July 05, 1976 | Volume 45, Issue 1

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This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to American women's track," gasped Madeline Manning Jackson shortly after becoming the first U.S. woman to scrape under two minutes for 800...

The start of the tall ships race from Bermuda to Newport suddenly turned into a spectacular saltwater Donnybrook

Carlos Monzon finally met—and mastered—Rodrigo Valdes and now reigns as undisputed middleweight champion

Ballyhooed by promoters as The War of the Worlds, the Ali-Inoki fiasco ultimately proved to be the bore of the ages

GOOD SHOW! is what they expect at Wimbledon, where the last round of play will be as blistering as the record heat that plagued the tournament's first week of action. Curry Kirkpatrick reports.

Staff writer Sam Moses, 28, whose inquiry into the wild and woolly sport of motorcycle hillclimbing begins on page 26, says he never wrote a line ("Not so much as a grocery list") until six years...

About the only American Leaguers who do not rate Cleveland's Frank Robinson highly as a manager are the umpires, who wish he would sit down and shut up

AL EAST

MICKEY RIVERS: The Yankees' speedy center-fielder hit .500, won one game with a home run and another by beating out a high chop with the bases loaded, twice had four hits in a game and raised his...

And so did men with men's names in Trials that produced few upsets

Everything from rearview specs to cushy saddles is purveyed by an industry thriving on cyclists' needs

Being last in his section of a bizarre lottery devised to allocate starting spots in the Schaefer 500 did not prevent Al Unser from winning

Mark Spitz had some things to get off his chest following Munich, but what can replace his sport?

LEGALIZED DECEPTION

•Carl Erskine, former Dodger pitcher, whose lifetime record was 122-78, speaking at an Oldtimers luncheon: "These Oldtimers games are great. They remind me of a scrapbook my mother kept when I was...

Steve Kelly has gone through fire (with Ladder Company 36) and ice and sunny lagoons, striving to make the Olympics, though his chances in Montreal remain nil

BOATING—In the Newport-to-Bermuda race Al Van Metre's seven-year-old sloop RUNNING TIDE finished first in the fleet of 161 with a corrected time of 86:00:17.

4—Lane Stewart6—drawing by Arnold Roth10, 11—Heinz Kluetmeier12, 13—Walter Iooss Jr., James Drake14, 15—Heinz Kluetmeier (2), James Drake16, 17—Manny Millan (3), George, Silk (2)18, 19—Neil...

Sandy Lemon, 18, was named outstanding senior girl athlete at Alleghany County High in Covington, Va. She was MVP in both basketball and volleyball and also was a member of the school's...

MINING ORRSir:I am a Bobby Orr fan. However, I have to hand it to the Boston Bruins for not paying an astronomical price for him (Bye-Bye Boston, Chicago Buys, June 21). If more teams had the...