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June 4, 1956 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: If all the countries in the world were organized into a sports league, which sport should be chosen? (Asked at the Dominican Republic World's Fair for Peace and Brotherhood of the Free World.)

By Jimmy Jemail

Dave Sime

SUPERMAN IN SPIKES

By Roy Terrell

Spectacle

THE BLUE BOMBER

With the speed and fury of a hit and run fighter a bold blue jay 'shoots up' its old enemy the owl

By John O'Reilly

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

WEST COAST DEVALUES FOOTBALL BEEF, BRANCH RICKEY UPGRADES THE PIRATES, THE SAD TRUTH OF MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, ALTHEA GIBSON'S WAY, GUSSIE BUSCH'S WAD

The Wonderful World Of Sport

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Preview

THE PATTERSON-JACKSON FIGHT

Floyd Patterson at last gets his big chance to move toward the heavyweight title when he meets Hurricane Jackson, No. 2 challenger, at Madison Square Garden

By Martin Kane

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS June 1 through June 10

Baseball

INDIAN SUMMER

The Pirates (Mr. Long) and the Yankees (Mr. Mantle) made bright headlines. But news was darker about the Indian Summer

By Robert Creamer

X-Ray

X-RAY

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Tip From The Top

Especially for women golfers

By George Corcoran

Sea Test

DEEP-DISH OUTBOARD

Solid fiber-glass construction and safe, seagoing design have been molded together in Beetle's new deep-dish outboard

By Robert N. Bavier Jr.

Horse Racing

BEATING THE RACES

More than $7 billion—5 of them off the track—are bet on horses in the ever-new, ever-baffling search: beating the races

By Whitney Tower

Dogs

UNDERDOG OVER ALL

At a prestige show it's the underdog over all

By Alice Higgins

The Outdoor Week

THE OUTDOOR WEEK

Based on regular weekly dispatches from SI bureaus and special correspondents in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and overseas; and on reports from fish and game commissions of the 48 states and Alaska

Edited by Ed Zern

The Sporting Look

CLAIRE AND RUDI

Architects of long-limbed look, they win the first Sportswear Design Awards

By Jo Ahern

Sport In Art

PRIVATE CLUB COLLECTIONS—No. II: UNIVERSITY CLUB

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

PAT ON THE BACK

Departments

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...

FOCUS ON THE DEED

FOR THE RECORD