Mark Spitz Poised to Jump into Pool

(Original Caption) America's Mark Spitz of Carmichael, California, leaves the block at the start of the third leg of the Olympic 4X100 meter men's medley relay competition here 9/4. Below him, Tom Bruce of Sunnyvale, California, who swam the second leg. Spitz, swimming butterfly in the third leg, paced the U.S. team to victory in this, the final swimming event of the Olympic Games, and won his seventh gold medal of the games.