University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 24.1975
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Gymnasts utilize training program
By GARY VICE
Sports Writer
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Roger Oatman practices on the parallel bars
Since the first week of classes, the University of Kansas gymnastics team has been training six days a week for competition in what may be the toughest gymnastics conference in the nation, the Big Eight.
The gymnasms have spent many hours developing their techniques in preparation for this season, which opens with the Big 12 tournament. 31 and Nov. 1 in Robinson Gymnasium.
Jody Sunmers, who competes in all-round, said, "We're as ready as you can be to compete."
VICTORY DOESN'T APPEAR promising for the young Jayhawk squad in a conference that has perennial national powers Iowa State and Nebraska.
But the team should be greatly improved this season because of the experience gained by last year's highly recruited freshmen, the loss of only three gymnasts from the squad and a training program of specialized exercises, Coach Bob Lockwood said.
Lost from the 1974-75 team were Al Whitehead, Richard Greenlee and John Whitehead.
THIS YEAR'S SOPHOMORES include Dan Bowerman, vaulting and still rings; Sean Williams, vaulting and floor exercise; and Mike Hynes in all-round competition.
Lockwood, in his 11th year as coach at KU, has implemented a training program of specialized exercises and weight conditioning to strengthen the squad.
"We try to complement our extensive calls (callensis) program with the universal calls (callensis)"
THE WEIGHT TRAINING—working three times a week on heavy weightlifting—is designed to build the gymnasts' endurance for their events, he said.
Ron Altman and Bill Harms, freshmen,
had orate for the weight training.
"I'm a lot stronger now than I was in high school."
THE WEIGHT PROGRAM is part of the specialized exercises that Lockwood said he thought would greatly benefit the squail. "The weight is light, but can be much harder to do," he said.
Altman, Kansas high school still rills champion last year, said, "Weights are making a night and day difference in the training between high school and college."
"I like it (the training) because it is individualized," Alman said. "The coaches can look at your strengths and weaknesses and correct many problems as compared to school, where we all worked on the same exercises and stayed on the same level."
THE GYMNASTS WORK together in offering constant criticism and appraisal of each other's stunts and routines, Lockwood said.
Harms, a pommel horse specialist, said.
Almanad, "You work four or five years on your best tricks to put in a 30-second video."
Bowerman, a consistent performer for the Jayhawks last year, trains in earnest.
"It is an accumulation of many years of practice to include in a quick series," he said. "It's senescence not to be out here working to be the best."
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Series invites accolades
By WARD HARKAVY Contributing Writer
Hush, Curt! Settle down, Joe. You, too.
Tony.
How merciful, in some ways, that the World Series is only seven games. One can be sure of it by reading the pedantics of "What a great series!" "You're a baseball man. You ought to know. Have you ever seen a series like this?" And then he leaves in my time, but this one is the greatest."
Every other word uttered by the NBC
series was a paean to the
1974 World Series.
THE FUNNY THING is that they were absolutely right. Both teams played excellent baseball; the games were close and great fielding and hitting dominated.
Although the colorful Oakland A's didn't make the World Series this time, there was plenty of idiosyncratic talent. The players played by both the Red Sox and the Reds.
For example, thee's Joe Morgan's twitching elbow, similar to the reflex actions of a dead frog. It's hard to knock Morgan's success, however. His series-winning bloop single (one wishes they still called it a Texas Leaguer) was typical of this little man's clutch-hitting career.
AND THEN THERE'S Fred Lynn. One
Lynn's consummate grace and skill. He's
one of the few fieldiers who looks more graceful in 'live action than in slow motion. Lynn had a great year for a rookie. Or for any player.
One can only hope that he turns out to be an Al Kaline, rather than a Norm Cash. Cash hit .363 early in his career, but never attained such heights again. Kaline was one of the most stylish players to ever play the game.
Question: Did Ed Armbristner interfere with Carlon Flisk? Answer: Yes, Did the caron interfere with Carlon Flisk?
such things occasionally happen in baseball and must be accepted by the victimized teams and their fans.
IT WAS NICE TO SEE CELI Yastrzemski playing the game as though he were an eager rookie, rather than the aging star that he is. No one can handle the Green Monster as well as can Yastrzemski.
Don Gullett may be the pitcher of the future, or so says Curt Gowdy, but Luis Tiant was definitely the best pitcher in the 1975 World Series. That harked her by being a great fighter, called an awkward but beautiful ballet. The experience and craftsmanship of a
veteran pitcher seemed to ooze from his pores.
YOUNGSTERS LIKE Rawly Eastwick and Will McEanney may be able to "bring it", but it's more satisfying to be carried on a seat or deliver it burt the danger to hit it.
Joe Morgan and Reggie Cleveland developed the pickoff-to-stall game to a new art form. Was Cleveland ever going to first attempt to overto first and over to first again. Pickoff attempts are usually boring until the runner is actually picked off base. Joe Morgan, a clever runner, knows that overto first and over to pickoff off base in a World Series game.
THE SIXTH GAME of the series was dazzling; the Kian Fisk's exuberance was matched only by BIL Mazerkoiski in the 1960 Series when Maz Hax hit a Series-winning hat and galloped around the bases. The somewhat elephantine Fisk scored 21, while his team baseball, Johnny Bench. Both players beile the phrase, "tools of ignorance."
It was only proper that the World Series would be settled by a bloop single. Baseball is a game of inches and the ball is rounded like an inch of an inch apart in talent and desires.
One can't get too upset with the inanities of TV announcers Gowdy, Garagialia amu Rubok. Let them wax out for a while. The World Series that deserved the praise.
Bullets trip Kings by 12
LANDOVER, Md., (AP)—Evin Hays scored 29 points and grabbed 13 rebounds last night, when the Washington Bullets opened defense of their National Basketball Association Eastern Conference title with a 107-98 win over the Kansas City Kings.
Mike Riordan scored six of his 13 point in a two-minute span in the fourth quarter when the Bullets pulled away from an 87-85 lead to a more comfortable 98-89 advantage.
The Bullets, who opened last season with seven consecutive victories en route to a 60-22 record, were sluggish in the first half and they were rallying to go in front 48-46 at halftime.
Nate Archibald had 25 points and Sam Lacey grabbed 17 rebounds for Kansas City.
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