October 13, 1969 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Get your names, numbers, BAs, RBIs, BBs, ERAs, etc. of all the players
Shopwalk
An urbane residence in central London is actually a shop for mountaineers
Frail Gray Man
The Frail Gray Man with the Strong Pool Cue
He is 55 years old, his build is slight, his taste in clothes is that of the conservative businessman he is—but Irving Crane happens also to be one of the greatest pool players of all time
By Kim Chapin
The SEC
Like the rest of the country, the Southeastern Conference has learned that defense is gone with the wind and that if you want to win you've got to have a passer and some boys who can catch and run
By Pat Putnam
New Deal
Oops!
Although only a year old, the Cincinnati Bengals were undefeated. Then they lost their quarterback, the ball, the ball game and their youthful dreams, as San Diego taught them to respect their elders
By Tex Maule
HOCKEY '69: THE ROUGH GET ROUGHER
Influenced by the pugnacious style that carried Boston so far against the champion Montreal Canadiens last season, the other NHL teams have toughened up for a campaign of heavy hitting
By Gary Ronberg
NHL East
NHL West
College Football
A small school, but you can learn to hate it
Everyone in Crete, Neb. loves Doane College, mind you, but it's those other people Doane keeps beating year after year after year who wish Sitting Bull could be given one last chance
Football's Week
People
Horse Racing
He took the biscuits for Seamus McGrath
At better than 50 to 1 an Irish colt named Levmoss and a jockey who thought he had no chance won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Europe's richest race over the toughest uphill, down-dale course in the world
Motor Sports
Lotus Driver Jochen Rindt (above) won his first Grand Prix—and the world's richest road-racing purse—over a fast field in New York
By Robert F. Jones
Golf
Lee Trevino missed a boodle at the Alcan. There was no boodle at the World Cup in Singapore, but there was more than money to be won
By Lee Griggs
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