May 29, 1972 | Volume 36, Issue 22

BASKETBALL—INDIANA gained its second ABA championship in three years, beating the New York Nets 100-99 and 108-105 in the last two games to take the final playoff series four games to two (page 82).

32, 33—Heinz Kluetmeier, Tony Tomsic34—Tony Tomsic35—Heinz Kluetmeier36—Jerry Cooke37—Neil Leifer38—Lane Stewart40, 41—AP, UPI (4), Ron Moscati, Detroit News (2)46—Dick Darcey47—Ron...

Lew Dellegrotti, a senior at Berwick (Pa.) High, combined with, two teammates for a no-hitter, and has tossed a no-hitter and three one-hitters himself. In basketball he established a school...

NEVER ENOUGH OF A GOOD THINGSirs:I really don't understand you guys. You will write four pages on a quick start for the Dodgers, another seven pages on the Masters tournament and even six pages on...

CABLESE

•Earl Weaver, Baltimore Oriole manager, on the team's hitting slump: "We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow."

Derby Winner Riva Ridge flunked the test in the Preakness, and top marks went instead to a colt that had been so outdistanced by his class early in the season that few believed he could make the grade

A long dormant Lake Erie tribe is on the move

500 miles and a million dollars to go, with the fastest field ever all set to roll. From pitside, Robert F. Jones will cover what promises to be a sizzling Memorial Day classic.

If Populism be the mood of the moment, few activities in sport can claim to be more à la mode than powerboating. Any number can play. At present 6.8 million Americans do. For some the lure is...

The story behind this week's big story (page 40) on the mysterious and omnipotent concessions empire founded by the late Louie Jacobs of Buffalo, and now run by his sons, began with a tip from a...

The Broadway Show League has opened its 1972 softball season in Central Park with the usual mixture of high drama and low comedy. One recent game had the cast of Sugar, the hit musical, pitted...

The game has to be fun if you're going to be any good at it," Popeye says. And that's no spinach, particularly if the game you're talking about is baseball. His formula seems to work. In previous...

AL WEST

If beards grow the way the Indy cars go, Gary Bettenhausen will soon become a ripping Van Winkle

Thus was the Cane Pace won, with the favorite dying on the inside

The ABA title was at stake and along came those Nets with a bunch of fierce guards. So enigmatic Indiana played it the hard way

While Richard Nixon was warming the bench at Whittier College in 1933, Red guerrillas 7,500 miles west, in China's Kiangsi Province, were playing at grenade throwing and marksmanship. How they...