The world's best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME, Aug. 11).
In Newark's Hays Park East pool last week, Skippy had one item of unfinished business to take up: the A.A.U.'s National Outdoor championship. Browning won this title in 1949, but he was a runner-up the next two years. To complete...
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