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October 29, 1962 Table Of Contents
Point Of Fact
A Garden State Stakes quiz to tease the memory and add to the knowledge of the $2 bettor and the armchair expert
By Pat Ryan
Yesterday
Everyone Knew Red When He Wrecked Harvard
Is it just wistful remembrance, or is it really true that men like Red Roberts were more distinctive personalities than today's heroes?
Double Bonanza
DOUBLE BONANZA FOR SPORTS CARS
Two California races produce 140,000 people, the world's best drivers, and a surprise winner
By Kenneth Rudeen
With only a minute to play, the first-ranked team in the country was losing to the underdog University of Arkansas. Then a chorus of whoops and hollers signaled a Longhorn victory
Aerial Alert
Murder On Sunday
Fran Tarkenton, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, has to scramble to save his young life
By Tex Maule
Eye On The Ball
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL AND A HAND ON YOUR WALLET
By No. 85893
Pro Basketball 1962
No teams in professional sport are more dependent on their best individual performers than those in the NBA. As the new basketball season begins the hopes of every team—which are analyzed here—rest substantially on the club's representative in the elite group above. At rear (left to right) are Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Bailey Howell and Oscar Robertson. In front are Dolph Schayes, Walt Bellamy, Richie Guerin and Bob Pettit.
Horse Shows
The old dowager gets her face lifted
An energetic young ex-rider is changing the décor, eliminating the dowdiness and generally jazzing up the tempo of New York's National
College Football
Pistol Pete Meets Preacher Pilot
Deep in the heart of Texas' Panhandle, two of the best runners in the U.S. renewed their year-old battle for the national college rushing title
By Mervin Hyman
Shooting
Near the pyramids, keen-eyed Soviet marksmen swept the world championships despite the sharpshooting of a quiet American
By John Lovesey
Oxford
By Allan Seager
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
