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...seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals at Melbourne and holder of every women's free-style record from 200 meters to 880 yds., was only twelve when she began racing in competition. Dawn Fraser, 20, the Olympic 100 meter free-style titleholder, was 13 when she swam in her first big race. Realizing that Aussie swimmers are often champions before they get out of high school. U.S. colleges (Yale in particular) have been importing them for years...
...whole training program paid off so well that the A.S.U. seems almost afraid its swimmers may relax and float on their laurels. When Lainy Crapp and Dawn Fraser were invited to Hawaii's Keo Nakama meet to be held in July the A.S.U. threatened to withhold its approval unless both girls prove that they are in top shape. "They're Olympic champions," said an A.S.U. official-just as if any Australian had forgotten. "We don't want them to jeopardize their chances by competing out of condition...
...proprietary interest in Dawn and Lainy, this once the A.S.U. refuses to dip into its treasury to help them tram. This trip, the A.S.U. argues is private, and on the girls. Wistfully adding up her small salary as a department-store salesgirl, Dawn Fraser wondered this week how she would ever pay for a period of necessary workouts in tropical Townsville. "Just a little of that ?50,000 the A.S.U. has earmarked for training would be a big help," she admitted. But like the dedicated Aussie swimmer she is she added: "I will arrive in Hawaii fit, even...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...
Darkest After Dawn. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Harry Tillotson got a divorce after testifying that her husband had once rubbed margarine in her hair, hurled a fried egg at her, generally made breakfast time unbearable by slamming doors, banging pots and pans, playing the radio at top volume, whistling through his teeth...