June 17, 1968 | Volume 28, Issue 24

While pitching dominated play in both leagues, four men were still batting with the sort of thinking man's aggressiveness that made a .400 hitter of Ted Williams (page 30). The best of these in...

Ascot was a royal idea from the start. Today, England's famous racecourse refers to only one four-day meeting, in mid-June, as "Royal Ascot," because that is when the royal family traditionally...

An hour's glide by Rolls-Royce from London, today's Ascot, with its superb turf course, costs rather more than the £18 Queen Anne paid for posts and paint to mark the track in 1711. The cost of...

The U.S. open at Oak Hill promises to be a battle between the established stars and the contingent of relative newcomers who have done so well this year. Dan Jenkins reports.

Williams charges Boston with making three mistakes, denies he choked in big games and fondly recalls Joe McCarthy.

This week's picture story of England's famous Ascot racecourse (page 24) was photographed by Jerry Cooke. Like all photographers, Cooke has had some odd and demanding assignments at times, but...

Wilt Chamberlain, all 7'1" of him, has been swooping about on the Russian River in Healdsburg, Calif. behind his custom-made boat on what have to be custom-made skis. Wilt, starting his second...

The best thing that ever happened to women's golf clothes has happened this year: they no longer look like women's golf clothes. Gone are mix-and-match colors, cute embroidered insignia, tee...

Modern man is still victimized by a leftover Neanderthal urge to pick up huge, heavy objects to show everybody how big and strong he is. Not that this sort of thing is bad, assuming he can limit...

After winning a grudge race against Jimmy Hines at 200 meters, Tommie Smith led the Santa Clara Youth Village to victory over USC's famed 440-yard relay team to be named top athlete at...

'Come on down,' says Mexico, and for the first time since Los Angeles, 1932, Americans can drive to a summer Olympics. The route, as your correspondent discovered, is anything but a bore

AMERICAN LEAGUE

In early May a Cincinnati reporter wrote that the Giants' Juan Marichal, who then had a 4-2 record and a poor 3.90 ERA, was finished. When asked about it, San Francisco's righthander smiled and...

BOXING—World Middleweight Champion NINO BENVENUTI of Italy scored a second-round knockout over Japan's Yoshiaki Akasaka in a nontitle fight in Rome.

16—Bud Kamenish17—Herb Scharlman18—Howard Bingham19—Sheedy & Long, Herb Scharfman22, 23—Wil Blanche, Walter Iooss Jr. (2), Herb Scharfman30—UPI32—Fred Kaplan36—UPI48, 51—Shel Hershorn-Black...

Elijah (Tiger) White, a 53-year-old grandfather from Carthage, Me. who did not enter motor racing until three years ago, drove his tiger-striped stock car to two victories in a space of eight...

POOR PUBLICSirs:Concerning the article Pro Football Faces a Delay of Game (May 27), Americans have traditionally derided the kid who takes his ball home when he doesn't get his way. The Players'...

REEXAMINATION

•Steve Stonebreaker, New Orleans Saints' linebacker, on how the Houston Oilers can defeat the Dallas Cowboys in their preseason game in the Astrodome: "Simply turn up the air conditioning to 13°...