By Phillip Whitten MANCHESTER, August 4. AS expected, Ian Thorpe swam to his sixth gold medal and Petria Thomas bagged her fourth and fifth as the Commonwealth Games came to
By Phillip Whitten and Norbert Agh BERLIN, August 4. EIGHT events were swum on this, the final night of competition at the European Championships in Berlin, with swimmers from seven
CORONA DEL MAR, Calif., Aug. 3. WITH one day left to play, the favored New York Athletic Club and Newport Water Polo "A" teams remain undefeated with identical 5-0 records.
CORONA DEL MAR, Calif., Aug. 2. SIXTEEN of the nation's top men's water polo clubs are competing for the national crown this wweekend at Corona del Mar and Newport Harbor
By Phillip Whitten BERLIN, August 4. POLAND'S Otylia Jedrejczak broke the world record this evening in a stunning performance that brought her native land its first-ever women's world record in
RAHWAY, N.J., August 3. DR. RON Karnaugh, in the middle of his taper for the USA Swimming National Championships next week in Fort Lauderdale, broke the world record in the
By Phillip Whitten MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 3. AUSTRALIA won six of the ten finals contested on this, the fifth day of competition at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. But
By Norbert Agh and Phil Whitten. BERLIN, August 3. EIGHT years after she set a world record in the 200m freestyle under bizarre circumstances, and ten years after she burst
MANCHESTER, Aug 2. AUSTRALIA'S amazing "Thorpedo," Ian Thorpe, won his fifth gold medal mof the Commonwealth Games today, leaving only two more to win to reach the seven golds he
By Stephen J. Thomas and Norbert Agh BERLIN, August 2. THE fifth day of the European Championships here in Berlin saw Oleg Lisogor break Ed Moses' world record in the