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May 9, 1960 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: The Tam O'Shanter Country Club in Chicago has replaced caddies with golf carts. How do you feel about it?

By Jimmy Jemail

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS May 6 to May 12

Editorials

EDITORIALS

Penny Pills

THE CASE of the PENNY PILLS

A beating, a suicide, a blonde and a cure for asthma have been parlayed by the press into a major British horse-doping scandal

By Huston Horn

YOU CAN DOPE U.S. HORSES, TOO, BUT IT ISN'T EASY

By M. R. Werner

THE FASTEST OF THE FASTEST

World record holder Ray Norton defeated four of his peers and all of his fears to score two brilliant sprint victories in the Penn Relays

By Tex Maule

Handball

FOUR WALL AND FOR BLOOD

Jimmy Jacobs won the U.S. handball championship last week, but not without a marvelous, slam-bang fight

By Robert Boyle

Painful Retreat from Olympia

A Lonely Loop

Girls on the Beam

Aparicio

Happy Little Luis

The best shortstop in baseball is no bigger than a bat boy, but he makes the big plays with ease, inspiration and a cheerful flamboyance

By Gilbert Rogin

Summer: The Quarterly Sporting Look Preview

Clothes for traveling light

By Fred R. Smith

Boxing

Big punch, small chance

Sonny Liston may be our best heavyweight, but seems fated never to achieve a title shot

By Martin Kane

Cards

Goodby to kid gloves

By Charles Goren

Horse Racing

Two-horse finale

It will be Tompion and Bally Ache against the field this week in the 86th Kentucky Derby

By Whitney Tower

Gymnastics

Muscles and grace

The nation's best gymnasts, men and women, competed for Olympic team positions

By Walter Bingham

Alaska Cruise

INSIDE TO ALASKA

The thousand-mile passage from Seattle north to Juneau leads adventurous yachtsmen through the wilderness cruising ground of the mighty Coast Range, an area of snowcapped mountains, superb salmon rivers, vast forests and, at journey's end, the glaciers of Alaska

By Mort Lund

Baseball's Week

BASEBALL'S WEEK

By Roger Williams

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Pat On The Back

COLETTE YAROSH

'Does that explain it?'

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Sidney L. James

Events and Discoveries of the Week

FACES IN THE CROWD