July 20, 1970 Table Of Contents
British Open
Despite a putting touch that abandoned him at times, Jack Nicklaus hung on to win his second British Open title last week, conquering Doug Sanders in a playoff and St. Andrews' Old Course in a breeze
By Dan Jenkins
ZUT! WE NEARLY GOT GUILLOTINED
Starting a tour of Europe, a fat and sassy U.S. track team showed up in Paris expecting a laugher. Instead they ran into a French team that acted as though it had been eating jackrabbits instead of snails
By Pat Putnam
Funny Ball
Everybody in baseball has theories about the 'lively ball,' but what laboratory tests show is mostly a startling lack of consistency. One may be a rabbit but the next is apt to be a dud
By Herman Weiskopf
Man Of Machismo
Gentle, fun-loving Joe Kapp says that fights just seem to come looking for him—but he admits he never backs down. That, adds the Viking quarterback in the first of three parts, is what Chicanos call 'machismo'
By Joe Kapp
Salty Balm
SALTY BALM ON THE EDGE OF THE CITY
Swimming
The coach of Indiana's national champions sees no reason why adults shouldn't learn to swim without all that thrashing about
Baseball
By Peter Carry
Water Skiing
Still wet behind the ears, the usual gang of whiz kids got together on a Georgia lake to water-ski circles around the older generation
By Joe Jares
Basketball
Only ornery recruits for this boot camp
Searching for tough kids who fill the requirements of the international style of play and will still be amateurs in 1972, the U.S. Olympic Committee comes up with a campful of sturdy studs
By Peter Carry
Dogs
The luck of the Irish, Dick Andrews believes, has helped him recover the loot after Miami's big jewel robberies and led him into greyhound racing, where a farfetched series of events brought him one of the richest prizes in the sport
By Pat Putnam
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