..... 149.075 4. Colorado. .. ... 148.475 5. Kansas State ..... 147.350 6. Nebroska ..................... ... I 37.200 Dove Butzman amassed 100.1 5 points to win the all·around and led Iowa State to their fourth conference team title in the last five years.

It also marked the fifth year in a row that the Cyclones have won the all· around title. Mike Jacki won in 1968 and Jerry Fontana won in '65,'66 and '67.

Brent Simmons of Iowa State just edged Tom Sexton of Oklahoma for sec·

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1 st FX Ea stern Regional s, F. Henderson, Indiana State 9.025; Brent Simmons, ISU, 8.90; Ger· old Corley, KU, 8.90; Roger Hemphill, KU,8.875.

MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Memphis State University March 8, 1969 The Memphis State. University gym· nastics team won their third strOight Missouri Valley Conference title Satur· day in the MSU fieldhouse. Memphis State set the pace for the meet with 137 points; Wichito State claimed second place with 129; Lou isvi lle placed third, and Cincinnati fourth.

with 41. 7.

Memphis State won 9 of 10 duol meets this seoson with their loss coming by less than one point to Northeast Louisana Stote.

Team Scoring: Memphis State 137.55; Wichito State 128.10; Louisvi lle 103.95; Cincinnati 36.77.

AA: Miller, MS 44.6; Clemons, MS 44.15; Young, Wich 41.77; Pierce, UL 33.55; Morrison, UL 33.40. FX: Porch, MS 8.1; Rutherford, MS 7.9; Luman, Lynn, WS 7.85. SH: Carroll, WS 8.1; Angle· myer, Cin 7.7; Hoynes, UL 7. 15. SRi Clem· ons, MS 8.45; Knight, MS 8.25; Corroll, WS 7.95. LH : Rutherford, MS 8.6; Miller, MS 8.3; Young, WS 8.275. PB : Carroll,

WS 8.2 and Miller, MS 8. 2; Clemans, MS 7.9 5. HB: Clemans, MS 7.95 ; Rutherford, MS 7.5; Yaung, WS 6.65.

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS University of Michigan March 21-22 TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Michigan. . .. . 162.35 (189 .90) 2. Iowa ............. .. .... 159.2 7 (1855 2) 3. Illinois .... .. .... ... . ... 150.27 (175 .57) 4. Mich. State . .. .. ... 172. 35 5. Wi scon sin .... .... ... 165.20 6. Ohio State .. . 161.02 7. Minnesota ............. ........... 153.02 8. Indiana Univ ................. . .... 150.45 The Big Ten picked the NCAA representative an the basis of Friday's scares and Iowa wan with a scare of 161 .55 to Michigan's 161.10. Then an Saturday the Big Ten team champion was determined and Michigan won with 162.35

Huntzic ker, M 9.05; Tim Wright, M ich and Steve Chapple, 111 (tie) 9.0; Mike Sexton, Ohio 8.95 . LH: Jack McCarthy, III 9 .15; Bob Dickson, Iow a 9. 11 ; Sid Jensen, Mich 9.05 ; Toby Tows on, MSU 8.96 ; Barry Slatten, Iowa 8.92. PB: Dick Richard s, Mich 9 .35 ; Ron Rapper, Mich 9.22 ; Bob Dickso n. Iowa 9.02 ; Pete Bradley, Wisc 8. 7; Mike Proctor, Iowa 8.55 .

HR : Norm Ha ynie, MSU 9.35; Sid Jensen, Mich 9.2; Rich Scorza, Iowa 9.05 ; Bruce Trott, Ohio 9.0 ; Ed Howard, Mich 8.9.

NCAA EASTERN REGIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Indiana State University March 22, 1969 Team Results: Southern Illinois Univ 160.725 ; Indiana State Univ 1 58.40.

FX: Fred Henderson, Ind. 9.25 ; Ro y Jauch, Ind 9.05 ; Mark Davis, SIU 8.9.

