Water Polo Title
Makes Girls Battle
By GEORGE E. VAN
DRIBBLING, WATER STYLE-Lynn Makkonen, 16, uses her nose to
steer the
water polo ball as she dribbles the ball down the Patton Pool. She's
captain
and center forward on the Patton team, an entry in the girl's National
AAU water polo championships. Below, members of Patton's team go
through
a scrimmage. That's Jackie Jones, goal keeper, with her arms in the air
(left) The others clockwise are Vivian Carozzo, Susie Spilski, Joan
Makkonen,
Joyce Allen, Lee Davis, Lynn Makkonen, Nancy Weston and Leslie
Taliaferro.
The National AAU water polo championship for girls will be
revived after
a 35-year lapse next Sunday at Patton Pool.
The event has been on the AAU books since the last meet, in
1926, was
won by a team of girls from the Los Angeles Athletic Club. But no bid
was
made for it until Patton's Harry Hauck and Buck Dawson, of the Ann
Arbor
Swim Club, conceived the idea.
The tournament will be national in name only, however. The
six teams
entered are all local. Ann Arbor has entered two teams and there will
be
one each from Detroit Turners, Post AC, Denby and Patton.
There just aren't any girls' water polo teams around, and
Sunday's entries
all have had less than two months experience. Patton's squad should
rate
with the best. Coach Hauck's girls have been practicing with a boys'
team
for seven weeks.
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