August 18, 1969 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
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Yesterday
These were only two of the rowdy games played in the 17th century at the Cotswold Olympicks to rile the Puritans
A Hit
For years Henry Aaron performed in comparative obscurity while compiling a record that makes him one of baseball's alltime hitters. Now, as Atlanta fights for a pennant, he finds he is famous at last
Our Thing
A lot of people think water skiing is a sort of sunshine follies staged for the tourists at Cypress Gardens, but in Denmark last week a dead-serious U.S. team won its 10th straight world title
SHOO-IN FOR A YOUNG SHOE PITCHER
A flashy (but gifted) young man named Danny Kuchcinski triumphed over a batch of experienced (but careful) oldsters in the world horseshoe pitching championship at Erie, Pa., leaving behind him 35 dead ringers
By William Paul
Receivers
Law Of Averages
HIS WORD IS THE LAW OF AVERAGES
Quick and accurate, Seymour (Sy) Siwoff of the Elias Sports Bureau is the recording angel of statistics for baseball's National League and pro football
Late-Bloomer
THE OBSESSIONS OF A LATE-BLOOMER
A tiny trout launched Dick Wolters on a wildly successful subcareer of fly tying, bird shooting, dog training, sailplaning—and authorship
People
Pro Basketball
After trouncing the ABA soundly on all sides, basketball's bigger NBA is moving toward a solution it figures is less costly than victory
By Frank Deford
Baseball
Phoenixes of the world, arise!
By Peter Carry
Weyerhaeuser
The Shy Tycoon Who Owns 1/640th of the U.S.
George Weyerhaeuser's holdings (trees on map) may soon expand to 1/400th of the country. Musing on a stump, he ponders new ways in which his vast forests can contribute to conservation and recreation as well as timber profits
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