May 11, 1970 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A canoe trip matches manhood against machismo in a grim battle for survival
By Bil Gilbert
Yesterday
A Bucking Bronc That Was Not Known To Quit
Big, black and powerful, the horse they called Steamboat because of his whistling wheeze never forgot the quirting he got as a colt and never let anyone stay long in his saddle
The Derby
From a treetop tiger shoot in India, Robert Lehmann flew 8,000 miles to watch with his wife as his long shot Dust Commander took the rail soon after the start, stayed there nearly all the way and won the Kentucky Derby. Before he climbed down to begin the trip, he got his trophy tiger.
THIS HORSE NEEDED HIS OWNER'S STAMINA
It is a different Chicago Cub that is off and running this year. He is quieter, more thoughtful and inclined to rest more often. He even is deferential, unless he loses and he is Leo—and then he is a lion
By Peter Carry
West Is West
EAST IS KNICKS BUT WEST IS WEST
When the twain met, New York found Los Angeles' peerless Jerry West the principal obstacle to victory in the NBA playoffs
By Frank Deford
Peace
The World's First Peace Pentathlon
In a five-event—swimming, parachuting, skin diving, running and trail biking—six-hour statement on the absurdity of competition, David Smith, also known as Super Hippie, vies with himself in an environment that is made up of Earth, Air, Fire Coral and Water
By Robert F. Jones
People
Baseball
The Minnesota Twins may be running away from their division, and a big reason is Brant Alyea, who hits like—and with—Harm Killebrew
Track
Martin McGrady had rapped about beating Lee Evans outdoors, but when the meet was set, he wasn't
By Pat Putnam
Rowing
Quakers pull a swift one on the Charles
Ted Nash is the tough new crew coach at Pennsylvania. On Sunday his varsity eight (right) proved to be equally gritty as the Quakers outsprinted the men of Harvard (center) in the upset of the season
By Hugh D. Whall
Soccer
By Tex Maule
Merchant
Sam Cummings deals in firepower. He is a good man to know if you are a gun fancier or a hunter who wants to buy a weapon like the German Luger he is aiming across these pages or one of the tens of thousands of sporting rifles he sells in America each year. But—with several warehouses full of rifles, mortars and machine guns—he is also a good man to know if you want to start a war
By Edwin Shrake
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 J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert Creamer