October 10, 1966 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Skiers who are heedless of avalanche warnings are in for a big snow job
Yesterday
No game was safe from his tinkering: he turned a billiard table into a cricket field and golfed from a car
The Streak
He is a college halfback. He is fast and tough and exciting, and he plays for almost any team seeking national honors. He is, in fact, the newest and brightest twist in a game that has gone all out on attack
By Dan Jenkins
The Charger
With bubble-gummies galore cheering every move, an Australian who believes in overpowering the ocean outshines one of the new sport's finest stylists and wins the world championship of surfing at San Diego
By Bob Ottum
Horse Of The Year
Buckpasser clinched that title in the slop of the Woodward with a brilliant run against the top field of the season on the same afternoon that sportsman Raymond Guest received racing's newest high honor
Steelers
Tired of sliding down the NFL's cellar door, Art and Dan Rooney have hired a Pittsburgh coach who isn't a buddy-chum-pal. The result is a team as modern as the town's skyscrapers
By Tex Maule
THE SHOW WITH A BIG-TOP FLAVOR
College Football
By Gary Ronberg
By Mervin Hyman
People
Baseball
Koufax, yes; Wills, yes; but it was Walter who won the pennant
By Jack Mann
Sporting Look
Motor Sports
Does anybody here believe Jack Brabham?
Doubting fellow drivers may call him a plodder, but the quiet Australian, who led the rich U.S. Grand Prix before dropping out with mechanical difficulties, has now won his third world racing championship
By Kim Chapin
Bridge
Homely Girl
No one looks at a town with more anger—and fierce affection—than a man born and raised there. The author, a native, submits a penetrating appraisal of Baltimore, host this weekend to the 1966 World Series, remembering what another Baltimorean, H. L. Mencken, said: 'To please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl'
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