June 27, 1966 | Volume 24, Issue 26

FALSE ECONOMY

•Shelby Metcalf, Texas A&M basketball coach, on next season's prospects: "We'll be small but nobody will notice because we'll overshadow that with our poor shooting and lack of speed and...

By sweeping the first three places the sumptuously financed Americans ended Ferrari's long domination of Europe's foremost automobile race, but true to Le Mans tradition there was a brouhaha at...

The fastest mile in history may be run by Jim Ryun at the AAU championships in New York. A report in text and color on the meet that will select the team to oppose Russia.

"I have the only father," said Karen Mann, age 15, "who just for kicks pokes through a whole encyclopedia to find guys who bat right-handed but throw left-handed." Her mother was more to the...

Uh, if it's not too personal, what went wrong in that race for the Senate back in '64? reporters gingerly asked ex-Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson as he passed through Abington, Pa. on a mission for...

Maury Wills was quoting Carlyle, and another classicist named Koufax was adding to his own reputation. The Dodgers had a long way to go, but they beat the Giants twice and still had their eyes on...

Sumner A. (Huey) Long of Larchmont, N.Y., the kingfish of the international ocean racing circuit, is off this week on his seventh try for a victory in the Newport-Bermuda race. Long, in his...

Record sprinter Tommie Smith proved too delicate an instrument for the hard task he and his coach set for him in the NCAA championships

Thanks, they claim, to a Mohawk haircut on Oar No. 10, Wisconsin's Badgers beat everybody at the IRA

22, 23—Walter Iooss Jr.24, 25—Leo Neibauer, James Drake (2)26, 27—James Drake28, 29—Gerry Cranham30—Tony Triolo36, 37—Herb Scharfman57—Keystone, AP58—Herb Scharfman62—William Kennedy65—Rich...

Captain Albert Sydney Kelley, 71, a riverboat pilot since 1916 steered the Delta Queen of Cincinnati to her third victory in four years over the Belle of Louisville in their annual race on the...

BASEBALL—OHIO STATE defeated Oklahoma Slate 8-2 in the finals to win its first NCAA championship in Omaha. Named outstanding player of the College World Series was the Buckeyes' STEVE ARLIN, who...

NATIONAL LEAGUE

When Gaylord Perry signed with the San Francisco Giants for a $90,000 bonus in 1958, he was regarded as a certain winner. "His fast ball is already major league speed," said Giant Scout Tim...

QUAKER GOLFSirs:Thank you very much for the finest golf tournament preview I have ever seen in print (U.S. Open, June 13). The models of the holes in Quake Corner and Ken Venturi's lucid analysis...

Eugene Fodor, world traveler, has come home. For 30 years he has been shepherding Americans through the wilds of Nepal, the souks of Morocco and the lost cities of Cambodia. Now he has edited...