Strange things happened when he waved his driver, and his irons were hardly miraculous, but Tom Weiskopf was pure alchemist when his putter turned a day's work into $52,000 in Gleason gold
16 Tom Swift and His Magic Wands
Yes, said Tom (Weiskopf) richly. I will wave at the ball boldly and make Gleason's $52,000 disappear
20 It's Short But It Isn't Sweet
The 60-yard dash takes no time to run, but with its psychs and its acrimony it lasts an eternity
22 His Majesty Gets Mugged Again
And again. Chicago's Bobby Hull protests the shadowing he gets as no fun and a bad show
24 Big Bill Loves to Eat 'em Up
Sophomore Bill Walton, UCLA's latest basketball phenom, feasts on opposing teams with awesome gusto
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March 6, 1972
Tom Swift
The 60-yard dash takes six seconds to run, but what with the psyching out before and the acrimony afterward, it lasts an eternity
And again and again. That's life for the king of the Black Hawks, Bobby Hull, who protests the shadowing he receives as no fun for him and a poor hockey show. Still, last week he scored his 40th goal
Big Bill
A shy young man with a huge appetite, UCLA's superstar feeds the Bruins' fast break and feasts on their foes
A Long Way
Mlle. Durr's strokes are bizarre, but she won $65,000 last year and now ranks high on the Virginia Slims tour
People
College Basketball
Wrestling
Chris Taylor of Iowa State is proving that the bigger you are the harder it is to be felled—but you may need a meat scale to weigh in
Bridge
Baseball
Baseball's sacred percentages are under attack by a scholar-heretic, Earnshaw Cook, who, armed with his iconoclast's computer, says nuts to the sacrifice bunt and the practice of starting starting pitchers
Pro Football
It's no oblate spheroid, but it takes some funny bounces when tackles try to dribble it, as Dave Costa of the Denver Broncos will testify
For The Record
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
Departments
30 Masks on the Angry Ice
Hockey goalies have borrowed from ancient Africa to bewitch the slap shot and the curved stick
35 A Long Way, Bébé
Françoise Durr may not be a classic swinger, but she is doing just fine at the tennis racket
68 Once He Was an Angel
No-hit Bo Belinsky was an eccentric before his time. A profile of a flamboyant pitcher looking back
The departments
13 Scorecard
47 People
48 College Basketball
52 College Wrestling
56 Bridge
59 Baseball
63 Pro Football
66 Boating
80 For the Record
83 19th Hole
Credits on page
Cover photograph by Sheedy & Long
Next week
Baseball's too-fat cats of 1971, the Cincinnati Reds, may turn out to be tigers in 1972—if Manager Sparky Anderson's spring whipcracking works. Bill Leggett reports.
On top down under, Shane Gould is a holder of five world records. Jerry Kirshenbaum writes of braces, delight with Wuthering Heights and other heights in her sights.
Running scarred is Tex Maule, who survived a severe heart attack but was then dismayed to see his body go to pot. Pride and fear added up to some sound steps—jogging.