January 28, 1957 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: How much weight can a race horse carry without the danger of breaking down?
By Jimmy Jemail
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS Jan. 25 through Feb. 3
MIDWINTER NIGHT'S DREAM PAYS OFF
Basketball coaches are generally hardheaded men who believe neither in mirages nor miracles, but this one pinned his hopes on a vision—and won
By Jeremiah Tax
Last of the independent weekly fight promoters, Sad Sam Silverman has been getting knockout drops in his war with the IBC but fights groggily on
By Martin Kane
BOSTON NIGHTMARE: EXIT SAWCHUK
National League hockey lives a frenzied week as the Bruins' great goalie is elected a midseason All-Star one day and is dropped by his team on the next
Spectacle
Despite high costs, hockey's popularity with teen-age athletes is growing fast, and the best team, as it nearly always does, again comes from St. Paul's School
Events & Discoveries
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH, MICKEY AND MINNIE AND MONEY, SOME CHESTNUTS FROM THE BANQUET TABLES, JOE'S TAXES: A SLOW PACE ON A FAST TREADMILL, BILLIARDS AND B-52S, TABORI
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Old Kraut Revives Bruins
THE OLD KRAUT REVIVES THE BRUINS
By instilling his own fierce will to win in his players, Coach Milton Schmidt, ranking hero of Boston's golden age of hockey, has ended the Bruins' long hibernation and produced the surprise team of the National Hockey League
Snow Patrol
SKIING COAST TO COAST
Mexican Waterway
After the run down from San Diego, most sailors start from La Paz for a cruise to Acapulco or the Gulf of California. However, in order to report on the best spots along the entire coast, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED arranged to begin its trip in Guaymas
By Ezra Bowen
The Sporting Look
And meanwhile—DOWN ON THE BEACH
ACAPULCO HAS A WAY OF ITS OWN IN DRESSING FOR BEACH AND SUN
Footloose Sportsman
THE FOOTLOOSE SPORTSMAN IN MEXICO CITY
if you want to go to a bullfight in Mexico City
Tip From The Top
Especially for high-scoring players
By Patty Berg
Fisherman's Calendar
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Pat On The Back
TOUCHDOWN DINNER TROPHY WINNERS