Pitching Coach Rube Walker's showy praise of his Met pitchers roused the front-running Cubs, who happily clawed Tom Seaver (left) and other talented New Yorkers. They know, though, that the year...

Americans swarm over Italy every summer but seldom go east of Venice, and that's why Nino Benvenuti defended his title against Tom Bethea in a Yugoslav hamlet you never heard of

While Hoosiers and Californians showed that they loved the game as much in May as they did in December, a bunch of unknown Angelenos surprised the Pacers in the ABA's championship playoffs

The NFL has asked Ernie Wheelwright, a New Orleans back, to get out of a bar with Mafia connections. Wheels has refused

In his diary on the 1969 tour, leading money-winner Frank Beard included many insights into the attitudes and life-styles of his fellow professionals. Here is a collection of his...

The big race on Memorial Day draws the nation's eyes to Indianapolis as the Foyts, Andrettis and Unsers turn on. The story of the 500 by Robert Jones, illustrated in color.

The vacation season puts wheels under millions of U.S. travelers who contrive to rough it the easy way—by means of campers. Not since the car itself has any device so transformed recreational habits

With his shot to the head of tennis partner Joseph H. Blatchford during the recent celebrity tennis tournament in Washington, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew seems bent upon a course of...

Certain newsmen in Rome have lately taken to calling Dora Jane Hamblin, who reports the Benvenuti-Bethea fight for us on page 14, "Peppermint Patty," after the sports-minded gamine of the Peanuts...

And Richie Allen is one ill wind that is dimming their light. While the onetime bad boy cavorts merrily as a Redbird of Happiness and blasts lusty home runs for St. Louis, his old teammates know...

AL EAST

Over a 210-mile pony express race, present-day Western riders discover why the U.S. Army had so much trouble catching up with Cochise

Texas A&M's powerful relay forces showed up for the California Relays in Modesto last weekend, but they were limping badly, and the Mills brothers figured that the collection of watches they...

His true name was Norman Selby, and he yearned for the life of a farmer, but title fights, adulation, Broadway, posh saloons, private eyes, poets, princesses, nine marriages (three of them to the...

THE FLOOD CASE

•Paul Wahlberg, Houston Golf Association president, announcing his organization is receiving applications for two four-year college scholarships: "What we're really looking for is another Arnold...

BASKETBALL—ABA: The underdog LOS ANGELES STARS took two of three games during the week, defeating the Indiana Pacers by 109-106 and 117-113 in overtime, forcing the series to at least six games...

Bob Dumas, 16, won the Alabama State High School golf title for the second year, firing a one-under-par 107 for 27 holes, with a second-round 34 that included three birdies. The Auburn sophomore...

4—Walter Daran-LIFE10, 11—James Drake12—James Purring14—UPI16, 17—Heinz Kluetmeier19, 20—Heinz Kluetmeier24—Sheedy & Long, Barry Edmonds-Flint Journal, Martin Mills-Black Star, Eric...

WINNER'S CIRCLESirs:Your Whitney Tower is to be congratulated for his brilliant prognosis of the 95th running of the Preakness (The Commander May Trail in Pimlico Dust, May 18). His appraisal of...