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Pro football's new league confounds its doubters. Better teams, bigger crowds and fancy play now add up to a successful future for the AFL

A FRAGMENT OP HONOR

SPLIT AND POLISHSirs:After learning of golf purse-splitting (The Big Golf Secret, Sept. 24), may I suggest a similar deal between Ford and Drysdale, Hornung and Gifford or even Carry Back and Kelso?J. S. SWEENYBaltimore

BOATING—RICHARD STEARNS, a former North American champion, with Lynn Williams as crew, won the world Star class title on a foggy day off Lisbon. While the Wilmette, Ill. pair didn't win one of the five races, their...

The AFL's most effective recruiting campaign was carried on in the West, where the Chargers and the Dallas Texans snapped up last year's All-Americas by the pay load—generally from under the noses of the NFL. Both...