December 16, 1968 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
Paris' Department Store of Nature will be happy to stuff your zebra
By Paul Ress
Yesterday
30 Acres of Romance, Hokum and Balderdash
Postwar prejudices, the hyperbole of the prize ring's fastest-talking promoter and a nation's hectic return to Mr. Harding's abnormal normalcy made a four-round circus of a hopeless mismatch
Au Revoir
When Green Bay lost to the powerful Baltimore Colts last week it meant that the old champions would not be in the Super Bowl this time, but it would be wrong to assume that they will not come back
By Tex Maule
Commissioner Bill Eckert announced his own sentence to the press, then stepped aside as baseball began searching for a new image
Two Bantams
Australian champion Lionel Rose was the boxer, Mexican challenger Chucho Castillo was the slugger and the match was a beauty—fast, hard and close. The riot afterward was a disgraceful anticlimax
By Martin Kane
College Basketball
Notre Dame inaugurated its new court with visions of a mighty upset. For a while the Irish appeared to be on their way, but UCLA and Lew Alcindor settled down and played like the champions they always are
By Joe Jares
GREAT SCOTT! AND A WEALTH OF CAROLINA BLUE
Wheeling Ironmen
Wheeling loves its Ironmen of the Continental League, but love isn't money, so the team must make do with a subterranean office and a field borrowed from local high schools
People
Pro Basketball
Because of youthful indiscretions, Connie Hawkins, who smothers the ball and foes with giant hands, is the best unknown pro in the land
By Peter Carry
Pro Football
A three-way race loses one of its horses
The San Diego Chargers dropped out of contention in the AFL's Western Division, taking a 40-3 walloping from the Kansas City Chiefs, who remain in a tie with the Oakland Raiders as they go into the final week of play
By Edwin Shrake
Bridge
Joey had a good excuse for playing hooky
Harness Racing
Nighttime trotting arrives in California at last, and the meet's early returns are encouraging. Well, they were until the fog came rolling in
By Pat Ryan
Basketball'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