May 23, 1966 | Volume 24, Issue 21

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Fred Valentine of Washington gets a lot of kicks Out of playing a card game called pluck, which he says "is a lot like bridge and whist. We play it most usually in the clubhouse." In a sense,...

THE BIG EYESirs:It seems to me that the "insidious kind of salesmanship" against which ABC's Roone Arledge is preaching (It's Sport, It's Money, It's TV, April 25) has crept into his own article....

The recollections of Colonel Russell Reeder in Born at Reveille (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, $5.95) begin in 1909 at Fort Worden, a small post on the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, commanding...

TIME FOR SEVERITY

•Jim Lefebvre, Dodger infielder, after hitting a home run from each side of the plate in a game against Cincinnati: "I was feeling pretty good about it until somebody told me if I do it nine more...

The heavyweight and light heavyweight titles go on the line. From London, Edwin Shrake on the Clay-Cooper fight and from New York, Torres-Thornton by Mark Kram.

Hitting is its muscle, pitching is its blood, but there is more than that to the anatomy of a winning streak. The tide was with the San Francisco Giants; they couldn't relax, but they enjoyed the...

In the Indy trials, the new boy in town spooked veterans with sensational warmup speeds and then easily won the 500 pole

When SPORTS ILLUSTRATED first began visiting Africa 12 years ago, safaris and simian chest thumpings provided our principal material. It was not until 1963 that we went to Africa to cover a major...

BENEATH THE MECHANICAL PERFECTION OF THE TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE—THE ALTERNATE EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION OF THE HURDLER'S LEGS AS HIS BODY FLOWS ACROSS THE BARRIERS, THE TIMED EXPLOSION OF THE...

Jim Ryun, the 19-year-old Kansan, ran a remarkable two miles last week. He had to to outshine some equally talented contemporaries

Gene Selznick's Sand & Sea Club dominated the nationals

Cassius Clay is in rare form for his title bout and Anglo-American relations are superb, but there is a problem: bleedin' 'Enry Cooper

4—Gerry Cranham26-28—Jerry Cooke31—Herb Scharfman32, 33—James Drake34, 35—Tony Triolo40-45—Tony Tomsic57—Duncan Barnes69—Jerry Cooke72—Walter Iooss Jr.82-86—Gerry Cranham99—Joe Laird-Dallas...

David Mullen, an 11-year-old who plays shortstop and doubles as a pitcher for the Washington Township (N.J.) Little League's Twins, hit a single, a double, a triple and a home run with the bases...

BOXING—Italy's NINO BENVENUTI won his 185th straight bout (120 amateur, 65 professional) and retained his European middleweight championship when he scored a TKO over West Germany's Jupp Elze in...

Prince Rainier of Monaco has a Riva boat, and so does Gamal Abdel Nasser. President Bourguiba of Tunisia has one, and so do the Sheiks of Kuwait and Qatar, the Shah of Iran and Brigitte Bardot....

A trout fisherman should never look into a mirror. If he does, his ego will collapse like a pair of empty waders. Here he is, a full-grown man dressed like a deep-sea diver, with a ridiculous...