July 19, 1976 | Volume 45, Issue 3

4—Manny Millan13—drawing by Arnold Roth22, 23—Manny Millan32, 33—Barton Silverman, Tony Triolo, UPI42—James Drake (3), Walter Iooss Jr. (upper right)45—Heinz Kluetmeier, Walter Iooss Jr.46—James...

Cheryl Stearns, 20-year-old parachutist from Scottsdale, Ariz., took first place in the Women's Overall competition at the national championships held in Tahlequah, Okla., and set a world record...

PRO BASKETBALL—The Buffalo Braves signed a new lease for Memorial Auditorium, apparently ending attempts to move the team to Hollywood, Fla. The team lawyer said signing of the lease "means the...

MONTREAL MARCHSir:Apparently Jerry Kirshenbaum (Good Times by the Cut-ups, June 28) missed some great performances while covering the U.S. Swimming Trials in Long Beach. While reporting that the...

DEATH KNELL?

•Mike Cuellar, the Baltimore Orioles' Cuban-born lefthander, on how he tried to copy the Detroit Tigers' rookie sensation, Mark Fidrych: "I talked to the ball in Spanish, but I found out it was an...

French horses finished one-two at the International Trot. The best the U.S. could do in the $200,000 race was third with a highly irritable and pregnant Trotting Mama

For the record, the count on Atlanta's Earl Craig Williams Jr. was 2 and 2, one out, nobody on, bottom of the seventh, Atlanta leading Pittsburgh 4-1 at County Stadium as Jim Rooker looked in for...

Superstar Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles works every fourth or fifth day, which, as Frank Deford relates, gives him plenty of time to fret over the burdens of being a starting pitcher in the...

"I look for something that jumps out at me," says Picture Editor Barbara Henckel, interrupting an examination of the color transparencies arrayed on her light table. One of Henckel's jobs is to...

The author, who finished fourth in the 1972 Olympic marathon at Munich, admits that the Games are imperfect but, in a personal reminiscence, finds assurance that despite the thorns they are worth...

Markedly improved overall, the U.S. men's team has an excellent chance to win 16 of the 23 track and field events at Montreal

In swimming it figures to be the powerful U.S. men's squad matching medals and records with an awesome team of East German women

For the most part, the Olympic athletes you are about to see do not know each other, nor are they ever likely to. Which is a shame. Surely the West German hammer thrower would enjoy hoisting a few...

Canada's best high jumper, the willowy figure floating over the bar at left, is 23-year-old Debbie Brill from Aldergrove, B.C. She is one of her nation's brightest hopes for a track and field...

After consulting with leading sports authorities around the world, studying past-performance charts of the athletes and analyzing the relative position of the moon, the writer offers her...

GEORGE FOSTER'S POLICY OF SPEAKING SOFTLY BUT CARRYING A BIG, BLACK BAT IS MAKING FANS IN CINCINNATI HAPPY

AL EAST

HAL McRAE: The Kansas City outfielder-designated hitter raised his average to .347 with 13 hits, three of them game-winners, and had seven RBIs. He celebrated his 30th birthday by hitting a double...

AT THE U.S. OPEN THE WOMEN WERE STORMING, OVER PAR AND OUT OF SORTS AT THE STEEP TASK THEY FACED AND THE RUGGED HILLS THAT PROVED SO HUMBLING

"All life on land is life in exile," proclaims the Austrian-born underwater adventurer Hans Hass at the beginning of his book, Men Beneath the Sea (St. Martin's Press, $12.95). It is only natural,...

The American sports fan had been subjected to countless bizarre promotions, even before Muhammad Ali came on the scene, but few have compared with Angel Fernandez' scheme to bring bullfights to...