SH : Ron Alden: SIU 9.3 5; Tom Neville, Ind 9.2; Frank Benesh, SIU 9.0. SR: Wayne Borkowski, SIU 9.35 ; Dave Seal, Ind 9.3; Frank Benesh, SIU 8.95. LH: Bob Bosse, Ind 9.3; Homer Sardina, SIU 9.175; Dan Wunderlich, Ind 9.1. PB: Don Locke, SIU 9.1; Jim DeRoche, Ind 8.95 ; Stu Smith, SIU 8.9. HB: Mark Davis, SIU 9.5 ; Dave Gilchrist, Ind 9.4; Stu Smith , SIU 9.2 and Bert Schmitt, SIU 9.2.

CCAA CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS CaLSt.LA, March 14, 1969 Team Standings: 1. San Fernando Valley.. . 156.04 2. Cal State LA ... . ........... 153.34 3. Cal. State L.B . ........ . .......... 143.28 4 . Cal State Fullerton . . . ... . . 140.40 5. Cal Poly Pomona ..

90.42 AA: Rich Grigsby, SFV 53.62; Steve Radomski, SFV 50.62; Marty Coling , CSLA 50.35; Bruce Coulter, LA 50.10; Brian Burley, Full. 45 .25 . FX: Warren, LA 9.15; Coulter, LA 9.05; Coling , LA and Grigsby, SFV (tie) 9.0. SH : Grig sby, SFV 8.9 ; Tom Bell, SFV 8.75 ; Radomski, SFV 8.5. SR: Bob Hughes, SFV 9.2 ; Mark Nolan, LB 9.1; Grigsby, SFV 8.95 . LH : Coulter, LA and Grigsby, SFV (tie) 8.975 ; Sanchez 8.9. PB: Warren, LA and Coulter, LA (tie) 8.85 ; Radomski, SFV 8.7. HB: Grigsby, SFV 9.35; Caling, LA 8.95 ; Warren, LA 8.65.

1 st AA Pasadena : Watanabe

FWC AA Winners (6 events) to Iowa's 159.275.

AA: Rich McCurdy, Mich 99.775 ; Sid Jensen, Mich 99 .000 ; Bob Dickson, Iowa 98.650; Rich Scorza, Iowa 97.475 ; Bruce Trott, Ohio St 88.125. FX: Toby Towson, Mich. St 9.475 ; Barry Slatten, Iow a 9.275 ; Dave Jacobs, Mich 9 .225 ; Dick Taffe, Iowa 8.975 ; Sid Jensen, Mich 8.95. SH: Keith McCanless, Iow a 9. 3 75; Ken Liehr, Iowa 9.3 25 ; Craig Kinsey, Mich. St 8.875; John Rus so, Wi sc 8.5; Jim DeBao, Mich 8.375. R: Don Hatch.

Iowa 9.4; Bob Dickson, Iowa 9.275 ; Chuck Froeming, Mich 9.225 ; Rich Kenney, Mich 9 .10; Sid Jen sen, Mich 9.0 25.

TR: Dove Jacobs, Mich 9.475; George

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN UNIVERSITIES U, of Southern California March 27-28-29

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92.68 53.00 U.c. Davis .

AA: Bucke.y Mackey, Chico 45.70; Tim McWhirk, SSC 44.03 ; Bruce Ly brand, SFSC 43.70 . FX: Tim Fi sher, SSC 8.8; Paul Ammendolio , Davis 8.2; Dan Barber, SSC 8.1. SH: Don Schilling , SSC 7.0; Rich Peterson, SSC 6.85 ; Phil Horton, SFSC 6.55 .

