December 11, 1967 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
The old-fashioned hoop and hoople stick are back in orbit with a space-age name
Yesterday
When not pondering ways to save his flock, the minister of Belhelvie was often thinking about gunpowder
Booktalk
A new biography depicts Arnold Palmer less as a hero, more as a human being
Socko Hockey
And in hockey's biggest, most unpredictable season, Boston has it, with Bobby Orr picking up where Yaz left off in the city of wonders. The Bruins have been helped by trades, a new boss, a new spirit
By Pete Axthelm
Taking advantage of an injudicious blitz, Oakland whipped San Diego and won the California State Championship of the AFL
By Edwin Shrake
Coming-Out Parties
A COUPLE OF COMING-OUT PARTIES
Rick Mount and Calvin Murphy made their debuts in losing causes, but both were smashers. Rick's Purdue team nearly upset champion UCLA and Calvin scored 41 for Niagara
By Joe Jares
Jimmy Ellis' Show
He was always the other heavyweight from Louisville. Saturday he emerged from the shadow of Muhammad Ali, ignored some advice from his former boss and used his own devices to beat Oscar Bonavena
By Mark Kram
The Pillage
HOW TO STOP THE PILLAGE OF AMERICA
Bloody Sail
A BLOODY WILD WAY TO GO SAILING
In the old days (above) Australia's small-boat sailors piled 14 men and a boy in their 18-footers and bashed each other's heads in. Now they just pile on sail and try to sink the enemy
People
College Football
Underdog Navy surprised Army with an outdated I offense and an I-got-you defense to win one it had been waiting 364 days to play
Tennis
A tonic for a game with tired blood
Promoter Dave Dixon (below) is out to sign the top amateurs into a gaudy, money-making pro league
By Frank Deford
Cross Country
A long, cold run on the heights of Wyoming
In what served as a test of the altitude problems Olympic runners will face at lofty Mexico City—and never mind the wind and the snow—the NCAA championship was held in Laramie, way up there at 7,200 feet
By Pete Axthelm
Bowling
Jack Connaughton seldom had left his tiny Wisconsin home town. Then he traveled to Paris and won the world amateur bowling title
By Gwilym S. Brown
Chili Fix
THE GREAT CHILI CHAMPIONSHIP FIX
When Author H. Allen Smith claimed he knew more about chili than anyone else, some simmering Texans challenged him to a cookoff that wound up in controversy and settled nothing, including stomachs
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk