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April 25, 1966 Table Of Contents
Yesterday
A taint still clings to Jockey Johnny Loftus, who rode the great horse, Man o' War, in the only race Big Red ever lost
By Jack Mahon
Booktalk
The islands off the Newfoundland coast afford birds—but not man—a good life
Unhappy Return
Leo Durocher came back to the West Coast as a manager, but it was a sad homecoming. His Cubs lost five of six games
New Game
What matters in pro hockey is not the championship but the Stanley Cup. Last week, as the playoffs began, two teams made radical changes in their playing styles to meet the demands of a short, bitter series
By Martin Kane
People
Boating
Now it's the waltz-me-around-again Wankel
A new kind of internal-combustion engine makes a smoothly rhythmic dance of power transmission by replacing the jerky piston of old with a rotor that matches the spinning motion of a boat's propeller
Horse Racing
Stepping up the distances on his way to the Derby, Graustark goes seven furlongs and wins laughing
Sporting Look
Win or lose, Doug Sanders is a pop artist's dream
The brightest sight on any golf course since Jimmy Demaret, the tour's leading money winner is wowing galleries with his head-to-toe match-ups
By Dan Jenkins
Pro Basketball
An added attraction for a season's finale
His ailments cured, Elgin Baylor played brilliantly to lead the Lakers to victory over St. Louis and an upset of Boston in their first game for the title. But it will take all of his skill to beat the champions
Horse Shows
Despite a background of bickering between jumper and saddle-horse people, the nonpros at San Antonio made the opening show a success
It's TV
It's Sport...It's Money...It's TV
Is television a voracious monster that is taking over and ruining sport? Here the vice-president in charge of sports for the American Broadcasting Company, and a man of many monitors, trenchantly answers TV's critics
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Baseball's Week
By Tom C. Brody
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk
