August 7, 1961 Table Of Contents
Cover
A poker quiz to test the knowledge of the male who plays, or is inveigled into playing, poker with ladies
By Rex Lardner
Table of Contents
Major events through August 12
Kids And Kubs
It's the minimum age for players on the Kids and Kubs, teams that make up a league of capering oldsters in St. Petersburg, Florida
By John Durant
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS August 4 to August 10
Tragic Climb
Often attempted, never conquered, the Freney route up Mont Blanc lured Walter Bonatti and six others on a sunny July morning. Only three returned from one of the most tragic Alpine climbs in 20 years
Saratoga
SARATOGA: 'WHERE HORSE IS KING'
This is the traditional boast of the pleasant upstate New York community whose magnificent racecourse holds its annual meeting in August, when New York City's tracks are closed. Here, horse and rider gallop through a workout in early-morning haze.
Herb Score
THE PRIVATE ORDEAL OF HERB SCORE
Confused and mystified by his own failures, baseball's onetime golden boy returns to the minors to seek the left-handers' traditional will-o'-the-wisp: the plate
By Jack Olsen
Boating
A plastic doughnut with a motor in the middle
Japanese Industrialist Genichi Kawakami and his designer, pretty Noriko Kondo, have built a roundboat to use as a party craft for leisurely eating, drinking or poetry reading
By Don Connery
Horse Shows
New talent and old reliables, mostly female, gave brilliant performances at Lexington
Fishing
The trout stream and the earthquake
For two years fly-fishermen have been worrying about what the big quake of '59 did to the Madison River. Here is the answer:
By Martin Kane
Cards
Chess Champion
Once tolerated as a good-looking girl who played chess, Lisa Lane is now a champion who wants the world title
Baseball's Week
By Herman Weiskopf
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Pat On The Back
Departments
Foul weather and worse tempers marred pro golf's biggest championship, but a trio of remarkable last-round putts and a steady hand in the playoff carried the day for Jerry Barber