May 14, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Which do you love more, your horse or your dog?
By Jimmy Jemail
A Day To Remember
By Paul O'Neil
The Derby
May 5 brought Derby Day and the heart-gripping charge of the 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs. Novelist John P. Marquand took leave of absence from Happy Knoll to be there for SI—and his reflections on the day and its deeds start on page 29. Here, from SI's turf editor, the race itself:
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Spectacle
Events & Discoveries
A BOW FOR THE OFFICIALS, A DAY WITH ROCKY'S MAMA, A HORSE FOR MR. FITZ, RACE WITHOUT JULEPS, WHITHER THE LITTLE GOLF BET, HONEST WRESTLING LAYS AN EGG
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS May 11 through May 20
Boxing
The IBC trial ended last week, but not before the U.S. put in evidence some documents noted in the general's diary
Baseball
Though weather punched holes in the schedule, the pennant pattern was clear as the season came to the end of round one
The X-Ray Box
Tip From The Top
By Patty Berg
Bowling
For years a man is competing with the best and they still claim he lacks color—then suddenly merit makes a star
The Outdoor Week
Senators clash over the late Bernard DeVoto, an Air Force squadron takes a flyer at conservation and Montana biologists find geese are silly after all
Edited by Ed Zern
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER