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August 4, 1958 Table Of Contents

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Coming Events

COMING EVENTS August 1 to August 10

U.S.-Russia Track

AN EXPLOSION THAT SPLUTTERED

That special American dynamism diagnosed by Parry O'Brien couldn't quite stop Russia in a bitterly fought track duel

By Tex Maule

Global Gamble

THE GLOBAL GAMBLE

Sports Illustrated presents the findings of a unique around-the-world inquiry into one of man's oldest and most controversial passions, with charts pinpointing expenditures

By Kenneth Rudeen

Spectacle

The Moment Before

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

PAGING MR. GREY

Wonderful World Of Sport

A RACING ROCKEFELLER

THE GREAT HULA-HOOPLA

Nantucket

The Magic of Nantucket

Its very name means "faraway," and even in the missile age the historic island, long a famous resort, still imparts an away-from-it-all feeling

By Gerald Holland

Cards

The masters go psyching in Florida

By Charles Goren

Boxing

Right is might

Lightweight Champion Joe Brown retains crown despite leftish plot

By Martin Kane

Nature

Loving care for royal eggs

The kingly muskellunge taxes the patience of anglers who try to catch him and of conservationists who try to hatch him

By Coles Phinizy

Horse Racing

No light matter

Poundage was Bold Ruler's nemesis, but Gallant Man took a big weight a long way

By William Leggett

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Golf

Items from a summer notebook

Random thoughts on the new PGA tournament, spectator aids, Peter Thomson, Sam Snead and Cary Grant

By Herbert Warren Wind

Tip From The Top

Playing from hard and soft sand

By Phil Taylor

Baseball

Milwaukee's Pal Joey

Joey Jay, first Little Leaguer to make the majors, has pitched the Braves to the league lead

By Walter Bingham

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Pat On The Back

DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN

'It's sort of like flying'

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...