May 17, 1965 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Most of the facts fit to print are in 'The New York Times Sports Almanac'
By Rex Lardner
Yesterday
The Children's Hour of Groaning and Gore
The Crippler and the Mauler were two regular American boys who had a taste for mayhem and staged a school wrestling match with a sense of theater that got a little out of hand
By Bill Mackay
Shopwalk
Travel agencies have begun to specialize in journeys for vacationing sportsmen
By Felicia Lee
Big Fight
Hordes of Californians left the beaches to go to Omaha, where they dominated the national volleyball championship and proved they can play like Russians do
By Joe Jares
New Twins
With the Yankees floundering near the bottom after their worst start in recent history, the new-look, speed-happy Minnesota Twins are fighting the White Sox for the league lead—and maybe the pennant
Carroll Shelby
SNAKES, BUTTER BEANS AND MISTER COBRA
Carroll Shelby of Texas—and nearly everywhere else—looks like a cowpoke, cooks like a chuck wagon chef, talks like an oil-field roughneck and builds a fangs-out kind of American sports car
Scotland
People
Lacrosse
Hopkins lost a title and maybe a tradition
For 78 years lacrosse had been the only sport that really mattered to the men of Homewood, but as they were beaten last week by Navy there were signs that the old Indian game soon will have some competition
Golf
Pity the poor pro golfer who goes to the Colonial National each year knowing that he has to face tornadoes, trees and the Trinity River
By Dan Jenkins
Horse Racing
Lucky's Shoe tries to put on the second leg
The metaphor is mixed, but the task in the Preakness is the same for Willie Shoemaker and Lucky Debonair as it was in the Kentucky Derby
Bridge
A new kind of double makes a hit
Baseball's Week
By Mark Mulvoy
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER