August 07, 1967 | Volume 27, Issue 6

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's .

The saints of New Orleans march into pro football with more talent than any previous expansion club. Tex Maule reports on the NFL's newest and—so far—luckiest franchise.

There are some who will tell you flatly that Herbie Scharfman, who took the pictures on pages 14 and 18 of this issue, is the greatest sports photographer in the whole world, including New York's...

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Club recently decided to present rings to all the living members of the Hall of Fame. The contract went to the L.G. Balfour jewelry firm, and it seemed to present no...

The sporting world had nearly forgotten the Belmont family until August IV (below) popped up with a champion retriever named Supy

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Around the National League, Gene Mauch, the volatile manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, has a reputation for baiting opposing players with a steady flow of unprintable verbiage that is designed...

4—Herb Scharfman14—Herb Scharfman15-17—Walter Iooss Jr.18—Herb Scharfman21, 22—James Drake24, 25—Eric Schweikardt26-29—Fred Kaplan-Black Star39—Roy De Carava42, 43—Neils Lauritzen-Milwaukee...

Mrs. Jean Clarkson, a Yorkshire, England housewife who had not handled a rifle until her husband taught her seven years ago, outpointed 744 of Britain's finest shots (including her husband, Harry)...

ARCHERY—The U.S. defeated Sweden 6,816 to 6,726 for the men's team title at the four-day World Archery Championships in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, as RAY ROGERS, a Cherokee Indian from Muskogee,...

FRAN'S FANSSirs:New York doesn't deserve Fran Tarkenton (Quarterback on the Run, July 17 et seq.). Giant fans booed Charlie Conerly and Y.A. Tittle. So I bet that Tarkenton, despite his great...

RETURN OF THE RACERS

•Ed Kirkpatrick, on being notified that he was being sent to Jacksonville by the California Angels after having been recalled from Seattle just nine days before: "Somebody else had better tell my...

The early days of aviation come alive in a museum 10 miles outside Paris

As Annie Oakley said, a girl can't get a man with a gun. But if she already has the man and he already has a gun, the least a girl can do is get one for herself and learn how to shoot it