April 29, 1974 Table Of Contents
Big Fish
As the star of the Chicago White Sox and the best-paid player in baseball, Dick Allen is a magnetic celebrity, but life in a fishbowl displeases him. Through last weekend his team had played 13 games and won but four, and the bristling Allen, batting below .200, was behaving like an endangered species. Still, he had an adoring manager and praising teammates
By Ron Fimrite
The nation's best college tennis team crushed its downstate rivals, USC and UCLA, in back-to-back matches last week as the traditional scoring method was abandoned in favor of the modern "no ad"
By Joe Jares
DR. J AND THE WHOPPER SHELL THE COLONELS
The Nets whirled down on a team beset by spring fever and foul weather and blew them right out of the ABA Eastern playoffs
By Peter Carry
One For Money
ONE FOR THE MONEY, TWO FOR THE SHOW
When Jo Ann Prentice birdied the fourth hole of sudden death to beat Jane Blalock and Sandra Haynie, her reward was $32,000, biggest ever for women
Bruce Hardy
Once upon a town in Utah there was a basketball star, a football whiz, a baseball flash and an all-round excellent student. In true storybook fashion, they are all the same guy
Into The Pool
INTO THE POOL WITH A SEAL OF APPROVAL
Swimming's Hall of Fame was floundering until Buck Dawson, who can barely stay afloat himself, turned on the ballyhoo with gimmicks like his seal and a Spitz named Mark
Bridge
A part score can be a big deal
People
Baseball
A winner's smile masks a tumult of emotion, for Steve Rogers is Mr. Intensity of the Expos
By Pat Jordan
By Herman Weiskopf
Hockey
Players way down the Ranger salary scale rose up to reprieve their teammates by beating Montreal—but along came fiery Philadelphia
By Mark Mulvoy
Horse Racing
The big race begins to come into focus as winners finally win again
Derby
Shills and hucksters are everywhere as Kentucky gets ready for the 100th running of the Derby, but it hardly matters. The race itself is the important thing, as memories of past years and past triumphs testify
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 15-21
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Andrew Crichton