June 11, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
By Jimmy Jemail
American League
So says SI Correspondent James Murray, emboldened by the booming bats of the Nationals in a week of 132 home runs. The formulator of Murray's Law, which sees baseball history as a series of recurrent cycles, Murray is no junior circuit upstart but a deadly serious fan who (in the days before his current disenchantment) named his oldest son for Ted Williams. Fan Murray is fully prepared to defend his stand all summer long, if need be, against all serious dissenters. His only request is that all letter writers include, as prima-facie evidence of their true qualifications and earnestness of purpose, either the used stub of a big league admission ticket or the tuning knob of their TV set
By James Murray
Spectacle
Racers in frail kayaks test their nerve against the challenge of the Arkansas
Events & Discoveries
THE JOLLY ROGER AT THE PEAK, TELEVISION GIRDS FOR ROCHESTER, YOUNG ENGLISHMAN'S DAY AT TROON, ON THE HUMBLING OF HIGH MOUNTAINS, CARBO IN THE SOUTH
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Preview
One of golf's alltime great players, Sam Snead, the magnetic man from the mountains, has won every major championship except—tragically—'the big one,' the National Open
Indianapolis "500"
PAT'S "500" SAW SOME AWFUL TANGLES
It was a great Memorial Day for that Irishman named Flaherty, who conquered the Indianapolis Speedway. For others it was a day of unaccountable blowouts and spins
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS June 8 through June 17
Tennis
Stars that are and stars-to-be confidently defend U.S. prospects of maintaining our ladies first
By William F. Talbert
Horse Racing
A pound of lead is worth a neck and can turn victory into defeat. So horsemen will always keep crying to Mr. Handicapper
Baseball
Baseball is mainly about bats, balls and base hits but another old and honorable facet of the game is the rhubarb
X-Ray
Tip From The Top
for all golfers except low-handicap players
Nature
Clear bugles on the Mississippi as Crip and Josephine proudly herald numbers 30 & 31
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 Alaska
Edited by Ed Zern
Boxing
SI's columnist emeritus reviews the movie made from his book and decides that 'The Harder They Fall' fell prey to Hollywood hokum
Horses
American horsemen rise above the machine age to take part in the Equestrian Olympics, Melbourne's Swedish Overture
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER