July 3, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
At 44, champagne may go flat, but from George Blanda you can still get a kick
Yesterday
Murderers
And that is by no means all the champion Pittsburgh Pirates employ to frighten opposing teams. Everybody hits, and the pitchers are turning killer, too
BRITANNIA RULES BERMUDA'S WAVES
Out of a storm-tossed fleet came the coolest crew on the ocean to seize a classic race for England
By Hugh D. Whall
THEY LEFT US SINGING THE BLUES
In what may have been their last appearance as a team, those wily Italians, the Kings of the Cards, easily topped the Aces and the rest of the pack to win the bridge Olympiad and their 13th world title
After a numbing fortnight of play, the U.S. Olympic basketball team was selected last week. It is young, balanced and brash, just the sort of club to put down the strong threat from abroad
Shapiro
Neal Shapiro is not only a mainstay of the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team, he is a pilot, an organist and a harness driver—but, listen, don't bet on him
Kiel
People
Baseball
K. C. makes a hit with an odd couple
The bats of two outfielders have begun to sweeten a very sour year
By Ted O'Leary
By Ron Reid
Golf
And that's the way it usually is. Just when Tom Kite thinks he has won, along comes his Texas teammate Ben Crenshaw to steal the glory
Sporting Look
The second greening of Forest Hills
Or the bluing or pinkening or perhaps yellowing. In September, color comes to tennis clothes at the U.S. Open; in the meantime, there is plenty else going on that would have made Queen Victoria faint
Duckpin Bowling
Big blowout for some low rollers
By Joe Marshall
The Graduates
In the last days of their college careers, some of the athletes who made Nebraska No. 1 in football reflect on their life and labor as Cornhuskers. They weigh the glory and goals of the past and of the times to come
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 20-26
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer