October 11, 1954 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Do competitive sports tend to make women less feminine?
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
Under 21
The good old game of touch, with rules or without, provides football fun for everyone without the spills and skills demanded by the regular game
By Duane Decker
The World Series
Baseball experts gave the Giants only a slim chance to beat the Indians, but the Giants amazed the experts, the fans and undoubtedly themselves. Everything Leo Durocher tried worked
By Roger Kahn
Soundtrack
REHEARSAL IN NEW YORK, ONE ENORMOUS 'O-O-O-O-H', RECESSIONAL IN CLEVELAND
Foxhounds
Fox hunting the Midwest way means listening to hound music in the night and matching dog against dog in three-day field trials
By Ed Everett
The Bands Play
Fancy-free and full of fanfare, football music fills the air with its magnificent manifestations of a martial mania as old as the game itself
By Martin Kane
The violent upsets shown on this and following pages are not the sort of action spectators at the National Horse Show next month are likely to see. To riders and horses preparing for the elegant precision which the arena requires, however, they are normal hazards—and they show that mastering the delicate art of jumping thoroughbreds is a sport which is anything but tame
Sunday Pilot
Having recently taken to the air, Bill Mauldin launches his new column on flying with the stirring tale of his first solo flight
By Bill Mauldin
Sporting Look
For fifty years the opening day at Belmont Park has brought out the first fall fashions in the East. This year there was no doubt about the favorite for suits and coats: tweeds—win, place and show
You Should Know
YOU SHOULD KNOW: if you're laying up a boat
By The Know-It-All
Bowling
New Jersey's Faragalli may be best in the U.S. this year
Baseball
The redoubtable Giant slugger has ridden blithely through many a dusty situation
By Red Smith
Horse Racing
The Dancer takes final bow at Belmont as the racing world's attention shifts to the Widener chute and Nashua
Sport In Art
Boxing
In TV boxing, says this ringsider, there's too much turkey on the menu and someday wised-up fans may just turn off their sets
GAME OF THE WEEK: DUKE 7 TENNESSEE 6
By Don A. Schanche
Eastern Football
In his final sectional report Herman Hickman finds the Ivy is green if a bit thin and votes for the big independents as the teams to beat
Column Of The Week
The Washington Post / Times Herald
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS October 8 through 14
Fisherman's Calendar
A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources
Compiled by Ed Zern
Yesterday
Born in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 1859 and still living there, Putt Telfer has recorded village sport scenes for 75 years
By John Durant
Sailing
Design determines the winners in One-of-a-Kind races
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
A ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK'S NEWS