September 12, 1977 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
VARIETY IS THE SPICE, BUT SEASONED TENNIS PLAYERS DEPEND ON MONOTONY
As I Saw It
HOW THE GREAT DAIQUIRI DERBY AND U.S. BASEBALL GOT BOMBED IN HAVANA
Day Of Reckoning
THE DAY OF RECKONING IS DRAWING NIGH
After a summer-long scrap, Courageous, skippered by crafty Ted Turner, sailed away (below) from sleek, new Enterprise and now will defend the America's Cup against Australia
Bananas In The Bushes
Jim Paul doesn't know how the infield fly rule works but he's sure figured out how to fill up El Paso's ball park using ploys like the sundae doubleheader
By Pat Putnam
Movies
BIG FOLKS HAD BETTER GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Frank Deford
Baseball
After being 0-7, Atlanta's Phil Niekro got his flutter back and has resumed his inexorable drive to become the alltime winningest thrower of the Iron Butterfly
By Jim Kaplan
By Herman Weiskopf
College Football
Hello, big time, so long, streak
Rutgers, winner of 18 straight games, was looking forward to the dawn of a new era when it scheduled Penn State. Instead the Scarlet Knights were taught a harsh lesson in expecting too much too soon
By Pat Putnam
Golf
It all began with a garage sale
Karsten Solheim parlayed $1,100 and his genius into a $20 million business
Boxing
The Importance of Being Earnie, Act 1
In which Shavers runs up an impressive string of KOs—interspersed with a few lamentable KOs by—and gets a title bout with Ali. Act II? Tune in Sept. 29
By Morton Sharnik
Werblin
What used to be one of the outstanding garbage dumps of our time has become a gold mine of a sports center—and more nuggets are on the way. The man who pulled it off is Sonny Werblin
By Ray Kennedy
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 29-Sept. 4
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert H. Boyle
GREEN SPEED WAS RED HOT TO TROT
Billy Haughton's colt took the Hambletonian in straight heats, setting records for himself and his driver. But he won't have a shot at the Triple Crown because nobody had enough faith in him before this season to risk $460
By Douglas S. Looney