SR : Lance Astrella, Chico 8.7 ; Buckey Mackey, Chico 8.45 ; Craig Heterick, SSC 8.4. LH : Tim McWhirk, SSC 8.63 ; Bruce Lybrand, SFSC 8.60; Buckey Mackey, Chico 8.55 . PB: Lance Astrello, Chico 8.65; Dan Schilling , SSC 8.5; Tim McWhirk, SSC 8. 2. HB: Buckey Mackey, Chico 8.55 ; Tim McWhirk, SSC 7.9; Roger Hoffman, Chico 7.85. TR : (included in team score) Tim McWhirk. SSC 8.25 ; Do ve Brandt-Erickson-SFSC 8.20 ; George Siller, SSC 7.35 .

CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Cal. State-Fullerton March 22, 1969 Team Standings: 1. San Fernando Volley .. . . . 1 50.25 2. Cal. St. Los Angele s . . ...... ... 143.82 3. Cal. St. Long Beach ... . ... . 13 7.70 4. Sacramento State .. . .. .... 1 35 .55 5. Son Jose State .. . ... 125.57 6. Cal. State Fullerton ........... . 1 21 .62 7. U.c. Santa Barbaro . .... 120.75 8. Chico State ..... 11 7.60 9. Son Diego State ..... 1 00.37 10. U.c. Irvine .. ..

71.82 ll . Cal. Poly Pomona ..

45.95 AA: Rich Grigsby, SFV 51 .87; Steve Radomski, SFV 48.42 ; Bruce Coulter, CSLA 47.97; Marty Caling, CSLA 46.25 ; John Potter, Irvine 45.92. FX: Jim Fisher, SSC 8.95; Don Warren, CSLA 8.9; Marty Co ling, CSLA 8.8; Rich Grigsby, SFV 8.8.

SH: Bob Medina, SFV 9.0; Rich Grigsby, SFV and John Potter, Irvine 8.4. SR: Lance Astrella, Chico 9.05路; Mark Nolan, LB and Bob Hughes, SFV 8.9. LH: Rich Grigsby, SFV 9.17; Nick Syracopoulos, LB 8.87; AI Hernandez, LA and Bruce Coulter, LA 8.77. PB : Rich Grig sby, SFV 8.9; Tracy Savage, LB 8.65; Bruce Coulter, LA 8.6.

HB : Rich Grigsby, SFV 8.9; Marty Coling, LA 8.6; Steve Radomski, SFV 8.35.

PACIFIC COAST ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Peterson Gym San Diego State College March 28, 1969

Team Standings: 1. Univ. of California ....... ...... 161.025 2. Washington . .. .... . ... . .. , . ... 158.775 3. U.s.c. ................... . . .. .... 1 55.35 4. U.c. L.A. .............. .. .. . .. .. .. . 152.775 5. Oregon .................. . ....... 143. 505 6. Stanford ............ . ......... . . . 132.775 7. Washington State . .. ......... . . 119.35 AA: Mauna Nis senan, Wash 107.775; George Greenfield, Call 05.80; Sho Fukushima, Wash 101 .85 . FX: George Greenfield, Cal 18.55; Larry Bassi st, UCLA 18.45; Gary Diamond, Cal 18.25. SH : Nissenen, Wa sh 18.95 ; Eric Courchesne, Cal 17.95 ; Ken Bronner, USC 17.85. SR: Eric Courchesne, Col 18.45; Nissenen, Wa sh 18.35 ; Steve Rochelle, Stan 18.30.

LH: Lorry Bassist, UCLA 18.475; Dan Bowles, Col 18.3 25 ; Brad Moses, Cal 18.0 25. PB : Brien Thomas, USC 18.35; Greenfield, Col 18.10; Lomi Ozora, Wash and Randy Martin, USC (tie) 18.05. HB : Mauna Nissenen, Wa sh 18.80; Sho Fukushima, Wash 1 8.65 ; Greenfield, C611 8.50.

Team Standings : Col St College at Los Angeles .... 144.775 Cal St College at Long Beach ..... 139.45 Univ of Cal at Santa Barbara .... 136.32 San Jose State College ... .. .. ..... 132. 1 7 San Diego State College .. . 114.35 FX: Bruce Coulter, CSLA 8.95 ; Don Warren, CSLA 8.85 ; Marty Co ling, CSLA 8.70 . SH: Larry Buss, SD 9.20 ; Stan Shoemaker, SD 8.10; Jim Wa yman, SB 7.55.

