Alfred Vanderbilt's gray champion is just about ready to go

UPSET BY UPSETGiant-striding Man o' War, with Johnny Loftus up, was an odds-on favorite to win the Sanford Memorial at Saratoga 35 years ago this week. But when a substitute starter sprang the...

Sports Illustrated is the newest offspring of Time Incorporated. And as with any new arrival, friends and relatives are bound to gather round and look for family likenesses.

A ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK'S NEWS

George Bellows, noted for boxing art, did other sports masterpieces

from an old coach who thinks the All-Stars may beat the Lions

Dean Cromwell, retired U.S.C. track coach: "Track coaches are the dumbest of all. If they weren't, they'd become football coaches and get paid for worrying."

Sports Editor Gordon Cobbledick considers the beanball and decides it is here to stay—unless some means is found to outlaw wildness high and inside while sanctioning it low and outside

This portrait of Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, voted Horse of the Year 1953, was presented to co-owners John Hay Whitney and Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson at a luncheon Aug. 12 in the Saratoga, N.Y....

COVER—Mark Kauffman25—Lou Carrano31—Mark Kauffman32—AP; Mark Kauffman; Toronto Telegram33—United Press (2); Keystone34, 35—top lt. to rt. George Flegal; Sovfoto; John M. "Hack" Miller; bottom lt....

A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources

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Sports car racing teams dress the part for a reason

These jockey-size sluggers would look mighty big on the TV screen

Ezzard Charles's hero worship of featherweight Kid Chocolate strongly influenced him in making the ring his career. But it wasn't so much the Kid's dazzling KO wallop that attracted Charles as it...

...to play marbles in Evansville, Ind. on Sunday. Staid Boston prohibits the holding of frog-jumping contests in night clubs. In Missouri it is illegal to play any game on the Sabbath.

You will be the newest of 17 million U.S. dog owners, most—but not all—of them happy in their choice of pets. You need not take a chance. The following information will help you select a dog that...

He's had plenty this season and it's nobody's fault but his own

America's most beloved horse was a lady named Goldsmith Maid who raced for 13 years, set world records for the mile and gained a popularity that has yet to be excelled

Why don't we just concede this putt to each other

Bannister surges to victory in the heart-stirring Vancouver mile

Fire on K-2

There is the Walker Cup, the Ryder Cup, the Curtis Cup and a score of other coveted cups. But no trophy in all of golfdom is so prized by the few who have it as this one: the President's golf...

Ringside color pictures by Mark Kauffman are the best argument for the rematch between Charles and Marciano

THE BIG HEARTBREAK

The Duke of Edinburgh, an all-round athlete, leads the British Empire in sports and earns new title

The most furious trading in the U.S. nowadays goes on not in Wall Street or the Chicago grain market but among youngsters out to collect a connoisseur's fistful of baseball trading cards. The...

The shortest distance between two points, I was taught in school, is a straight line. Either the textbook I used has been tossed into the waste-basket or people have lost interest in moving along...

For world-wide interest, for widespread participation, for shattered records, for thrilling triumphs of the human spirit, this is the greatest sports era in history

Estimated paid and unpaid admissions at U.S. events

Estimated totals of individuals active in the last calendar year

"I have played the game only a little. I think it is a fine method of relaxation for men in business life, but, like everything else which is an outside enterprise, it can undoubtedly be carried...

"Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man and, while perfecting the body, it also makes the mind a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth."—Pope Pius...

One of the earliest sports writers was Homer. About 3,000 years ago he covered a bout between Euryalous and Epeios and wrote:

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the first president to appropriate a White House lawn for golf practice, here completes a pitch shot to an imaginary green. The green is no longer imaginary. A real one was...

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If a motorman sees a pointer pointing at birds in the middle of the tracks, is it his fault if he does not stop the train before hitting the dog?

There is a notion among eastern fly fishermen that river trout of the West are too easy to catch for true sport. "Fat, dumb and happy," they snort. Nevertheless, the best fly fishing in America is...

On the wall of Dan Bailey's fly shop (above, with Bailey at counter and fly tyers behind him) hang varnished plaques, each bearing an inked tracing of a trout that weighed at least four pounds....

A POWERFUL FELLOWLike many youngsters, he began weight lifting to build a body beautiful. Later, he put these muscles to use when he became a power golfer. Though he sometimes sacrifices accuracy...

The busy engineers are back at work, flooding fairways and remote mountain glens all over the country. Most people are glad about it

This is the time to get your hunting partner in shape for fall

An Australian bumarin—better known as boomerang—can outfly a Mickey Mantle home run. But unlike a baseball, this sickle-shaped piece of wood will twirl right back to you

ANGLING HORSEWOMANFor the fisherman who doesn't want to get his—or her—feet wet, Dela Hudley of Granby, Colo, has the answer: fish from horseback. Mrs. Hudley has been doing just that for 50...

Hikers and golfers are among its many victims and the blistering itch can be cured only by time

SKILLFUL COUNSELJoe Welch, who emerged from the glare of the McCarthy hearings a national figure, prefers a fisherman's solitude. He likes to spend a leisurely day with his wife (above, right),...

Willie Mays has made a lot, but Durocher is the real mesmerizer

From Durocher this season there comes not a yip.Unassisted, the rascal has buttoned his lip!—James E. Doyle

Herewith a salute from the editors to men and women of all ages who have fairly earned the good opinion of the world of sport, regardless of whether they have yet earned tallest headlines

Time: 1929 U. S. Open. Place: 18th hole. The Man: Bobby Jones

From the edge of Sandy Hook, where the ocean liners turn in toward New York with the flavor of Sandy Hook still in their rigging, to the tip of Cape May, where reminiscent sighs echo through the...