May 1, 1972 Table Of Contents
Dodgers
And maybe summer and fall, too, these Los Angeles Dodgers. Off to their best start since 1955, Willie Davis & Co. sacked Atlanta and scorched San Diego with artful arms and some uncommonly big bats
ONE STICK REBUILDS THE HOPKINS DYNASTY
Flashing the stickwork and savvy that have made him top point man in the nation, Jack Thomas leads Hopkins to a decisive victory over Army and to its old eminence
By Larry Keith
GOODBY, CHI, HELLO (GULP), HUB
New York's suffering hockey fans, deprived of the Stanley Cup since 1940, were ecstatic over the Rangers' blitz of Chicago but apprehensive about their opponents in the final: the bold Boston Bruins
By Mark Mulvoy
NBA Playoffs
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE OTHER GAME...
While everybody watched Los Angeles beat the Bucks out West, the East was producing a deceptive challenger in the Knicks
By Frank Deford
By Peter Carry
People
Baseball
Texas finally opened it—to joyous approval—as Frank Howard boomed a mighty home run and all of Ted Williams' transplants chipped in
By Jim Kaplan
Pro Football
By Gwilym S. Brown
Horse Racing
In California a colt named Quack trounced the best in the West, and elsewhere it rained cats and the Kentucky Derby colts ran like dogs
Golf
Usually, when you pull the handle, it is a Nicklaus that pops up. But once in a great while the machine pays off on a Bobby Mitchell
By Dan Jenkins
Mountaineering
The height of self-sufficiency
Decent Bloke
...until Ken Rosewall, a muscleless marvel of 37, grabs a racket. Then he carves up people
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 18-24
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer