September 19, 1955 | Volume 3, Issue 12

Harness racing fans rouse to that cry each September as Little Brown Jug Day arrives at the Delaware, Ohio Fair

He is the pacer to beat for the Little Brown Jug next week if his peculiar style doesn't tire him too early

Archie Moore is unmarked (except for an abdominal scar, the result of surgery for ulcers) after a score of years in the prize ring, during which he has fought the best of those who were willing to...

EVENT: World Heavyweight Championship fight between Champion Rocky Marciano and Challenger Archie Moore. 15 rounds. Marciano's sixth title defense

Moore has taped his own hands since he broke one because of improper taping. Without protection of fat or muscle, the hand, especially the knuckles, is extremely vulnerable. The rules permit 12...

The "hook off the jab" looks awkward but is brilliantly effective. Moore's opponents never know whether to defend against a jab or hook because they cannot tell which is coming. This jab-hook...

Judging by the many letters we received which tell us so, the average issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED leads a long and active life. One of the most active is probably the lot of the copy which goes to...

In the first of five regional reports, SI's expert scouts the Coast and Mountain conferences and rates UCLA the best

The sturdy and capable-looking young men on the opposite page have a special meaning for tough-talking Henry R. (Red) Sanders, coach of UCLA's highly ranked Bruins. They are the starting backfield...

•Georgia Tech vs. Miami (Fla.). The Hurricanes have the running, the Yellow Jackets the passing. Traditionally tough in Atlanta, GEORGIA TECHE.

WAS IT THE PENNANT?

One of the most common swing-wrecking faults of the high-handicap golfer is his tendency to pick the club up at the start of the backswing. The moment he makes that faulty move, the golfer has...

Whitey Ford, the Yankee pitcher, looked like a little boy, standing there on the mound in his knickers and his peaked cap, a little boy (now that it was late and the lights in Yankee Stadium had...

2—drawing by John Suzuki10, 11—drawings by Ajay23—Hy Peskin24, 25—top, Hy Peskin; bottom, Phil Bath26—Phil Bath32, 33—Hans Knopf-Pix34—George Harris-Black Star39—James Coyne52—drawing by Fred...

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;...

Charles John Grimm, manager of the second-place Milwaukee Braves and a flouter of Durocher's Law, ponders his own managerial philosophy at 57 and then, in a clubhouse demonstration, proves he's...

It was the final lap of the 148-mile feature race held on Road America—a brand-new black-top sports car race circuit weaving through the rolling hills of Wisconsin's kettle moraine country near...

If Young Bill Buchan Jr., the Seattle skipper who piloted a Luders 16 to a clear-cut victory in the annual North American Sailing championships, remains anything close to the coolheaded,...

Seven hundred miles north of Toronto in the vast prairielike marshes of James Bay, Canada, some 600,000 congregating blue geese put on the biggest show a goose hunter can hope for—their annual...

ROCKY MARCIANOWorld's Heavyweight Champion"I'd bat his brains out, throwing punches from the opening bell. Thesz has no defense against pile-driving punches. And I've broken a few holds, myself....

Who is the greatest baseball player of all time?

One of the unintentional by-products of the intense concentration required in competitive golf is that many golfers effortlessly remember most of the strokes they have played in important...

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Sirs:America's racing fans, who seem to number millions, finally had their match race. The upshot is controversy, a feeling that nothing was settled and a nagging sense that Swaps either was...

BILL WHEDONBill Whedon, a 28-year-old oil salesman from West Hartford, Conn., astounded himself, his wife and the golfing world by shooting two holes-in-one in the first round of the $20,000...

Rocky Marciano, tapering off training for his Tuesday title defense against Archie Moore at Yankee Stadium, was a better than 3-1 favorite to remain World Heavyweight Champion. In the bookmakers'...