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June 11, 1973 | Volume 38, Issue 23

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Ron Turcotte Cover - Sports Illustrated June 11, 1973

June 11, 1973 | Charles Goren

June 11, 1973 | Pat Jordan

June 11, 1973
BOXING—Argentina's CARLOS MONZON retained his world middleweight crown with a 15-round unanimous decision over Emile Griffith, in Monte Carlo. It was Griffith's second fruitless attempt to regain...

June 11, 1973
Cover design by Donald Moss9—John Iacono30, 31—Bob D'Olivo (3), Herb Scharfman, John Iacono32—Heinz Kluetmeier33—James Drake48—AP49—John Dominis-LIFE50—Robert D. Huntzinger76—Robin Platzer,...

June 11, 1973
Michelle Baker, 14, of Peabody, Mass., out-scored a field of 504 competitors to capture the New England AAU gymnastics championship in the 13-14 age group. Besides the all-around title, she won...

June 11, 1973
Sirs:Thank you for William Leggett's outstanding article (, May 28) on an outstanding athlete, Henry Aaron. As a longtime fan of his, I am sad to hear of the trouble Henry is having. To dislike a...

June 11, 1973 | Edited by Martin Kane
LESSON IN ECONOMICS

June 11, 1973 | Edited by Martin Kane
•Lee Trevino, golfer: "I'm going to win so much this year my caddie will make the top 20 money-winners' list."

June 11, 1973 | Peter Carry

June 11, 1973 | Robert F. Jones

June 11, 1973 | Brock Yates
Nowhere in sport does the lust for sponsor dollars exceed that at Indy, where each car is a speeding outdoor ad display and its driver a multi-labeled sandwich man in Nomex. The constant push of...

June 11, 1973 | Martha Duffy
Meadow Stable's director has had a crash education in racing. Secretariat could now confer on her the ultimate degree

June 11, 1973 | Whitney Tower
When Citation won the last of eight Triple Crowns 25 years ago, he did what was fully expected of him at odds of 1 to 5. Inasmuch as three other colts—Whirlaway, Count Fleet and Assault—had done...

June 11, 1973
Belgian surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) painted in a style calculated to undermine conventional ways of seeing things. "In view of my determination to make the most familiar objects scream...

June 11, 1973 | Sarah Pileggi
At the highest point in Oakmont, Pa., straight up Hulton Road from the banks of the Allegheny River, is a gabled, turn-of-the-century clubhouse ringed with pin oaks that now, in their middle age,...

June 11, 1973 | Dan Jenkins

June 11, 1973
Fight, somebody! Heavyweights Duane Bobick and Jimmy Ellis operate against stiffs, while George Foreman and the rest play cat and mouse. Pat Putnam reports.

June 11, 1973 | Bil Gilbert

June 11, 1973
The only handicap endured by Jeff Beard, longtime athletics administrator at Auburn University, is his golf game itself. After his second round in the Southeastern Conference spring seminar and...

June 11, 1973 | William Leggett
Detroit's John Hiller leads the major leagues in saves—and valor

June 11, 1973 | Mark Mulvoy
AL WEST

June 11, 1973 | Barry McDermott
The village of Las Vegas never has listed enchantment among its tourist attractions, for the city is layered with a tangy sauce of neon, silicone and dollars both green and silver, ornamentation...

June 11, 1973 | John A. Meyers
Staff writer Barry McDermott, whose coverage of the Sealy-Fabergé women's golf tournament in Las Vegas begins on page 84, says he knew he had found a home in journalism on the day he filled out...

June 11, 1973 | Hugh D. Whall
Oozing confidence, Wisconsin's straight-faced Coach Jabbo Jablonic knew he had it made in the IRA long before the final. Sure enough, his big Badgers swept the course and everyone in sight

June 11, 1973 | Herman Weiskopf
We've come a long way since the first Soviet-U.S. sport brouhahas with their intrigue, nyets, flag waving, talk of defections, swarms of security men and—at least sometimes—real contests. The...

June 11, 1973 | Roy Blount Jr.
Terror touches me when I/Dream I am touching a butterfly," wrote a poet named Genevieve Taggard. You can pet a children's-zoo wallaby to your heart's content, though the wallaby may not much like...

June 11, 1973 | Charles Gillespie
Looking back over the long summers there is agreement that all of them were very warm, but somehow it seems, to the old cowboys, that 100° was just hotter years ago than it is now. Certainly 1932...