August 10, 1970 Table Of Contents
One Night
Taking time out from the strike, K.C. beat the College All-Stars and for a while it seemed that pro football was through for 1970
By Joe Jares
I'M A FOOTBALL PLAYER, NOT A WORKER'
Dave Hill didn't win the $250,000 classic (Bruce Crampton did), but golf's constant critic, whose play has thrust him into the game's top rank, reiterated his views of sacred cows and cornfields
By Mark Mulvoy
Splashy Struggle
Foaming it up in a California pool, a gang of the country's top water polo players swam like porpoises—and fought like barracuda—to select a new national champion and a potential Olympic threat
Pirates
Eyeing his slaphappy band of plucky Bucs across a generation gap, tobacco-chewing Danny Murtaugh agrees they deserve to have a style all their own. But please don't spit on the artificial turf
By Roy Blount Jr.
He Whistles
The man in the middle is Tommy Bell, an NFL referee. A lawyer on weekdays, he polices a Sunday game with a crew of five, all of them yearning for utter anonymity
The Old Man
At 81, Artist Thomas Hart Benton, one of the founders of the Midwest Regionalist School of painting, still carries on his long love affair with the roily Buffalo River in the Ozarks
By Robert F. Jones
People
Baseball
It has been a good season for Wes Parker and the Dodgers, but the team is locked solidly into the runner-up spot. Wait till next year
By Peter Carry
Golf
Hollis and the swinging Stacy clan
At 16, she won most of the honors available in her favorite sport. Now if she could just get sister Laurie to clean their bedroom...
Boxing
Soft-spoken and hard-hitting, California's Ray Lunny, the top U.S. Olympic hope, was taught to box by his father, the Stanford coach.
Bridge
Hand of the man who invented contract
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