Sports

Section Three of the Sunday Herald Tribune was devoted to sports, including the manly sport of stamp collecting. It also included the employment classifieds. Like the city's other dailies on April 14, the paper covered the exhibition baseball games, the Mexican League controversy, race track results and college sports (See sports coverage in other Sunday papers on this website for details). The opening of the angling season also merited attention and photos. The most interesting feature of the section was Red Smith's lively sports column, "View of Sports," devoted that day to Saturday's exhibition matchup of the Yankees and the Dodgers.

Also in the sports section:

  • Notorious but talented jockey Don Meade, who had been in and out of trouble with various racing commissions for years over "rough riding" and other racing infractions had been denied a license by the Jockey Club again. Among the violations with which he had been charged in the past was betting on horses other than the one he was riding in races.

  • Don Stillman wrote a column "Rod and Gun," for the outdoors man.

  • A column discussed prep school golf.

  • Horses and equipment for sale, auctions, horse shows and pony carts were listed in a classified ad section.

  • Dog shows had their own column beside classified ads for dogs for sale.

  • Polo was covered as was squash.

  • The national dinghy championships were covered in photos as was the christening of a new shell by the crew team at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • A photo showed a lineup of Los Angeles college girls arching their bows, a popular pin-up pose for starlets at the time. Actress Teresa Wright famously had a clause in her studio contract banning this pose among others.

  • Several soccer tournaments were underway in the city. Most of the teams had names reflecting neighborhood and/or ethnic identities such as the Bronx Scots, the New York Hungarians and the Brooklyn Hispanics.

Phil Sassert wrote a men's version of the paid product placement column Buy-Lines, that ran on the sports pages. This week he touted:

  • Schoble Hats- the finest in gentlemen's hats since 1886

  • Oraline Toothpaste. Sasser noted that toothpaste had come far from the days when it was made of cuttlefish bones and ground oyster shells

  • Personna Blades- the product used by comedian/Hollywood star Eddie Bracken

  • LHS smoking pipes