Contents

18 Hale Irwin, Sole Survivor
A bespectacled former football player won the U.S. Open at Winged Foot, but the course was a close second

22 Beware the Dudes in the Red Hats
Remembering how it was done last year, Cincinnati is lusting to overtake the Dodgers again

26 The Case of the Absent Eggs
A raid on wild birds' nests in Wales leads an investigator to the office of an honored professor at Yale

34 Foreign Invasion
An army of alien athletes has infiltrated U.S. colleges, and some of the natives are restless

40 The Race That Ran Its Course
Tearing through town and country, the old-style Targa Florio was a perilous affair—and is now a memory

44 Slugging Your Partner Is No Solution
Why is it that husbands and wives always seem to end up fighting at the bridge table? Ego is the answer

70 So Young and So Untender
With that remark, King Lear unknowingly, but aptly, described Bjorn Borg, the 18-year-old tennis phenomenon

The departments

13 Scorecard
53 People
54 Baseball
62 Boxing
67 Harness Racing
87 For the Record
88 19th Hole

Credits on page 87

Cover photograph by James Drake

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