August 28, 1961 Table Of Contents

Author:
SI Staff

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS August 25 to August 31

You just smile and swim faster, according to Japan's Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, who got the better of Murray Rose in a most memorable competition

By Roger Williams

A Time to Laugh...

...and a Time to Cry

Jockey

SHORT, HAPPY CAREER OF A JOCKEY

Rating his progress step by step, Johnny Sellers has reached the top in seven years. By the time six more pass, he says, he will have become a cowboy

By Whitney Tower

How Come, Spider?

HOW COME, SPIDER?

As manager in a bonus-baby bush league, a onetime Brooklyn Dodger infielder has to find the answers to some rather fantastic questions—as well as rake the infield and do the laundry, too

By Gerald Holland

Golden Savage

GOLDEN SAVAGE OF THE JUNGLE RIVERS

Brazil's finest game fish, the dourado, puts up a wearing fight, but between rounds a fisherman can live in luxury at a fine hotel deep in a tropical forest against the backdrop of Igua√ß√∫ Falls

By Martin Kane

Sporting Look

A 'bag of tricks' crammed with bargains

Europe's boutiques beguile American buyers with sport clothes that exude the sparkle of France and the charm of Italy

By Jo Ahern Zill

Golf

Reckless win for a junior miss

Mary Lowell, a sturdy 17-year-old who fired her father as pro, played daring golf last week to take the girls' championship

By Emmett Watson

Cards

On the double

By Charles Goren

Cricket

this IS cricket!

No game is more thoroughly misunderstood by Americans than cricket. Now a Sports Illustrated baseball writer visits England and discovers the skill and violence residing in this ancient game

By Roy Terrell