March 26, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Can the Navy rowing crew, champions in the 1952 Olympic Games, come back in 1956?
By Jimmy Jemail
Events & Discoveries
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JOE LOUIS?, IRON CURTAIN ROUNDUP, BEWARE THE GOLFER BEARING LOAD, HEAVY GOING IN BRITAIN, THE OLD ROYAL GAME GETS FRESH START, INSTEAD OF NASHUA
Spectacle
Beautiful, dangerous supremely thrilling, sports car racing has a magnetic attraction for its fans
Sebring Comes Of Age
With the world's best drivers and top-ranking factory teams, America's biggest sports car race achieves its true stature
The Wonderful World Of Sport
A Mighty Peculiar Fight
Welter Champion Carmen Basilio outfought and outpunched Johnny Saxton but he had no chance in Chicago Stadium, where favorites are fated to lose—as the smart money knows by now
By Martin Kane
Keystone Crisis
In baseball's training camps, opportunity is calling. If you're a second baseman, you might help resolve a KEYSTONE CRISIS
Through peril and confusions, SMU and Temple fought their way alongside Iowa and mighty San Francisco into basketball's NCAA SEMIFINALS
By Roy Terrell
Between them both, they managed to bring Sailor home and give Nashua his worst defeat
Column Of The Week
Frankie Carbo keeps his promise and Blinky gets his payoff with SAXTON'S REWARD
By Dan Parker
From St. Petersburg to Cuba the ocean yachts fought out the last leg of the southern racing season and IT WAS 'FINISTERRE'
By Ezra Bowen
College students get a jump on summer in sports-minded Bermuda, where tennis was introduced to America, Rugby is king and coral beaches afford early tans
The Outdoor Week
Edited by Ed Zern And Tom Lineaweaver
Sport In Art
Jon Corbino finds color, movement and excitement at the track
Snow Patrol
Compiled by Mort Lund
Tip From The Top
For all players, especially weekend golfers
By Harry Cooper
Yesterday
Fifty years ago, when 30 mph was fast for average cars, Fred Marriott raced a Stanley Steamer at a speed of two miles a minute. Then three—and crashed
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS March 23 through April 1
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER