May 16, 1955 Table Of Contents

Author:
SI Staff

Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: Nat Fleischer, editor of "The Ring," says that Jack Johnson was the greatest heavyweight fighter of all time. Do you agree?

By Jimmy Jemail

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

Old Kentucky hoke, Leak, lurch and lockup, Ike's golfing guest, Whither the Dodgers?, A cheer for Bobby Shantz, The man who talked to Frankie Frisch

Spectacle

SLEEPING BEAUTIES

Few sights are more beautiful than the collected curves of an ocean racer's hull, bared for the spring overhaul

Boating

BAD TIME FOR BIG RACERS

Rising costs of labor and materials for ocean racers have brought a shift in the center of gravity of the boating trade and bred a new kind of yachting gentlemen who prefer power

By Ezra Bowen

Everybody wants pool room these days—swimming pools, that is, and you can get them in every shape from kidneys down to pianos

By Horace Sutton

Anniversary

ANNIVERSARY

Baseball

BROOKLYN HAD THE SPOTLIGHT BUT IN THE WINGS THE PIRATES STAGED A ROUSING PREVIEW OF THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

By Robert Creamer

Brother To The Swan

Brother to the Swan

When Peter Scott saw some 4,000 geese circling above a desolate salt marsh in England, he was inspired to create the world's most unusual wildfowl preserve

By Farley Mowat