July 3, 1978 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
MERION'S FORMER PRESIDENT WRITES A GRACEFUL HISTORY OF AN INSTITUTION
World Cup
Playing with consuming passion before an ardent crowd, Argentina outlasted Holland to win its first World Cup 3-1 in overtime
By Clive Gammon
Up In Arms
SUDDENLY THEY'RE UP IN ARMS IN BOSTON
With four starters who have overcome the horrors of pitching in Fenway, the Red Sox have blasted ahead in the American League East
By Larry Keith
Oklahoma State
DEEP IN HOT WATER IN STILLWATER
Already on NCAA probation for football recruiting violations, Oklahoma State now must answer accusations that many Cowboy players have been getting paid out of a slush fund provided by a booster club
By Douglas S. Looney
Wilkins And Feuerbach
In their mountain greenery home, two crazy people together—shotputter Al Feuerbach and discus thrower Mac Wilkins—train amidst the scenery
By Joe Marshall
Rambling Willie
He was lazy, ugly, ill-bred and hadn't paced so good, but the Farringtons took a flyer on Rambling Willie—and he's won $1.1 million
By Douglas S. Looney
Baseball
Though a .296 hitter, Garry Maddox of the Phillies prefers fielding to batting
By Larry Keith
By Herman Weiskopf
Racquetball
Marty Hogan, famed as the best player never to win the national championship, had run out of excuses when he took the court for his fourth try at the title
By Jim Kaplan
Horse Racing
Sixteen is sweet for Ronnie Hirdes, who is inviting the inevitable comparisons
Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton, the former World Series hero, best selling author and TV star, is back pitching in Double A. At 39 years old, he has junked his other careers to knuckleball his guts out in the game that he loves
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 19-25
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Robert H. Boyle