May 15, 1967 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
An unabashed fan reveals Mr. Stengel as magnificent in victory and defeat
No Boneyard
No Boneyard near the Soapberry Tree
The flinty domino players of Oklahoma play a stern, granitic game, giving no quarter and asking none, but their current champion is an Indian chief who didn't even plan to play
The Derby
Darby Dan's Proud Clarion earned the third highest payoff in Derby history when he defeated another long shot, Barbs Delight (No. 5), by a length on a day murky with rain and haunted by the specter of riot. Only hours before the race the winner's owner was searching for a jockey and was not certain his horse would start
A group of Notre Dame alumni returned to the campus last weekend for the annual spring football game against the varsity and discovered the hard way (39-0) that their alma mater may well be No. 1 again
One of the sights at the Champions was South Africa's cross-handed Indian, and another was Frank Beard crossing up the odds to take a title away from Palmer for the second time in a month
By Mark Mulvoy
Beating the other crews to the finish line is only a small part of oarsmanship on the Ohio River. The real challenge lies in trying to find a moment of calm between floods, dry enough so the race can be rowed
Hide Your Women
Italy's Giacomo Agostini is the world motorcycle racing champion and a man to be admired, but you've had it, Antonio, if the girl friend yearns to run a fingertip over his magnificent mug
By Bob Ottum
Arctic Safari
North of the tree line and south of the pole, the wild, icy rivers of the Canadian Arctic offer itinerant flying anglers some of the world's most exciting fishing
Sporting Look
Shoes and belts that jingle, jangle, jingle
The newest accouterments for sporting wardrobes get their design inspiration from equestrian tack
People
Hockey
Beware the watchdogs at Old Folks Home
Montreal's Canadiens learned that lesson painfully as the good, gray Toronto Maple Leaf goalies, Terry Sawchuk (above) and Johnny Bower, led hockey's oldest warriors to an unexpected Stanley Cup triumph
By Pete Axthelm
Baseball
A slight revival of hope in Boston
The Red Sox may not be world beaters yet, but their manager has them wide-awake and charging
By Joe Jares
Bridge
A masterful move by two master-point aces
Part 1: The Dodger Story
The outspoken general manager of the Dodgers, currently baseball's most successful executive, begins a four-part series on his joys and troubles in the front office with an account of the famous contract hassle in which pitching stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale 'came at me as a pair'
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