August 14, 1972 | Volume 37, Issue 7

Second Baseman Joe Morgan, who steals bases and scores runs—and hits homers, too—could make Cincy a cinch to clinch the National League West—if the Reds find a way to win at home

Until the Fischer-Spassky confrontation most Americans never understood what the rest of the world saw in chess. Since the Reykjavik antics began, however, the game has been enjoying a mini-boom...

Fending off the Orioles, Yankees and Red Sox in the American League East is the task ahead for Detroit and its prize lefthander, Mickey Lolich. Ron Fimrite reports.

Texans have been called Super-Americans and their possessions all manner of names, frequently with a kind of offhand malice aforethought. Now comes Clint Murchison with a spectacular now playpen...

When Clint Murchison Jr. set out at last to build his own football stadium—as any otherwise sane person might elect to do if he had a hundred million dollars or so and owned the world champion...

In his book A Child of the Century, Ben Hecht describes the adventures of a pair of photographic bloodhounds for the old Chicago Evening American. Their job was to obtain hard-to-get pictures of...

One of the lingering mysteries from last month's singlehanded transatlantic yacht race—the unusual difficulties in which aging mariner Sir Francis Chichester found himself—was cleared up last...

AL WEST

There are power hitters who rip into the ball and send it screaming off like a tracer bullet, and then there are others who operate more like a mortar: whump, and the ball climbs 30 or 40 stories...

Gary Player held on to win the PGA championship at Oakland Hills, but that tough old course proved that its teeth are still fierce

It took five matches, but the U.S. beat Spain in the Davis Cup semifinals behind an odd combination of soft lobs by Harold Solomon and the booming game of Stan Smith, who put it all together when...

Fed up with his Colts, Carroll Rosenbloom traded for the Rams

BOXING—DUANE BOBICK, unbeaten in his last 55 fights, earned the heavyweight berth on the U.S. Olympic team when his opponent was disqualified in trials at West Point. TIM DEMENT knocked out Jesse...

5—John D. Hanlon16-20—Heinz Kluetmeier21—John Marmaras23—Neil Leifer30-32—Rich Clarkson44—map by Matthew Greene52—AP58—John D. Hanlon62—Lane Stewart67—Sheedy & Long85—upper left, The Des...

Jennifer Polich, 16, of Des Moines, shot the lowest score in the history of the city's Junior Girls golf tournament a one-over-par 73—en route to a 12-stroke victory. She had previously won the...

THE A'SSirs:As an A's fan, I wish to compliment Ron Fimrite on his fine article (On Tour With "Hair" July 31).

MURDER IN THE CORRAL

•Bill Peterson, Houston Oiler coach, on Houston's preseason game against Dallas: "I'm not surprised that Dallas is starting five nonregulars against us. I know I'd do it if I were in Tom Landry's...