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A major league baseball quiz to stimulate the memory and increase the knowledge of fans
Jack The Mighty
The old men challenged sharply at Augusta but, in the end, strength and youth conquered as big Jack Nicklaus used his huge drives and near-flawless tactics to become the youngest Masters champion ever. Only one stroke behind Nicklaus was Champagne Tony Lema, a newcomer to the Masters and a bubbly threat to pro golf's best
2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,559,991, to 1
Charlie's Heaven
An American matinee idol 30 years ago, Charlie Farrell is still very much on stage at the Palm Springs Racquet Club, the celebrity-filled institution that he founded, ran and rarely leaves
One-Two Punch
A ONE-TWO PUNCH FDR THE PRETTIEST
WITH A LOB TO THE BASELINE, THE GIRL AT RIGHT IS ABOUT TO DRIVE HER OPPONENT BACK WITH ONE PART OF THE ONE-TWO PUNCH
By William F. Talbert
Skiing
Cool skiing in sun-baked Alaska
The names that came out of the National Alpine Ski Championships, held for the first time in Alaska, were well known: Werner, Minsch, Ferries and Saubert. But there was also a mountain named Max
By Roy Terrell
Sporting Look
The human fish acquires a brighter, tougher skin
A new protective coating adds a dash of color to the scuba diver's traditional drab black neoprene suit
Baseball
Rookies, rookies everywhere, and even JFK is talking
About once a decade hordes of brilliant young ballplayers come off the farms in a swarm and scare the daylights out of the tired old baseball journeymen. This looks like one of those years
By Tom C. Brody
Bullfighting
In Mexico, Paco Camino is hailed as 'N√∫mero Uno'
A 21-year-old Spanish matador sets the El Toreo ring aflame with muleta passes that the critics call better than those of Manolete
Motor Sports
A heretic with great expectations
By streaking comfortably to a startling 150.501-mph lap at the Indianapolis Speedway—second-fastest tour ever—a sleek Ford-powered, English-built racer has posed the biggest threat yet to Offenhauser orthodoxy
By Kenneth Rudeen
Bridge
A very big deal at the ladies' bridge club
When the most improbable bridge hand of all turns up in a ladies' game at Kankakee, it moves experts to offer some surprising advice on how to bid with 13 of a suit
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
