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September 25, 1967 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A former U.S. doubles champion looks at the national singles championships
By Kim Chapin
Yesterday
Great Play
That is what UCLA Coach Tommy Prothro is asking for in the dramatic scene at right, and a moment later both Tennessee and the imploring crowd in the Los Angeles Coliseum saw Gary Beban's answer
By Dan Jenkins
Bean-Can Bout
From promotion to fight, it was all very much second-class as ungainly Oscar Bonavena easily beat his inept foe to the punch
By Mark Kram
Carrying a record 172 pounds, Quick Pitch easily won the Rouge Dragon, his sixth straight victory at high weights. He is so good that he may challenge Europe's best hurdlers on their courses next year
Spiritual New Go
Middleweight Champion Nino Benvenuti has his Beethoven, Challenger Emile Griffith his apples-peaches-pumpkin-pie mother. In a close matchup, the heavier Italian should win
Tahoe's Incline
TAHOE'S INCLINE LEANS ON TOTAL SPORT
College Football
Finally Tennessee State didn't have a prayer
The Tigers call their quarterback, Eldridge Dickey, The Lord's Prayer, but after a long, painful night out West, Dickey was flat on his back and San Diego State was the best small-college team in the U.S.
By Gary Ronberg
By Mervin Hyman
People
Motor Sports
New skin for a familiar tiger of the road
As the Corvette sports car turns 16, it loses the Sting Ray name and gains a racy look for 1968
By Kim Chapin
Pro Football
A break, a wrench and a march of new quarterbacks
Miami had settled its passing problems with unheralded John Stofa. But the season had barely begun when Stofa and a dream were gone
By Edwin Shrake
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
