July 20, 1959 Table Of Contents

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LATE SUMMER IN MAINE AND MASSACHUSETTS

Sporting and vacation events, mid-July through September

Baseball's Week

BASEBALL'S WEEK

By Les Woodcock

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS July 17 to July 23

HERE THEY COME!

The Soviet athletic army, determined, strong and secretive, invades the U.S. for a track meet—but should be beaten

By Tex Maule

Prediction

Men: WE WIN 132-104 Women: WE LOSE 41-66

Scoring at the meet (5,3,2,1) helps the weaker team, since the entrant finishing fourth and last is automatically credited with a possibly undeserved point. But this will not prevent victory for either our men or the Russian women. Here, says Tex Maule, is the probable order of finish in each of the 32 events

By Tex Maule

Winner of the Newport race was sailed by a full professor of ocean-racing mathematics

By Mort Lund

Food

A sportswoman's summer table

Jessie Bancroft Cox, prominent horse show judge, is a superlative hostess as well

By Mary Frost Mabon

Boxing

The little world of bantams gets a new champ

He's José Becerra, a skinny kid from Guadalajara, who knocked out Alphonse Halimi in Mexico's finest fistic hour

By James Murray

Horse Racing

First lady—momentarily

Resaca dusted off Silver Spoon and Quill in a spirited filly race, pointing out the values of a jockey who rides to orders

By Whitney Tower

Harness Racing

Here's how it was in Grandpa's day

Once a year trotting returns to its true origins at Goshen's Historic Track, where the horses are the big attraction for a knowledgeable audience and the betting is only incidental

By Jeremiah Tax