June 26, 1967 | Volume 26, Issue 26

SECRET WEAPON

•Frank Howard, Clemson football coach, on Bear Bryant: "The Bear's always been ahead of us humans. Even when we started the two-platoon system, he was using three platoons: one on offense, one on...

Following his Le Mans triumph, Dan Gurney (left) won even sweeter victory in the Belgian Grand Prix with his star-spangled Eagle car

Showdown time for U.S. trackmen is the annual AAU meet. Pete Axthelm covers the finals in Bakersfield, Calif., where even a Ryun or a Matson must reprove his prowess.

Summer does not stop the Hoosiers' favorite game, nor the boast that they produce the country's best players. Kentucky again took up the challenge and the anticipated war of the big men was only a...

Three years ago, in an effort to defend the America's Cup, a group of U.S. yachtsmen commissioned a boat that was later described as 'the ultimate' in 12-meter design. Now, faced with another...

With Bus Mosbacher (left) at her helm, America's newest 12 made her debut against three older boats. The former skipper of one of them, "American Eagle," discusses the newcomer's performance

A good number of the people who work for us here in New York were born in places like Ojus, Fla., and Kingsville, Texas and Grand Forks, N. Dak., but Senior Editor Robert Creamer is an anomaly. He...

Except for a continuing chronicle of their deeds, there is little left to say about Jim Ryun, Ralph Boston and Tommie Smith, not to mention Randy Matson, Jim Hines and Gerry Lindgren. But what do...

Recently Calvin L. Rampton (below, with paddle), governor of Utah, joined the annual Friendship Cruise, a two-day expedition 110 miles on the Green River to the Colorado River and 86 miles on up...

Butts and beer were taboo on Brigham Young's Mormon campus, which was all to the good. The athletes got down to business fast, and USC, with the fastest gang of them all, ran off with the...

After a lapse of 67 years, Joe Burk's Philadelphia Quakers finally win the race they've always pointed for

Anyone who believes, as I do, that Buckpasser may be the best American-bred horse of the last 30 years will share the general disappointment over his loss to stablemate Poker and to Assagai in...

New York's perennial losers pulled a name out of a hat and came up with Tom Seaver, a $50,000 bonus pitcher who steals bases as well

At the halfway point in its battle against Italy for the Bermuda Bowl early this month the American team was very much in contention—only 3 IMPs behind. But when the team fell 45 IMPs back with...

NOBODY LOVES AN UMPIRE

This article is the first of a two-part series adapted from the book Jocko, written by the recently retired umpire, Jocko Conlan, with Robert Creamer. J. B. Lippincott Co. will publish it this month.

The curious way Jocko became an umpire, a petty punishment by Ford Frick and the reasons why the major league umpires almost went on strike three years ago.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

When National League Umpire Bob Engel, who was helping out last week at the 21st annual College World Series in Omaha, was asked to compare the collegiate players with major-leaguers, he said,...

BASKETBALL—KENTUCKY defeated Indiana 79-67 in the first of a two-game series for the high school All-Star championship, in Indianapolis (page 30).

Charles Burt, a Harding College (Searcy, Ark.) freshman bowler, won the singles title at the NAIA Tournament in Kansas City, Mo. when he averaged 200 pins for 15 games, then rolled a 232 in a...

22-24—Marvin E. Newman28—Billy Francois30, 31—Art Shay32—Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.34—Donald Moss35—Donald Moss, Dave Rosenfeld36—Donald Moss, Wil Blanche, Ray Woolfe Jr.37—Hood Sailmakers,...

MONBOSirs:Leonard Shecter's article on Bill Monbouquette (Humiliation of a Hero, June 12) was simply great. I am the bat boy for the New York Yankees and, after reading about Monbo, I have a warm...