May 29, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Sport in China—from YMCA Ping-Pong paddles to the Red Cultural Revolution
Mass Mania
Whether poling rafts in a zany Georgia river race or pedaling through Ohio, Americans seemed obsessed with doing it all together
By Dan Levin
Derby Winner Riva Ridge flunked the test in the Preakness, and top marks went instead to a colt that had been so outdistanced by his class early in the season that few believed he could make the grade
CIRCLE THE WAGONS, INDIAN UPRISING!
A long dormant Lake Erie tribe is on the move
By Ron Fimrite
Power
People
Arctic Spring
In haste, wildfowl flood north to nest, for the season is short and the results can be savage for any birds that tarry
By Bil Gilbert
Baseball
Motor Sports
If beards grow the way the Indy cars go, Gary Bettenhausen will soon become a ripping Van Winkle
By Robert F. Jones
Harness Racing
Thus was the Cane Pace won, with the favorite dying on the inside
By Pat Putnam
Pro Basketball
The ABA title was at stake and along came those Nets with a bunch of fierce guards. So enigmatic Indiana played it the hard way
By Peter Carry
Stanford
From its founding there was not a ghost of a chance that Stanford would resemble other California universities. Its students are a singular, changing lot, and among their surprising attitudes is their view of sport
By Ron Fimrite
For The Record
A roundup of the week May 16-22
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer