Each year the third week in June produces both America's oldest rowing classic and the battle for national crew honors

In rowing's big week, Penn and Cornell are favorites in the transplanted Poughkeepsie Regatta at Syracuse; one day earlier Yale meets Harvard in the 90th renewal of their four-mile rowing classic...

The rugged man who rules boxing and dominates hockey has now taken command of the Madison Square Garden set, leading to the sudden en masse resignation of its board chairman and five other directors

SIDNEY J. WEINBERGPartner with Goldman, Sachs and Company, investment bankers, Weinberg is a former governor of the New York Stock Exchange and a director of such companies as Cluett, Peabody...

Some have estimated the wealth of James Dougan Norris at a quarter of a billion dollars. That is a good $50 million more than the presumptive value of the fabulous estate left only three years ago...

In a bloody and courageous battle a thwarted champion had his day

The warm and personal story of a runner's boyhood, his first experiences in running, his youthful ambitions and frustrations, and how he developed the power he felt within him to become the...

Roger Bannister, who last week was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, has just finished his autobiography (from which this two-part series was excerpted)....

"The decision to 'break away' results from a mixture of confidence and lack of it. The 'breaker' is confident to the extent that he suddenly decides the speed has become slower than he can himself...

"My ideal athlete is first and foremost a human being who runs his sport and does not allow it to run him. He is not a race horse or a professional strong man. He drinks beer, he might smoke, and...

"There is no established technique for running. It was thousands of years from the time when cavemen attempted to draw running movements, before the cinema camera accurately analyzed the relation...

Failure and disappointment in the 1952 Olympics; reflections and a comeback; the first four-minute mile; Landy of Australia, and the Mile of the Century

Golf's foremost architect tells how he landscaped a tough but outdated course into a battleground worthy of the champions of today and their modern weapons

EVENT—The 55th United States Open Golf Championship

The winner of the 55th National Open Championship this weekend could very possibly be Ben Hogan. It is almost a simple matter of presence. Over the past eight years, regardless of how muddy other...

Willie Anderson, a tight-lipped Scotish emigré, was the first player to dominate the Open. Anderson won the title in 1901-'03-'04-'05. along with Jones and Hogan, he stands as the only four-time...

Bobby Jones captured his first Open in 1923 and thereafter, with the exception of 1927 when he tied for 11th, never finished lower than second. Bobby twice (1925, 1928) lost after a play-off,...

Of the 15 sartorially vivid golfers shown in color on the following four pages, all but Peter Thomson, an Australian who chose not to enter, will be serious contenders for the U.S. Open title in...

In an unusually frank interview, golf's silent man discusses his own career, his future, and the changes that are taking place in tournament competition

One very important part of the swing that is often overlooked by players who are striving to become better golfers is correct footwork. There is a temptation in golf, as in nearly every sport, to...

RECORD BREAKERS

Along the shallow "W" formed by the road between the tricky White House turn and the pits of the sunlit Le Mans race course, four dots detached themselves from the landscape and breasted the...

Tragic crash scene of this year's Le Mans race can be spotted on this picture from last week's color spectacle (SI, June 13). Explosion star indicates point near starting line where Driver...

It was an ideal day for a race, comfortably warm with fluffy clouds floating across the blue French sky. A crowd of 300,000 filled the long straightaway grandstands on either side of the narrow...

Their two brilliant victories behind them, Swaps and Nashua emerged this week as the two most talked-about horses since Native Dancer and Tom Fool. A match race between the two champions became a...

Nashua's victory in the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes accounted for neither world nor track record time. But William Woodward's powerful colt simply couldn't let this 87th Belmont Day slip by...

For the 51,120 fans who crammed Hollywood Park to its lush confines, the seventh race last Saturday was an eye-popping exhibition. There were six horses entered, but the eyes—and the money—of the...

It flashes still the country over, despite television, Davy Crockett and Outer Space as kids knuckle down for marbles

Miniature tarpon are born hell raisers. Hook one and he's up in the air, under the boat, jumping in the bushes—fishing's great show-off

The conservative British Call them merely "The Championships," as if they were in an all-inclusive class by themselves, and actually they are. More informally, they are known as the Wimbledon...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED each week brings the news of the important events of sport as seen through the eyes of trained observers and written in the words of skilled reporters. In this issue, for...

Before stepping into the ring next Wednesday night to fight a rugged Bobo Olson, the world's light heavyweight champion must first win a battle to knock off nearly 22 pounds of fat

At a low point in Yale rowing, a future statesman helped to coach the Elis to victory over Harvard

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TENNIS IN A COMASirs:Billy Talbert's recent comments on Jack Kramer's suggestion of open tennis tournaments (SI, June 6) contained the statement: "Jack's open tournament would be no more than a...

JAMES I. EASTAt 86, Jim East has doubtless made more holes in one (133) than any other golfer. Most (118) have been scored on a "pitch and putt" course, Presidio Hills in San Diego where Jim...

SHELDON TANNEN, New YorkRestaurateur"Pro wrestling is a hippodrome, with the grunts and groans of the wrestlers and the shrieks of the spectators to give it stark reality. It's a great show that...

Race tracks in France are experimenting with women jockeys. Would you bet on a girl jockey?

Le Mans, The unvanishing Indians, Shocking news from the cricket close, Track's beardless record-breakers, The state of Old Archie's heart

Swaps and Nashua made it dramatically clear that their two-horse match race (planned for Chicago next August and reported last week in SI) would be one of the most exciting in turf history—Nashua...