
May 29, 1978 Table Of Contents
Footloose
THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A DEER, AND MANIFOLD WAYS TO COOK IT
By John O'Dell
Upset
Roaring back from a two-game deficit, the scrappy Boston Bruins whipped the lordly Montreal Canadiens twice and threatened to turn the Stanley Cup series upside down
By Mark Mulvoy
A FIRM BID FOR THE TRIPLE CROWN
Kentucky Derby winner Affirmed got the challenge he expected from Alydar in the Preakness, but he was more than up to it. Now only the Belmont is left in his quest for U.S. racing's greatest—and its most elusive—prize
It has been veni, vidi, vici for Vida in San Francisco's stunning ascent in the National West
By Larry Keith
Early Speed
SHOWING EARLY SPEED AT INDIANAPOLIS
Until this year no one had ever averaged 200 mph in qualifying for the Indy 500. Now all three cars on the front row have—plus A. J. Foyt
By Sam Moses
Part 2 Kenya Game
Continuing his gunless safari, the author encounters a 12-year-old poacher, visits with Joy Adamson and is nearly trampled by a herd of elephants
By Robert F. Jones
Leavitt
From his 40th-floor office-apartment prickly Alan Leavitt pieces together the biggest deals in harness racing
By Douglas S. Looney
Baseball
Back on the comeback trail again
Fergie Jenkins was considered washed up, but now he's cleaning up in Texas
By E. M. Swift
By Herman Weiskopf
Golf
And hurry up Jim did, to clinch Nicklaus' Memorial with a hairy putt on the last hole. What the tournament needs now is parking lots that will not turn into gumbo
By Dan Jenkins
Pro Basketball
Nothing. The Bullets' coach is—for him—serene as the NBA finals open
By John Papanek
Rowing
Coast-to-coast action established that Washington was No. 1 in the West and in the nation, with the East a shambles. The Elis beat Harvard but lost to Dartmouth
By Dan Levin
Tennis
An All-America in basketball and tennis, John Lucas is now both NBA and WTT
Vilas
Introspective, articulate, exceedingly sensitive, Guillermo Vilas of Argentina is a world apart from compeers Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg
For The Record
A roundup of the week May 15-21
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood