May 17, 1976 | Volume 44, Issue 20

COLLISION COURSE

•Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner: "We're doing this whole thing backward. Attorneys should wear numbers on their backs and box scores should have entries for writs, depositions and appeals."

Reggie Leach displayed the flare of Maurice Richard as he blitzed Boston for five goals in one game and blasted the Flyers off to Montreal for a Stanley Cup confrontation with the Canadiens

Bjorn Borg and Guillermo Vilas are the best of friends, but when they met for the WCT championship in Dallas, they were the best of enemies. Borg won in four sets to become the best of the best

In the first four games of the ABA championships Julius Erving had the right prescription for Denver, and the Nets prospered

It was an ordinary enough day for Julius Erving. There was no great intensity in his face or in his movements as he glided through practice at Cathedral College in Douglaston, Queens, and visitors...

Slumbering sharks roosting in shady nooks, presumably to escape the summer heat, are visited by Stanley Meltzoff, who portrays in words and paintings the phenomenon he discovered.

The smells are not museum smells. Instead of mustiness and formaldehyde, the aroma of methanol fuel, leather and lacquer pervades the interior of the new Indianapolis Speedway Museum. And the...

Batters usually ground out against Randy Jones, the Padres' studious sinkerballer, who has become an ace by working fast and throwing slow

NL EAST

SKIP LOCKWOOD: In 5⅔ innings of clutch relief, the Met pitcher struck out eight batters and chalked up three saves. Twice he came in to fan Cincinnati's Johnny Bench, first with the bases loaded...

Shortly after Artist Paul Davis got the assignment to provide the artwork for this week's story on the extraordinary Abernathy family (Roughriding Rover Boys), which begins on page 78, he...

It is loose and lumpy and the feet are big, but it has saving graces

Since the auctioneers' hammers banged down, a lot of expensive colts have failed to measure up to the hopes of the high bidders

Ignoring the shakes, Sally Little won the Women's International as you'd like it, blasting out of a bunker for a sensational birdie on the 72nd hole

Spare me, oh, author, spare me your regional stereotypes. I am provoked to supplication mostly by a fulmination in Newsweek against my home state, California, but generally by what appears to be...

BASKETBALL—NBA: The Boston Celtics took a 2-0 lead over Cleveland in their best-of-seven semifinal series by downing the Cavaliers twice at Boston, 111-99 and 94-89. John Havlicek and Jo Jo White...

6—Anthony Donna13—drawing by John Huehnergarth18, 19—Dick Raphael20, 21—John Iacono, Dick Raphael22, 23—Tony Triolo24—Heinz Kluetmeier26, 27—John D. Hanlon28—Manny Millan34—Lane Stewart photograph...

Todd Bell, 17, a junior at Middletown (Ohio) High, long-jumped 25'5" at the Mansfield-Mehock Relays to break the Jesse Owens 1933 All-Ohio high school record of 24'11¼". Bell has run the 100 in...

AT THE PLATESir:My congratulations to Larry Keith for an excellent article on Dave Kingman and Mike Schmidt (It's Either a Clout or an Out, May 3). As a longtime Philadelphia fan, I am proud to...