Faces In The Crowd

Albert Van Der Riet, captain of the delegation from South Africa at the six-day international tuna tournament in Cat Cay, Bahamas, caught a tuna a day to help win the prize over eight other teams. The U.S. placed second, 397 tuna-pounds lighter than the leaders.

Irene Obera of Berkeley, Calif, has out-sprinted everyone on her home-state tracks this season with three breezy 10.9s and an 11.0 in the 100-yard dash, gives promise of being a front-runner for the AAU women's nationals next month in Los Angeles.

David Goldman, 53, Dallas businessman who lost in the finals of the U.S. Amateur to Lawson Little 28 years ago, almost won another title this month—the French amateur. He led Gaetan Morgued' Algue, 22, through the morning round before losing 3 and 1.

Leslie Costello, blue-eyed 4-year-old from Marshallton, Pa. who has been riding for a year, maintained a firm seat on a 9-year-old pony named Gee Hee in the Devon (Pa.) Horse Show and won her first blue ribbon, in the lead line pony class over 11 other toddlers.

Joe Savoldi, known as "Jumping Joe" when he was a Notre Dame All-America under Knute Rockne and a professional wrestler for 20 years after that, resumed an interrupted college career, receiving his B.A. degree last week from Evansville (Ind.) College.

Dorman L. Steel-Man, Republican minority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, with help from his partner, steered past rapids and past 26 swamped opponents littering a 22-mile course on the Current River to win the state's biggest canoe race.