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Forbush's injury is just one of seven that have crippled the Crimson for its season inaugural. Chris Martin, the sensation of the first week of training who would have started at left wing today, is out, as are insides Bruce Johnstone and Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, out with a pulled thigh muscle, as are inside Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, and fullbacks John Jeppson and Charley David...
...swimming, the U.S. had a marvelous week. Three days after she had finished second to Australia's Dawn Fraser in the 100 meters, California's blonde Chris von Saltza, 16, left her rival floundering back in fifth place as she won the 400 meters in 4:50.6 to smash the Olympic record by three full seconds. Anchorman Jeff Farrell, 23, kept out of the 100-meters freestyle by a July appendicitis attack, boiled through the water to bring home world records in the 400-meter medley relay (4:05.4) and 800-meter freestyle relay (8:10.2). Bobbing like...
...women's swimming. California's 16-year-old Chris von Saltza will be the favorite in the 400 meters, the top race for the girls. Holder of the world record (4:44.5 ), Chris is the long and leggy (5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) blonde leader of a strong U.S. team. Chris planes high and flat in the water like a surfboard, has a sea lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia...
...Chris von Saltza, 16, the best woman freestyler in U.S. history, lowered her American record for the 100 meters by .3 sec. with a trial heat time of 1:01.3, coasted home to win the finals in 1:02.5. Then, in the grueling 400 meters she knocked .9 sec. off the world's record of Australia's Ilsa Konrads, 16, with the time...
...Carolyn Wood, a 14-year-old high school freshman from Portland, Ore. and the brightest new star to emerge from the trials. After taking an unexpected second in the 100 -meter freestyle behind Chris von Saltza, Carolyn bobbed up and down in the water like a surprised seal: "I made it! I made it! I made it!" By the next night, Carolyn was a poised veteran as she came back to win the 100-meter butterfly...