April 4, 1966 Table Of Contents
Footloose
New Orleans—a mixture of the old and the new and all that Dixie jazz
By M. R. Werner
Wreck Island
The Voluntary Castaway of Wreck Island
Playing Robinson Crusoe on a small sandspit off the Virginia coast is a miniature of everything gentle in nature—and everything violent
By Monroe Bush
Holdout
There is so business like show business, maintained Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, taking a fiscal Gemini shot that could transport baseball to the star system
By Jack Mann
Ruffians' Game
Rugby is an old tradition at the University of California, and the Golden Bears approach the game with a combination of verve and casualness their English forebears might not recognize but surely would applaud
By Joe Jares
The triumph was Ford's in its continuing massive assault on Ferrari supremacy in world class sports car racing, but before the tense and surprising finish four spectators and a driver lost their lives
By Barbara La Fontaine
Unknown Soldier
PROGRESS REPORT ON THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
When Lieut. General William D. Eckert was named Commissioner of Baseball last fall his appointment was greeted with hoots of cynical dismay. Well, Kenesaw Mountain Landis may be safe in his shrine but Spike Eckert is proving that he is a man who came to play
No—but one could easily say it might as well be, for Augusta National is so suited to the golf games of Nicklaus, Palmer and Player that nobody else wins. Here are some strong arguments in favor of redesigning this great course—and a well-considered vote of dissent
By Gwilym S. Brown
Grass
As winter fades and the lawns of Augusta spread northward, Americans are girding to do battle with a monster of a status symbol
By Barbara La Fontaine
People
Tennis
Playing on a rubber surface that slowed the ball but not the action, the pros last week reminded everyone what ground strokes are like
By Martin Kane
Skiing
Allez, France! with skis and water pistols
In a dramatic last-event stand the French captured the Werner Cup and then won the battle of the Boiler Room at the Sun Valley Lodge
By Dan Jenkins
Sporting Look
Boating
A storm in a calm over Tempest
England's new Olympic candidate challenges the aging Star class
By Hugh Whall
Fun Time
IT WAS FUN TIME IN THE THIRTIES
By Dan Jenkins
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk