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April 6, 1964 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
A new shop in Los Angeles has become a gathering place for tennis "insiders"
The Squabbler
The Squabbler of the Squash Courts
Vic Niederhoffer brought a touch of Brooklyn rowdiness to Harvard and a traditionally genteel game
By Rex Lardner
Taking Stock
An investigation of boxing by a U.S. Senate subcommittee reveals that the ex-heavyweight champion was generous to a fault with the kind of friends he was supposed to have given up long ago
Two Guys Named Joe
TWO GUYS NAMED JOE JOLT ITHACA
Helped by a posse of Cowboys and Sooners, 130-pound Yo-Jo Uetake and his heavyweight teammate, Big Joe James, pinned the best wrestling teams in the land as Oklahomans won their 30th NCAA title
By Martin Kane
Masters Preview
The defending champion, himself one of golf's great power hitters (see cover), analyzes the Augusta National Golf Club course and presents indisputable proof that the Masters gives the long driver a remarkable advantage over the rest of the field—a conclusion supported by the results in recent years
THOSE WHO WATCH GOLF BEAR WATCHING
Fifth Street Gym
THE DINGY, SPRIGHTLY HOME OF THE GOOD ONES
The big, drab room, about as appetizing as a dish of roach powder, is almost ail there is to the Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach. From it, however, flows a ceaseless stream of champions, not the least of them Cassius Clay and Willie Pastrano
By Tex Maule
People
Baseball
Spahn and who? is the Braves' battle cry
To back up the great left-hander, Milwaukee is committed to pitchers with unfamiliar names and unproved talent, a gamble inspired by the team's failure to finish in the first division for the first time in 11 years
By Frank Deford
Cards
High-stakes players from all over the country attended the Las Vegas tournament, won by a stockbroker named Manny Rose
Augusta
AUGUSTA: Where Georgia Retaliates for Sherman's March
Thousands of golf followers are once more set to descend on this spoof of a spa. There they will happily retest the theory that it takes more sportsmanship—and courage—to face up to the challenge of Augusta and its Bon Air Hotel than it does to win the Masters
By Dan Jenkins
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
