July 11, 1966 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A dog not only is man's best friend, it also is his best communicator
Golf Paralysis
A staggering slowdown is strangling the game of golf. In the pictures below, Jack Nicklaus uses two and a half minutes to putt out at the U.S. Open, an example of how pro golfers are taking their time. With huge sums at stake, this is understandable and hardly alarming, but recreational golfers mimic the pros. A Sports Illustrated survey shows the result: a nationwide trend that endangers the sport
By Pat Ryan
The Young Turks
A brigade of very young and very good ballplayers has infiltrated the long-dormant American League. The result, thus far, has been a scintillating pennant race and bright promise for the future
Salty Sailor
Yachtsman Bill Snaith is a refreshing storm center in New York's glacial ocean of glass and stainless steel
Guinea Pig
While the experts debate how an athlete can get ready for the sky-high Mexico City Olympics, Marathoner Buddy Edelen is finding out for himself in the thin, chill air of Colorado
By Gwilym S. Brown
Sporting Look
People
Tennis
Manolo is king, and a King is queen
At Wimbledon last week, Billie Jean King of California (right) won the singles championships for the first time
By John Lovesey
Fishing
Hooked by esthetics as well as thrills, ardent saltwater fishermen are abandoning conventional tackle to challenge game fish with fly rods
Babes In The Woods
In the first girls' Outward Bound program in this hemisphere, a game group of teen-agers and a game nonteen-age Sports Illustrated writer take on some fierce wilderness hazards—from tippy ladders to frog legs that are caught on the hop
By Barbara La Fontaine
Baseball's Week
By Herman Weiskopf
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk