Sport: Olympic Trials

At Jones Beach. A towheaded girl with a little boy's face and the torso of a minnow, 15-year-old Katherine Rawls of Miami Beach, Fla., surprised everyone a year ago by winning the national breast stroke championship at 220 yd. Last week in the Olympic Swimming Trials for Women at Jones Beach State Park. L. I., she surprised everyone again. Sure that she could qualify for the team with third place or better, her coach told her to take it easy in the 200-metre swim, save her strength for the diving that came later the...

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