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October 05, 1981
24-26—Peter Read Miller27-29—Richard Mackson30—Steve Ross31—Manny Millan32—Tony Tomsic33—Heinz Kluetmeier (top), Roy Hobson34—Tony Tomsic39—Roy Hobson40, 41—Peter Read Miller42—Mickey...

October 05, 1981 | Compiled by ALEXANDER WOLFF
BOXING—LUPE PINTOR retained his WBC bantamweight title with a 15th-round knockout of Shinzo (Hurricane) Teru in Nagoya, Japan.

October 05, 1981
ALAN HILLTERRE HAUTE, IND.Hill, a 6'1", 175-pound senior safety, returned four interceptions 159 yards to lead DePauw to a 31-7 win over St. Norbert. He also ran back two kickoffs for a total of...

October 05, 1981 | Edited by Gay Flood
ACID PRECIPITATIONSir:When I was a little younger, I looked to SHORTS ILLUSTRATED for its glossy photographs of my athletic idols. Today I'm glad you concentrate on more than games. Robert H....

October 05, 1981 | Arnold Schechter
In the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., treasures such as Joe DiMaggio's locker and Bobby Thomson's bat have been joined by a decidedly unusual artifact: a coffee...

October 05, 1981 | Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
A DISASTER AND MOCKERY FOLLOWED BY (WEATHER PERMITTING) A WORLD SERIES

October 05, 1981 | Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
•Sugar Ray Leonard, recent victor over Thomas Hearns, enjoying a day in his honor in Washington that included a meeting with President Reagan and the passage of a congressional resolution...

October 05, 1981 | Douglas S. Looney
USC capitalized on the rushing of Marcus Allen and fast and loose ball handling by Oklahoma to pull out a last-minute victory

October 05, 1981 | Craig Neff
The field Was fast, the crowd immense, but did the inaugural Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City prove to be more than a curiosity? The milers certainly think so

October 05, 1981 | Jim Kaplan
It was the best of times for Montreal, which won six of seven games last week, and the worst of times for St. Louis, which lost four of seven

October 05, 1981 | Paul Zimmerman
Oakland's Lester Hayes excels at the bump-and-run and now he has beaten a speech problem by taking it head on

October 05, 1981
There is no place quite like it. Once it was part of a saline inland lake, the last remnant of which, the Great Salt Lake, lies 75 miles to the east, separated from the Bonneville Salt Flats by...

October 05, 1981 | Bob Ottum
Much of the magic of Bonneville lies in illusions: The light refracts, bending and bouncing off the Flats; sometimes objects seem to float, while at other times they dance eerily on the wind. The...

October 05, 1981 | Robert H. Boyle
In The Bay, Gilbert Klingel writes that dividing a day into the hours of events in a marsh is a better way of keeping time than going by the clock. "How much more descriptive it is to speak of the...

October 05, 1981 | Ron Fimrite
Angels Manager Gene Mauch hasn't had a championship in his 22 seasons

October 05, 1981 | Herm Weiskopf
NL EAST

October 05, 1981 | Herm Weiskopf
NOLAN RYAN: The Astro righthander struck out 11 Dodgers as he established a big league mark with his fifth career no-hitter. His 5-0 victory ran his record to 10-5 and reduced his ERA to 1.74, the...

October 05, 1981 | John Papanek
Rich Diana, a real do-everything Yalie, is one of the country's leading runners and a premed student with a 3.5 average

October 05, 1981 | Anthony Cotton
EAST

October 05, 1981 | Anthony Cotton
OFFENSE: Kelvin Bryant, North Carolina's 6'2", 195-pound junior tailback, rushed 22 times for 173 yards and four touchdowns in the Tar Heels' 56-14 win over Boston College. Bryant has 15...

October 05, 1981 | Clive Gammon
Well, Chicago just happens to be sitting pretty atop the NASL, thank you, having rudely dethroned the Cosmos 1-0 after a shootout at Toronto's Soccer Bowl

October 05, 1981 | Bil Gilbert
It lives in only one place in the world, the quiet, remote outpost that is Australian's island state of Tasmania. Perhaps that's just us well, because the elusive Tasmanian devil is an Ugly,...