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March 18, 1957

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: Are you in accord with the Ivy League in its ban on spring football practice? (Answers by members of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Silver Anniversary All-America at the Touchdown Club Dinner in Washington, D.C.)
By Jimmy Jemail
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS March 15 through March 24
Fred Haney's Fire
FRED HANEY LIGHTS A FIRE
His Milwaukee Braves blew the National League pennant last year, but he has other plans for the coming season
By Roy Terrell
IBC: GUILTY AS CHARGED
The courts have caught up with the boxing monopoly of James D. Norris, thus joining Sports Illustrated in its demand for more competition in and out of the ring
By Martin Kane
Events & Discoveries
EVENTS & DISCOVERIES
MICKEY AND THE MACHINE AGE, A LONG PROBLEM FOR BRAGG, DEMARET'S WEARING ON THE GREEN, A FRESH START FOR THE STRIPERS, DIM RED LIGHT ON FOOTBALL
AN ARTIST LOOKS AT HIS SUBJECT
With rare and human insight, Russell Hoban re-creates in words and a painting the bright moment when young Floyd Patterson changed forever and became Heavyweight Champion of the World
By Russell Hoban
Pancho The Great
Pancho the Great
RICHARD GONZALES IS THE KING OF AN EXPANDING TRIBE OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE CASTING A LONG SHADOW OVER THE AMATEUR TENNIS WORLD
By Richard Phelan
Open Tennis
IT'S TIME TO OPEN UP TENNIS
By William F. Talbert
The Footloose Sportsman
PALM SPRINGS FANTASIA
By Horace Sutton
Basketball
CLIMAX ON THE COURT
A year of exciting basketball culminates in the NCAA tournament, with the big question being whether form—which has held true all season—will also decide the national champion
By Jeremiah Tax
Horse Racing
TRADITION AND MUD
An invader captures the Louisiana Derby, and a lady's pet finds gold in California against backgrounds of TRADITION AND MUD
By Whitney Tower
Outdoors
CAUSE TO CHEER
In Washington, D.C. last week Congress and the North American Wildlife Conference gave all outdoorsmen CAUSE TO CHEER
Edited by Thomas H. Lineaweaver
Skiing
SAILER THE SUPERB
In his debut on American snow, the pride of Austria proved that the fastest skis in the world belong to SAILER THE SUPERB
By Mort Lund
The Red Wings
Wings of the Red Wings
Howe and Lindsay are their names, and for the 11th straight year they are the driving spark of the great Detroit hockey team that Jack (Adams) built
By Marshall Dann
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Pat On The Back
GERALD N. COUGHLAN
Departments
MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Harry Phillips
SCOREBOARD
...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...
FOCUS ON THE DEED
FOR THE RECORD
CLOTHESPINS AND A CODE OF CALM
These are the appurtenances of Smoke Tree Ranch, where refugees from the executive way of life can relax as California primitives
By Horace Sutton
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