R: Gordon Block, SB 9.00; Mark Nolan, LB 8.95 ; Don Warren, 8.75 . LH: Gordon McCollom, LB 9.00 ; Jim Turpin, SJ 8.90; Nick Syracopoulos, LB 8.875 . PB: Tracy Savage, LB 8.85 ; Don Warren, 8.80; Mart y Co ling, 8. 50. HB: Gary Erickson, LB 9.00; Joe Sweeney, SJ 8.70; Don Warren, 8.70.

FAR WESTERN CONFERENCE March 15, 1969 Cal. State-Hayward

Team Standings: Denver University ... 153.42 Cal. State L.A ................. . .. . .. 144.77 Air Force Academy . . . . . 142.85 Cal. State Long Beach ... 139.45 UC Santa Barbara . . 136.32 San Jose State ... . ....... 132.1 7

Team Standings : 1. Sacramento State ... .... ... ..... 158.51 2. Chico State .. . . ........... , . . .... 135.50

NCAA WESTERN REGIONAL QUALIFICATIONS San Diego State College March 29, 1969

San Diego State .. .. .......... . ... . . 114.35 New Mexico ........ .. 43 . 10 FX: Bruce Coulter, CSLA 17.9; Cliff Gauthier, Den 17.8; Don Warren, CSLA 17.75. SH: Frank Scardina , Den 19.20; Larry Buss. SD 18.55; Cliff Gauthier, Den 16.75. R: Mark Nolan, LB 17.85; Jerry Shrim, Den and Gordon Block, UCSB (tie) 17.80. LH: Cliff路 Gauthier, Den 18.42; Bruce Coulter, CSLA 17.82 ; Gordon McCollom , CSLB 17.77. PB: Fred Schonberger, Den 18.10; Don Warren, CSLA 17.65; Bruce Coulter, CSLA 17.45. HB : Don Warren, CSLA 17.75; Joe Sweeney, San Jose 17.65 ; Fred Schonberger, Den 17.60.

WAC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Coloradll State University March 27-29 The 1969 WAC meet was, by for, the best WAC meet ever held. There were a bout 500 people for the compulsories, and it was too bod they had to observe poorly executed routines路 that scored in the 4's, 5's and 6's. It is understood that compulsory exercises in other conferences were also bod, but that is little con solation.

Friday's meet (si x teams competing for final placings, all-around, and individual qualifiers) was run in one threehour session and drew approximately 3,300 people! This session was especially exciting because of the well performed routines by Colorado State and New Mexico. Both teams demanded spectator attention throughout the meet. CSU won every event except the high bar, incidentally.

Saturday'S meet (top si x individuals in each event) was good in that there were few misses and most individuals scored in the 9's. Attendance was approximately 3,000.

This was an exciting meet for the CSU fans, as it was their first year in the WAC conference and also their first conference team title. CSU hod defeated all the other conference schools in dual meets, with their only loss to Iowa State 1 59.725 -158.275, and entered the meet at least as slight favorites.

CSU has, in the past five years, built an outstanding gymnastics team. With the Ram's admission into the WAC conference, as well as a fine New Mexico squad, some of the tap gymnasts in the nation are being produced by WAC schools, as witnessed by the high quality of performance in the National Championships. As yet this conference has received very little national publicity, but the information provided in this report should go for in indicating that, in the future, one should WATCH OUT FOR THE WAC!

