May 29, 1967 Table Of Contents
Cover
If you're sick of highways, try rafting down a river with the hatch brothers
Yesterday
Twice in a Row It Was Three Men at a Clip
There have been only seven unassisted triple plays in the history of big league baseball. The last two were made on successive days 40 years ago, over the Memorial Day weekend
Shopwalk
Del Hampton makes golf clubs behind a beauty parlor, and the results show it
By John Hanlon
Tommie Smith
San Jose State's easygoing Tommie Smith (opposite) cracked the classic mold and won his heralded duel with teammate Lee Evans. He broke two world records and gave promise of more to come
By Gary Ronberg
Duffy
Damascus was a jumpy colt the day he lost the Kentucky Derby, but he was mild as a little lamb before the Preakness. Credit his patient trainer—and a gray lead pony who almost lost his head
Part 3: The Dodger Story
THEY MAY HAVE BEEN A HEADACHE BUT THEY NEVER WERE A BORE
Maury Wills and Leo Durocher were the two most volatile personalities ever to ruffle the placid surface of baseball in Los Angeles. They popped off, got into hassles, stirred things up. Eventually, says the Dodger general manager, Wills stirred up too much
Prairie Chicanery
OWLS, EAGLES AND PRAIRIE CHICANERY
Spring brings a flurry of feathery activity to Fran and Fred Hamerstrom's old house (left) and a booming in the marshlands and fields around it
People
Baseball
What team is that? The Cubs? Third place?
It was hard to believe, especially after last year's 10th place finish behind everybody in the National League, including the Mets, but Leo Durocher's mostly youthful Cubs are playing fiery baseball, and they're winning
By Tom C. Brody
Horse Racing
While the public was eying the Preakness, some 3,000 miles away a million-dollar newcomer named Forli set a record in his U.S. debut
Bridge
The World Championship: just color it Blue
On the eve of the world-title matches in Miami there is a temptation to look for an upset, but the results of a practice session in Cannes suggest that Italy's formidable Blue Team is not about to be beached
Indianapolis
500-MILE JOURNEY INTO AN ARTIST'S EYE
THE SHEARS OF FATE, THE LOOM OF LIFE
By Bob Crozier, S.J.
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
