FACES IN THE CROWD

RHONDO ROBINSON
DORCHESTER, MASS.
A 5'5", 138-pound halfback at Dorchester High, Robinson rushed for 401 yards on 24 carries and scored 26 points against East Boston High. His longest run was 76 yards. In three games he has scored 48 points and rushed for 711 yards.

LAURA HEIZMAN
Los ALTOS, CALIF.
A member of the Arrow Track Club, Laura, 12, is the national record holder for 10-and-11-year-old girls' 50-yard hurdles, with a time of 7.2 seconds. A seventh-grader at Egan Junior High, she has long-jumped 16'1½" and high-jumped 4'9".

JAY BELLISSIMO
CINCINNATI
A pitcher in Knothole baseball, Jay, 13, averaged more than 10 strikeouts a game and threw seven no-hitters, four of them consecutively. He struck out 246 batters in 151 innings en route to a 29-0 record, leading his team to a 37-0 season.

TOM KAFKA
MORAGA, CALIF.
Tom, 10, swam to a national age-group record in the 100-meter breast-stroke (1:25.07) and a pending one in the 50-meter (38.37) at the Far Western Championships. He was second in the 100-meter freestyle and 200 IM.

MARTIN FLEISHER
TEANECK, N.J.
Fleisher, 18, was the youngest player ever to reach the finals of a North American Team Bridge Championship. His team beat Detroit and Miami, then lost to a Los Angeles squad that included two members of the world champion U.S. team.

MIKE INMAN
SIOUX CITY, IOWA
A sophomore at North High, Mike, 15, won all five matches he entered in the Sioux City Closed Tennis Tournament. He won the boys' 16-and-under and 18-and-under singles, men's singles, the boys' 16-and-under doubles and men's doubles.

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