The late Wilbur Shaw, who won the Indianapolis "500" three times and was president of the Speedway when he died, said: "When the starting flag goes down, you become an integral part of a tornado,...

Yardstick blues, Pennsylvania acts, A mighty mite tunes up, Let's meet again, Big chases small, More bounce per ounce, A stiff neck

A $75 million sports center with a 100,000-seat stadium is going up in Moscow as bait for the 1960 or 1964 Olympics—perhaps the most peace-loving news to come out of Moscow all week.

Fiercely partisan Britons crowd the Thames as Oxford and Cambridge meet for their great traditional race

Most Britons who so cheerfully put up a few bob on the outcome of the boat race were not prepared to back a native son seeking the world's heavyweight title at San Francisco, even at 6-1 odds....

It's Cup Final day (soccer) at London's great stadium, with the Queen and the Duke among the 100,000 singing hymns and cheering as a 'lucky' Newcastle United team upsets favored Manchester City 3-1

Two of the top English soccer teams, Sunderland and Huddersfield, and a crack German eleven from Nuremberg are currently touring the U.S. and playing local and all-star teams in New York,...

RITES OF SPRING: BASEBALL STYLE

PART I: BRIDGE TO YESTERDAYHe came up fighting, scrapping, spending, living it up; more than any other modern ballplayer, Durocher upholds the flying-spike tradition of Ty Cobb

"AT THE GASHOUSE"In St. Louis Durocher found a new friend, Branch Rickey, and some kindred spirits among members of the Gashouse Gang.

Alaska's brown bears are America's biggest game. Here is how a party of businessmen stalked their trophies

RECORD BREAKERS

The Brooklyn Fly Fishers Club on the East's most celebrated trout stream clings fast to the old order, disdaining creature comforts

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;...

10—drawings by Roy Doty14-16—drawings by Ajay21—Odhams Press Ltd.22—Combine23, 24—Fox Photos-London25—Reuterphoto-European, Fox Photos-London, Kemsley26, 27—top, I.N.P.; bottom, U.P., A.P., I.N.P,...

In Yankee stadium where the New York Yankees were about to play the second and final game of a brief but possibly significant early season series with the Cleveland Indians, a well-dressed man in...

Seven years ago this week Mel Patton became the undisputed World's Fastest Human when he won a special 100-yard race in the West Coast Relays at Fresno, Calif. in 9.3 seconds, one tenth of a...

PART II: THE BUNT AND SQUEEZE

In next week's analysis of baseball strategy, Paul Richards discusses one of the game's most effective and controversial moves.

Into the bustling, rain-soaked railroad junction town of Cumberland, Md. (pop. 37,000) there descended last weekend an automotive avalanche unparalleled in the postwar history of American sports...

A great champion of a great sport—eating, that is—hurls defiance at Emily Post

New golf fashions for women are both practical and feminine; dresses and culottes seesaw between above-and-below knee, meet all regulations

DR. BLAKE R. VANLEER, AtlantaPresidentGeorgia Tech"That wasn't so when I was a student at Purdue. It wasn't true when I served on the faculties of the Universities of California, Florida and North...

"What frightens you most?" (Asked of adventurers and explorers.)

All golfers who want to improve their game are faced with a difficult problem: since it is impossible to work on all the phases of a swing, what are the key phases to concentrate on?

Among the greatest of modern man's examples of the ancient and honorable sport of horse racing are three great turf classics of Europe—the Derby, St. Leger and Grand Prix. The tradition behind...

[TV]TV [NETWORK RADIO]NETWORK RADIO: ALL TIMES ARE E.D.T. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE NOTED

WE UNDER-1,500-CC UNDERDOGS Sirs: Yesterday when I was having my Porsche worked over at Ecurie Von Neumann, the talk was of the Mille Miglia. It was lamented that only the big car results were...

Rosalia (Zale) Parry, one of the world's foremost women skin divers, might never have donned breathing apparatus had she not fallen in love. At 22, good-looking Zale holds the world skin-diving...