March 14, 1966 | Volume 24, Issue 11

Jerry Quarry, a young man with a lot to learn about fighting, passed an early test last week when he drew with wily Tony Alongi and showed ringsiders he might eventually become the successor to Clay

For the past 43 years Nat Fleischer, the editor of Ring Magazine, has published prizefighting's most authoritative ratings. Here is his assessment of the future for the emerging group of young...

Stay out of the trees and trouble if you want to score well in golf. U.S. Open Champion Gary Player discloses his method of hitting the ball right down the middle.

Basketball fans all over the country—always an excitable lot anyway—are busy this week buying or searching for tickets, automatically yelling at anything in vertical stripes, hotly debating among...

It is fact-facing time at Vero Beach. Short days ago it was a bright new spring on the Los Angeles Dodgers' proving grounds behind the old Navy barracks, and all things seemed possible. For a...

The suite named after the Minnesota Twins in the Hotel Leamington in Minneapolis looks pretty much like the suite named after the Minnesota Vikings in the same hotel, but the tab is slightly...

One excuse that you do not hear for a poor golf shot is: "I didn't use enough right foot that time." Well, it may surprise you, but the neglected right foot could very well rate at the top of the...

Ken Harrelson of the Athletics told everyone he would win the baseball players' golf tournament in Miami, and he did—just as he has been beating people at the game of their choice for most of his...

The presence of Bill Bradley drew 500 spectators to the Oxford-Cambridge varsity match last week, but the important thing was the postgame party

If the game were only basketball, the halls of Galileo High in San Francisco would be overflowing with all of the scouts who have had little to do since Lew Alcindor decided to go to UCLA. The...

WHITHER THE FIGHT?

•The Celtics' Bill Russell, sporting a lace-front shirt: "You have to be six ten and weigh 220 to get away with it."

For most teams the season was over and done with. But 37 major colleges—including new conference champions Duke, Michigan, Rhode Island, Southern Methodist, Oregon State, Utah and Pacific—and 40...

BASKETBALL—NBA: PHILADELPHIA (48-25) charged into first place in the Eastern Division, half a game ahead of the Celtics, with only two weeks left in the season. The 76ers started the week with a...

16—Neil Leifer18, 19—Rich Clarkson20, 22—Herb Scharfman23—Wil Blanche24, 25—Jerry Cooke, Joe Consentino (2)26—Sheedy & Long31—Jerry Cooke34—Stuart Smith58—UPI63—Walter Iooss Jr.66, 67—Gerry...

Jim Otte, 8, of the Buckeye Blue Dolphin swim team in Columbus, Ohio, won the 25-yard freestyle (17.1) and backstroke (20.0) and swam on the winning 100-yard medley and freestyle relay teams at...

HOKY-POKYSirs:Congratulations to Frank Deford on his article, A Pair of Sparklers in Poky (Feb. 21). It's great when you can read about a team that's not always winning.JESS GORDONSchenectady

Forget everything you ever knew about vacation housing. Forget the $50-a-day tab just to put a roof over the heads of the family when you go skiing. Outboard Marine Corporation, a concern that...

A taint still clings to Jockey Johnny Loftus, who rode the great horse, Man o' War, in the only race Big Red ever lost