September 30, 1974 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A former second baseman takes a kindly look at an assortment of Good Old Boys
Yesterday
Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan led 110 cops on a merry chase through Chesapeake Bay before battling for the American heavyweight title
By George A. Gipe
Out One Hand
Fumbles dotted the game, with alert Miami recovering two key ones to beat Buffalo 24-76. But the question of how good the Super Bowl champs are was left unanswered
By Dan Jenkins
UP IN THE AIR IN THE HECTIC EAST
The National League race, that is. Although St. Louis dropped a series to the solemn Pirates, the Cardinals stayed loose and lippy
By Ron Fimrite
Team Canada was a WHA collection of old men and castoffs—at least, that was the line of hockey's Establishment. So the Russians were not the only ones to be surprised by the early summit meetings
By Mark Mulvoy
Right Man
Tom Clements may not be the best college football player in the country—he insists he is not—but he is quarterback of Notre Dame, the defending national champion, and he's the one who gets the Irish up
By Ray Kennedy
Con Game
It was murder down on the field when Burt Reynolds and some pros filmed a story about a prison grudge match
By Edwin Shrake
TV/Radio
College Football
Those other bullies in Oklahoma
The Sooners may be tough, but so is State, as Arkansas discovered
By Joe Jares
By Larry Keith
Harness Racing
Haughton père beat his own son and two of his own horses, as well as the early favorite, driving Armbro Omaha to victory in the pacing classic
Sporting Look
Now everyone's at home on the range
Boating
In the aftermath of the Australian America's Cup defeat, the answer is no—until a designer outdoes Olin Stephens. That takes some outdoing
Chess
Two Russians are meeting to see who will take on Bobby Fischer, and the younger man has the edge
Heirs
The commissioners of major sports are men of rectitude and imperturbable mien. Now, in relaxed and occasionally irreverent conversation, the four bare a few of their secrets
By Frank Deford
Baseball's Week
By Herman Weiskopf
For The Record
A roundup of the week Sept. 16-22
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Andrew Crichton