November 8, 1971 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A master mariner writes grippingly of the seagoing war with Cape Horn
Yesterday/Boll Weevils
The Boll Weevils managed to take a game now and then, which was O.K. as long as it didn't detract from the fun
TV Talk
ABC's marriage to the NCAA is showing strong symptoms of the seven-year itch
By Jack Craig
Colts
What you see is what you get but, as the Colts showed, what you give them is what they take. And what they want is another Super Bowl
By Tex Maule
LOITERING IN THIS PARK IS FORBIDDEN
New York's baby bull, Brad Park, plays right, shoots left and skates at a pace that just could beat Montreal and Boston
By Mark Mulvoy
While Jack Nicklaus was adding to his prestige by winning the Australian Open, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer were in Las Vegas trying to overtake Jack as the 1971 money leader. Only Lee did it
By Gwilym S. Brown
Bobby
BOBBY CLEARS THE BOARD FOR THE TITLE
The young U.S. master, after Tigran Petrosian smashed his 20-game streak, closed strong to earn a shot at the world's chess champion
A Jump
Steeplechasing is on its last legs, and that rare bird, the rider over fences, is now an endangered species—which is a pity because his sport has been the making and breaking of some of the nation's most successful horsemen
By Frank Deford
Joe Hyde
TRICK OR TRUITE: HERE COMES JOE HYDE
New York's dashing sportsman-chef does not care what you eat, be it blue jay or brown trout, so long as you prepare it with flair. A game fellow, he'll even do your cooking
People
College Football
Somebody is going to be the turkey
Nebraska crushed Colorado, thus setting the table for a picnic on Thanksgiving Day with Oklahoma
By Dan Jenkins
By Larry Keith
Pro Basketball
Minsky would have loved the NBA Central, that traveling road show starring four fanciful teams and the last of the laughing coaches
By Peter Carry
Design For Sport
Animal fur is fine for keeping winter campers—and animals—warm, but now science has produced something more ecologically suitable
Horse Racing
Call it the survival of the fittest
...but not necessarily the best, as the sport wound up its season
Bridge
A new empire is on the rise, but first an older one has to fall
Ira Corn's Aces will be playing to win at the Olympiad in June—and so will Italy's famous Blues
Hunting
Tolling bells for the Maine timberdoodle
Woodcock may not be as numerous as they once were in the rugged country around Calais, Maine, but there was still plenty of action when the dogs' bells stopped clanking and Acey Sprague stopped talking
By Robert F. Jones
For The Record
A roundup of the week Oct. 26-Nov. 1
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer