July 15, 1974 Table Of Contents

Jimmy and Chris—soon to be Mr. and Mrs. Connors—won on Centre Court and led off the Wimbledon Ball to the tune of a jingling cash register

David Pearson used a dicey bit of trickery to shake Richard Petty off his tail and capture the Firecracker 400 in a slingshooter's finish

Undaunted by a cruel sea and capricious gremlins, Bob Magoon jounced from Miami to New York in a record-shattering 23 hours

As baseball warmed to the Fourth, nowhere was the action more explosive than in a beaut of a brawl between Boston and Baltimore

For Dick Williams it meant a leap from softball in Hartford to major league ball, sort of, in Anaheim

Powerfully built players, stripped to the waist under the blazing sun, demonstrated outside training camps as the NFL player strike began

By John A. Meyers

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