September 10, 1979 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
TWO CONTRASTING VOLUMES PORTRAY TENNIS LONG PAST AND TENNIS TODAY
By Frank Deford
Footloose
FOR TROUT TRY PATAGONIA, BUT FOR SCHLOCK, CROTON RESERVOIR IS TOPS
By Robert F. Jones
Bert Jones
Baltimore's stock dropped when Quarterback Bert Jones, who was sidelined for most of the 1978 season, suffered yet another injury to his right shoulder in the Colts' loss to Kansas City
IT WAS AN AFTERNOON BEFITTING A LEGEND
Though it's unclear where future Hambletonians will be held, Legend Hanover left no doubt who was the best horse this year
By Douglas S. Looney
K.C. TAKES OFF ON WILLIE'S WINGS
Last year critics ran down mercurial Royal Willie Wilson. Now he's running wild as he leads Kansas City on its annual late-season surge
By Jim Kaplan
Cosmos
IT WAS A CATACLYSM OF COSMIC PROPORTION
The lofty and arrogant Cosmos got their comeuppance at last, penalized by the league and vanquished by Vancouver
By Clive Gammon
College Football '79
The race is on: the incumbent, Oklahoma's Billy Sims, who won the 1978 Heisman, vs. the worthy opponent, Charles White, a superb campaigner backed by the No. 1 USC machine
By John Papanek
Pageantry in pro football is an end zone full of Suzanne Somers look-alike contest winners breathing deeply for the TV cameras. In college football it is the people in the stadium who get their breath taken away when an animal mascot—like Colorado's buffalo, Ralphie—takes the field
By Douglas S. Looney
Golf
At the behest of his friend John Cook, Mark O'Meara came to Ohio to qualify for the U.S. Amateur and stay at Cook's condo. So guess who beat whom in the finals
Baseball
Milwaukee's colorful Gorman Thomas is a hit, even when he misses. He's a league leader in homers and whiffs
By Steve Wulf
Rockne
WE KNOW OF KNUTE, YET KNOW HIM NOT
Fact: the real Knute Rockne was the most successful of football coaches. Fancy: the Rockne of books and film was largely myth
Yesterday
THIS ANGLER CAUGHT A FISH SO LARGE THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO LIE ABOUT IT
By Byron Rogers
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 27-Sept. 2
Compiled by Roger Jackson
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Myra Gelband