September 30, 1968 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A long-distance runner takes a look at the loneliness of others like himself
By Gwilym S. Brown
Shopwalk
At Parachutes Incorporated equipment comes high but the good advice is free
By Felicia Lee
Yesterday
The Series That Almost Never Got Played
As far as Pitcher Cy Young and Catcher Lou Criger knew, the season of 1903 was all over and it was time to go home. Then the Boston manager phoned and the first (unofficial) World Series was on
Young Generals
They are not yet 30 and they are still learning—often the hard way—but from this group of promising quarterbacks may emerge the one or two who will adequately replace those aging kings, Unitas and Starr
By Tex Maule
Series Matchup
The mound becomes a historic summit when St. Louis' Bob Gibson and Detroit's Denny McLain, baseball's best pitchers, go into the 1968 Series. No matter who wins, the game's last true championship may be one of its best
Big Night
A BIG NIGHT IN A LI'L OL' TOWN
With the governor serving as cheerleader and all Baton Rouge behind him, LSU's Tigers get their season off to a roaring start by snatching a win from Texas A&M when a ball is lost at the goal line
Mexico 68
Never has an approaching Olympics been beset by more immediate and potential problems than Mexico City's—altitude, racial and political boycotts, riots, red tape, delays—but the Olympic idea is still strong. The curtain is going up, perhaps shakily, but up
Olympics
FAVORITES FOR MEDALS IN MEXICO
People
College Football
Jingle Joints should be judged by his cover
Ron Sellers, Florida State's fine pass catcher, looks too thin and scatter-limbed, but opponents reveal his true value by triple-teaming him. As Maryland found out, even that is often not enough
By Pat Putnam
Football's Week
By Mervin Hyman
Golf
At the PGA Team Championship in Oklahoma City the two kings got all the chuckles but Bobby Nichols and George Archer won the money
Harness Racing
One-half of a Jug horse beats one airplane
So it appears to Pilot Louis Mancuso, who made the swap that turned him into an owner of a classic colt, and to Billy Haughton, who drove Rum Customer and became a million-dollar winner for the third time in his career
By Pat Ryan
Lost Laughter
Baseball's Week
By Peter Carry
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