May 26, 1980 | Volume 52, Issue 22

Most trout or steelhead fishermen will tell you that wading is one of the keenest pleasures of their sport. They speak eloquently of feeling the gentle strength of the river, of the subtle sounds...

18-21—Peter Read Miller22—Manny Millan23—Manny Millan (top), Peter Read Miller40—Rich Mahan—Fort Lauderdale News-Sentinel (top)48—courtesy Avco Embassy Pictures69—Steve Goldstein74, 77—Paul...

KATHY LAWLERPOTSDAM, N.Y.Lawler, a freshman center for the Potsdam State College women's ice hockey team, led the nation with 74 goals and 45 assists in pacing the Polar Bears to a 23-3 record. At...

PRO BASKETBALL—With a 123-107 victory, Los Angeles won its NBA championship series with Philadelphia four games to two (page 18).

OUR PLANET (CONT.)Sir:In his status report on environmentalism (Whither the Earth? May 5), Jerry Kirshenbaum makes clear that environmentalists are not trying to stop progress, but to make sure...

NEW COURSES OF ACTION

•Corby Smith, 7-year-old son of Arizona's new football coach, Larry Smith, catching a look at the Wildcats' rugged 1980 schedule: "Dad, is that the real Notre Dame?"

Up and kicking, Toronto and Oakland staged a May Classic with October zest

HEL-LO SUCKERS! It isn't Texas Guinan at Indy, but Texan Johnny Rutherford, whose Chaparral is the fastest of the ground-effect cars that will literally suck themselves to the Speedway in the 500....

Wheels into Somerville, N.J. pretty much as it does in small towns across the land, with a gusto lost to big cities. Rags wave, bands play, Boy Scouts march and the fire engine gleams, a hearty...

Somerville is a quiet town of 13,300 souls, the sort of place that probably saw its best years in the closing decades of the last century, when there were trolley tracks on Main Street and lofty...

There are some subjects that, despite seeming to be endlessly fascinating, can be totally covered in one movie. Take pool hustling. It's been done. The Hustler (the classic Jackie Gleason, the...

Ken Reitz of St. Louis has started another season with a flourish, but this time maybe his high average won't wilt

Now that Edward Bennett Williams, the renowned Washington lawyer, owns the Baltimore Orioles, citizens of the nation's capital can't help but feel that it's only a matter of time before the...

NL WEST

RANDY JONES: The San Diego lefty yielded only nine singles, did not give up a walk and lowered his ERA to 1.82 as he pitched his second and third straight shutouts, beating Pittsburgh on six hits...

The Flyers and Islanders are so alike the Cup finals have been hard to like

Krazy Glue has always had a crazy image. One of its television ads shows a man wearing a hard hat dangling in midair from a girder, held there by the glue on the hat. The commercial promises so...

...that Harvard is undefeated and that Washington's borrowed shell upset Cal

Goaltender Jack Brand has eight shutouts in 10 games for Seattle's Sounders, a team no longer discordant but now humming along sweetly in first place