January 17, 1955 | Volume 2, Issue 3

ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE STORY OF BOXING IN THE U.S.

This is a tableau of U.S. sportsmen attentively following the finals of a national championship last week. Included in the scene are bankers, lawyers stockbrokers, publishers, a shipping official,...

A salute to those who have earned the good opinion of the world of sport, if not yet its tallest headlines

The causeway linking Florida with Key West offers the vacationing angler exceptional sport, for in effect this is the world's longest fishing pier

WITH CAPE

Moving his muleta a little too fast, perhaps deliberately risking control over the bull in order to encourage it to charge well, Fermin Rivera performs a right-hand pass in a picture that catches...

Mrs. FRANK BLAIR, Irvington, N.Y.housewife"Certainly. Basketball on radio seems a I succession of whistles. I counted seven in one minute. When a player is shooting, why should it be a foul for an...

This generation of wildfowlers missed out on the greatest shooting New England ever saw. This is how it used to be

The popular art of the Japanese people in the latter half of the 18th Century was the polychrome woodblock print of "genre" type, illustrating various pastimes of everyday life such as the...

A cluster of diverse items on my desk at the end of the year reflected in several ways some of the things that happen when people read SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. For example:

Especially for beginners but useful for all golfers

Opening day at Santa Anita is traditionally as much a proving ground for fashion acceptance on the West Coast as the opening of Belmont is in the East. Report from the track: California has...

Louisiana State University, perennially a top contender for national honors in the limited but still thriving intercollegiate boxing circuit (SI, Nov. 22), punched out a 7-1 victory over Maryland...

The big event is rolling, and SI sends valorous Varipapa a sentimental salute

All winter long a group of dedicated men at Spalding work hard rigging up machines that are designed to wreck bats, balls, and even badminton birds

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A late roundup of snow conditions in America from a picked group of local skiers

A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources

2—Lawrence Schiller, Phyllis Reid, Bob Bourdon5—Richard Meek, Bob Landry8—William C. Greene—New York World-Telegram and The Sun, International9—Richard Meek, The New York Times11—United...

Last August, SI published an account of Prof. Thomas K. Cureton's training tips to athletes. Herewith his conditioning program for men in middle age

Sirs:I enjoyed reading your article entitled and think that your choice of Roger Bannister as SI's first Sportsman of the Year was a good one, but I do think your two-page salute to the other '54...

The week brought news from New York that was full of promise for boxing's long overdue national renovation