November 16, 1959 | Volume 11, Issue 20

'Best alumni group I ever had'

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING—After aerial search failed to spot 32 members of 34-man Japanese expedition, missing for five weeks and feared lost after setting out to establish camp at 20,000 feet on...

BASKETBALL—ELGIN BAYLOR, Minneapolis Lakers, set NBA record by scoring 64, points, handing Boston Celtics first loss of season.

4—Roy Atkeson11—U.P.I.14—Budd Studios, A.P. (2), Derek Bayes, New York Times, A.P.24—Bob Peterson, A.P. lee Baltermon25—Niels lauritzen-Milwaukee Journal26, 27—U.P.I. (2), Allan Grant-UFE35—T.H....

Wendy Hanson, 18-year-old freshman at Briarcliff and one of country's promising young riders, won important junior event—American Horse Shows Assn. Medal title—at National Horse Show, New York.

Tennessee vs. MississippiTennessee's single wing proved itself against the best in the land, but I don't think any team can lick LSU and Mississippi on successive Saturdays. Ole Miss, eager to...

It was Black Saturday for LSU and Northwestern as the nation's two leading teams went down to first defeats

Penn State uprising early in 20-18 game won by Syracuse featured 17-yard touchdown run by Halfback Roger Kochman, here pursued by Syracuse star Ernie Davis (44). Kochman later returned a kickoff...

With defeat or victory in the balance, LSU's All-America halfback, Billy Cannon (No. 20), smacks into the Tennessee defense on the biggest play of Saturday's upset at Knoxville. Trying for a game...

Down from the Rockies the snow came, driving across Montana and the Black Hills, across Deadwood and Spearfish and the wide plains of South Dakota to lay a blanket upon the town of Huron the...

'The press viewed the flickering game movie in appalled silence. It was run and rerun. It was like watching Richard Widmark hitting a cripple in a gangster movie.'—JAMES MURRAY, SPORTS...

Chamberlain meets Russell for the first time, and a historic duel begins

Winter birds battle for their place in the chow line when deep snow makes it difficult for them to find natural food

Last week in the palmy, mountain ringed setting pictured at the right a British golfer pulled a five-iron from his bag and sent the ball rocketing into a puddle with a splash heard round the...

This Mexican sure hits hard," a fighter told his handlers in Guadalajara one night last month. "I am tired," he said then. "Let's go home and rest." Then he turned, gasped, "Joe," and collapsed....

Next week the ski season begins in earnest, at least as far as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S editors are concerned. Nowadays the true fan can find a slope in some hemisphere at any time of the year, and...

One thing wrong with the big A, according to old-time railbirds, is that it is too mechanized. Long Island's fancy new track, they say, is more like a supermarket than a proper mecca for horse...

Jim Brown, Cleveland Brown fullback, answering a photographer's post-game plea for a smile: "That's the best I can do. I got hit in the mouth."

The offense-minded pros look to the defensive platoon to win games, and championships

Tim Durant, Master of Fox Hounds and amateur cook, bakes trout in aluminum foil

Modern marvels await sportsmen-photographers. Here is a guide to the newest in the camera bonanza

Look for burning rivalries and new national champions in the year's last big meet

In most of the world it is usual to fasten a rope at the top and climb down. In India, however, a few gifted mystics are said to be able to toss a rope into the air and climb up. So it is...

The shank, I would reckon, is the worst of all golfing ailments. There are explicit causes that bring on shanking, but it is best not to describe them since it would only make players more...

All times are E.S.T.

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Seventy bloody years, from 1840 to 1910, shaped the final destiny of American wildlife. In that brief period of westward expansion, the continent and its wild inhabitants were changed forever....

When Peter Matthiessen (above), author of Race Rock and Partisans, set out to do a comprehensive history of American wildlife, he did so with a novelist's as well as a historian's eye. The result...

The challenge facing conservation in the atomic age, and what must be done to meet it, will be examined in an article in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in the near future.

FITNESS: OF TIMES AND COUNTRYSirs:Your editorial, Fitness for What? (SI, Oct. 26), has added to my weekly enjoyment of my times and my country. Nice going. Very nice going. At a time when nice...

Following are 1959's national motorboat class champions

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J. B. Priestley has been a leading British essayist, critic, playwright and author for the past 50 years. American readers of his works know him as an extremely vigorous critic of the United...