Albert Van Der
Riet, captain of the delegation from South Africa at the six-day international
tuna tournament in Cat Cay, Bahamas, caught a tuna a day to help win the prize
over eight other teams. The U.S. placed second, 397 tuna-pounds lighter than
the leaders.
Irene Obera of
Berkeley, Calif, has out-sprinted everyone on her home-state tracks this season
with three breezy 10.9s and an 11.0 in the 100-yard dash, gives promise of
being a front-runner for the AAU women's nationals next month in Los
Angeles.
David Goldman, 53,
Dallas businessman who lost in the finals of the U.S. Amateur to Lawson Little
28 years ago, almost won another title this month—the French amateur. He led
Gaetan Morgued' Algue, 22, through the morning round before losing 3 and 1.
Leslie Costello,
blue-eyed 4-year-old from Marshallton, Pa. who has been riding for a year,
maintained a firm seat on a 9-year-old pony named Gee Hee in the Devon (Pa.)
Horse Show and won her first blue ribbon, in the lead line pony class over 11
other toddlers.
Joe Savoldi, known
as "Jumping Joe" when he was a Notre Dame All-America under Knute
Rockne and a professional wrestler for 20 years after that, resumed an
interrupted college career, receiving his B.A. degree last week from Evansville
(Ind.) College.
Dorman L.
Steel-Man, Republican minority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives,
with help from his partner, steered past rapids and past 26 swamped opponents
littering a 22-mile course on the Current River to win the state's biggest
canoe race.