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March 21, 1966 | Volume 24, Issue 12

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Gary Player Cover - Sports Illustrated March 21, 1966

March 21, 1966 | Mervin Hyman
THE NCAAThe NCAA tournament was down to four teams. KENTUCKY, DUKE, TEXAS WESTERN and UTAH will gather in College Park, Md. next weekend to decide the national championship (page 22). In games...

March 21, 1966
BASKETBALL—NBA: With only a week remaining, PHILADELPHIA (52-25) boosted its Eastern Division lead to a full game over the Celtics by winning four to make it eight in a row for the fast-finishing...

March 21, 1966
4—Herb Scharfman23—James Drake24, 25—Art Shay, Rich Clarkson, Larry Sharkey-Los Angeles Times27—Bill Eppridge-LIFE28—Balterman & Shay31—Dave Gahr-TIME43—Lynn Pelham from...

March 21, 1966
Dave Jones, Who as football, softball and track coach of elementary school teams in Abilene, Texas, has won 15 out of 20 titles since 1960, completed his fifth straight undefeated season (61...

March 21, 1966
THE HARD WAYSirs:I've just read your article on Jimmy Jacobs (Really the Greatest, March 7). Good luck to the Boy Wonder in his fight against Mr. Emotion. May his control system ever triumph over...

March 21, 1966 | Frank Deford
In the battle for the national basketball championship only Duke, Kentucky, Utah and Texas Western survive. If last week's pattern is confirmed, the final round at College Park will be the hottest...

March 21, 1966 | Martin Kane
After losing out because of an injury last year, after a season-long buildup this year, and after weeks of near misses, heightening pressure and agonizing frustration, Bobby Hull finally broke the...

March 21, 1966
An invasion of vermont by French, Austrian, Swiss and Canadian skiers will make the national Alpine championships the biggest U.S. international ski meet since Squaw Valley.

March 21, 1966 | Dan Jenkins
When the NCAA tries to raise the academic standards of athletes one group, the Ivy League, protests, 'Who needs it?' The result is a stormy controversy in which the Ivies, says the author, are wrong

March 21, 1966 | Gary Player

March 21, 1966 | Garry Valk
It took only a part of a second to snap the photographs that appear on pages 27 and 28 of this issue, and a few hours to write the words that describe the moment our cameras were awaiting. Yet,...

March 21, 1966 | Jack Mann

March 21, 1966 | Coles Phinizy

March 21, 1966 | Robert H. Boyle
Within the past few years there has been a great rise in public concern over the destruction of the American environment, and the word conservation, popular in Theodore Roosevelt's time, is again...

March 21, 1966 | Charles Goren
Bridge bidding is, of course, a conversation. You are trying to tell me what is in your hand, I am trying to tell you what is in mine, and as the talk gets more explicit we both wish we could have...

March 21, 1966
With the basketball team losing three-fourths of its games, it had been a long, bleak winter. But as spring made slowly for Wahoo, Neb., Athletic Director and All-purpose Coach Bob Cerv of tiny,...

March 21, 1966 | Mario G. Menocal
A lot of money went into the Calcutta pool for the world championship of live-pigeon shooting last month in Mexico City, but only $40 of it bought the winner, who shot a perfect match and killed...

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MR. FITZ

March 21, 1966
•Casey Stengel, after sizing up the Mets' best pitcher in spring training camp: "Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing."

March 21, 1966 | Herman Weiskopf

March 21, 1966 | Jack Tobin
After nearly 40 years as a jockey, during which he won a record 6,032 races, the grandfather retired from competition. But not before he gave the fans at Santa Anita a last ride that defeated the...

March 21, 1966 | Joe Jares

March 21, 1966 | M. R. Werner
New Orleans, a city with a history dating from 1718, is divided between those who want to cherish the distinguished pas and those eager to profit by an exuberant future. Men willing to gamble on...

March 21, 1966 | Frank Graham Jr.
It occurred to me only afterward that my boyhood interest in sports was something special. Many of my classmates knew as much about the spectator sports as I did, but their interest was pure and...