February 10, 1964 Table Of Contents
Yesterday
Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins made it to the game the hard way after missing the team train to Montreal
Olympic
RUSSIAN BLADES AND FAST FRENCH SKIS
The opening ceremonies at Innsbruck were hardly over before two ice-hard realities began to emerge. The Russian skaters, particularly a blonde bullet named Lidia Skoblikova, were overpowering, and not even Austria's Egon Zimmermann or Jean Saubert of the U.S. could diminish the brilliance of the inspired Alpine racers from France
By Dan Jenkins
TWO PROPER BRITISHERS IN A BOB
To the amazement of all, including families and friends, the remarkable team of Antony Nash and T. Robin Dixon flew down the icy chute at Igls to beat the great Italian sleds and win England's third gold medal in 40 years
REGAL SPLENDOR ON THE SIDELINES
Wally's Cue
WALLY'S CUE: 'SIDNEY! SIDNEY!'
With Quarterback Wally Jones shouting secret signals to bewilder the opposition, and a magnificent defense of its own, Villanova has become the best basketball team in the East
Fireball Roberts
Edward Glenn (Fireball) Roberts, steadiest of the big-time stock car racers, straddles the sport from its dirt-track beginning to its richly remunerative present
Best Girl
To get three best-in-show awards at the famed Westminster show, as Anne Hone Rogers has done, an expert dog handler must be part barber, part trainer, part nurse and part psychologist
People
Golf
Stars don't reign, but confusion does
Arnie, Jack and Julie are around, yet in five weeks they have failed to win. The titles have gone instead to the likes of youthful Tommy, tiny Chi Chi and aging Art—and there are reasons why
By Gwilym S. Brown
Boating
Sailing to victory with a needle and thread
Ted Hood, whose 'Robin' took Class A in a race around Florida, is one skipper who makes his own sails and builds his own boats
By Hugh Whall
Track
When he isn't busy at the pharmacy, Canadian half-miler Bill Crothers runs fast enough to win in any competition
Liston
Ominous in the background, Sonny Liston glowers down on a quartet of fighters who, when they met him, were not intimidated in the least. Here, from the left, are Marty Marshall, Burt Whitehurst, Eddie Machen and Jim McCarter. They tell how they stood up to the heavyweight champion and how he can be beaten
By Morton Sharnik
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
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