Table of Contents

4 SCOREBOARD
11 EVENTS & DISCOVERIES
24 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT
54 FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR
68 COMING EVENTS
69 THE 19TH HOLE
72 PAT ON THE BACK

TWO SI SPECIALS:

20 MATCH MADE! SWAPS VS. NASHUA IN CHICAGO
The biggest racing news of the week

66 IKE'S FAVORITE BRIDGE HAND-TRY IT!
A famous authority describes the hand and the President's game

15 SPECTACLE: THE RACE AT LE MANS
A never-before-seen view of the start of Europe's sports car classic, photographed IN COLOR

22 THE CUBS-CHICAGO'S HAPPY TRAVELING MEN
Closeup of a so-called cellar club that is still stubbornly in second place.
By ROBERT CREAMER

28 WE ARE DESTROYING OUR NATIONAL PARKS
A warning to the American people by a famous novelist and conservation authority, WALLACE STEGNER

30 TENZING FINDS TRACES OF THE MYSTERIOUS 'YETI'
The conqueror of Everest photographs skulls and skins which lamas attribute to the Abominable Snowman

34 TED ATKINSON: WIFE'S VIEW OF A LONG SHOT
The home life of a famous jockey, described by WALTER BERNSTEIN, with a portrait IN COLOR

36 THE LAND OF THE SMALLMOUTH BASS
Mel Ellis reports on a remote corner of Wisconsin which now offers fishing so good that tackle companies try out new lures there

56 QUEENS OF THE DEEP WATER
Portraits IN COLOR of three famous ocean racers, and an analysis of the sport by ROBERT N. BAVIER JR.

THE DEPARTMENTS:

6 Hotbox: JIMMY JEMAIL asks: Should the U.S. go all out to build an Olympic team that can beat Russia in 1956?

41 Golf: HERBERT WARREN WIND reports from St. Anne's on. Smoky Joe Conrad's victory in the British Amateur

47 Motor Sports: JOHN BENTLEY tells what really happened—and why—in the Vukovich crash at Indianapolis

50 Boxing: BUDD SCHULBERG shares an outlandish dream of Jim Norris talking up on the witness stand

63 Sport in Art: TOM MEEHAN looks at baseball with an artist's eye

65 Keep in the Pink: WILLIAM WHITE with some more tips on the art of massage

Acknowledgments on page 54

COVER: WINDIGO

Photograph by Morris Rosenfeld

This coming weekend, the 71-foot yawl Windigo will be hoisted aboard a freighter headed for Sweden, where she will be captained by Magnus Johnson in the 125th Anniversary Regatta of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club. Ten other American yachts are shipping over, two are racing across the Atlantic, one is cruising over, and another is already there. For a further report on one of the busiest ocean-racing seasons ever, turn to page 57.

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IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE

ROGER BANNISTER'S OWN STORY
The greatest middle-distance runner of all time, the man who first achieved the four-minute mile, tells in warm and human terms the history of his running—as a child, as a boy, as a man. First of two parts

THE U.S. OPEN
An SI Preview of golf's climactic event, with map of the course, commentary by HERBERT WARREN WIND, a gallery of top golfers IN COLOR and a frank interview with Ben Hogan by JOAN FLYNN DREYSPOOL