July 5, 1971 Table Of Contents
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Yesterday
Failure
FOR FAILURE TO GIVE HIS BEST...
Alex Johnson, baseball's troubled and troublesome batting champion, is suspended for indifference by the California Angels
By Ron Fimrite
Fastest
It seemed that never had so many been so speedy as at the national track and field championships in Eugene, Ore.; some with the wind at their backs, others on their own steam
By Pat Putnam
By beating the McLarens, Jackie Stewart fanned the competitive embers of a rich but too predictable sports car series
By Robert F. Jones
Jockey
The Buckeyes
Five members of Ohio State's Rose Bowl team went high in the pro football draft but, claims their agent, the clubs' offers have been so ridiculously low that only one player has signed
By Morton Sharnik
People
Baseball
The act in Philadelphia was good for a few caustic laughs, and then along came Rick Wise, a triple threat who fields, hits—and pitches
By Mark Mulvoy
Golf
Gentle Ben roughs up the college crowd
A mophead freshman from the University of Texas led his team to an upset victory in the NCAA championship with an impressive professional-style performance that gave him the individual title as well
Motor Sports
'I'm going to jump a mile anyway'
Switching canyons, Evel Knievel now plans to jet across the Snake
By Robert F. Jones
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 Martin Kane