OPERATION ON U.S. SWIMMER
May Miss Olympic Games (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright} DETROIT. July 27 An appendicitis operation on the United States swimmer, J. Farrell, today might have cost the United States several gold medals at the Rome Olympics, officials said.
Doctors said Farrell, aged 28, would not be released from hospital for five days and would not be able
to swim for some time. The Games are in a month. Farrell set United States records in the 100 metres (54-Bsec) and 200 metres (2min 3sec> in the United States national outdoor swimming championships at Toledo. Ohio, last week-end. "This is a terrific blow." said Mr C. Pinkston, director for the Olympic swimming trial*, to be held here next week. "Farrell probably was the best 100-metre man in the world. He also would have been on the 800metre relay, in which four men swim 200 metres each. Without him ■we could lose the relay and four more gold medals,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 6
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