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September 10, 1979 Table Of Contents

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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

OH, NO, NOT AGAIN!

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

By Paul Zimmerman

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

RUNNING FOR THE VOTE

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

THE BEASTLY DAYS OF AUTUMN

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

THE TOP 20

CONFERENCES

INDEPENDENTS

SMALL COLLEGES

Golf

He bit the hand that fed him

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

By Barry McDermott

Baseball

Gorman is always stormin'

Milwaukee's colorful Gorman Thomas is a hit, even when he misses. He's a league leader in homers and whiffs

By Anthony Cotton

THE WEEK (Aug. 26-Sept. 1)

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

By Coles Phinizy

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

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Kelso F. Sutton

SCORECARD

Edited by Myra Gelband

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD