April 18, 1955 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
By Jimmy Jemail
Events & Discoveries
The shifting odds, The presidential pitchers, The happy golfer, No place to hot-rod, Indoor sports lose playing fields, To catch trout in Milwaukee, Gentleman jockey
Spectacle
Dr. Cary Middlecoff, the Masters winner, waited out his birdies and conquered lovely Augusta National, one of golf's works of art
Red Smith
Surgeon Smith does a deft exploratory operation on the soft underbelly of the American League, caustically drags forth a burgeoning fact the league has chosen to ignore: the item it is richest in is Very Bad Teams
By Red Smith
Preview
Keep a sharp eye on the jokers in the second deck, the teams that lie down and play dead. They have the final say on who wins the pennant
The Wonderful World Of Sport
A QUARTER HORSE CUTS OUT HIS CALF
Horses
Even with his penalties, they can't catch Hartack
Wrestling
Honest wrestling is grueling sport, too little understood in U.S.
By Martin Kane
Column Of The Week
Austen Lake reports that Frankie Carbo has kept his word to Jim Norris and Tony DeMarco, the new welter champ, is safely in the IBC camp
One of the strangest pageants of nature occurs in the West every spring when sage grouse gather at traditional prairie mating grounds and strut before their ladies
Acknowledgments
Fisherman's Calendar
A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources
Compiled by Ed Zern
The Masters
The Sneads, Hogans and Burkes drew the early crowds during the 19th Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta. Then Cary Middlecoff got hot, and the onetime Memphis dentist—fidgeting and frowning—ran clean away from all the others
Tip From The Top
Particularly for low-handicap golfers who play frequently
By Julius Boros
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS April 15 through April 24
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
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