August 20, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: What sport attracts the most unsportsmanlike fans?
By Jimmy Jemail
Red Fans And Ladies
For 12 days the Iron Curtain was pulled back while 10,000 Russian men and women showed their mass progress in 20 sports and tested their strength for the 1956 Olympic Games
Events & Discoveries
HORACE GREELEY WAS SO RIGHT, THE END OF THE FEUD, WASHINGTON'S ELYSIAN OUTFIELDS, ALMOST MAN'S LAST FORTRESS, SAD TALE OF CASEY AND THE FRAMMIS PITCH
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Ted Defies His Critics
TED WILLIAMS DEFIES HIS CRITICS
X-Ray
Sires And Sales
SIRES, SALES AND THE CHALLENGE
A portfolio of champions and some news of an expanding sport
The Suffering Fan
THE CASE FOR THE SUFFERING FAN
Scorned by the athlete, scolded by the physical fitness fanatic, exploited by parking lot sharpies, ushers and hot dog vendors, his ultimate indignity is his betrayal by those who should love him most: the men who run spectator sports
By James Murray
'NOBODY FALLS ASLEEP ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON'
By Paul O'Neil
Age Of Sport
THE AGE OF SPORT 1954-2004 A.D.
Sporting Look
News in campus fashions comes in twos for fall, as girl collegians not only follow male fashions but catch up
Tip From The Top
By Betsy Rawls
Boating
By Ezra Bowen
Harness Racing
By Jeremiah Tax
Swimming
The Outdoor Week
Out for swordfish (right), a harpooneer found a fox terrier name of Shakespeare and, as the Bard wrote, "From the rude sea's enrag'd and foamy mouth/Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was"
Edited by Thomas H. Lineaweaver
Motor Sports
By Kenneth Rudeen
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Pat On The Back
Departments
To the Participants: A DEDICATION
By Sidney L. James/Managing Editor