June 24, 1974 | Volume 40, Issue 25

BETTER FOR THE BETTER HALF

•Bruce Featherston, 6'11" Southwest Texas State senior and bottom draft choice of the Milwaukee Bucks, asked if he thought he could move right in at center: "I think the one they've got may last...

Where they ain't is where Minnesota's Rod Carew is hitting 'em, and while .400 may have gone with Ted Williams, Carew et al. are keeping the science alive. By Ron Fimrite.

As part of an Appreciation Evening for Bill Yeoman, who has made the University of Houston a power in college football, grateful fans presented the coach with one of the World's most decadent golf...

Namely Omaha and the College World Series, where a team that never had made it past the tournament's preliminaries fought to the final out

NL WEST

Rising above all the bedlam of the AAU Nationals, he overwhelmed his division, inspiring recollections of another day and another Ray

The favorites dueled mightily, and an outsider took advantage of it

The appointment this week of Ray Cave as executive editor and Gilbert Rogin as assistant managing editor (see masthead, left) is a signal tribute to the considerable abilities of these two men,...

King Lear hadn't met Bjorn Borg, but his remark could hardly have been more descriptive of this 18-year-old Swedish phenomenon. Beyond his years in poise, manner and ability, Borg is already a...

COLLEGE BASEBALL—SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA defeated Miami of Florida 7-3 and won an unprecedented fifth straight national championship (page 54).

19—James Drake20, 21—James Drake (3), John D. Hanlon (2)22-24—John Iacono25—John Iacono, Tony Triolo26, 27—Graham Finlayson28—Roy DeCarava, John Iacono34—James Drake53—George H. Cook-Baltimore...

Sheila Ingram, 17, of Coolidge High School in Washington, set a scholastic mark for girls in the 440-yard run, clocking a 55.8. Sheila also competes in the 100 (11.0), the 220 (24.5), the 880...

Sir:Richard W. Johnston's deeply moving (June 10) was a classic study in reporting a tragic, seemingly senseless death in an objective yet compassionate manner.

Few themes recur so insistently in American literature as that of boyhood: it has been a preoccupation of writers as diverse as Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Frank Conroy and...

These two friends were arguing in the locker room, one thing led to another as it often does, and pretty soon they had this wild bet...