September 12, 1966 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
Safaris by plane to South America and Africa are booked by Lindblad Travel
Yesterday
Light Heavyweight Billy Conn (right) had Joe Louis beaten and the championship won—for 12 rounds
By Frank Graham Jr.
Booktalk
The gallant life of Princeton's Hobey Baker poses enigmas for the literary
Best Friend
A group of Springfield, Ohio businessmen decided to put up the biggest prize in the history of women's golf, and suddenly the best ladies in the game found they could play better than they had dreamed
By Pat Ryan
A Welsh broad jumper, a slew of East Germans and some swift Poles were the bright surprises in the rain-splattered European Championships that saw track and field and the Russians take a reactionary nose dive
By John Lovesey
All of his special skill in training young female trotters, plus a daring decision in the paddock between the mile heats, brought Frank Ervin and Kerry Way victory and a record in The Hambletonian
By Pete Axthelm
The Men Who Fire
'Then I'll get the other pup,' Irving Berlin sang, 'the guy that gets the bugler up....' In baseball, when things go wrong, the manager gets the blame, but if you want to find the other pup, go look for...THE MEN WHO FIRE MANAGERS
Golden Game
Bigger and richer than even, pro football opens with the leagues at peace for the first time and the tills bulging
By Tex Maule
Scouting Reports
Challenging Chicago has a trio of Bears who will feast upon many NFL opponents. The hungriest Bear of them all is Quarterback Rudy Bukich
People
Baseball
Teen-age amateurs from all over the U.S. met in New Mexico for the world series of Connie Mack baseball. It was a back-country spectacular
By Joe Jares
Boating
A brilliant failure in the America's Cup racing, Bill Cox at last wins the sailing trophy that marks him the best skipper on this continent
By Hugh Whall
Bridge
Golf
When Deane Beman floundered on Merion's famed last holes, Canada's Gary Cowan became the first foreigner to win the Amateur in 34 years
There is no pause that refreshes
Looking For A Lift
Watched moodily by the one friend who believes in him, Norbert Schemansky works out faithfully in a sleazy underground gym and ponders his years as the world's greatest weight lifter, an achievement that wins him neither glory nor a job to help support his family
By Mark Kram
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