The U.S. tossed an impressive challenge at Australia's confident women swimmers last week in the pretty form of five frolicking California teenagers. Gamboling around Indianapolis' huge Broad Ripple Pool like schoolgirls at summer camp, the youthful quintet laughingly struck kooky, cross-eyed poses for photographers, completely captivated the capacity crowd, and set A.A.U. officials rewriting the record books. In just three days at the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships, three world and ten American records were smashed, and tarnished U.S. aquatic prestige was suddenly enhanced.
The girls and their records:
¶Carolyn House, 14, a sturdy,...
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