May 11, 1959 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
THE QUESTION: Is the U.S. losing her over-all superiority in golf?
By Jimmy Jemail
On Playing Possum
The Natural Instinct to Play Possum
All living creatures are born actors. By feigning death they live to play another day
Baseball's Week
By Les Woodcock
Derby
After a savage duel, Tomy Lee and Jockey Shoemaker—he of the magic hands—beat Sword Dancer by a few inches
Spectacle
Nevada's flamboyant desert flower is in full bloom, nourished by gambling's easy money and adorned with lavish shows
Events & Discoveries
Boxing
TUNING UP FOR PAY IN THE COLISEUM
King Floyd Patterson, defending his championship for a fourth time, took 11 rounds to solve Bully Boy Brian London's imitation of his peekaboo defense
By Martin Kane
Wonderful World Of Sport
Walker Cup
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR WALKER CUPPERS
The editor of the Glasgow 'Evening Times,' himself a Walker Cup veteran, writes of the history of the awesome Muirfield course, scene of next week's cup renewal
Summer: The Quarterly Sporting Look Preview
Boating clothes by a lady sailor...The easy-living blends...A southern planter look in linens...What to wear with the two-piece bathing suit
Baseball
But up on top stayed those startling Indians, who won two big ones from New York
By Roy Terrell
Cards
Fishing
The leaping tarpon has an unmatched fascination for fishermen. Once hooked, he is never forgotten
By Roy Terrell
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is where the shooters are armed with dice and the wildest call is the stick man's cry. Big, busy, growing, the city's success is rooted in man's age-old refusal to flinch before the odds
By Kenneth Rudeen
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: The readers take over
Pat On The Back
'I'm living my life over again'