| Show jpa4— - r f I j r UNITED STATES i At 20 Paula Jn Myars ia a 4 Wl top-ranki- ng WorM platform dlvar yeeiras Off The ©lmmipecs Dy TREVOR ARMDRIOTBR Did you think all girl athletes were muscle molls? Look these Melbourne-boun- d la rating Karan Undborg at belles When the 16th Modern Olympic Gaines begin at Melbourne Australia this week the world’s top women athletes will engage in offi dal competition for gold medals in swimming tfck gymnastics canoeing and fencing But unofficially they 11 be vying for honor n ‘ contest of another sort If top were points gven for pulchritude as well as performance the 1956 women’s teams would shatter all existing records And we think we can safely say that the girls pictured on these pages would win some gold medals Russian girls don’t go jn for glamour and these championships are almost exclusively ‘hared by girls from Western nations Take Canada’s champion shot-puttJackie MacDonald (opposite page) for instance How the statuesque blonde ever finds time to practice— what with teaching e public school taking a night course in English litera- er —rr Craaafttl Qrmnaa fifth-grad- turn at the University of Toronto listening to Tscnaikowsky and going out with her fiancd — ts anybody’s guess But on the shouldera of this shapely lie the West’s chief hopes erf dethroning Russia’s chubby (224 pounds) champ Tamara Ty&hkavich Another girl to watch — on or off the field — w Mis June Paul (above) Seeing this London beauty happily with her two young sons you’d nevercavorting suspect she urns England’s top woman sprinter And" s she been yet smashing European short-das- h records for quite a while now dark-eye- - d Diver In Pigtails Exhibit “A” among the gymnasts is Sweden’s Karen Lmdborg (left) Shell meet our own Sylvia Rudick and a whole host of Russian at Melbourne but win or lose ‘bould gain many friends “Down Under” div!r eventa’ “P'oaUy in the plat- 5“ f Oes will be focussed on Paula Myers (top left) a shy whose pigtail re as much her trademark as the trophies in her living room She’ll from tewnnwn McCn?1 who thC titkContinued on page 28 har-chmbe- rs J ld Cali-fovm- an Pt TW— |
