October 14, 1968 | Volume 29, Issue 16

BILLIARDS—IRVING CRANE defeated Steve Mizerak in the final match to win the International Pocket Billiards Championship in New York. With a 13-2 won-lost record. Crane received $4,000 for first...

4—United Artists Corp.26-33—drawings by Bill Charmatz27—James Drake28, 29—James Drake, Walter Iooss Jr. (3)30, 31—Herb Scharfman32—Walter Iooss Jr.34, 35—John D. Hanlon36, 37—Jerry Cooke38—UPI,...

Leith Lende, 14, of Castleton-on-Hudson, is moving to the top rank of amateur skiers. Last winter she took her class title at the Tri-State Championships, was chosen to race on the New Zealand...

Sirs:How can you pick the Russians over the Americans in Olympic basketball (, Sept. 30)? True, the Russians have several big men, but I'll stick with the U.S., with the U.S.S.R. second and Brazil...

OLD BUSINESS

•Bill Marsh, light heavyweight of Las Vegas, after being knocked out in Kansas City, Kans. by local fighter Ron Marsh, on why he has won only four of 15 fights this year: "Mostly I've been...

Trouble in court—the basketball court, that is, is brewing as the pros begin a new season. But Frank Deford suggests a way out in a preview, with analyses of all the teams.

The record books will say that the New York Jets beat the San Diego Chargers at Shea Stadium last week, but they won't mention that the Jets got a lot of help from San Diego and even more from the...

Pick up a newspaper these days, enter a movie theater, walk into a bookstore, switch on a radio or glance at a TV screen and you likely will be reminded of the existence of a tall, amiable fellow...

Hockey's expansion year was a bold success, and the new season promises to be even better—nowhere brighter than in Montreal

MONTREAL CANADIENS

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

The gallant tartans of Scotland have invaded new territory. In Nova Scotia, where everybody is a Mackintosh, a Macdoug all or a Macsomebody, they are worn with a nationalistic fervor that reaches...

Arizona State players learn not to show pain and how to become pros. Wyoming, another Western Athletic Conference member, beat ASU, but few teams outside the WAC care to face either one

THE BACK: West Texas State Half back Eugene Morris is called "Mercury" and he caught up to his name against Montana State. He ran 54, 89, 66 and 20 yards for touchdowns and rushed for 340 yards in...

The Mick has not just struck out in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and the Yankees one run behind. He has not just wrenched his knee. No, he is sobbing, "I want my Maypo!" In a...

Now playing for the Los Angeles Lakers—Wilt Chamberlain. With Elgin Baylor and Jerry West too, the team should be the best ever in pro basketball, but will it be? That probably is up to...

Los Angeles Surgeon Robert Franklyn was sure he had bought a world champion and his colt proved it at the Arc in Paris

Scotland and France are united only by their historical dislike of England, but all three countries got together last Sunday at Watkins Glen, N.Y. to win the United States Grand Prix and add...

To the foreign stars, veterans of snooker and billiards, the straight pool at New York's international tournament was a costly surprise

John Gordy, who was an All-America guard at Tennessee and has been an All-Pro for the Detroit Lions three times in his 11-year career, is obviously a formidable football player. In future...

Two years ago, on assignment by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, George Plimpton spent five weeks as an amateur taking part in tournaments on the professional golf tour and subsequently wrote of his deeds and...

Two vignettes from the high and the low of amateur golf: the tension at a posh pro-am when a hall gets stuck in a hall washer, and the murderous midnight of a driving-range maniac.