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Colorado State University ... 160.075 New Mexico University ...... l 57.870 Brigham Young University . .. 149.650 Arizona State University .... 142.875 University of Utah ........ ... . 138.175 University of Arizona .. .. ... 137.975 AA: Ron Baretta, CSU, 45.2, 52.3 -97.5; Mike Kimball, Utah, 45 .6, 50.3 - 95.9; Jim Hruban, NM, 43.3, 49 .1 -92.5; Sergio Luna, Utah, 38 .9, 47.6 - 86.5; Don Ferre, BYU , 48.3. FX: (tie) Tom Proulx, CSU , and Stormy Eaton, NM, 9.42; Bryce Martin, BYU, 9.1 7; Doug Boger, AU, 9.05 ; Ron Baretta, CSU, 9.00. SH : (tie) Dennis Ramsey, BYU , and Tom Galioto, NM, 9.42; Ron Boretta, CSU, 8.92; Lorry Dardano, CSU, 8.55 ; Jo~n Charzuk, UNM, 8.45.

SR : Del Strange, CSU , 9.42 ; Dave Carrier, NM, 9.27; (tie) Dick Hammers, CSU , and Paul Gillespie, CSU , 9.22; John Price, ASU , 9. 1 2. LH : Rich McConnell, NM, 9.23; Mark Hopkins, NM, 9.02; Doug Boger, AU , 9.01 ; Don Feree, BYU , 8.87; Tam Proulx, CSU, 8.85. PB : Rich McConnell, NM, 9.25; Mike Kimball, Utah, 9.22 ; Ron Baretta, CSU, 9.20; Del Strange, CSU, 9.07; Sergio Luna, Utah, 9.05. HB: Dick Hammers, CSU , 9.57; Bob Manna, NM, 9.50; Mike Dyas, NM, 9.25; Kyle Boyce, CSU, 9.17; Mike Kimball, Utah, 9 .15.

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NATIONAL GYMNASTICS JUDGES ASSOCIATION Report By JERRY WRIGHT

17 QUESTIONS QUIZ FROM THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE NGJA FILL IN DEDUCTION RANGES

1. Touching the end of the horse, the pommels, the hondgrips, the bar supports, the frame or the floor in

front of or inside of the bars with the feet _ _ __ 2. When the gymnast sits in noticeable manner, the deduction will be on each occasion _ _ _ _ __ 3. Side horse a. Lock of amplitude in leg circles _ _ _ _ __ b. Scissors without disengaging hips -,-,-_ _ _-,--:4. Handstand with arms bent or touching ropes with arms 5. Handstand with arms bent and touching ropes with arms _---"--,-_ _ _--:-_-:- _,---_---,,---_ 6. Cross, inverted crass, and free front horizontal support with arms bent -:-_ __ __ __ __ 7. Too much swaying of rapes _ _ _ _ __ 8. Forward fall by tumbling from bandstand insofar as a fault is potently involved (tumbling down from handstand) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 9. If the composition of the exercise does not correspond to the requirements as stated in Art. 30, the deduction will be, each time --:----:-:--:-_-:::-:_ _ 10. For each intermediate swing, the deduction will be _ 11 . If the exercise does not end in on effective dismount,

A-8-C JUDGING QUIZ:

RATE THE FOLLOWING "A"

corresponding to the difficulty of the exercise as a whole, the deduction will be _ _ __ _

FILL IN BLANK SPACE Evaluation of the difficulty , 12. 0) Oeduction for missing ports A, Bond C a. Port A = b. Port B = c. Port C = 13. If a port C is replaced by a port B, the difficulty score will be reduced by _ _ _ points.

14. For scoring the difficulty, the deduction cannot surpass _ _ _ points.

15. The maximum deduction for the combination is _ _ 16. To obtain the maximum score the exercise must be composed of at least, a. b. c. _ _ _ ports A _ _ ports B _ _ ports C 17. The duration of held ports is the following, a. On parallel bars and floor, b. On rings

"8"

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Answers on Page 30

1. Floor Exercise

2. Side Horse

3. Still Rings

2 handsprings backward (double Flic- Flac),

Travels from end of horse to pommels wo i.c., followed by Travel to other end of horse wo i.c.

Feige backward to straddled "L" support, 2 sec.,

4. Long Horse

5. Parallel Bars

6. High Bar

Straddled "L" support in crass support on both rails.

