March 10, 1969 Table Of Contents

Author:
SI Staff

Promises

American girls threatened foreign champions on ice and on slopes, but our boys did even better—Billy Kidd won the slalom event at Squaw Valley, Tim Wood the world figure-skating title at Colorado Springs

By Bob Ottum

Lefty

NOBODY WAITS ON THIS LEFTY

Nobody would dare. With a minimum of scholarships and a maximum of tough talk, ex-door-to-door salesman Lefty Driesell has again put his scholarly Davidson Wildcats into the NCAA playoffs

By Myron Cope

Handling Majestic Prince was a bit tricky for Bill Hartack, but the big chestnut won easily and became an even stronger Derby favorite

By Whitney Tower

College Basketball

The long "e" has the last laugh

Weber State may look a scream on paper but it is deadly on court

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Hockey

Freddie's in, gloom's out

The Seals were frightful, physically and fiscally, until a minor-leaguer named Fred Glover came to coach and lit some big-league fires

By Gary Ronberg

Gypsy

BLIND MAN'S BUFF

Pennsylvania Commissioner Frank Wildman (below) ruled that Gypsy Joe Harris' defective right eye barred him from boxing. Wildman was just one player in a deadly game involving a man's health and livelihood that finally drove Gypsy back to the despair of The Street

By Mark Kram