Faces In The Crowd

Erika Skinger, 18, of Stowe, Vt., whose best finish in four years of racing was a fifth, took combined honors at the National Junior Alpine Skiing Championships on Mt. Mansfield , Vt. by winning the ladies' downhill and placing third in the slalom and giant slalom.

Todd Makler, 21, of Perm, who has fenced for 15 years, scored a 21-1 individual record and a 9-0 team mark at the intercollegiate championships in Boston as he led his school to 24 wins in 27 saber bouts for an upset victory over defending champion NYU .

Larry Owings, 16, a member of the Can by (Ore.) High wrestling squad, completed a perfect season with 22 consecutive victories and became the fifth of five brothers to win a state championship when he pinned all four of his opponents in the 136-pound class at Corvallis .

Bill Lanigan, 19, a 1968 Olympic prospect from Riverdale , N.Y., skated to three firsts, a second and a third, and set national marks (in the three-quarter mile and the two mile) to take the senior men's title at the National Indoor championships in Champaign , Ill.

Billy Maloney, 12, winner of the "Timmie" award as the outstanding schoolboy football player in Washington, D.C. , turned to swimming and set three U.S. age-group marks—55-and 100-yard freestyle and 55-yard butterfly—at two different meets in two weeks.

Terry Muck, a sophomore at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minn. , entered his first handball tournament and won the intercollegiate singles championship in College Park . Pa. when he defeated 1965 junior-division runner-up Marty Silver of Boston 12-21, 21-20, 21-20.