May 15, 1978 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A NEW GUIDE CHARTS A WATERY WAY FOR EXPLORERS WITH FIN AND SNORKEL
The Derby
Reasserting his dominance over Calumet's Alydar, Affirmed held off the surging colt in the stretch to give young Steve Cauthen a triumphant return to his old Kentucky home
By Clive Gammon
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
The Sixers were folding in the playoffs again. This time the Bullets were wrecking their hopes
By John Papanek
3,000
With a solid single, Pete Rose became baseball's 13th 3,000-hit man. Now he is off in pursuit of Musial and Aaron
By Ron Fimrite
Mark Roth
Shrieking and stomping, clobbering pillows and sunbeams, Mark Roth has become the best bowler in the world
By Herman Weiskopf
Baseball
Likening USC's young Bill Bordley to Koufax might seem a bit much, if he were not a lefty with a 24-1 record
By Larry Keith
By Herman Weiskopf
Hockey
Philadelphia figured the way to lick Boston was by baiting the Bruins' fighting Irishman, but the Flyers got beaten to the punch in their Stanley Cup series
By Mark Mulvoy
Pro Football
It was the same old song and dance
A ballroom was the site of the NFL draft, in which the rich got richer
By Joe Marshall
Swimming
When an injury kept Dawn Musselman from competing in the 1932 Olympics, she lost her taste for swimming, but 46 years later she is setting records again
By Dan Levin
Billiards
Raymond Ceulemans believes he can make every shot, which he just about did in winning his 15th world championship
For The Record
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert H. Boyle