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February 10, 1958 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: Eastern sailors say the Newport-Bermuda ocean race is the toughest. Do you agree? (Asked of skippers in Trans-Pacific-Honolulu run)

By Jimmy Jemail

Fisherman's Calendar

FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR

Snow Patrol

SNOW PATROL

Skiing across the country—reports complete through the preceding weekend

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS February 7 to 16

Race To Remember

A RACE THEY'LL REMEMBER

Fire almost made a tragedy of the famed San Diego to Acapulco ocean race but it all had a happy ending

TWO MIRACLE MILES IN A WEEK

Herb Elliott, an Aussie schoolboy when Landy and Bannister were blazing the four-minute trail, turned the trick last week and is only sorry he didn't beat the world record

Spectacle

Squash at its Best

Squash racquets, whether for champions or tyros, is a sporting challenge and a fast-rising U.S. fever

By Thomas H. Lineaweaver

Yesterday

YANKEE XANADU

'Cleopatra's Barge,' America's first ocean-going pleasure yacht, was a thing of opulence and beauty before she met her sad end

By Richard Schickel

Weidman's Burden

ANGLES THAT HURT

A honeymoon pair, an innocent voyage, and you've got trouble

By Jerome Weidman

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

MISS CHEESECAKE JOINS THE DODGERS

Wonderful World Of Sport

WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Bobby Bragan

A NEW INDIAN CHIEF SENDS UP SOME SMOKE SIGNALS

Fighting for a pennant in Havana, an unchastened Bobby Bragan also is making plans for his major league comeback as manager at Cleveland

By Richard W. Johnston

Basketball

Wilt Chamberlain— ? SHOULD KANSAS STATE PLAY HIM MAN-FOR-MAN ? CAN STATE AFFORD TO PUT TWO MEN ON HIM ? SHOULD KANSAS PLAY TO HIM EXCLUSIVELY ? CAN HE CONTROL STATE'S THREE BIG MEN ? CAN STATE LURE HIM AWAY FROM THE BASKET

These were questions that haunted the rival coaches and partisan fans as Kansas and Kansas State fought for top national ranking in the Lawrence field house

By Jeremiah Tax

Track

Dave's New Start

Duke's Dave Sime may be the fastest living human being; a fresh technique could help him prove it this track season

By Tex Maule

Golf

On and Off the Fairways

The second of these monthly reports focuses on the new sensation—J. C. Goosie

By Barry Burn

Tip From The Top

The Short Lofted Pitch

By Marlene Bauer Hagge

THE BIG TIME

In a floodlit arena filled with 15,000 cheering spectators the dog world's elite faces its greatest test—Westminster

Fitness

29 This sinuous exercise strengthens abdominal and leg muscles

By Bonnie Prudden

Cards

Bad Luck Can Be Fun

By Charles Goren

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Pat On The Back

Roger Williams

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips

A worldwide roundup of the sports information of the week

focus on the deed...

FOR THE RECORD

faces in the crowd...