July 17, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
How many free throws do you get for a foul that took eight years to settle?
By Kent Hannon
Shopwalk
To Vince Cummings, a fishing rod is more than a pole, a cork and a hank of thread
Yesterday
Basketball, Betting and Borscht
Summer jobs in the Catskills developed some exotic talents in college players of the 1940s
High And Mighty
From the lofty feats of the vaulters to the great thrusts of the shotputters, the U.S. Olympic track and field team appears just as impressive as ever
By Pat Putnam
THE GIRLS ARE OFF AND WINGING, TOO
It is hard to hide a 67-foot trimaran, but just when the sailing world was set to laud one Frenchman in a giant schooner, in snuck another to provide an astonishing finish to the Trans-Atlantic race
By Hugh D. Whall
In one of the most unexpected upsets—and thrilling races—unlimited hydroplanes have known, a man who had never won before seized the President's Cup on the Potomac from the sport's last hero
By Mark Kram
Wimbledon
SALUTES FOR A CORPORAL AND A KING
The U.S. pulls off a double in the singles as Stan Smith and Billie Jean King take the men's and women's championships in a dazzling show at Wimbledon
Part 2: The Olympic Games
For some champions the Olympics have meant enduring fame, for others they are only the memory of a transcendent instant of glory
Trotting
People
Baseball
By Ron Reid
Golf
Golf is Japan's latest boom, and the imports, led by Chako Higuchi, have already hit the LPGA tour
Motor Sports
So they said, 'Let George do it.' He did
The Porsche was only beginning to prove its potential as a Can-Am threat when a smashup wrecked both the machine and its driver, Mark Donohue. But no matter, for just when all seemed lost, it turned out to be won
By Robert F. Jones
For The Record
A roundup of the week July 4-10
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer