August 05, 1968 | Volume 29, Issue 6

As the midsummer sun begins to bleach the greens and scorch the rough, golf's swinging chicks come from all over the country to compete in the annual U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Last year...

Footballs old pro, Paul Brown, assembles a band of rookies in Cincinnati (o resume his gridiron war. Tex Maule covers the first real test of the new AFL Bengals.

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It began as one of those typical summer Sundays in New York: the Mets at home, the Yanks on the road, the sheep in the meadow—and the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staff on the 20th floor of the Time-Life...

For Clark Graebner, a paper company executive, a more relaxed mien and a steel racket have made his last year of full-time tennis his best

Being comfortable is the most important aspect of putting. When I am putting poorly I experiment with different strokes and stances until I get to where I feel comfortable enough to repeat a good...

Every other member of the New York Jets had dressed after the workout and gone over to the Hofstra student union for lunch, but still lying naked on the rubdown table was Sherman Plunkett, a hulk...

All right, I blew it. In spite of two sure-thing hedge bets—Canada's powerful entry in the Open and the heavily favored U.S. team in the women's event—an American team did not win the World Bridge...

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Unless Montreal's new National League franchise can find replacements for two former backers, sign a stadium lease and make a down payment to the league by August 15, the team may shift abruptly...

BOATING—Ondine, a 73-foot ketch owned by S. A.(HUEY) LONG of New York, was first across the finish line in the 3,524-mile Bermuda-to-Travemünde, West Germany race, but not without incident. Rumors...

Gus Blass III, a 16-year-old marksman from Little Rock, Ark., was the junior champion at the Mid-America Skeet Shoot in Detroit and also managed to gain a tie in the 12-gauge event with seven-time...

17, 19—Tony Triolo36—Tony Triolo37, 38—Carl Iwasaki45—Ed Fernberger50—Roy DeCarava56, 57—Virginia Kraft65—AP66—Greer H. Lile, Des Moines Register & Tribune, Ray Gould

Sirs:I don't usually find many profound theories on the pages of sports magazines worth commenting on, but an exception must be made in reference to your recent series of articles on Ted Williams...

INDY BLOCKS A BLOCK

•Dick Williams. Boston Red Sox manager, asked what is the difference between last year's Red Sox and this season's: "The Detroit Tigers."

In the past five weeks this magazine has devoted many pages to the publication of Jack Olsen's remarkable series, The Black Athlete—A Shameful Story, a series that has produced a greater reader...

The best pool cues in the U.S. today are made in a garage at 15153 Greenleaf St., Sherman Oaks, Calif. There Ernie Gutierrez combines ivory, silver, gold and such exotic woods as African snakewood...

A sign along Highway 95 in Goldfield, Nev. warns motorists to slow down to 25 mph. One can't help wondering why. In Goldfield today the wind cries past lifeless buildings. A sign on a grocery...