September 3, 1973 Table Of Contents
Reduced To Atoms
Armed with Americans, Philadelphia's soccer team beat Dallas and became the most successful expansion club in pro sport
By Edwin Shrake
The Baltimore Orioles have run up a 13-game win streak—and all but run away from the rest of the American League East—using a speedy new offense and a pitcher who beetles opposing batters
Bubba Smith is alive and recuperating in Oakland, where he hopes his forays will arouse the fans to a murderous frenzy
By Ron Reid
Jawful Test
Muhammad Ali took it on the chin for real and felt no ill effects from his recent fracture. Training hard and seriously at his hillside retreat, he is still king of his clique and future champion of all he surveys
By Mark Kram
Dennis
Dennis Ralston never lived up to his early promise of becoming the next Budge, Kramer or Gonzales but, though less a player, he was more a man than anyone perceived
By Frank Deford
People
Baseball
By Pat Jordan
By Ron Fimrite
Harness Racing
Delmonica Hanover won the $150,000 International, with the French entry, Une de Mai, third, and the Russian horse, Othello, a tragic last
By Pat Putnam
Fishing
By Dan Levin
Boating
Making a big splash by himself
Single-handed, Jim Hahn let it all hang out to win the O'Day Trophy
By Hugh D. Whall
Horse Racing
The Hopeful goes to an unlikely winner
In a year of the vanishing 2-year-olds, undistinguished Gusty O'Shay, who just three months earlier could have been claimed for $5,000, went off at 9 to 1 and led all the way to top a field of seven at Saratoga Spa
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 20-26
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert W. Creamer