August 24, 1981 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A GUTSY HISTORY OF STOCK CARS AND THE MEN WHOSE LIFE IS RACING THEM
By Bob Ottum
Pat Haden
After five very frustrating and contentious years, Pat Haden is posilutely, absotively the Rams' starting quarterback
By Bruce Newman
Fast Women
SOME FAST WOMEN, BUT FEW FREE MEN
While Mary T. Meagher, who set two world records in the butterfly, and other ladies excelled at the U.S. long course championships, there was a serious drought in the male freestyle events
By Craig Neff
The Royals
A SECOND CHANCE FOR LAST YEAR'S CHAMP
Because of its early-season nose dive, Kansas City could benefit the most from baseball's split-season format
By Steve Wulf
The Morrises
The Morris brothers of Ayer, Mass. are perhaps the most spectacular quartet of siblings who ever laced up football cleats and track spikes
By Douglas S. Looney
Dean Chenoweth
That could be the motto of Dean Chenoweth, unlimited hydroplane champion and a man with unlimited courage
Baseball
For an All-Star, Joel Youngblood of the Mets spends a lot of time on the bench
Horse Racing
History repeated itself at Saratoga as a 24-1 shot, Willow Hour, held off Pleasant Colony to win a soggy Travers
Gaylord Perry
At week's end, Atlanta's Gaylord Perry needed five more wins to become the first pitcher in 18 years to reach 300
By Ron Fimrite
On The Scene
HERE A PEGASUS, THERE A MISS PIGGY AT THIS ANNUAL SAND CASTLE CONTEST
By Joan Ackermann-Blount
For The Record
A roundup of the week Aug. 10-16
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum