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May 23, 1955 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: CCNY President Buell G. Gallagher says: "All big-time college sports are subsidized. Players go to the highest bidder." Do you agree?

By Jimmy Jemail

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

Yardstick blues, Pennsylvania acts, A mighty mite tunes up, Let's meet again, Big chases small, More bounce per ounce, A stiff neck

Spectacle

THE BOAT RACE

Fiercely partisan Britons crowd the Thames as Oxford and Cambridge meet for their great traditional race

THE COCKNEY CHALLENGER

Cup Final

WEMBLEY'S BIG AFTERNOON

It's Cup Final day (soccer) at London's great stadium, with the Queen and the Duke among the 100,000 singing hymns and cheering as a 'lucky' Newcastle United team upsets favored Manchester City 3-1

By Andre Laguerre

The Wonderful World Of Sport

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Bear Hunt

HUNTING THE GREAT BEARS

Alaska's brown bears are America's biggest game. Here is how a party of businessmen stalked their trophies

Fisherman's Calendar

FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR

Compiled by Ed Zern

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Baseball

ONE WELL-PLACED BUNT SERVED TO POINT UP A SOMEWHAT HISTORICAL FACT: THE NEW YORK YANKEES ARE NO LONGER BASEBALL'S BIG TEAM

By Robert Creamer

Anniversary

ANNIVERSARY

Motor Sports

THE CUMBERLAND CLASSIC KICKS OFF THE EASTERN SEASON WITH ELEVEN RACES FOR 272 DRIVERS, AMERICA'S BIGGEST EVENT EVER

By John Bentley

Trencherman

TRENCHERMEN, TUCK IN!

A great champion of a great sport—eating, that is—hurls defiance at Emily Post

By Herman Hickman

Sporting Look

GOLFERS IN THE PINK

New golf fashions for women are both practical and feminine; dresses and culottes seesaw between above-and-below knee, meet all regulations

Tip From The Top

for golfers of all degrees of skill

By Gene Littler

Sport In Art

EUROPEAN CLASSICS

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS May 20 through May 29

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

ZALE PARRY: UNDER THE WAVES FOR LOVE

Departments

A ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK'S NEWS

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips