Stan Clyne injured
Gymnastics title to ISU; KU ranks 3rd, three qualify
By JOE CHILDS
Kansan Sports Writer
AMES, Iowa-Iowa State impressively regained the Big Eight gymnastics title last weekend, rolling to its fourth league championship in five years.
Winning all but one of the seven events, Iowa State amassed 161.825 points and displayed tremendous strength and poise in successfully dethroning Colorado.
KU, ranked second to the Cyclones entering the meet, was ready to do battle with Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas State for runner-up honors. The Jayhawks performed well, scored higher, and qualified more men for the NCAA meet than in previous years.
But Kansas fell short of a second-place finish, being edged by Oklahoma, 149.725 to 149.075. And the Jayhawks suffered an even greater loss—long horse vaulting and floor exercise ace, Stan Clyne, suffered a compound fracture of his right forearm.
Friday accident
Preliminaries to determine all-around and team champions were held Friday night when Clyne sustained the injury.
"It happened as he was loosening up," Coach Robert Lockwood said. "Stan was working on his double-back when he went into his handspring a little low. He tried to pull out of it and stop his flip but missed and landed on his arm."
Of the loss of the Wichita sophomore, Lockwood said, "You can't lose your top man in two events and not feel the strain. From what Stan had been scoring during the year, he would have been the Big Eight champ in floor exercise."
The event was won with an 8.95 while Clyne has been consistently scoring 9.0 and above.
"Even more important," Lockwood added, "was the shock to the team. They really felt his loss."
Three lead ISU
Iowa State's Dave Butzman and the Simmons brothers—Brent and Rick—led the Cyclone sweep. Butzman ranked No. 1 in both all-around and parallel bars, placed second in horizontal bar, and shared third in vaulting.
Rick Simmons also captured 'firsts' in two events—floor exercise and vaulting, with Brent Simmons second in all-around, third in parallel bars, and tied for third in both horizontal bar and vaulting.
The Cyclones qualified six gymnasts for the trip to Seattle and the NCAA competition April 3-5. Three from KU and two each from Oklahoma and Colorado also qualified.
"Our kids performed remarkably well considering the loss of Clyne," Lockwood said. "We had a lot of men score high, and it was the first time we've had a KU gymnast place as high s second in the conference meet."
Kirk Gardner in still rings and Robert Pierson in long horse vaulting earned the No. 2 finishes for KU.
Gardner was edged by ISU's defending champion Ward Meythaler, 9.425 to 9.350. The Atchison sophomore had twice tied the Cyclone senior prior to the league meet and matched
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him with a 9.4 performance in the preliminary.
Pierson followed Rick Simmons in vaulting, 9.18 to 8.925. KU's in Gerald Carley tied
Brent Simmons for third in the high bar with an 8.9 score to also qualify for the NCAA.
KANSAN Sports
Roger Hemphill combined an 8.0 performance in the prelims with a strong routine in the finals for an 8.875 total, just
KU's women's gymnastics team closed its season Saturday with a second-place finish in a triangular meet at Washburn University.
KU women place 2nd
The Jayhawk coeds scored 96,65 to Washburn's 112.55. Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia scored 41.16 points.
Elaine Scott led KU with 'firsts' in trampoline and vaulting, along with a third in tumbling. Paula Newton finished second in the balance beam competition and third in both uneven parallel bars and floor exercise. Her combined scores netted her third place in the all-around competition.
Colorado finished right behind the Jayhawks with a 148.475 total. The Buffs were led by Ben Blea, winning the high bar at 9.250 and spoiling a complete sweep by Iowa State.
The meet ended KU's first season of competition in women's gymnastics. Mrs. Gale Catlett, the KU coach said she was pleased with the team's performance throughout the season.
behind Carley and Simmons in that event.
"They did a tremendous job," she said. "Everyone worked hard. We have a young team—all freshmen and sophomores—so I'm looking forward to next season."
The KU coeds won two of their four meets and became the first team to ever win a dual meet from the Washburn women. KU defeated them at Robinson Gymnasium March 8.
The KU squad will lose only one member to graduation team captain Pierson. This year's gymnasts were predominately sophomores.
"Next year we are going to be a lot more solid. We have several talented kids who are young, and we're constantly improving our routines, which will add points to our scores and give the gymnasts confidence.
"Next year at this time, we will be throwing routines very near to what Iowa State will be throwing. Next year, I think we should give them a battle."
Big Eight Results
Team scoring: Iowa State 161.825
Oklahoma 149.725, Kansas 149.075
Colorado 148.475, Kansas State
147.350, Nebraska 137.200.
Floor exercise—1 Rick Simmons,
ISU, 8.950; 2 Dennis Berg, CU,
CSU; 4 Denise Fenton, UWB; 8.400;
Ken Snow, KSU, 8.800; 5 Bob Ito,
ISU, 8.750.
Side horse—1 Russ Hoffman, ISU,
9.375; 2 Doug Peak, ISU, 9.257; 3
Bouwkens, ISU, 9.000; 4 Richard
Schubert, KU, 8.450; 5 Ramon
Repp, OU, 8.425
Still rings - 1 Ward Meyhaler, ISU,
9.425; 2 Kirk Gardner, KU, 9.350;
3wards, CU, 8.975; 4 Riot
Orna, UI, 8.95; 5 Roy Rettysh, OU,
8.875.
Long horse = 1 Rick Simmons, ISU,
9.187; 2 Bob Pierson, KU, 8.925;
3 Bob Simmons, ISU, and Dave
Butzman, KU, 8.912; 5 Ken Snow,
KSU, 8.375.
Parallel bars - 1 Dave Butzman, ISU,
9.150; 2 Jim Johannesen, ISU, 9.025;
3 Brent Simmons, ISU, 9.000; 4 Eric
Bristol, ISU, 8.975; 5 Don Graves,
ISU, 8.90.
Horizontal bar -1 Ben Blea, CU,
9.250; 2 Dave Butzman, UKI, 9.025;
Simons, George Cayro, KU, Brent
Simmons, ISU, 8.50; 5 Roger
Hemphilk, KU, 8.875
All-around—1 Dave Butzman, ISU,
100.15; 2 Brent Simmons, ISU,
30 from Sexton, OU, 98.55; 4
Ben Bica, CAl, 92.325; 6 Ken Snow,
KSI, 91.525.
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Rookie Unseld is MVP
NEW YORK (UPI) — Rookie Wesley Unseld of the Baltimore Bullets, the top rookie player in pro basketball since Wilt Chamberlain's debut nine years ago, has been named Most Valuable Player in the National Basketball Association for 1968-69.
Unseld, the major factor in Baltimore's rise from last place to the NBA's Eastern Division crown, received 310 points in the balleting among NBA players and beat out Willis Reed of the New York Knickerbockers for the honor. Reed had 137 points.
The rugged 6-foot-7, 245-pound center is the first rookie so honored since Chamberlain in 1960.
Billy Cunningham of the Philadelphia 76ers was third in the balloting with 130 points followed by five-time MVP Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics (93) and Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers (89).
Unseld, former University of Louisville star, averaged 14 points and 18 rebounds per game in his freshman season.
Coach Richie Guerin of the Atlanta Hawks said of Unseld: "It's hard to believe one guy could make such a difference in a team."
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