May 27, 1963 | Volume 18, Issue 21

APROPOS

•Birdie Tebbetts, Cleveland manager, when asked how long he intends to stick with his large crop of rookies: "If patience is a virtue, we will be a very virtuous club."

Overtaking the front runners when called upon, then repelling the late closers with a majestic drive in the stretch, California's Candy Spots shows in the Preakness the power and heart of a champion

When all his now-fabulous records are broken, as they surely will be someday, when the story of his personal tragedy is no more than an occasional recollection in the mind of an aging generation,...

The agonized figure at right, looking like Frankenstein's monster rising from a watery crypt, is really a half-frozen canoe slalom champion named Bill Bickham, thrashing his way down the 40°...

Bob Charles, a slender and solemn pro, comes up from New Zealand to strike a blow for left-handers

Roger Maris, too human to act good like a hero should, has turned into the fans' favorite villain instead

Conservationists have cleared the polluted Delaware River, and one of our best 'fishing fish' is once again free to roam in and out of it

Paced by a couple of challengers from other nations, Americans were rowing against each other on a California creek and a Massachusetts lake, but their minds were on a finish line that lies across...

Harry Fishbein, the dean of the May fair Bridge Club on West 57th Street in New York City, is as colorful as any of his hundred and one different berets and as unorthodox as his custom of wearing...

Most weekend players find the occasional sidehill lie with the ball below the feet as threatening as if it were a hissing snake. It is a nasty shot, to be sure, but the first thing to overcome is...

In a few years, if all goes according to plan, southwestern hunters will be stalking exotic animals that few people have even heard of

"Hey, Notty," yelled the Phillies' Wes Covington last Saturday, "I hear you went to the bank this morning." Indeed, Donald Edward Nottebart had gone to the bank—to deposit a $1,000 check awarded...

BASKETBALL—After 17 years in Syracuse, the NATIONALS were sold for $500,000 to a Philadelphia business syndicate. The Nats, who finished second behind Boston in the Eastern Division, lost more...

28—Shel Hershorn-Black Star53—Bob Peterson57—Dr. Frank Hibben62, 63—Phil Bath64—Neil Leifer75—Phil Bath77—right, Phil Bath78—Las Vegas Sun, Fred J. Griffith-Memphis Commercial Appeal, AP (2)

Audrey MacLeod, 11, locally famous as a "real holler guy" in Nevada baseball circles, is the first girl member of her Mayfair school sixth-grade team. The youngster, who gave up ballet for...

WALT'S FAULTSSirs:Your article, The Trouble with Walter (May 13), was excellent. I think the Dodger fans are mad at Alston because our Giants beat him last year. The Dodgers blew the pennant, and...

In one of those generalities dismal enough to be true we are often told that to become a champion in certain sports it is important to get off to an early start. The generalizers argue that as the...