May 12, 1975 | Volume 42, Issue 19

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Defending champion Boston got into gear with a 101-90 defeat of Washington, after losing 100-95 and 117-92. The Celtics' vaunted fast-break offense showed signs of jelling with...

20, 21—Heinz Kluetmeier22, 23—Tony Triolo, Alex Borodulin-Kay Reese & Associates24, 25—Heinz Kluetmeier, Neil Leifer26, 27—Wayne Reynolds, Sheedy & Long (2)28, 29—Walter Iooss Jr., Heinz...

Bonnie Berning, a senior at Burnsville (Minn.) High, won her third consecutive all-around title at the state girls' gymnastic meet. Bonnie placed first in vaulting, uneven bars, balance beam and...

OUT IN LEFT FIELDSir:In his article Where There's Smoke There's Ire (April 28) Ron Fimrite has more than adequately described the aura of excitement surrounding any meeting between the Cincinnati...

DOUBLES FAULT

•Jim Schoenfeld, 22, Buffalo Sabres defenseman, on Montreal's Henri Richard, 39: "He really ought to dye his hair. It's embarrassing to find yourself tangling with a gray-haired man."

Jake Bachelor of Louisville almost went down in history last Saturday as the first owner of a Kentucky Derby horse ever to spend the night before the race oiling machinery at the local...

Nothing matches the sloganeering served up in the San Diego baseball emporium of hamburg honcho Ray Kroc. And with the maturing of fine young players, the hapless Padres are patties no longer

After being walloped twice by the Bullets, the Celts won one by putting Dave Cowens in the low post and the ball in the hole

The Warriors laughed when they heard the Bulls argued among themselves. But such turned out to be Chicago's nature

For all the perils of pounding around the track at heavy speeds, the racers may have the best of it after all: theirs is the only uncrowded space for miles around the Indianapolis Speedway and a...

Newcomers to the game of auto racing are always puzzled by a seeming contradiction. Here is the most complex techno-athletic endeavor known to man, one that apparently would demand the utmost in...

Two hundred MPH is once again being predicted as the top qualifying speed for the Indianapolis 500. Nobody has ever quite made it, but Robert F. Jones is on hand to see how men and machines take...

Ron LeFlore came out of prison to redeem himself in baseball

AL EAST

Wolves seldom attack, the author kept reminding himself, but he was all alone, and his only weapons were a caribou antler and a jackknife

A crazy-quilt court will add even more color, and "spectaculars" may cut costs as World Team Tennis revs up and moves into its second season

Houston is tops in the WHA, but a murmur in the heart of Texas

Under new Coach Chic Ciccarone, the Blue Jays are looser, but not losers. Led by burly Franz Wittelsberger (27), they are undefeated

So there we all were, maybe a couple thousand of us, sipping our choice of a recession champagne or an equally indelicate rose, watching two perspiring Australians, John Alexander and Phil Dent,...

It used to be easy to know which way the wind was blowing. Public buildings, shops and homes were topped by weather vanes—prancing horses, crowing roosters, silhouetted ladies of liberty and...

Notwithstanding the famous Public Wars between Playboy and Penthouse, the rawest magazine combat now raging is between World Tennis and Tennis. The latter, a polished upstart, has tripled its...

Like all horseplayers, I pick up my copy of the Form every morning. Before turning to the past performances that are the tools of the horseplayer's trade, I look at the ads, and if I did not know...