Secretariat is 50 feet from the finish line and the race is won—but Jockey Ron Turcotte steals a look at the infield teletimer on his way to a pulverizing Belmont victory and the Triple Crown

To Ronald Turcotte, first jockey to win the Triple Crown since Eddie Arcaro did it in 1948, the Belmont was a nice little ride in an easy chair. Turcotte loves to get aboard stakes horses. "Ninety...

The Oakland A's are not playing like champions, but at least, and at last, they are grousing in pennant form

The opponent is only Joe Roman, who is hardly the noblest of them all, but after a long wait the champion of the earth's heavyweights—remember George Foreman?—is fighting and the division is abuzz

Can one man win the U.S. Open twice on the same course? Well, it happened in 1905, and now Dan Jenkins is at Oakmont to see if Jack Nicklaus can repeat his 1962 victory.

Why are Mike Manley and Steve Savage so grim? Here they are in the 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials, a bout to make the team in the 3,000-meter steeplechase—surely an occasion for elation. No way. One...

The 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials. Steve Savage of the Oregon Track Club has led much of the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Now he crosses the finish line third. He goes to his knees, sightless and...

So says Jim Havender, 81, the World's Oldest Lifeguard, who ignores his own counsel because the ocean loves him

The Rangers draft a young David to whom no-hitters are old stuff

Eighty-one-year-old Lifeguard Jim Havender (page 36) is happiest under water and is given to speaking respectfully to a plant called the sea rocket. "A good example of the kind of people I like,"...

NL WEST

Some long Texas green lures Gordie Howe's adolescent sons to the WHA's Houston Aeros—and the old man scents a million or so, too

It was 90° in Baton Rouge, but UCLA beat the heat to win its third straight collegiate championship

THE SKULKERS

•Chris Dundee, fight promoter: "I'd love to be a procrastinator, but I never seem to get around to it."

Some say Bruce Crampton is cruel, officious and humorless, others, that he is warm, kind and helpful. Everyone agrees, however, that out on the course he has monstrous talent

BOATING—Driving a 36-foot Cigarette, WILLIE MEYERS won the Bahamas 500 Ocean Race in 9 hours, 21 minutes for the 517-mile course. In choppy seas with swells of 10 feet, Meyers' time was two hours...

5—Robert W. Taylor16, 17—Neil Leifer, Jerry Cooke19—Neil Leifer20—Fred Kaplan-Black Star36, 37—John Iacono48—Jerry Cabluck59—Lou Witt65—Rich Clarkson70, 71—Lane Stewart72, 73—Jerry Cabluck83—Jeff...

Ron Klawitter, a senior defenseman at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, became a two-sport All-America this year as he led his lacrosse team to a 7-3 record, its best mark ever. Last...

WOOD WORKSirs:That was good timing, featuring Wilbur Wood in the lead story (Wilbur's Knuckler Is Alive and Swell) and on the cover of your June 4 issue just as he completed his mini-iron-man feat...