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July 19, 1976 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
MAN GOES HOME TO THE SEA, AND HANS HASS IS UNEASY ABOUT THE RESULTS
Yesterdsay
THE SENSATION PROMISED NEW YORK IN 1880 WAS A LOT MORE BULL THAN FIGHT
By George A. Gipe
Out Of The Crowd
AT LAST, HE'S OUT OF THE CROWD
Johnny Miller has been claiming he is not just one of the boys but the equal of Nicklaus. And at the British Open, he proved far more than a match for Jack
By Dan Jenkins
SAVOIR DIDN'T FAIRE BUT EQUILEO DID
French horses finished one-two at the International Trot. The best the U.S. could do in the $200,000 race was third with a highly irritable and pregnant Trotting Mama
Wigwam Bigwig
BIGWIG FLIPS HIS WIG IN WIGWAM
Atlanta Owner Ted Turner is nuts about his Braves. Like them—and does he ever!—he chews Red Man, cries "Awwwrrright" and slaps palms. For his fans he has raced motorized bathtubs and entered a mattress-stacking contest
By Ron Fimrite
Dark Clouds
MORE DARK CLOUDS OVER MONTREAL
Even as the athletes began to arrive, the trouble-plagued XXI Olympic Games were confronted with two additional crises, host country Canada barring the Taiwanese team and Tanzania refusing to show up if New Zealand did
By Frank Deford
Olympic Preview: 1976
In swimming it figures to be the powerful U.S. men's squad matching medals and records with an awesome team of East German women
Who's Going to Win, Place and Show...Maybe
After consulting with leading sports authorities around the world, studying past-performance charts of the athletes and analyzing the relative position of the moon, the writer offers her predictions, which do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management
Baseball
GEORGE FOSTER'S POLICY OF SPEAKING SOFTLY BUT CARRYING A BIG, BLACK BAT IS MAKING FANS IN CINCINNATI HAPPY
By Joe Jares
By Joe Marshall
Golf
AT THE U.S. OPEN THE WOMEN WERE STORMING, OVER PAR AND OUT OF SORTS AT THE STEEP TASK THEY FACED AND THE RUGGED HILLS THAT PROVED SO HUMBLING
Soccer
HE MIGHT NOT BE THE STAR OF OLD, BUT HE'S SOMETHING OF A NEW MAN
Montreal
Lucky old Montreal has survived through all its turbulent years because of its spirit. Now, financial and ethnic troubles aside, it is ready for another Olympian effort
For The Record
A roundup of the week July 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert W. Creamer
