Author:
SI Staff

4 SCOREBOARD
9 EVENTS & DISCOVERIES
24 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT
43 THE FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR
64 COMING EVENTS
65 THE 19TH HOLE
68 PAT ON THE BACK

13 SPECTACLE: PUSHBALL IS NO PUSHOVER
The Wild West still goes wild on horseback, as HY PESKIN demonstrates with four pages of pictures IN COLOR. ROBERT H. BOYLE explains it all

18 DON CAMPBELL'S JET WATERBIRD
England's jet-powered candidate for speedboat supremacy surpasses the world record. Cutaway drawings of the new Bluebird and a description by EZRA BOWEN

30 BREAKAGE AT HAPPY KNOLL
J. P. MARQUAND reveals another crisis at America's most delightful country club, this time revolving around the younger generation

32 MOUNTAINEER'S MECCA: THE MATTERHORN
Always a symbol, still a challenge, the Alps' most storied peak towers over a fashionable playground offering anything from scenic railway tours to climbing the great rock itself. With four pages IN COLOR by TONI FRISSELL and text by HORACE SUTTON

41 FISHING'S ZANIEST RODEO
You can win anything from a shirt to a down payment on a car in Alabama's annual seagoing jamboree. By EMMET GOWEN

48 THE PINKY IN THE RED SOX BOOT
Soft-spoken, affable Mike Higgins, a Texan dedicated to Boston's cause, took baseball's hottest managerial seat. Now the heat is on the opposition, and AL HIRSHBERG tells why

52 AUSTRALIA TOES THE MARK
After listening to some Fair Dinkum talk Down Under, COLES PHINIZY returns home to tell what the Aussies are doing about the XVIth Olympiad

THE DEPARTMENTS:

6 Hotbox: JIMMY JEMAIL asks: Is Phil Wrigley right in refusing to install lights for night baseball at Wrigley Field?

44 Motor Sports: JOHN BENTLEY, reporting from Aintree on Britain's Grand Prix, finds Mercedes indisputably the best racing combination in the world

46 Baseball: ROBERT CREAMER tells about an exciting game in an exciting baseball town: the All-Star in Milwaukee

60 Tip from the Top: CHICK HARBERT of the Meadowbrook Country Club in Northville, Mich. gives some pointers on distance driving

62 Yesterday: Half a century before bubble gum, cigarette cards recorded the baseball stars' eternal battle with the ball

COVER: THE MATTERHORN

Photograph by Toni Frissell

Its famous wedge-shaped peak cloaked in clouds, the Matterhorn towers over the Swiss town of Zermatt, constantly beckoning the townspeople and their guests to climb it. To prepare for her ascent, Marylee Davey (center) of Wakefield, Rhode Island, spent a week with Emil and Max Julen, guiding brothers whose mother was the first woman in Zermatt to climb the Matterhorn. For more about the Matterhorn, see page 32.

Acknowledgments on page 64

PHOTO

IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE

CONVERSATION PIECE: SUBJECT: TED WILLIAMS
Baseball's great star talks with Joan Flynn Dreyspool about his boyhood, his rise to fame, his future hopes

GEORGE MAY OF TAM O'SHANTER
Some call him golf's greatest menace, some its greatest benefactor. Jack Mabley presents his story

AUSTRIA'S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Paul Deutschman takes you through the mysterious emanations of Bad Gastein, famous European spa

PLUS: SEVEN PAGES OF COLOR ON AMBROSE CLARK'S STABLES AND PHILIP WYLIE ON FISH WATCHING

July 25, 1955