HORACE GREELEY WAS SO RIGHT, THE END OF THE FEUD, WASHINGTON'S ELYSIAN OUTFIELDS, ALMOST MAN'S LAST FORTRESS, SAD TALE OF CASEY AND THE FRAMMIS PITCH

•Water TicketsNew Jersey took note of the ever-increasing small boat traffic problem (SI, July 23), stationed a uniformed inspector of the State Department of Navigation at crowded Lake Hopatcong...

DOWN IN A HEAVY CHOPThrough the foam-capped Pacific waters off Long Beach, Calif., Skipper George Walker and Crewman Wendell Walker drive their tiny Snipe to windward during the national...

DICK CHEWNINGWhittier, Calif.Companyvice-presidentIf horse racing is regarded as a sport, and I assume it is, that's it. Why? Because there's no sportsmanship in the pastime. The spectators are...

Was there a time in the service when athletic training was of great value to you ?

There has never been a major league ballplayer like Ted Williams. No one has ever, for so long, attracted so much adulation for his prowess while earning so much censure for his personal gestures...

Two daring managerial gambles on the same night, both involving the dilemma: "to walk, or not to walk..." had totally different endings last week.

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A portfolio of champions and some news of an expanding sport

Scorned by the athlete, scolded by the physical fitness fanatic, exploited by parking lot sharpies, ushers and hot dog vendors, his ultimate indignity is his betrayal by those who should love him...

Statements such as those made here are not lightly undertaken. JAMES MURRAY, however, speaks with the authority and passion of a fan of many years' standing (SI, June 11). His opinions in this...

The Minneapolis Millers took a shellacking in their new stadium (opposite page) when it opened last year (Wichita, 5-3), but the spectators didn't. Clear, colorful and cantilevered, the structure...

Some people travel for the fun of traveling and some to reach the place they have to get to. Some travel because they enjoy what they find when they get there.

It's funny, the sort of thing that catches your eye when you've been away for a long time," said Foreign Correspondent—and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's Bonn correspondent—Jim Bell in New York the other...

The following thesis, "The Age of Sport, 1954-2004 A.D.," is hereby submitted as evidence of research completed for the degree Master of Sporting Sciences (M.S.S.).

News in campus fashions comes in twos for fall, as girl collegians not only follow male fashions but catch up

An exceedingly high percentage of the women who play golf are slicers. They slice chiefly because they bring the club back with an incorrect shoulder turn. As they near the top of the backswing,...

In the composite drawing above, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is looking at the boat of the future. The boat itself is a Bell Boy plastic runabout, convertible into a fishing craft or family cruiser. The...

When America's new national sports weekly appeared for the first time, just two years ago this week, it could not conceal its excitement at all that was going on in the world into which it was...

Happy Knoll's exiled bartender helps the trouble along when soggy-towel wets contend with the drys

RECORD BREAKERS

Larry Jansen, 36-year-old right-hander who won 23 games for Giants in 1951, returned from sea-son-and-a-half stint with Seattle Rainiers, pitched Cincinnati to 8-1 victory over Braves in first...

Plummeting over Moscow's Tushino Airfield, Soviet parachutist falls free of airplane in third annual world championship, won by Czechoslovakia. Young United States team finished sixth.

AUTO RACINGTim Flock, Atlanta, Road America 250-mile race, with 71:485 mph speed, in 1956 Mercury, Elkhart Lake, Wis.

Four days before the 31st trotting of the Hambletonian last week, a lean, earnest young man named Ned Bower was out on the track at Goshen, N.Y. for a mile workout behind his colt, The Intruder....

A the swimming trials in Detroit last week to pick our 1956 Olympic team, almost every winner came into the finish breaking some sort of record. Between them, the men and women set six new...

For 12 days the Iron Curtain was pulled back while 10,000 Russian men and women showed their mass progress in 20 sports and tested their strength for the 1956 Olympic Games

Out for swordfish (right), a harpooneer found a fox terrier name of Shakespeare and, as the Bard wrote, "From the rude sea's enrag'd and foamy mouth/Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was"

The way I figure it," drawled Lee Petty, a grizzled veteran of the stock car racing circuits, before the start of an extraordinary event last weekend, "this race will be won by the driver who can...

4, 16, 18—drawings by Ajay24—U.P.27, 28—Richard Meek29—Bob Landry, Richard Meek30—Richard Meek31—Richard Meek, Paul Dorsey32—Richard Meek, Jack Clark37—Duff Johnston38, 39—Mark Kouffman40—Duff...

On the moon in the year 2056 the kid looked like a great fight prospect but the machines said he'd never win on Earth. Then—

VIVA EL TORO Sirs: Two years of "the best in sports reporting" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has finally induced me to write—you're great!

Piquant, puzzled or pleased (top to bottom, left), tall 24-year-old Toni Woolworth, of New Canaan, Conn., is one of the most attractive and charming of the topflight young lady golfers. Her...