September 16, 1968 | Volume 29, Issue 12

One of the goals of a walk through the English countryside is a pint of bitter in a country pub, which may explain why walking is still a very popular pastime there. Turn Left at the Pub (David...

Richard Foster may seem eccentric—spending a fortune just to have a house that twirls in the Connecticut countryside. But spinning off his prototype are some revolutionary ideas for leisure houses...

In a smashing show—a record-smashing show—at the Olympic trials, America's swimmers radiated an extravagant potential for gold medals

NATIONAL LEAGUE

As Baltimore lefthander Dave McNally was finishing his warm-ups to Catcher Andy Etchebarren one day during spring training this year, he jokingly yelled, "Short curve, Andy," and threw a ball that...

BOATING—BILLY SCHUMACHER drove Miss Bardahl to three successive heat victories as he successfully defended his Gold Cup Championship at Detroit. The first two heats were runaways but the third was...

4—Tony Triolo27—S. Trapnell, Richard Meek28—Richard Meek31—Lynn Pelham-Rapho Guillumette32—Sheedy & Long33—Fred Kaplan-Black Star, Tony Tomsic50—Richard Meek53—Vernon J. Biever54—Tony...

Babette Ehemann, 17-year-old Memphis diver, won the Women's Junior National AAA Diving Championship at Memphis, totaling 397.10 points, some 86 more than second-place Pam Drenning. She had won the...

KICKOFFSirs:My congratulations to Tex Maule and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED for the article By Any Other Name...(Sept. 2). It gives new hope for the Packers, and I am sure they will be the champs again....

A WORD FOR THE BETTER

•Bud Wilkinson, former Oklahoma coach, giving one reason for college football's economic problem: "No prospect is more than 4½ hours from your campus by jet today, and the trend is to go after the...

The first U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills were disastrous for the professionals, but for the winner, America's Arthur Ashe, they proved that he has finally become one of the world's...

Phony Grass gets its first outdoor test in big-time college football as Tennessee meets Georgia in an opener that will tell much about the SEC and tomorrow's playing fields.

Two weeks ago Leo Fraser, secretary of the PGA, added to the friction between his organization and the touring pros by making a bitter personal assault on the author. What follows is a reply to...

In 92 years of major league baseball no player has ever won a batting title with an average of less than .300. Now Carl Yastrzemski (left), with a stirring late-season drive, is in danger of...

The question is not so much what promotion maestro Murry Woroner started when he turned computerized boxers into the best-selling radio show in years, but rather: where is it all going to end?

When Elisabeth Krautter was a second-grader in Winnetka, Ill. she didn't play house with her friends or dream about growing up to become Miss America. Northwestern University was just down the...

Professional football, approaching its 50th year on the American sports scene, has reached early middle age in enviable condition. In 1968 it appears sound, solvent and secure. More than three...

CAPITOL DIVISIONDallas

WESTERN DIVISIONOakland

West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's real sport is hiking, but happily for one German spaniel he is also a sometime sailor. While Kiesinger was vacationing in Bavaria he ventured out, in bad...

Jimmy Ellis, the man nobody believes in, fights Floyd Patterson, the man everyone thinks is through, the winner's prize being a new image

To anyone who owned a 2-year-old that didn't already pull a wagon for a living, the Futurity at Arlington Park last Saturday had to look like the greatest race in the world—and winning it was...

At a Los Alamos, N. Mex. brainstorming session one afternoon the atomic scientists decided that it would be stimulating to sharpen their theoretical tools on a topic old and simple, like the bow...

A 19th century Scotsman named John Macgregor turned the workaday craft of the Indians into a boat for the sportsman