August 6, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
By Jimmy Jemail
Events & Discoveries
A DEEP FAREWELL TO A STRICKEN FRIEND, A SICK EVENT AND A NEW PRESCRIPTION, WHAT FINALLY HAPPENED TO THOSE YOUNG MEN IN ENGLAND, SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Umpires Ever Wrong
UMPIRES EVER WRONG? SURE, BUT WITH A PURPOSE
So says the author, Gil Stratton Jr., Pacific Coast League arbiter, who holds that umpires would rather be "decently negligent" than responsible for maiming a ballplayer
Billy Haughton
Billy Haughton is a businessman-athlete whose winning ways in a sulky bring him trotting's top rating and $100,000 a year
By Jeremiah Tax
Travesty In Tijuana
When a border impresario matched two female bullfighters, Mexico City Bureau Chief Richard Oulahan Jr. and Critic Rafael Delgado Lozano, who earlier covered the great mano a mano at Maracay (SI, March 12), went north to observe it. Their verdict: "Disgusting and disgraceful"
Tip From The Top
By Phil Perkins
Boating
Michigan marathoners dodge hull-tearing snags in 50-mph outboard test
By Ezra Bowen
Motor Sports
One driver died on the rain-slick course, but for the victorious Jaguar team Le Mans was a
Baseball
The Rapier from Waxahachie may be the busiest man in baseball as he trades, rejects, patches and plans for
By Roy Terrell
X-Ray
Golf
A brickbat for PGA officialdom, but bouquets for two beauteous Women's Open finalists in their
Acknowledgments
Boxing
Champagne and dinner jackets, Highlanders in kilts, and Archie Moore against an unknown, bring in the
By Martin Kane
Swimming
At Detroit's Olympic trials a record field of 300 men and women wind up a hard summer with their
Outdoor Week
In France sailors call the shark 'le requin,' in Washington the Senate at last approves a new national park, and a beaver house in Ontario shows some peculiar additions
Edited by Tom Lineaweaver
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Mr. Caper
By Ajay