September 9, 1974 Table Of Contents
Red Tide
Loaded and ready for record-smashing East Germans, U.S. swimmers sank a veteran and seized a team victory
A HALF OF LOAFING IS NOW UNDONE
The talented Pirates were unpugnacious and unproductive until the middle of the season, when a fight set them aflight toward the top of their division
By Ron Fimrite
Christopher T. survived a deluge, managed not to kick himself and won the Hambletonian for Driver Billy Haughton, who had taken almost every major harness-racing prize except the big one
College Football 1974
In South Bend and Norman, in Columbus and Tuscaloosa, as well as on the campuses of all the other gridiron giants, nothing creates so much controversy, outrage and general all-round excitement as the annual battle for No. 1
CAN ANYBODY CATCH THE BUCKEYES?
People
Baseball
Uncertainty over when his 3,000th hit will come makes Al Kaline edgy
By Pat Jordan
By Herman Weiskopf
Tennis
The hottest player on the pro circuit has been 22-year-old Guillermo Vilas of Argentina, who in two months won four tournaments and $70,000
By Joe Jares
Boxing
A case of setting them up for the kill
Hospitable old Havana opened its heart to the fighters in town for the first world amateur championships—feted them, fed them well, and then the Cubans danced off with most of the gold medals, cha-cha-cha
By Tex Maule
Starlings
The pretty plan was to bring the Bard's birds to America. It brought troubles by the flock
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 26-31
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Andrew Crichton