August 31, 1970 | Volume 33, Issue 9

The Cowboys, who haven't won a big game, are plagued by quarterback doubts, complacent vets, angry blacks and no confidence

In a duel of rare excitement Australia's "Gretel II," seemingly beaten, got past "France" to go one up in the first America's Cup international race-off ever sailed. On Monday "Gretel" went ahead 2-0

And more and more. The Baltimore Orioles' farm system is so productive it should keep the mother team's larder full for years

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The sky was almost azure and the grass was nearly green as New York's Central Park banned its automobiles and its muggers to provide a sylvan setting for a national championship

Tense but tenacious, the N.Y. Met defense of the world title begins in the infield with Bud Harrelson. At the start of the last desperate drive, a report on baseball's only race.

Joe Namath reported in last week at war with the press ("Everything that's been written about me is a lie") but with a softer message for autograph seekers, who came away with:

AL EAST

Driving down the New Jersey Turnpike last Friday to face a semipro team he had never seen, Jim Bouton, the old Yankee and Houston Astro, suddenly interrupted himself to say: "I really shouldn't be...

There was one interesting question to be considered in Boston last week in the Spingold Knockout Team Championship: How good are the world champion Dallas Aces? True, the Aces had won the world...

Martha Wilkinson won the Women's Amateur over Cynthia Hill, but for all the good it did her she might as well have lived in Johnson City

They descended out of the boxes at Arlington Park racetrack, an excited and talkative little throng of folks, all flushed. They pressed through the fans at the rail in noisy yet rather efficient...

BASKETBALL—The U.S. Olympic Development team lost for the first time on its European tour, in the finals of an international tournament in Moscow, to a SOVIET all-star team 89-61.

15—Eric Schweikardt16, 17—Heinz Kluetmeier18—Neil Leifer19—Sheedy & Long24, 25—Roy DeCarava26-32—Shel Hershorn-Black Star34—AP, UPI36—UPI42—Tony Triolo44—Herb Scharfman57—James A....

Duffy Williams, 14, of Saline, Mich., scored the first hole in one ever made on the 5-year-old Brookside Golf Course, running in a driver on the 212-yard, par-3 fifth before two playing partners....

MAD ABOUT JOESirs:Regarding your horror cover of Aug. 17, what was it?

•Alden Capen, general manager of Cool-front Recreation in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., telling the history of littering: "Back in the days when primitive man was still living in trees, he would peel...

Maybe the kids preferred the freak show, but what the county farmers came to see were the teamsters' tugs-of-war