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Pro Basketball Starts on the road to eventual merger with its first interleague play. Champion Milwaukee meets Dallas and Baltimore takes on Kentucky in exhibition games.

Sonny Sixkiller, the Cherokee who throws bullets for the University of Washington, enjoys his celebrity but has one word for the Indian-oriented publicity he is attracting. Ugh.

Not bragging or anything, but Walter Bingham had the makings of a golf champion. All he needed was a few lessons and practice. The tale of his, uh, crash course.