August 08, 1977 | Volume 47, Issue 6

BETTER TO GIVE

•Ben Crenshaw, golfer, on the pervasive quality of his current slump: "A couple of weeks ago I went fishing, and on the first cast I missed the lake."

Carlos Monzon's victory over Rodrigo Valdes was the 89th of his career, the last 83 of them in a row, and now the middleweight champ will retire to his movie career as Argentina's James Bond. But,...

In America's Cup trials that baffled the seers, Enterprise whipped Courageous, which beat Independence, which edged Enterprise

OH, THAT OH! Sadaharu Oh, the slugging first baseman of Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants, has hit 742 home runs and is a sure bet to surpass Henry Aaron's record 755. Frank Deford visits Oh-san and tells...

For $85,000 Montreal got an exciting outfield and at last the Expos aren't last

JIM BARR: After going five weeks without a victory, the San Francisco righthander hurled two straight shutouts, stopping the Montreal Expos 3-0 on four hits and beating Philadelphia 7-0 to improve...

Thanks largely to an influx of big-name foreign players and low ticket prices, crowds at a number of NASL franchises have sprouted to pro football proportions

If his first name is Willie and he is 16, he is likely to hole any ball on the green, which he did often enough last week to win the National Junior championship

In the Gold Cup the driver's colors were wrong, but the colt's finish was right

"The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to hit the ball accidentally at the woman player as hard and as accurately as possible." This is only one of "Roberts's Rules of Order" in Art...

24—Dan Baliotti, Chuck Pratt25—Warren Bolster (left), Dan Baliotti (2)26—Warren Bolster (3); Chuck Pratt (3rd from top)34—Peter Read Miller43—John Iacono48—Grant M. Haller49—Neil Leifer50—Tony...

ELIZABETH SHARPKNOXVILLE, TENN.An 18-year-old freshman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Elizabeth won the AIAW National Small College singles and doubles tennis championships to lead...

BOATING—BILL MUNCEY drove his unlimited hydroplane Atlas Van Lines at an average speed of 114.869 mph to win his sixth Gold Cup victory at Tri-cities, Wash., beating Mickey Remund in Miss...

TODDLIN'Sir:Being a Chicago baseball fan (Chi, Oh My! July 25) is not a pastime. It is a vocation, a way of life. At a very young age, a Cub or Sox fan learns that pennants are something other...