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October 7, 1957 Table Of Contents

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Baseball X-Ray

X-RAY FOR THE 1957 SEASON

For the final week of the season, X-Ray presents its usual weekly inside figures plus a selection of pertinent statistics

Fisherman's Calendar

FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS OCT. 4-OCT. 13

Pigskin Panorama

Oklahoma didn't play football last weekend, but everybody else seemed to, and the upsets and runaways were astonishing enough to cock eyebrows in all corners of the country

Hickman's Hunches

HICKMAN'S HUNCHES For Games of Saturday, October 5

By Herman Hickman

Run For The Money

RUN FOR THE MONEY

Pro football is on its way to another big season, and superstars like Ollie Matson will decide the title. Here is a preview, with scouting reports of all the teams

By Tex Maule

Scouting Reports

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Wonderful World Of Sport

WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

T. S. ELIOT AT EBBETS FIELD, FINAL STANDINGS OF THE UMPIRES, LE DERNIER BARK, MEETING A CRISIS WITH FANGIO, VEECK'S LAW, LASKAU'S LAST WALK

BIG TIME AT $5 A SHARE

New Jersey's Walt Hansgen was again the hero when the new Long Island road course welcomed the SCCA to its roaring debut

By Kenneth Rudeen

Dedicated Willie

THE DEDICATED WILLIE

Young Mr. Hartack surprised his elders, but an older horse upset his juniors when the Belmont race track staged its greatest day of the year for 36,000 fans

By Whitney Tower

Football: Second Week

CAME THE UPSETS

Preview

TRAVAILS OF A T BACK

Doyle Traylor, who quarterbacks his Baylor teammates against Miami Saturday, is a walking catalog of football injuries

By Don Parker

Family Affair

A FAMILY AFFAIR

Sports Illustrated, a Johnny come lately, sends a member of the immediate family to cover the New York Giants' last rites at the Polo Grounds

By Arnold Hano

Kentucky Kingmaker

At Louisville a dark horse won, an old champion made a comeback, and The Lemon Drop Kid conquered all

By Alice Higgins

Pheasant

THE PHEASANT AND THE COMMISSAR

By Ellis O. Briggs

SHOOTING IN THE U.S.

Summer Album

A drama critic (New York "Daily News"), whose hobby is vacation travel, wanders through some ghost towns in his native state of Colorado

By John Chapman

Tip From The Top

FOR THE AVERAGE GOLFER

By Buck Luce

13 The floor swim helps strengthen upper and lower back muscles

By Bonnie Prudden

Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: What is there about football that makes you like the game so much?

By Jimmy Jemail

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

ED MOORE

Departments

SCOREBOARD

these faces in the crowd...

focus on the deed...

FOR THE RECORD

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips