April 25, 1977 | Volume 46, Issue 18

Archery enthusiasts now number about three million worldwide, and within that group the growing popularity of hunting with bow and arrow is in large part the result of the activities of an archer...

THE RECRUITING GAME

•Sal Bando, Milwaukee Brewer third baseman, observing that Vida Blue is one of two remaining members of the Old Guard with the Oakland A's: "We look upon Vida as a hostage."

To win over their fans, the Toronto Blue Jays have doffed their caps and hit some long raps. But where's the beer?

Waived by the Jets, free agent Joe Willie Namath desperately wants to sign with the Los Angeles Rams, but do the Rams want Namath, or Houston's Dan Pastorini?

Despite the Hoopla, undefeated Seattle Slew has not won a derby, but the colt he will meet in the Wood Memorial, Clev Er Tell, has already won two (Louisiana and Arkansas). Bill Leggett reports...

That's how lacrosse players, who bust their guts digging for ground balls, grappling for faceoffs, taking jarring checks and sometimes even scoring goals, feel about their sport. A spring staple...

Today's lacrosse players and coaches, all of whom double as evangelists for their sport, sometimes romanticize about the old-fashioned, boundaryless game the Indians played. It must have been...

Catching home runs, not hitting them, is Rich Buhrke's specialty. So far he has nabbed 83 outside Wrigley Field

Tompkins and Hughes are not a song-writing team, a double-play combination or even two guys who run a body-and-fender shop in San Bernardino. They are the working force behind Weekend Sports, a...

After sitting out the last two Olympic Games, Al Oerter is throwing the discus again and aiming to add to his collection of gold medals

Bill Robinson is off to a fast start, but he still has no position to call his own

AL WEST

MITCHELL PAGE: Oakland's 25-year-old rookie outfielder, already dubbed "The Rage" by A's rooters, batted .424 and got one triple, two steals, three homers, four doubles, eight runs, 15 RBIs and a...

The first Secretariat wore No. 1, a good omen, but the golden filly who looks like her daddy ran like a dud, and was beaten by some quick maidens

Twice losers at Philadelphia, the Flyers won twice at Toronto to tie the series

Every day after work more and more people go out and run. Those who may be allergic to what floats in the air outside run in a gym, and those who get shin splints from running on a hard floor in a...

17—drawing by Arnold Roth20, 21—Manny Millan23—Neil Leifer, Tony Tomsic24—John Iacono26, 27—courtesy Hamilton Beach28, 29—Walter Iooss Jr., Al Satterwhite—Camera 530—Neil Leifer55—Tony...

COLIN LYBECKCHESTER, MONT.A senior at Chester High, Colin has become the third Montana wrestler to win four consecutive state titles, accomplishing this feat in four different weight classes (98,...

Sir:For those of us who were around when Hack Wilson played, Mark Kram's article (, April 11) is one of the best written, most poignant and most convincing ever to appear in your magazine.EMIL...

Among the displays in Frank (Buzz) Meyers' crowded garage-workshop in Kankakee, Ill. are two unborn does. The mother had been hit by a car, and when a cesarean operation failed to save the fetal...

Baseball nostalgia knows no geographic limits. You didn't have to walk along Bedford Avenue or Coogan's Bluff to have memories, a point I've tried to make—alas, in vain—in the 10 years since I...