May 6, 1963 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
The prosy athletic sock takes on a splash of color and a dash of style
Yesterday
Anybody Here Ever Swim the Bosporus?
A noted news correspondent, fresh from a daring athletic triumph, encounters perhaps the world's meanest bartender
Kentucky Derby
Unbeaten and heavily favored, Candy Spots of California comes to the Kentucky Derby all set to make his owner No. 1 in U.S. racing. But a couple of eastern colts are intent on spoiling the grand design
Ruffled Race
The tempers of those he left behind were roiled as Odell Lewis (below) won 'the most rugged race in the world' in record time, but the ocean stretching between Miami and Nassau was once again smooth as glass
By Arthur Zich
Yang Of China
YANG OF CHINA IS WORLD'S BEST ATHLETE
A student at UCLA from Formosa, C. K. Yang last Sunday broke Rafer Johnson's old record in the toughest event in all of sport—the decathlon
By Tex Maule
LITHE ENVOYS TO OUR LATIN NEIGHBORS
Skill counts more than beauty in athletics, but both qualities are happily combined in the women's U.S. gymnastic team. Its young members, now competing in the Pan American Games in Brazil, also serve as LITHE ENVOYS TO OUR LATIN NEIGHBORS
Sporting Look
A tie for the top and a tribute to Bonnie
Two sportswear designers, Ellen Brooke and Rudi Gernreich, share the 1963 Sporting Look Award, and Bonnie Cashin returns—now as Designer of the Year
By Jo Ahern Zill
Basketball
Age was supposed to slow Boston, but not even an injury to a famous ankle could keep the champs from another NBA title
Baseball
Some say that rooting for the Mets is a fad. Others argue that anyone who can stand watching baseball in the Polo Grounds must be sincere
Bridge
Helicopters
Anyone for a Backward Takeoff?
You can try some weird stunts in a helicopter—such as a mock bullfight with a cow—but there are problems, too. Unlike an airplane, the blamed thing doesn't really want to fly
By Bill Mauldin
Baseball's Week
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
