September 30, 1974 | Volume 41, Issue 14

BOATING—The U.S. completed its 22nd successful defense of the 123-year-old America's Cup as Courageous won four straight races from Australia's Southern Cross off Rhode Island (page 75).

6—Arnold Newman23-25—Walter Iooss Jr.26, 27—Fred Kaplan-Black Star, Walter Iooss Jr.30—John Iacono31—AP (3), UPI (2), Heinz Kluetmeier36—Sonia Katchian37—Howard Bingham59—Herb Scharfman62—Carl...

Lange, Julian and Robert Johnson, of Washington, D.C., each won his age-division championship in the second annual R. Walter Johnson Memorial Tennis Tournament held in Richmond. The tournament is...

BARED FACTSSir:Each winter I eagerly await the arrival of your swimsuit preview issue, not so much for the article itself but for the entertaining letters that inevitably follow from outraged...

GLOBALDEGOOK

•Leonard Gray, Seattle SuperSonic rookie, evaluating the talents of 7-foot fellow rookie Tom Burleson: "Well, when everybody else is tired, he's still going to be tall."

The National League race, that is. Although St. Louis dropped a series to the solemn Pirates, the Cardinals stayed loose and lippy

Team Canada was a WHA collection of old men and castoffs—at least, that was the line of hockey's Establishment. So the Russians were not the only ones to be surprised by the early summit meetings

Baseball playoffs approach with the West leaders more powerful on paper than their Eastern counterparts. A report by the staff pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses.

"Licensees and networks are hereby notified that, effective October 16, 1974, they will be required to disclose clearly, publicly and prominently during each broadcast of an athletic event, the...

Getting the group portrait of Pete Rozelle, Bowie Kuhn, Walter Kennedy and Clarence Campbell that illustrates Frank Deford's story on the four major sports commissioners (page 82) was an unusual...

The Sooners may be tough, but so is State, as Arkansas discovered

OFFENSE: Senior Quarterback Gregg Bohlig led Wisconsin to its second straight victory, a stunning 21-20 upset of fourth-ranked Nebraska. Bohlig completed 14 of 21 passes for 242 yards and...

Haughton père beat his own son and two of his own horses, as well as the early favorite, driving Armbro Omaha to victory in the pacing classic

The sales of Western shirts have increased 500% in the last year," says Marvin Pooley of H Bar C Ranch-wear, "even though 80% of the men buying them have never been near a horse." But such illogic...

In the aftermath of the Australian America's Cup defeat, the answer is no—until a designer outdoes Olin Stephens. That takes some outdoing

Two Russians are meeting to see who will take on Bobby Fischer, and the younger man has the edge

AL EAST

Few people know the South as well as Paul Hemphill, and even fewer have written about it with such understanding and style. Hemphill, who cut his journalistic eye-teeth as a sportswriter on...

Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan led 110 cops on a merry chase through Chesapeake Bay before battling for the American heavyweight title