April 16, 1962 Table Of Contents
Point Of Fact
A golf quiz to excite the memory and increase the knowledge of the casual fan and the armchair expert
By Pat Ryan
Postal Chess
Enclosed Please Find a Checkmate
The pace of postal chess is stately rather than dizzying: a game lasts a year, a tournament as long as eight years
The Masters
ARNOLD PALMER GETS A BIG REVENGE
A small, almost unknown band of runners from an all-Negro college captured honor, glory and the fans at the Texas Relays
By Tex Maule
Eddie Arcaro
Eddie Arcaro, the world's premier jockey and one of Thoroughbred racing's most colorful personalities for three decades, has called it quits at the age of 46
By Arlie W. Schardt
Donna De Varona
Donna de Varona is a high school freshman and an Olympic veteran and a world record holder. But still, she's worried: any day some upstart 12-year-old kid might swim right past her
Rookie
THE SPRINGTIME TRIALS OF A ROOKIE
For seven weeks a young ballplayer lives with the doubts of his future as he tries to make one of the major league teams
By Huston Horn
Boating
Hung up on a fine point of law
A rules change made to promote harmony has spawned confusion and made sailing a duller sport
Hunting
Spending a few dollars on a day off from his chores, a lucky hay farmer bags a prize moose
Food
Pigeons and grass fish at the Inn of Longevity
Bridge
Not even seeded in the top 20, a St. Louis team survived a three-way round robin and won the Vanderbilt trophy at the Spring Nationals
Golf
Boxing
The count: one, two, three and out
The protracted, even ridiculous, series of fights between Paul Pender and England's Terry Downes came to a gratifying conclusion in Boston last weekend when Pender regained, as expected, his middleweight title
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