Giant swing backward and cross over to swing forward in cross grip and V2 turn to handstand on one arm and V2 turn in some direction and on some arm to Giant swing backward.

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12th Annual

NATIONAL SUMMER GYMNASTIC CLINIC

CLINIC BOARD: George Szypula Paul Fino Bill Mead Jock Carr Joe Sc habacker

August 10-15, 1969

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY East Lansing, Michigan

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Registration Fee: $75.00 - lncludes Registration, Meet entry fees, all Clinic activities, Room and Board on MSU Campus, Souvenir Group Photo and Swimming in Outdoor Olympic Pool.

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MG Interviews, continued from page 11

FRANK CUMISKY (Superior Judge): Side horse. That fellow McCanless, he was wonderful on the side horse. It appears to me that he doesn't need two pommels. One pommel is enough for him. His is probably the most outstanding performance that I've seen.

OTTO RYSER (coach, Indiana University): The exciting thing to me is the number of topflight youngsters we have today in comparison ever to 10 years ago when we had 5 or 6 boys doing top routines ; now we've got 50 or 60 of 'em doing top routines. This to me is very exciting.

ABE GROSSFELD (coqch , Southern Connecticut): The team competition was so close that I'd say that the climax of the team COlilpetition was the most exciting moment. I was very happy with Jim Amerine's performance.

He really exceeded my expectations. I think, too, that the side horse work was phenomenal.

DICK CRILEY (MG reporter): Moves I liked were Sanchez's 1l-2 twisting somie which was well-controlled; Amerine's method of getting from a rear support on HB to a front support position: he merely muscles a half tum on one arm to his left ; also Rick Simmons' piked Arabian front to a straight legged forward roll; Larry Bassist's handspring, front with full ; Barry Siotten's haridspring to full twisting dive roll and his back ff toe-touch to immediate front ff; Iowa's Dick Taffe used a rearwards jump with full twist to nice effect ; ISU's Bob Ito had good tumbling, including his double full , handspring to front, a high Arabian dive, as well as a couple well-done transition moves: from front support to the Valdez position (tum about body axis and bend one leg) to a banner move (resembles a Valdez but doesn 't go through handstand -looks as if he does a full twist on one arm, but not a diamidov , as he regains the Valdez position). Might also mention Emery's 1l-2 twisting dismounts on HB and PB. Then on Long Horse: a full twisting handspring by Arizona's Doug Boger (in practice) , the entire Iowa State long horse team performance, the overall predominance of Yamashita vaults, and Penn State's Paul Vexler's near end stoop which had nearly 7 feet of pre-flight (he's only 5'W'). And what about the large number of specialists in the finals this year?! ... I missed the name of the gymnast who gave me the following ring routine. Will he please claim it, if he can: Back kip, maltese , front uprise , L, planche, press handstand, reverse giant locked arm to handstand, lower to invested cross, to back lever, to iron cross, dislocate, full twist.

1 .2-.5 2.. 5-.7 3. a.. 1-.3 b.. 1-.3 4 . .2-.3 5 .. 3-.5 6.. 1-. 5 7.. 1-.3 8 .. 1-.5 9 .. 1-.3 10.. 3· .5

Answers to NGJA quiz, 11. .1 -.3 Evaluation of difficulty 12. a.. 2

b.. 4

c.. 6 13 .. 2 14.3.4 15. 1.6 15. a. 6.

b. 4 c. 1 17. o. 2 ssc (there are exceptions) b.3 sec (there are exceDtions)

A-B-C quiz, FX - A plus A (most judges give credit for only two) see page 61 - drawing is in wrong place - change withV III-8 SH - B plus B - (how's that grab you l) see page 77 SR - A plus A - compare with XI-5 page 103 (used to be "B") LH - 9.5 see page 31 PB - " A" (was "B") see page 134 HB - "e" (listed as "e" but questionable)

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