
CONTENTS
14 SOUNDTRACK Decibels of the Week...Ike's Fishing...An Unathletic Girl
16 SPECTACLE What it's like to bat against Robin Roberts, IN COLOR
21 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT As the camera sees it
57 SCOREBOARD and Week's Winners
59 COMING EVENTS
10 CHAMPIONSHIP DUEL UNDER DETROIT'S ELMS
The story of the 54th U.S. Amateur Golf tournament in words by HERBERT WARREN WIND and pictures by RICHARD MEEK
26 THE POODLE HAS HIS DAY
One of the oldest known dogs is becoming one of the most popular. By ALICE WAGNER, with photographs IN COLOR by MARK KAUFFMAN
32 WHY RONNIE KNOX QUIT CALIFORNIA
An admittedly partisan account of the football controversy of the year, by Ronnie's stepfather, HARVEY KNOX
43 E PLURIBUS NOONAN
Just before the big game the Little League coach got sick but Mrs. Noonan was ready. By JEROME WEIDMAN
45 THE QUIET CHIEF OF THE RAGING INDIANS
Mr. Al Lopez is a gentleman all the way and his ball club is most of the way to a pennant. By ERNEST HAVEMANN
THE GREAT OUTDOORS:
48 The Too-friendly Quail. Pen-reared birds like girls, dogs and hunters, by HART STILWELL
49 Painter of Woods and Water. Winslow Homer was one of our great sporting artists, IN COLOR
53 Attar of Squid. You can perfume a fish right into your hands, by TED JANES
54 The Fisherman's Calendar. Compiled by ED ZERN
THE COLUMNISTS:
36 Herman Hickman explains football's Split T for you and Cousin Albert.
38 John Bentley invites the Sports Car Club of America to subsidize drivers
55 Red Smith considers the case of Birdie Tebbetts, the painfully honest manager
56 Albion Hughes comments on Andy Crevolin's tape-recorded admissions
62 Victor Kalman finds good bowling and a big chance for the U.S. in Helsinki
67 Column of the Week: Jimmy Cannon visits Rocky Marciano at training camp
THE DEPARTMENTS:
2 Hot Box: JIMMY JEMAIL asks: Are modern baseball players sissies?
4 Pat on the Back: Praise for those not already smothered with it
6 Sportsman: Ike Eisenhower, the Kansas Cyclone
37 Health: Breakfast would be a great thing if Mom would get up and get it
39 Sporting Look: How to be well-dressed when you're all at sea. IN COLOR
41 Under 21: The ball boy at Forest Hills works hard but it's worth it
60 Yesterday: The day Queen Helen walked off the court
63 You Should Know: If you're going to take up archery
65 The 19th Hole: The readers take over
68 Last Laugh: The cartoonists have their inning
Acknowledgments on page 44
COVER: Yacht racing
Long Island Sound
Photograph by RICHARD MEEK
Every summer weekend Skipper Gib Wolfe drives his family 250 miles from Schenectady, N.Y., to Mystic, Conn. to sail their white-hulled beauty, the 45-foot sloop White Lie. Sometimes Wolfe races, sometimes he just sails. This time, with a fresh breeze filling the canvas, he is on a close reach in a regatta of the Off Soundings Club. For more Off Soundings pictures see pages 39-40.
PHOTO
IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
HERMAN HICKMAN SELECTS THE TOP FOOTBALL TEAMS
For the past fortnight SI's football expert has been touring the U.S. Now he is ready to name his "11 elevens"—the best in the U.S. as of Sept. 13
GIANT AMONG GIANTS
A portrait of Johnny Antonelli by DAN PARKER
THE HIMALAYAN SWEEPSTAKES
The biggest mountain climb year in history is described by Dr. Charles Houston who led the U.S. K-2 expedition in 1953, with an eight-page supplement IN COLOR
BASEBALL IN THE STRETCH
The spectacle of the National and American League leaders in their pennant drives, in action pictures by HY PESKIN and others