March 24, 1969 Table Of Contents
Voodoo
North Carolina, Purdue and Drake survived stirring quarterfinal rounds for the dubious privilege of trying to prevent an aroused Lew Alcindor and UCLA from winning their third straight NCAA title
By Joe Jares
When baseball decided to lower the pitching mound to help the hitters, the change seemed minor, but there were signs last week that it may have a major effect on the pastime
AN EXHILARATING NIP OF LIQUORI
Although hobbled by a bad knee and blisters, Jim Ryun quenched his own doubts and helped win the NCAA indoor track meet for Kansas when he edged Villanova's Marty Liquori in the mile at Detroit
Brave Words
BRAVE WORDS FROM A HAWK AND A WARRIOR
The Lakers, some said, could never lose with Chamberlain, West and Baylor. But now it is playoff time and Atlanta and San Francisco are making noises that sound like upset in the West
Spring Thing
People
Wrestling
When Dan Gable, a nearsighted 137-pound Iowa State junior, bounds on the mat, the crowds chant 'Kill!'—and Dan nearly always obliges
By Herman Weiskopf
Swimming
Q. What makes Charlie swim? A. Jelly beans
Indiana's Charlie Hickcox (above) won three gold medals and a silver at the Olympics and holds two world records, but he is best known on campus as the guy who used to coach the Phi Delta Theta bike team
By William F. Reed Jr.
Hockey
Denver again won the NCAA championship as an extraordinary number of big-league scouts turned out to see the once-despised collegiate game
By Gary Ronberg
Surfing
'The real freaks don't go out in winter'
It's 13° and the beach at Rye, N.H. is mounded high with snow (above), but the surf is up and the winter surfers—a hardy and circumspect breed, which flourishes along the New England coast—are catching rides
By Dan Levin
Horse Shows
As the number of lady jockeys proliferates—winning jockeys, at that—a group of determined women takes over a major show ring
College Basketball
That's the way one Wesleyan player aptly described his team when it came through in the finals after barely surviving the early rounds
By William F. Reed Jr.
Confrontation
It has come in the Brooks Range of Alaska, a majestic wilderness where wolves are many and people are rare—or were, until oil gushed at Prudhoe Bay
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