August 14, 1967 Table Of Contents
Six To Go
The bouts were good and honest in Houston's Astrodome as Jimmy Ellis and Thad Spencer became the first winners in the elimination tournament to pick a successor to a morose and fatalistic Muhammad Ali
By Mark Kram
When two famous All-Stars faced Green Bay, one, Bubba Smith (left), lived up to his clippings but Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier (right) was downcast
By Dan Jenkins
Pan-Am
Almost the only tune heard in Winnipeg last week as the Pan-Am Games came to a close was 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' U.S. athletes took a record number of gold medals and even beat the Cubans at baseball
By Bob Ottum
Rick Barry's Education
Wealth and fame were beckoning when Rick Barry, the San Francisco pro basketball hero, jumped to the Oakland Oaks of the new American Basketball Association, but now Rick finds himself isolated and beset
By Frank Deford
Saints
SOME NEW SAINTS IN THE NFL TEMPLE
With a strong set of quarterbacks and the best fullback in the game, the New Orleans franchise is off and running SOME NEW SAINTS IN THE NFL TEMPLE
By Tex Maule
Texas Squabble
A few people have been making a lot of money by taking oyster shells from Galveston Bay. Conservationists maintain that the practice is decimating the live beds and polluting the water
By Edwin Shrake
People
Baseball
Rusty Staub, signed at 18 as Houston's hope of the future, got off to an uncertain start, but now, at 23, he's a contender for the batting title
By Gary Ronberg
Motor Sports
A win for Cougar, a wild ride for Camaro
The season's Trans-American racing championship for the newly popular sporty cars reached the halfway point at a hairy little New Hampshire track on a weekend of rain, wrecks and some point-scoring by Mercury
By Kim Chapin
Bridge
The Congress Cup runneth over the border
Baseball's Week
By Mike Riley
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