April 14, 1975 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
A MACHINE THAT PUNTS AND PASSES EASES THE PAIN OF SPRING TRAINING
As I Saw It
THE BOYS OF SUMMER WERE THE BOYS OF SLUMBER THE FIRST YEAR IN LOS ANGELES
Footloose
CLAY BIRDS SOAR LIKE WILD BIRDS TO BAFFLE SHOOTERS ON A GROUSE WALK
Love Conquers All
Back to holding hands with Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert used both fists to bowl over Martina Navratilova in the Virginia Slims final and win the largest purse—$40,000—in the history of women's tennis
By Joe Jares
Harvard was smooth and unabashedly rude when it won the 1974 national championship. In its first outing, this year's eight demolished a whole flotilla of powerful rivals while behaving impeccably at all times
By Dan Levin
HE WHO KEEPS COOL WILL COLLECT
The gymnasts who followed familiar Japanese technique and philosophy came away as winners at the NCAA championships
By Larry Keith
Basketball
New faces dot the playoffs, but when it's all over toward the end of May, you'll probably recognize Boston or Washington
By Pat Putnam
Hockey
...BUT IN THE NHL, IT'S BRAINS
If any team can stop the Flyers, it will first have to outthink Bobby Clarke and then try to outshoot Bernie Parent in goal
By Mark Mulvoy
Masters
Sausage Man
The author recalls boyhood wrestling, its feel, its smell and, most of all, a frozen bridge and some other cold cuts involving a kid named Thuringer
By Terry Davis
Badminton
Slam-bang play in the nationals belies the sport's gentle image
By Jerry Green
Pro Skiing
After a year of slaloming for pay, Hank Kashiwa (foreground) became the champion in a sport where they fine you for missing the parties
By William O. Johnson
Track & Field
Few of the competitors at the Texas Relays were as fast as Larry Shipp, but most had a ball anyway, particularly the OTIS 400-yard relay team
By Tex Maule
The Best
Vasili Alexeyev is the greatest weight lifter. And the finest gardener, cook, carpenter, singer and checker player perhaps in all of Soviet Russia, as the author learned on a rare and privileged visit to his home
By William O. Johnson
For The Record
A roundup of the week March 31-April 6
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum