August 24, 1970 | Volume 33, Issue 8

<i>Arnold Palmer made another run at the PGA title last week, but Dave Stockton's cool head and sure putting carried the day in a tournament that regained some of its class at Southern Hills</i>

The former NBA star Rick Barry, now under contract to the ABA Virginia Squires, is avid to jump back to San Francisco

<i>Locked in battle for the American League batting title, Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Oliva put on a stunning display in Boston that all but overshadowed the surprising nose dive by the...

His ears plugged and muffled, the Futurity favorite, Marlu Pride, did not hear the moans of his backers when his bit broke and he went off stride at Yonkers

<b>As a coach who doubled as a mother, Mary Job made her four kids do laps and laps and laps and sleep and sleep and sleep until each one of them became a champion</b>

Of all the words associated with auto racing, probably none roll off the tongue more richly than these two: Grand Prix. They suggest heroic cars (Bugatti, Mercedes, Ferrari) and epic drivers...

There is a lot of talk around the University of Kentucky about building a new 28,000-seat basketball arena, and what nobler sentiment than to name it after Adolph Rupp? Still, when someone...

The Hawaiian Islanders are a touch of Old Shoe and Old Mainland. The best buy in Honolulu, these minor leagues draw with the bigs

AL EAST

For centuries the British have been secure in the knowledge that foreigners were at an instant disadvantage in any business transactions with them. Sheltered behind a system of weights, measures...

<b>With the slump on Wall Street, some speculators are gambling in thoroughbred bloodstock, figuring that racehorses can be profitable</b>

Choke artists or victims of fickle fate, Dallas has blown four NFL playoff games. Analyst Tex Maule puts the Cowboys on the couch as they meet their nemesis, Green Bay.

<i>That's where the man said the fish were. Well, if not there, try way upstream. Or the Deer Lakes or the hatchery. Or Waterdog Lake. Will our dauntless angler ever unravel the secret of the...

The assertion that ours is a mobile society is one that is not borne out by this week's cover subject, Rick Barry—nor by a small but persistent minority of athletes who, when it comes to moving,...

BOATING—New York's BILL WISHNICK, 45, bounced his 32-foot Boss O'Nova at an average 62.2 mph over the 187.8-mile ocean course off Long Beach, Calif., winning the Hennessy Cup, his fourth victory...

16, 17—Fred Kaplan-Black Star22—Herb Scharfman23—H. Lane Stewart24-26—Lee Balterman27—Sheedy & Long40—Sheedy & Long48—Stephen Green-Armytage60—Greg Andruskevich, Stephany Photography, Jim...

Mel Briggs, of Nashua, N.H., won the high jump, the 220-yard dash and 180 low hurdles to lead his Nashua High School team to its seventh consecutive state track championship, earning the Athlete...

BELL, BOOK AND BOO-BOOSirs:The article by William Reed (He Whistles While He Works, Aug. 10) about Tommy Bell, the NFL football referee and his crew of Graf, Kelleher, Jorgensen, Toler and Harder...

<b>THE SOME-STAR GAME</b>

•Bill Cassidy, University of Dayton assistant basketball coach, after recruiting the school's second set of identical twins in three years: "It's easier to recruit twins—you only have to visit one...