Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 21, 1957

Scoreboard ¶Australia’s Murray Rose, the 17-year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring “to look around some universities,” but admitted that Yale’s ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven.

¶Chicago’s shotgun-toting Mrs. Carola Mandel added up her year’s bag of clay birds on both skeet and trap ranges, discovered that she is the first woman ever to whip all competitors, male and female, in competitive averages. Mrs. Mandel’s scattergun accounted for three world records, including an average of 99.6 for 1,000 targets.

¶A driving rain washed the front-runners right out of the money in the final round of the Los Angeles Open golf tournament. But former P.G.A. Champion Doug Ford splashed out of the pack with a 280-stroke total to edge Florida’s Jay Hebert away from the $7,000 first prize by a stroke.