Baseball simmers as the National League tries to catch the Dodgers and five American League teams hold a battle royal

One angry minor league club owner has rebelled against the major leagues. On his success or failure may rest the future of baseball

Ted Williams, nearing the end of a phenomenally brilliant career, is probably the greatest gate attraction in baseball today. He is also a puzzling player whose personality remains unclear to the...

TORPOR AND TEMPESTRace Week at Larchmont, N.Y. attracted 1,400 sailors and 400 boats this year and offered a vivid study in contrast, as these Morris Rosenfeld photographs show, with a heavy,...

Baseball's greatest modern hitter pauses for a look over the career that brought a fortune and, after a hard start, friends

Ted Williams' brilliant career was interrupted by almost five years of service in the Marines. Despite the loss, the slugger with the strong left-handed grip was able to compile one of baseball's...

United Press, 1940: "Possibly the most engaging personality in baseball.... His boyish enthusiasm, his twinkling eyes, his burning ambition...."

A famous author-sportsman looks over the side of his fishing boat and discovers a submarine world so fascinating that he has abandoned his rod for a glass bucket

This contemplative gentleman leaning against a willow on the bank of a purling stream, attended by his servant, was painted on silk by Yang Jih-yen in the peaceable kingdom of China in the Sung...

A traditional figure in the world of horsemen now enjoys a more peaceful life on his rich and beautiful New York farm

RECORD BREAKERS

Flamboyant, shrewd, and a fast man with a buck, George S. May of Tam O'Shanter is professional golf's most controversial promoter. The question is: are his shenanigans good for golf?

After the turn of the century bathers—and painters—took to the water

Once each year, in the lazy heat of early August, the elm-shaded village of Goshen, N.Y. (pop. 3,311) swells with a meandering crowd of outsiders who move through its narrow streets to a race...

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;...

BONUS BABIES ARE A PROBLEM BUT PROFESSOR CASEY STENGEL HAS A WAY OF PROTECTING THEM

Baseball's bonus rule, created in 1952 to keep the more affluent ball clubs from cornering the young talent market, provides that a free agent signed for more than $6,000 for his first year must...

It seems to me that one of the most important fundamentals of the swing is the development of a free, full-finishing, balanced position on the follow-through. Most golfers regard the...

Big business had another time of triumph last week, the occasion being the award presentations following the longest, hardest, most exciting ocean races of the year. It was almost like the turn of...

That's what they call Bad Gastein, the Alpine watering place which cures everything from aching muscles to aching heads

AUSTRIA

AVERY BRUNDAGE, ChicagoPresident, International Olympic Committee"No. A great benefit derived from sport is the development of moral fiber and sportsmanship. Women have made considerable progress...

Who is, or was, the toughest pitcher for you to hit?

Gritty, graceful, Philadelphia-born Pete Knight was the greatest bronc rider of the thirties and one of the best of all time. He won four world championships but never could conquer an ornery...

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SWAPS VS. NASHUASirs:There is only one way to settle this Swaps-Nashua match-race controversy and that is to have the race. Thank goodness SI has seen to that.

PAUL DIETZELThough his big job is building a winning football team at victory-starved Louisiana State, Head Coach Paul Dietzel finds time to help kids of pre-high school age in Baton Rouge play...

The talk in the horse set, Saving something for the skipper, About Pee Wee's dream, Pacer's bad break, A flash of iridescence, Practical golf

Donald Campbell finally got a quiet spell on England's Lake Ullswater and opened up his jet-powered Bluebird in an official speed test, reclaimed the world's water-speed record for Britain with an...