August 4, 1969 Table Of Contents
Footloose
The retreat of the ice has made a new vacationland of Alaska's Glacier Bay
Yesterday
By P. A. Ward-Thomas
Baseball Booms
The home run has returned and with it the enthusiasm of the fans. Last week's festive All-Star Game proved that there is nothing wrong with the sport that a vigorous new commissioner and a livelier ball can't cure
By Mark Mulvoy
Perhaps the greatest player basketball has known, Bill Russell announces his retirement. 'I've played enough,' he says
By William F. Russell
Looney
Joe Don Looney, the onetime problem child with the Mr. America build, is back in football after service in Vietnam. Eager to make it as a back with the New Orleans Saints, he seems to be a changed man on and off the field
By Jack Murphy
Fish Snoop
In his search for new kinds of seafood, Harvey Bullis, the world's No. 1 fish snoop, hauls In some very strange prizes from the depths
Apaches
Even In Paradise the Apaches of Arizona were merely existing on Income from the sale of cattle and timber. Now they are incorporated and the tourist money rolls in
People
Track
This is one stag who can outrun the hounds
Derek Clayton, a draftsman from Melbourne, looks to be too big for the marathon but he ranks with the best. He drives himself so furiously that he runs races in record time, except when he slams into a tree
By Gwilym S. Brown
Baseball
Atlanta Tranquillity Base here
Calm and quiet and always on the edge of sleep, Phil Niekro is the latest knuckleballer to drive everyone berserk with yaw and flutter
By Roy Blount Jr.
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Baseball's Week
By Peter Carry
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk