Word: sportingly
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Died. Paul Gallico, 78, sportswriter turned sentimental tale spinner; of a heart attack; in Monaco. Sports editor and columnist at the New York Daily News from 1924 to 1936, Gallico pioneered what is now known as the Plimpton Ploy: swimming against Johnny Weissmuller, boxing a round with Jack Dempsey ("I knew all there was to know about being hit"). Gallico quit the News in 1936 and wrote Farewell to Sport, the first of 41 books, many of them bestsellers. Among his most popular novels: The Snow Goose (1941), Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958), The Poseidon Adventure...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
Hyperactive in all he does-he habitually table-hops his way through lunch at school-Naber's seemingly unlimited energy is reflected in his approach to his sport. He plans to swim not only the two backstroke events but also the 200-meter freestyle-his time at the U.S. trials bettered Mark Spitz's 1972 Olympic winning time by more than a second -and two relays. "I'd rather be good at everything," says Naber, "than be excellent in one thing." Asked to size up his East German rival, Naber is characteristically generous and accurate: "Matthes...
...swimming events in Montreal, none will attract more attention from the cognoscenti of the sport than the 100-meter backstroke. The defending champion is East Germany's Roland Matthes, 25, an old man among swimming's Wunderkinder who four years ago set the world record mark of 56.30 sec. For Matthes, a skinny (155 lbs.) six-footer, Montreal represents a last chance to add to his stockpile of seven Olympic medals, four of them gold, collected in 1968 and 1972. His challenger is John Naber, five years Matthes'junior, half a foot taller, 40 lbs. heavier...
Ever unassuming and casual-he favors Western blue jeans and leather jackets-Matthes once harbored notions of becoming a rock-'n'-roll drummer, but has since decided on a more settled career: "sport research." More settled too is his active social life. He recently became engaged to the most impressive of all swimmers, East Germany's Kornelia Ender, 17, who last month set five world records in five days...