March 8, 1965 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
The university presses are learning how to parlay sport and scholarship
Gymnastics For Ladies
The Pioneer of Genteel Gymnastics for Ladies
Armed with beanbags, light dumbbells and oratory, a 19th century reformer named Dioclesian Lewis led the bold fight for the unpopular idea that women had a right to be healthy
Rockies Invasion
Leader of U.S. defense against European challenge, Billy Kidd speeds down training slope for Coach Beattie
By Dan Jenkins
Lefty Driesell
Unbeaten in its league, Lefty's Davidson team lost its chance at an NCAA basketball title, as Southern Conference officials continued to choose a tournament representative in their own peculiar fashion
By Joe Jares
Dean Chance
YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE COUNTRY
Dean Chance, a big, rangy farm boy from Ohio with all the ability and cocky confidence of a fictional busher, said he was good and then went out and proved it. Right now he's the best pitcher in the major leagues
By Mark Kram
Nicaragua Tarpon
Mountain Racing
Having torn up mutuel tickets at tracks in two hemispheres, an ever-optimistic handicapper rounds out his experiences among the mountains that surround Phoenix and Santa Anita
By M. R. Werner
People
Tennis
As long as there's a place to go, let it snow
Tennis has become such a popular winter sport that indoor facilities, such as the one above, are sprouting by the score. Yet the demand for space is so great that many courts are reserved before they are built
By Huston Horn
Horse Racing
The little old ladies of Pasadena missed a good bet
So did a lot of other Californians when they allowed George Pope's Hill Rise to go off at 12-to-1 odds in the Santa Anita Handicap
Hockey
In New York, hockey's house is not a home
Week after week, the fans flock into Madison Square Garden to watch the Rangers play. Week after week, the cash registers ring with profits. But hockey in the big, hard-hearted city is a game played without love
Bridge
Luck always helps in a game of skill
Ghost Wreck
On a wild and lonely Caribbean reef divers have been digging for a decade at the rotten timbers of an old Spanish ship. It is an unrewarding carcass. The searchers curse it, call it a fraud, but they keep going back to dig again, stubbornly sure that treasure—or some nebulous thing worth more than gold—lies just a foot farther, a foot deeper in the sand
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER