August 08, 1955 | Volume 3, Issue 6

A squadron of roaring hydroplanes and a couple of hot-tempered owners have stirred the Gold Cup city into a fever of excitement

Recently the veteran sportswriter, Tom O'Reilly, wrote a column for his paper, the Morning Telegraph, the well-known racing daily. It said so simply what we like to think about SI that we sent it...

CEREMONIES AT THE SHRINE

Mark Kauffman accompanies the Cincinnati Redlegs on a typical 12-day trip and finds that the on-field glamour of the diamond is all but obscured by frantic scrambles to make trains, meals at odd...

A WORD OF WARNING TO THOSE 'WHO WANT TO BUILD A MODERN RACE TRACK—IT TAKES MONEY

Surely the most important—and possibly the most interesting—of all the problems facing a baseball manager is the handling of pitchers. Your team's strength begins with the pitching staff. Its...

The Midsummer night's dream of Davis Cup captains has suddenly become a nightmare. Less than a month from the World Series of Tennis (Forest Hills, August 26, 27, 28) both teams, Australia the...

The D-type Jaguar is the kind of car that makes up for every past occasion when some enthusiastic journalist has flattered an average sports job with the term "going machine." From the tip of its...

One of our club members—and one of our finest golfers, incidentally—happens to be a prominent neurosurgeon interested in the psychosomatic side of golf. I played a round with him recently, and as...

SO—season opened (or opens); SC—season closed (or closes). C—clear water; D—water dirty or roily; M—water muddy. N—water at normal height; SH—slightly high; H—high; VH—very high; L—low; R—rising;...

When Frank Walsh, Commissioner of Public Relations for the Pacific Association of the A.A.U., decided he would like to have a look at Soviet sports facilities, he found to his surprise that the...

Dr. Charles A. Bucher brings 20 years of experience in school and college athletics to the concept of high sportsmanship which he discusses here. At present an associate professor of education and...

JOE DIMAGGIOFormer Center FielderN.Y. Yankees"Mel Harder. He had one of the best curve balls I've ever seen and was particularly tough on right-handed hitters like me. All he had to do was put his...

A SPECIAL JIMMY JEMAIL SURVEY:PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, AT AN EXTRAORDINARY LUNCHEON RECENTLY, EXPRESSED HIS CONCERN ABOUT THE LACK OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS BY AMERICAN YOUTH. HOW WOULD YOU REMEDY THIS?

In June 1899 my Grandpa, with an enthusiasm he soon lost, built a scow and took us boys on a river cruise. Poison ivy and rattlers in shore camp didn't bother us, but he gave up after stepping on...

2—Walter Daran10, 11—drawings by Ajay13, 17—Burt Glinn-Magnum26—Hy Peskin, Joseph J. Lucas Jr.27—Arthur Siegel, I.N.P.28—courtesy Chris-Craft Corp.29—Tom Burnside44—Dan Rubin45—Dan Hardy48,...

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Sirs:Your August 1 issue has changed me from a charter subscriber to a lifetime subscriber to SI. Reason: simple—your wonderful cover and CONVERSATION PIECE on Ted Williams by Joan Flynn...

MRS. PHYLLIS PERKINSPert Phyllis Perkins, 21 (right), began running in earnest when she left school at 15. Today the long-striding housewife from Hornchurch, Essex has become one of Britain's top...

Sal Maglie and Ed Lopat, for years the pitching royalty of the Giants and Yankees respectively, were sold off on the eve of the August 1 trading deadline as a penalty for their disappointing 1955...

With the match race between Swaps and Nashua scheduled for Chicago's Washington Park August 31, SI herewith presents a couple of tips.