April 3, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
'Tacklebox Library' gives the fisherman everything he needs except rod and reel
By Knox Burger
Run Deep
This was the plan: Southern Cal would ignore Indiana's big three and throw everybody into the pool in a mass race for the team title. But somewhere along the way the strategy sank
RACY RED BEASTS AND KING KONG, TOO
In a last farewell, Sebring loosed a pride of Ferraris on Italy's other brand, Alfa Romeo, and a gorilla, yet. Both ran amok
By Robert F. Jones
Her 'God Bless America' works wonders for Philadelphia as the Flyers battle California and Pittsburgh for an admittedly lowly, but exceedingly lucrative, Stanley Cup playoff spot in the NHL West
By Mark Mulvoy
Oh, Johnny!
Will he ever stop winning? John Wooden and his UCLA Bruins did it again, and almost everybody was happy except the rest of the country, which might like to swing to another tune, Just once
Masters
Going to Augusta, golf's greatest moneymaker is fit and his game is honed for a prize that is larger than mere dollars. Jack Nicklaus' grail has become the elusive Grand Slam
By Dan Jenkins
As always, whoever wins will have to negotiate that forgotten front nine, and there, says Dan Jenkins, is where one finds more problems than most Masters fans ever see, live or on TV
Tame Devils
LAND OF WILD MEN AND TAME DEVILS
If you want to go where nobody goes, try Belize. Fish and game abound, and duendes might carry you off and teach you the guitar
By Jack Olsen
Baseball
A slow spring start no longer worries Rico Petrocelli, who is only anxious to begin chasing a pennant he feels that Boston can win
Horse Racing
When they tried to storm the mountain
It was actually a Ridge, but the Derby brigades were repulsed and sent scattering. Dug in at the top is a big gun named Riva, whose target is the Triple Crown, which no horse has won for a quarter of a century
Basketball
So who's waiting for Lefty now?
UCLA, maybe. The Maryland coach finally made it in the NIT and...
By Joe Jares
Blue Snow
Private Journey through the Blue Snow
It is a painful marathon, this massive race into the forests of Sweden, but the miracles of blueberry soup and the spirit of man somehow can produce 7,000 victors
For The Record
A roundup of the week March 21-27
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer