November 6, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Here comes a ton of tennis books, some of them to be welcomed with open arms
By Frank Deford
Yesterday
The High (and Long) Flying Brothers Key
Round and round they flew, and when Al and Fred finally came to earth they had broken all existing endurance records and caused more cricks than a spring thundershower
Good Humor Men
George Allen gives his Redskins ice cream and whatever else their hearts desire, but it is easy to be happy if you just give Larry Brown the ball
By Roy Blount
A woeful season's start for Derek Sanderson & Co., rich but unready, illuminates the fitness of things
By Mark Mulvoy
With Long Island and Hatteras the battlegrounds, a war between anglers and haul seiners is fought each season as striped bass migrate along the Atlantic coast. Now, peace may be in the offing
Qs And As
THE Qs HAVE QUITE A FEW OF THE As
The Conquistadors are owned by an orthodontist who has braced himself to overcome the disaffection of San Diego's fans
By Peter Carry
Secret Land
Any tourist can go racing at the Moscow Hippodrome. It can be a pleasant afternoon with small crowds, 17 races on a program and all the cognac and caviar one could want. What takes more doing is getting to the grass roots of Russia's thoroughbred industry—visiting the country's studs. Sports Illustrated's horse racing editor is the only American journalist who has been invited to tour the breeding farms in the foothills of the Caucasus from which the Soviets hope a runner of international stature may someday emerge. The following is a diary of the trip.
Unburied Loot
The treasure isn't really all that terrific—it's the joy of the hunt that brings all those pilots buzzing around the Bahamas on an annual madcap air and see search
By Robert F. Jones
People
College Football
There is nothing fancy about Michigan football, as Minnesota found out last week, just an iron-curtain defense and run, run, run
By Larry Keith
Horse Racing
...in her very next start, in fact, La Prevoyante can equal a mark that has stood for 65 years
By Pat Putnam
For The Record
A roundup of the week Oct. 24-30
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer