September 27, 1954 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Does the horse player die broke?
By Jimmy Jemail
Pat On The Back
Herewith a salute from the editors to men and women of all ages who have fairly earned the good opinion of the world of sport, regardless of whether they have yet earned its tallest headlines
A Preview
THE WORLD SERIES IS A WONDERFUL MOMENT
By Paul O'Neil
By Roger Kahn
The Polo Grounds is the home of the short home run, the long, long out and the biggest crowds in the National League. Record is 60,747, jammed in for a Dodger-Giant double-header in 1937
Cleveland's Municipal Stadium is the biggest in baseball, and in the view of many players has the best playing surface. Close to the center of downtown Cleveland, it is relatively easy to reach
The scout is an unseen, unheralded but indispensable member of a baseball organization. Usually a former player, he writes detailed reports on the playing characteristics of his team's rivals and turns them over to his manager for tactical use. Here are reports on the Indians and Giants
The True Spirit
"It takes some doing to conduct intercollegiate athletics in a collegiate framework," says the president of the most famous football university in the nation. Here Father Hesburgh tells the story of "how we try to do it at Notre Dame," and Photographer Mark Kauffman presents a four-page color portfolio starring the Irish's veteran quarterback, Ralph Guglielmi, and introducing the new Notre Dame coach, 26-year-old Terry Brennan
By Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Ph.B., S.T.D.
Soundtrack
EZZARD IN THE DRESSING ROOM, MASTERS OF CROQUET, TOLL OF TWO HARRIDANS ON A SPREE
The Wonderful World of Sport
Football
FROM PIKE'S PEAK TO THE PACIFIC
Health
He rides, flies and sails for sport. Now his upset stomach can enjoy the trip thanks to a number of new potions which take the burps out of the bumps
You Should Know
YOU SHOULD KNOW: if you are getting a bicycle
By The Know-It-All
Under 21
Young John Mollard of Englewood's Cherry Hills carries the clubs for a "really solid golfer" named Eisenhower
By Duane Decker
Golf
St. Andrews, birthplace of golf, celebrates its 200th year
Sporting Look
Nature
Somber and huge, they are monuments to the giant sequoias
Baseball
Anyway, it paid for Marty Marion, who called a ball club as he saw it
By Red Smith
Boxing
Horse Racing
After eyewitness survey, The Jockey Club blesses plan that would enlarge and modernize beautiful Belmont, scrap Jamaica, and place New York State racing on a new and strictly nonprofit basis
Sport In Art
Thomas Eakins was both participant and trained observer
GAME OF THE WEEK: OKLAHOMA 27 CALIFORNIA 13
Motor Sports
A driving rain, sharp turns and a 130 mph down-hill straight test the skill of drivers in the biggest Grand Prix yet at Watkins Glen
By John Bentley
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS September 24 through 30
Fisherman's Calendar
A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources
Compiled by Ed Zern
Bowling
At 65, Floretta McCutcheon is retiring from a unique career
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Last Laugh
Departments
By H.H.S. Phillips Jr.
A ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK'S NEWS