August 29, 1966 | Volume 25, Issue 9

HORSE SENSE

•Bob Devaney, Nebraska football coach, objecting to the NCAA's 1.6 rule, which says, in effect, that a student must have a C-average to be eligible for an athletic scholarship: "It's not the...

An AFL plot to sign top NFL quarterbacks at any cost, secret until now, nearly wrecked the pro-football merger and made the nervy 49er star a millionaire

Don Drysdale was having a bad year and Dodger brass was critical. Result: a quick summer squabble and a revived Drysdale

Fifty-eight-pound Beth Ralston of Bay Village, Ohio steamed around 36 holes of the Rio Pinar Country Club last week in 219 strokes to take second place in the 20th Annual Pee Wee Golf Tournament...

For the first time Bryant describes in detail the personal pain and horror of the celebrated case in which he was accused of conspiring with Georgia's Wally Butts to fix a football game.

The zany pirates are aiming at the pennant. If they win it, reports Jack Mann, nobody will be sure if it was because of or in spite of their controversial manager, Harry Walker.

The way he strikes Edwin (Bud) Shrake, one of our associate editors, John Riley Brodie, the San Francisco 49er quarterback, has the assurance of a man who "not only has more money than you but is...

NO TENNIS TRAITORS ALLOWED

As a racial symbol Arthur Ashe sometimes has trouble keeping a straight face. On the tennis court, only lack of concentration stands between him and greatness

Frequently on the pro tour, including places like Pebble Beach in California and Augusta National in Georgia, we encounter bunkers filled with a type of sand that is unusually white, quite pretty...

As he equaled and broke records in the Travers, Buckpasser's feats were avidly reported, but he also won a far less publicized side bet

Arriving in the major leagues by a circuitous route just before the All-Star break, young Jim Nash won his first seven games for the Athletics and has added to the growing interest in a changing...

In the last days before The Hambletonian, Frank Ervin and Kerry Way take the spotlight after their two sparkling performances at Springfield

BOXING—JOSE TORRES, 30, a Puerto Rican now living in Brooklyn, retained his world light-heavyweight title when he gained a unanimous decision over sentimental favorite, but 7-2 underdog, Eddie...

4—Shel Hershorn-Black Star16—Fred Kaplan19—Curt Gunther21, 26—John G. Zimmerman22—Sheedy & long36—The Birmingham News37, 38—UPI41, 46—Hans Knopf-Pix60—Herb Scharfman62—Robert A....

Charlotte Janke, a Winlock, Wash. housewife, whose husband was eliminated early from the lumberjack championships in Hayward, Wis., look her third women's world logrolling title (she won in 1964...

If your entry has just been accepted for Forest Hills or if you're planning to play at Wimbledon in 1967, two recently published tennis instructional manuals are not for you. But for the rest of...

NATIONAL LEAGUE

How careless can a guy get? St. Louis' 22-year-old rookie left-hander, Larry Jaster, tipped off all his pitches when he faced Los Angeles last week, yet emerged with a 4-0 victory—his fourth...

BEARSirs:The first article of your series by Alabama Football Coach Bear Bryant, I'll Tell You About Football (Aug. 15 et seq.), is simply great. This is no ordinary sports story. It is one of the...