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February 25, 1957 | Volume 6, Issue 8

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Carmen Basilio Cover - Sports Illustrated February 25, 1957

February 25, 1957

February 25, 1957

February 25, 1957
•Busch's Strong BrewAs major leaguers headed for the sun-country, none had a more pointed send-off than St. Louis' Frank (Trader) Lane. Said Owner August Busch Jr., off the cuff at a dinner: "I...

February 25, 1957 | Martin Kane
Champion Basilio, a banger, and Johnny Saxton, a boxer, battle this week for the third time and the welterweight championship

February 25, 1957 | Coles Phinizy
By midseason it is the habit of reigning champions of indoor track to settle in their proper niches and fend off the challengers. This year Ron Delany again owns the mile, and Arnie Sowell the...

February 25, 1957
RECORD BREAKERS

February 25, 1957
Chiharu (Chick) Igaya, slick-skiing Japanese Olympian, set downhill record, next day captured slalom for combined title, finished third in jumping to give Dartmouth victory over host team in...

February 25, 1957
Presidential pickup is displayed by vacationing Dwight Eisenhower as he beats caddie in plucking ball from cup after putt by Partner John Walters on ninth green at Thomasville, Ga.

February 25, 1957
BOBSLEDDING

February 25, 1957 | Jeremiah Tax
No one is quite sure where the players will come from, but professional basketball is anticipating A BLESSED EVENT

February 25, 1957
1—bottom, Robert Riger, Hy Peskin4—Jon Brenneis12-15—Ylla from Rapho-Guillumette20—bottom, Joe Rimkus-Miami Daily News21—Richard Meek23, 25—drawings by Ajay32, 33—Coles Phinizy35—Hy Peskin,...

February 25, 1957 | Harry Phillips
Iron Liege, the handsome and high-spirited Kentucky Derby entry who is the subject of our lead story this week, had no name when an experimental issue (see cut) of a "new weekly sport magazine,"...

February 25, 1957 | Virginia Kraft
To Alabama's quail-crowded bird-dog paradise flock field trialers from all over the nation each February for the National Shooting Dog Championship

February 25, 1957 | Alice Higgins
An affinity for Afghans decided the Westminster classic, and out of 2,594 the surprise winner was really nothing BUT A HOUND DOG

February 25, 1957 | Art Wall Jr.
When they are faced with a short chip from the apron of a green, most players feel compelled to try to loft the ball up to the pin. Their thinking here seems to be that every shot in golf, except...

February 25, 1957 | Whitney Tower
For many a Thoroughbred admirer, preoccupied as he may be with the racing futures of classically bred 3-year-olds (see page 12), the picture above should nonetheless strike a deeply gratifying...

February 25, 1957
Conservative Main Line Philadelphia has gone grunt-and-groan. Wrestling, one of the fastest-growing school- boy and college sports, has so captured the hearts of this usually staid, unexcitable...

February 25, 1957 | Kenneth Rudeen

February 25, 1957 | Kenneth Rudeen
BUICK 2nd, Class 7 Flying Mile; 8th, Cl. 7 Acceleration

February 25, 1957 | Horace Sutton
The Arlberg, Austria's snow bowl, is where it all began. For the tourist, the tyro or the terrific, it's still tops

February 25, 1957 | Compiled by Mort Lund
SPOT TO SKI: DUTCH HILL

February 25, 1957
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;...

February 25, 1957
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

February 25, 1957 | Robert Creamer

February 25, 1957
BASKETBALL: YOU ARE THERE, YELLINGSirs:It was a great night in Lawrence, all right, and Jubilation on the Kaw (SI, Feb. 11) was a masterpiece. After reading it, we felt we had been there—yelling...

February 25, 1957
New York's Governor Averell Harriman, loading skis here in front of the Executive Mansion before a recent outing, is no casual skier. Indeed, he is the Empire State's No. 1 skier, as his official...

February 25, 1957 | Jimmy Jemail
CELESTE HOLMBeverly Hills and New YorkMovie starYes, and if for no other reason than to get Tony Trabert, former champion, back into the picture. Tony was once a world figure in tennis. You hear...

February 25, 1957 | Jimmy Jemail
Should we regulate boat traffic like automobile traffic?