August 20, 1962 Table Of Contents
Point Of Fact
A U.S. Singles Championships quiz to excite the memory and increase the knowledge of fans and armchair experts
By Nancy Pierce
Kill Button
Motorcycle road racing is not just riding around. It unites man and machine in a wonderfully complex sequence of conditioned reflexes, involving front and rear wheel brakes, a whole series of shifts and, on occasion, killing the engine at high speed
By Kenneth Rudeen
Golfers
Golfers with Room for Improvement
Drysdale
Don Drysdale's pitching motion—once described as 'all spikes, elbows and fingernails'—hasn't changed, but his working attitude has. Result: a good shot at 30 wins and a pennant for the Los Angeles Dodgers
By Huston Horn
Bass
Racing Lady
Her pace is furious and her manner brusque, but Marjorie Lindheimer Everett is bringing new vitality to her sport in the Midwest. She has spent millions to see that her patrons get the best, and now she offers the richest race of them all
Sporting Look
Bridge
The author's team lost the big event at the Summer Nationals after he broke a rib and his favorite partner had a spider sit down beside her
Swimming
Challenge from the outside lanes
The AAU meet saw records fall, champions win, and also offered a peek at a future Olympic threat
Outer Islands
THE OUTER ISLANDS: MIRACLES AND PROPHECIES
Reflections on a wayward passage through Hawaii's neighbor islands, including encounters with benign and secret toads, beguiled antelopes, neurotic goats, a laughing girl, a peremptory Chinese, many 'pipipi' and a steamed mullet in a Japanese bakery
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
Departments
He wants to shoot ducks, but the U.S. Government doesn't give him much of a chance; and friends are telling him—violently—that the Government is wrong