June 18, 1973 Table Of Contents
Belmont
Secretariat is 50 feet from the finish line and the race is won—but Jockey Ron Turcotte steals a look at the infield teletimer on his way to a pulverizing Belmont victory and the Triple Crown
The Oakland A's are not playing like champions, but at least, and at last, they are grousing in pennant form
By Ron Fimrite
Giant Step
The opponent is only Joe Roman, who is hardly the noblest of them all, but after a long wait the champion of the earth's heavyweights—remember George Foreman?—is fighting and the division is abuzz
By Pat Putnam
Steeplechase
Oldest Lifeguard
'I'M THE TYPE OF SWIMMER LIFEGUARDS HATE'
So says Jim Havender, 81, the World's Oldest Lifeguard, who ignores his own counsel because the ocean loves him
By Roy Blount Jr.
Baseball
The Rangers draft a young David to whom no-hitters are old stuff
By Joe Jares
By Herman Weiskopf
Hockey
Put them all together they spell money
Some long Texas green lures Gordie Howe's adolescent sons to the WHA's Houston Aeros—and the old man scents a million or so, too
By Mark Mulvoy
Track & Field
It was 90° in Baton Rouge, but UCLA beat the heat to win its third straight collegiate championship
By Ron Reid
golf's jekyll & hyde
Some say Bruce Crampton is cruel, officious and humorless, others, that he is warm, kind and helpful. Everyone agrees, however, that out on the course he has monstrous talent
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Martin Kane