July 7, 1969 Table Of Contents
Pressure Cooker
It got to Jim Ryun, who, realizing that he had never learned how to finish second, dropped out of the AAU mile, as 19-year-old Marty Liquori, whose only worry is what to do for an encore, won again
Reggie's Pursuit
MARIS AND THE BABE, MOVE OVER!
In the presence of practically nobody in Oakland, mighty-muscled Reggie Jackson is hotly pursuing a legendary record
By Mark Mulvoy
Quarry Flaunts It
Obsessed with proving his courage, Jerry Quarry pushed head on into a machine that destroys men—and discovered the machine, named Joe Frazier, was only too happy to fight on those terms
By Mark Kram
A Little Lace
A LITTLE LACE GOES A LONG, LONG WAY
To get to the top of the fashion set, says Tennis Designer Teddy Tinling, always start at the bottom
By Gwilym S. Brown
People
Football
Coach Pepper Rodgers had an extra man on the field again, but this time it was an official, as his West team beat the East in Atlanta
By Pat Putnam
Golf
While most of the field felt faint, a crisp cutie in gingham used one hot round to win the Women's Open
Tennis
Gaunt and graying and 41, Gonzales last week was the hero of center court, inspiring a tribute unseen at Wimbledon for a quarter of a century
By Kim Chapin
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Baseball's Week
By Herman Weiskopf
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER