February 17, 1969 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
An ex-reporter watched the Fords go by and made a splendid book of them
By Bob Ottum
Yesterday
There was never any particular reason why horses should learn to fly; it just seemed like a good idea so many times
By Mary Evans
Whitewash
The longest horse race in history, the 1968 Kentucky Derby, gallops along as the main issue in the scandal continues to be quietly ignored. Elsewhere, a likely 1969 winner pops up and a lady jockey has her debut
By William F. Reed Jr.
Bowie Kuhn, the new commissioner of baseball, has all the expected qualities of leadership. But it comes as a surprise to discover that he knows baseball and that he and his family love the game
New Heroes
Golf's established stars—particularly Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper—are a long way from over the hill, but their position at the top is menaced by a group of kids to whom a 525,000 putt means nothing
By Dan Jenkins
No Place To Go
La Salle, led by Philadelphia's practicing legend, Tom Gola, trounced Villanova to become the East's leading team. But the Explorers are on probation and the season ends at West Chester
Snowmobile Hunt
SNARLING TRACTORS AND NO TALLYHO
A winter fox hunt in Minnesota has one thing in common with the British variety—a fox. In the cold snowy country an airplane is the hound pack and a snowmobile the horse
By Robert F. Jones
Les Girls
Comes March and most of Iowa is in a frenzy oven the state high school basketball finals—for girls. The young women pack the house in the capital city with their furious play, then depart as the boys take oven—before fewer fans.
The Stable
These are the days when grooms look at untrained colts and see Hambletonian winners. Nowhere does hope soar higher than along the shedrow of Joe O'Brien's farm in California
By Pat Ryan
People
Winter Sports
You don't have to be a cowboy to ride ski bobs, the new winter sports craze, but in the Swiss world championships it might have been an asset
By Gwilym S. Brown
Track & Field
The line for the mile forms here
Jim Ryun is alive but married, and rival runners see a gleam of hope
Tennis
For last week's first indoor open in Philadelphia, Marilyn and Ed Fernberger were promoters, cheerleaders, den parents and hosts
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Basketball's Week
By Peter Carry
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER