
May 19, 1975 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
THE BIG EYE DON'T LIE, SO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME FILMS ARE ALL THE RAGE
Booktalk
IN A SEA OF BOOKS, A NOVEL WORTH ITS SALT AND A PLACE AMONG EPIC TALES
By Robert F. Jones
Stanley Cup
Elbowing once-mighty Montreal out of contention, Buffalo set the stage for the first Stanley Cup final between expansion teams
By Mark Mulvoy
Speeding Off
Indy's faithful thousands waited and waited, tensions building. Would Foyt get his race car ready in time? Would he go fast enough to beat the others and win the pole position? Answers: Would he ever!
By Robert F. Jones
There There
THE A'S ARE PUTTING THE THERE THERE
Or trying mightily, at least, to give Oakland an identity other than that of stepsister to the haughty lady there across the Bay
By Ron Fimrite
Rocks
ROCKS IN THeIR HeADS AND HeARTS
More people than ever are checking out the special exhilarations of rock climbing, but what is of real significance is that so many established climbers have turned to the purer discipline of climbing clean. Rather than hammer pitons into sheer walls, they rely on nuts and tiny wedges of aluminum, some no larger than a thumbnail, tucked into existing cracks—thus leaving the rock as unscarred as they found it.
By Barbara La Fontaine
Tough Man
Billy Eisenberg will take your money at backgammon or, if you prefer, at bridge. Get smart, play him a little tennis
By Edwin Shrake
TV/Radio
Baseball
Mercurial Dick Allen returns to the city where he began his career, saying 'I'd like to think I've grown up.' Suddenly, pennant talk is rampant
By Larry Keith
By Jim Kaplan
Tennis
After he lost the first set to Bjorn Borg, it looked as if Arthur Ashe would blow another big one, but he rallied to win the WCT final
By Joe Jares
Horse Racing
Big, beautiful, unbeaten, Ruffian may be faster than the top colts
By Tex Maule
Billie Jean
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week May 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Sarah Pileggi