May 26, 1958 Table Of Contents
X-Ray
Pirates slumped after winning 15 of 20, but stayed in first division
Fisherman's Calendar
Acknowledgments
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS May 23 to June 1
The 82nd Preakness went to valorous Tim Tam, who should be the first in a decade to win racing's Triple Crown; but Silky sank back into legend, earning his ticket home
Spectacle
Baseball's fabulous young strikeout whiz, Herb Score, is back again as good as before
Events & Discoveries
Fitness
June 1 to 7 has been set aside to consider fitness. A new Sports Illustrated survey again shows that despite publicity and some progress, leadership is still lacking
Baseball
Baltimore Orioles lead the league!
The No-Yankee League, that is. The Yankees are so far ahead that the American League race is over. But the other seven teams are in a scramble, with Baltimore on top
By Les Woodcock
Tip From The Top
Cards
Boxing
A champion's kid brother, a French lightweight and a cool heavyweight appraised
By Martin Kane
Tennis
James Van Alen, president of the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport and chairman of the time-honored Newport Invitation Tournament, here takes the witness stand and presents his radical ideas on streamlining tennis. Mr. Van Alen's career as a player dates back to his college days at Cambridge, England, where he captained the Oxford-Cambridge team which defeated the combined Yale-Harvard squad of 1924. Even today, at 55, he wields an aggressive and enthusiastic racket
Sporting Look
New clothes for an elegant race's revival
Newport's great traditions keynote summer clothes by the 1957 winner of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S American Sportswear Design Award
By Jo Ahern Zill
Motor Sports
A wizard mechanic has put three of his four cars in the front row at Indy
By Kenneth Rudeen
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: The readers take over