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March 7, 1955 Table Of Contents
Pat On The Back
A salute to some who have earned the good opinion of the world of sport, if not yet its tallest headlines
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Should a race-horse owner run his horse for experience and not to win?
By Jimmy Jemail
GUIDE TO: THE GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE
Baseball 1955 began this week in Florida and Arizona when all 16 major league teams started spring training. Here SI's Robert Creamer and Horace Sutton present a map of Grapefruit League country and a guide to the multitude of things to do there, plus a schedule of games for the first 10 days
Golf Circuit
5,000 MILES OF SUN-TANNED GOLF
The game's winter circuit—1,000 holes of pressure golf reaching from California to Augusta—is now at the halfway mark. This year's tour is notable for record purses, record scores and family-style caravan life
Nashua, a speedy but temperamental bay, wins the wealthy Flamingo Stakes to set himself up as the potential star of the 3-year-olds—if he keeps his mind on the job ahead
Soundtrack
THE EDITORS FIND COLE PORTER AND A CZECH GIRL BEATING THE SAME TEMPO, TUNE IN ON A VERBAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN MARCIANO AND COCKELL AND GRANT LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO A TENNIS QUEEN
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Tip From The Top
For golfers of all degrees of skill, including more advanced players
By Tommy Armour
Tennis
Winning the National Indoor, he showed the attitude of greatness
By William F. Talbert
Rickey
Sporting Look
Daytona
For eight speed-filled days, cars of every description chased the elusive goal of speed in the annual NASCAR classic of 1955. It was a week of records, wrecks, a flaming death and a final anticlimax
By John Bentley
Daytona's history spans the lifetime of the U.S. automobile
Basketball
It has made the little College of Idaho a basketball powerhouse
By Gerald Astor
Skiing
California's best beloved skier, that's who
Snow Patrol
A late roundup of snow conditions in America from a picked group of local skiers
Compiled by Bill Wallace
Fisherman's Calendar
A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources
Compiled by Ed Zern
Acknowledgments
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS March 4 through March 13
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
