February 5, 1973 Table Of Contents
10th Man
The American League's designated hitter rule has sparked a storm of controversy—and instant deepthink over who's going to swing for whom
The Knicks
All season long New York has been winning the close ones, but the 111-108 and 96-93 heart-stoppers over Boston last weekend were the biggest, the Knicks closing to within half a game of first place
By Peter Carry
Believe It
So said Joe Frazier, predicting the defeat of George Foreman. But Joe was no visionary on this Jamaican night. His fortunes went down—and down and down—as Foreman showed he was the one you better believe. A journal of the happenings in Kingston follows
Photo Finish
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
Big Muddy
...and the damn fools just drive on. It began with poachers from the Everglades testing their swamp buggies, but now the crackers in $4,000 contraptions run amuck as millionaires watch
By Myron Cope
People
College Basketball
A Brooklyn boy down in Tennessee is leading all the nation's scorers
By Pat Putnam
Hockey
Mike Antonovich & Co. lead a U.S. invasion of Canada's hockey fief
By Jim Kaplan
Nature
The two-pronged Arabian oryx was becoming as much a fable as its one-horned cousin until an international rescue team got to work
Bridge
This handicap put the Aces in the hole
These Guys
Their image is as austere as Yankee pinstripes, but as one of UCLA's record setters says, they are actually a gang of freewheelers. An intimate look at the young men behind all those big statistics
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 23-29
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer