August 20, 1979 | Volume 51, Issue 8

If the roar of the crowd is part of baseball, so, increasingly, is the hush of the clubhouse. Let sportswriters draw nigh and Dave Kingman isn't the only ballplayer who is clamming up these days....

As the San Diego aerial circus revs up for the new season, John Jefferson, the top receiver at lighting the scoreboard last season, expects to shine even brighter now that No. 1 draft choice...

Hobbled by age they're not, so some of baseball's most venerable stars are still at the top of their games. Ron Fimrite takes the pulse of record setters like Lou Brock, Carl Yastrzemski and...

Like huge, multicolored vultures, the hang gliders circled slowly over the desert, their delicate wings tilting to catch the tricky air currents. The event was the first Moab World Invitational...

Reggie Jones stood at the edge of the red sandstone cliff in Canyonlands National Park and looked down. Below him, 2,000 feet of sheer face ended in a pile of jagged rocks dotted with blackbrush...

Tom Villante, baseball's director of marketing and broadcasting, watched his TV set in astonishment three Saturday afternoons ago as the NBC Game or the Week went off the air—in the eighth inning....

At 38, Willie Stargell is still a vintage hitter and has led the Pirates into first

MARCHING TO PRETORIA

•Mickey Rivers, Texas Ranger outfielder, on hearing ex-New York Yankee teammate Reggie Jackson brag about having an IQ of 160: "Out of what? A thousand?"

NL EAST

DAN FORD: The Angel outfielder batted .469 with 10 RBIs and two home runs, and eight of his 15 hits were consecutive, tying Manager Jim Fregosi's club record. Ford also joined Fregosi as the only...

In a wheel-to-wheel duel with a superb English cyclist, Kenny Roberts of the U.S. won the British Grand Prix, all but clinching a second consecutive world title

BOWLING—WAYNE WEBB of Rehoboth, Mass. defeated Jimmy Certain of Huntsville, Ala. 212-203 in the final match to win the $70,000 Waukegan (Ill.) PBA tournament.

14—Richard Mackson (left), Peter Read Miller15—Fred Kaplan16, 17—Tony Tomsic18—Lane Stewart28—Evelyn Floret49—Tony Tomsic59—John Iacono (top), Graham Finlayson60, 61—Heinz Kluetmeier62-68—Bill...

GUS ENVELASALEM, ORE.

ENERGY VS. THE ENVIRONMENT (CONT.)Sir:"The Rockies May Crumble..." (SCORECARD, July 30) is a catchy appraisal of President Carter's synthetic-fuels program, but I suggest that it exaggerates the...