Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-11
Youthful Stars
Emerge From
AAU Swim

INDIANAPOLIS. Aus. IL
tAP).-America's young SWIM
mers didn't challenge Austral-
ian and japanese records In
the National AAU champion
ships over the week end. but
they win be contenders At Rome
In 1860.
That Is how the United
States swimming situation was
sized up by such veteran
coaches as Bob Kiphuth In his
42d year az Yale. and Mike
Peppe, % years at Ohio State.
IF the olympics were today. "
Peppe said. Australia and
Japan would beat us. BY 1850.
these strong teen-agers can
challenge anybody"
Young Yanks Star
The Indianapolis Athletic
Club successfully defended It's
team championship with a
young crop Of native Ameri-
cans. The team champion sell
dom has repeated In the AAU.
Jon Henricks and Murray
Rose. Australians borrowed
from the University Of South
ern California by the Los
Angeles Athletic Club, we're Just
as terrific as expected - but
they couldn't push their team
higher than second, SO points
10 the IAC's 80.
Frank Mckinney. jr., OF
Indianapolis. ls-year-old son
Of the former Democratic Ma
tional Chairman, successfully
defended both his 100 and ZOO
meter backstroke champion
ships. setting an American and
AAU record Of 2:20.8 In the
200. He was pushed to the
limit in the 100 by Cleveland's
Louis Schaefer and tied his
own AAU record Of 1:04.5.
Troy, Somers Surprise
The Indianapolis team UNI
corked a couple Of real sur
prises in Mike Troy, a June
high school graduate who tied
the AAU record of l:02.8 in
winning the 100-meter butter
ny. and Allen Somers, who still
has q year of high school but
finished a stout third in the
Furnishing 1,500-meter free
style.
Rose. the blond vegetarian
who won the 400 and 1900
meter freeStyle events, also was
surprised by the American
youngsters in his first AAU
outdoor meet. He was especially
impressed by Somers.
The stout foreign COMPETE
ton, including Norbert Rumpel,
German breaststroke champion,
helped produce one of the best
American championship meets.
An assortment Of records were
broken in IL of is events in the
three days.
Roses 4::24.5 time in the
40O-meter freestyle was an
American and AAU record and
better than his accepted world
record, but he has had a
slightly better time not yet ac-
cepted.
Henricks Sets Records
Henricks won the 100 and
200-meter freestyles in meet
record times Of $50 seconds and
2:05.2, the later also an Ameri-
can record; swan on Los
Angeles winning 800-meter
freeStyle relay team, and beat
Indianapolis young Bill Cass
in a sizzling final leg Of the
400-meter medley relay.
Gary Tobian won both the
S-meter springboard and 10
meter platform dives for the
Los Angeles club. He lost his
balance on a handstand in his
first tower dive and had to
battle from behind before he
took the lead on the next-to-
last dive with a beautifully
executed forward 3La somer-
sault.
Rumpel representing the New
York Athletic Club while en-
route to Toronto University,
won the new style 2O0-meter
breastStroke in 2:478 and was
the closest possible second to
Manuel Sanguily of Cuba and
Columbus, Ohio. in the 100
meter breaststroke.
They had identical times of
1:l5.9, and the four judges split
% on who touched the finish
wall first. The referee accepted
the verdict Of an electrical fin
ish recorder.