June 24, 1974 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
The absorbing account of one American male's lifelong involvement with sport
Yesterday
These two friends were arguing in the locker room, one thing led to another as it often does, and pretty soon they had this wild bet...
By Tom Edwards
Sole Survivor
A bespectacled former Colorado football player won the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, but in the secondary battle between 150 leading golfers and the rigorous demands of the course, it was just no contest
By Dan Jenkins
Beware The Reds
BEWARE THE DUDES IN THE RED HATS
Remembering last year, Cincinnati is out to get L.A. again, and with a fierce front four thirsting for it, the getting is plausible
By Roy Blount Jr.
The Road Race That Ran Its Course
With a safer new circuit to be built in Sicily there will always be a Targa Florio, but last year's run ended an era of special daring and danger when cars tore through town and country in the grand old manner
People
Baseball
Namely Omaha and the College World Series, where a team that never had made it past the tournament's preliminaries fought to the final out
By Joe Jares
By Jim Kaplan
Boxing
Rising above all the bedlam of the AAU Nationals, he overwhelmed his division, inspiring recollections of another day and another Ray
By Ray Kennedy
Harness Racing
A sudden Surge tops the Dexter
The favorites dueled mightily, and an outsider took advantage of it
So Young
King Lear hadn't met Bjorn Borg, but his remark could hardly have been more descriptive of this 18-year-old Swedish phenomenon. Beyond his years in poise, manner and ability, Borg is already a world-class tennis player
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 10-16
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Andrew Crichton
