June 25, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Is cockfighting cruel and sadistic? (Asked at the Nacional Hotel, Havana, Cuba.)
By Jimmy Jemail
Chasing The Doc
THE CHASE OF THE DOC AT OAK HILL
Cary Middlecoff, the ex-dentist from Memphis, could sip a cool drink and wait while five challengers tried and failed to catch him in the U.S. Open
Spectacle
Moscow will be host to the world's best civilian aeronauts in July
Events & Discoveries
THE MOST FOR GOLF, LEND-LEASE AND EYEBROWS IN THE HORSE SET, THE METEOROLOGY OF SEPTEMBER 1927, DR. SUMMERSKILL RETREATS, TRAVELS OF MR. CARBO (CONT'D), INVASION NOTES
The Wonderful World Of Sport
THE GRIMACE OF PAIN—AND TWO OLYMPIC TITLES IN THE BALANCE
IN ANY LANGUAGE...IT'S STILL A RHUBARB
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS June 22 through July 1
Horse Racing
A lazy bay colt named Needles ran true to form in the Belmont Stakes. From last place to first, the winner and still champ
By Pat Lynch
Boating
Cornell is favored among the Olympic eights, but tradition dies hard and sentiment cries admirals away!
By Ezra Bowen
Baseball
Left-handers like Warren Spahn are serious craftsmen, but memories of odd Rube Waddell raise the question: are lefties human?
X-Ray
Track & Field
400 collegians scrambled through the NCAA meet and over 100 qualified for next week's Olympic trials as the field narrows
By Roy Terrell
Horses
SI's envoy to the Equestrian Olympics sees jittery horses and riders share the medals, bringing most Gold to Sweden
Boxing
The week's most amazing decision was outside of the ring in which DeMarco clearly beat Martinez—it was Helfand's lapse
By Martin Kane
Acknowledgments
Tip From The Top
especially for the average woman golfer
By Louise Suggs
Sporting Look
Sporting life on the beach is being spiced this summer with a new approach in the art of concealment or exposure to the sun
The Outdoor Week
Secretary of Interior Seaton angles in controversial waters, Texas ropes a whooper, and one scientist gets a charge out of the destructive lamprey
Edited by Ed Zern
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER