September 8, 1969 Table Of Contents
Texas
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IN THE GENTLE STATE OF TEXAS
By Edwin Shrake
National League
With only a month to go, at least seven National League teams are in lovely fighting positions for the two playoff berths, but Chicago and San Francisco seem the safest
By Peter Carry
...A FESTIVE LOSE-IN AT MONTREAL
Portly Steve Melnyk, a 22-year-old Georgian who likes a good meal as much as he does a birdie, had both last week as he won the U.S. Amateur Championship at Oakmont by five strokes
Part 3: The Desperate Coach
Some coaches are ready to make extreme efforts to relate to the new breed of student-athletes—who are really athlete-students. Others are fed up with so-called appeasement and clamor for a return to discipline and authority. But almost everyone agrees it's high time the kids were told the truth
People
Harness Racing
First in Du Quoin, with a second from Rome
Not all of the seven brothers and cousins who own Lindy's Pride were present when he pursued trotting's top prize in Illinois. The two who had led the family into the sport had an appointment at the Vatican
By William F. Reed Jr.
Missile Gap
Closing the missile gap in U.S. pubs
The training regimen for the game of darts is beer—and a few champions are at their best when they have to be held up to shoot. They—and a million others, some of them sober—are Closing the missile gap in U.S. pubs
By Joe Jares
Baseball's Week
By Herman Weiskopf
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
