October 03, 1966 | Volume 25, Issue 14

AMERICAN LEAGUE

What makes a major league pitcher? Well, Pat Jarvis started the season by falling off a car during a parade welcoming ballplayers to Richmond, Va. before opening day. He injured his neck, not...

4—Walter Rubey24—Herb Scharfman25—Leviton-Atlanta26, 27—Don Getsug from Rapho-Guillumette32, 33—Tony Triolo34, 35—Roy De Carava36—Sheedy & Long56—Herb Scharfman71—Ron Bennett-Oregon Journal,...

Scott Mayes, a Lexington, Ky. 6-year-old, went undefeated in six races in his first year of competitive swimming as he finished the season with a record-breaking 16-second win in the 25-yard boys'...

BOATING—WILDWIND, a 32-foot Class D catamaran, took the first world championship regatta for multihulls without meeting a competitor of her own size or speed, off Kings Point, N.Y. (page 32).

LES MISERABLESSirs:Thank you for an excellent article on the front-running L.A. Dodgers (Painful Search for a Pennant, Sept. 19). It's about time someone cleared up the mysteries surrounding the...

HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE

•Reggie Harding, Negro basketball player, after signing with the Detroit Pistons for $15,000: "They can talk about black power and white power. I believe in green power: money, man, money."

It was a runaway one day, a pennant race again the next. When John Roseboro of the Dodgers was greeted by ecstatic teammates after his home run climaxed a doubleheader win, Los Angeles had the...

Next week, in one National League city or another, the 63rd World Series begins and, contrary to what you might have heard lately, the Baltimore Orioles are going to show up for it. Las Vegas says...

Baltimore, an aging city, is host to baseball's World Series for the first time. For the occasion, Mark Kram takes a candid but fiercely sentimental look at his old home town.

If the first world multihull championships proved anything (which is doubtful), it is that sailboats with a lot of hulls move faster and get wrecked much quicker than any other kind

When five Brooklyn families pooled a few thousand dollars to start a harness-racing stable they thought it might make a nice hobby, but they never dreamed of winning the Little Brown Jug with a $2...

On page 84 of this issue begins a story called The Last of the Mountain Men, a fascinating and somehow reassuring account of a man named Sylvan Hart, who for 34 years has lived alone in the...

I"ll never forget what happened when I went to church after my first game here," says Dick Riendeau, coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y. "We had lost 22-0, but people kept...

THE MIDWEST

THE BACK: Virginia's gifted Quarterback Bob Davis set an ACC record by completing 26 passes for 316 yards. He ran for three touchdowns and passed for two others as the defenseless Cavaliers lost...

It is bad enough when the big one gets away, but it is really more than any man should have to bear to have somebody else land the same fish less than three minutes later. Fishing the Deschutes...

Spunky Joe Frazier came off the canvas and beat Heavyweight Ringo Bonavena, but even his Cloverlay backers saw room for improvement

Big money and an outlandish car are enlivening a new racing series

Startling as the thought may be, practice does not make you a good putter. What I mean is that you cannot become a good putter by going out on the practice green every day and hitting a hundred...

For the past 34 years a 20th-century frontiersman named Sylvan Hart has lived an 18th-century life in the wilderness of Idaho

There are many monuments to James L. Clark in many cities of the U.S., but the greatest of them is in New York, in that endlessly fascinating, labyrinthine storehouse of the world of nature, the...