On these pages and the six that follow, Roy Doty takes a Colonel and his Lady through the passages, dining rooms, bars and private nooks that make up the world's longest racing plant. Tour...

BASEBALL GETS THE GRADE A SEAL

First Bounces

Jimmy steed, longtime caddie (and frequent club selector) for Sammy Snead, as misquoted at the Greensboro (N.C.) Open: "When he's right, nobody can beat that man." Caddie Steed's correction: "When...

•Gil McDougald, the talented Yankee infielder, discusses his specialty in Part 4 of Big League Secrets; and an intimate portrayal of Horace Stoneham, the Giants' owner.

Nothing but trouble has been the fate of the International Boxing Club (James D. Norris, president) for the past year. So now you have seen that picture on your TV screen, and heard that title...

At Las Vegas this week Defending Champion Gene Littler will be out to catch some more fish for his sponsor

Alpine trouting is an ageless ritual set among castles and crags that have shadowed centuries of anglers

The excellence sport evokes in performance repeats itself in the excellence sport evokes in design. You can see it in a fly rod or a golf club, a shotgun or skis. And certainly nowhere more than...

Hottest hulls on the Seven Seas today are the fast and unpredictable planing sailboats

Figures refer to length, weight, sail area, number of hulls in the U.S., price and makers.

And what conquered defensive basketball? A sparkling season raised a host of questions

Little dogs with butterfly ears and Old World histories are winning new fanciers in New Jersey

Eric Isenburger paints the spectacle of Seville's bull ring

When Photographer Toni Frissell was in Nantucket last summer her camera caught the pair below in what looked like a brand-new fashion—patchwork madras trousers and shorts. Investigation brought to...

Italy's continuing sweep in international bridge play—two consecutive European Championships followed by two consecutive World Championships—has whipped up interest in their players' unique...

THE ARTIFICIAL ONE-CLUB OPENING

With notes on why Italy's stars bid them as they did.

This exercise will give you a trim back and a relaxed one

My thinking on half and three-quarter shots is pretty much limited to the eight-iron, nine-iron and wedge. Let me give you the setting first—when a golfer should think of playing these shots....

RECORD BREAKERS—EDDIE SOUTHERN', mercurial Texas junior, and GAIL HODGSON, brilliant South African who now runs for Oklahoma, set bristling pace, led teams to records in Kansas Relays at Lawrence....

Brightest gem in collection of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham (left) is Jewel's Reward, shown here with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle and Trainer Ivan Parke standing by, after winning the Wood Memorial.

Being a paean of praise for the land of the julep, the Thoroughbred and the gracious life, by a wanderer who loved it at first sight and never wants to leave

Rear Admiral Gene Markey, "the man behind the woman behind the horses out in front," came to Kentucky and Calumet Farm in 1952 after an illustrious career as a writer and producer in Hollywood and...

BASEBALL ISSUE: GOOD CHEERSirs:The best baseball issue (SI, April 14) yet! Robert Creamer's The Unbarnacled Truth was a masterpiece and should be read by every baseball fan. It did so much to...

BOATING—PRINCETON, over Navy, by 1½ lengths, 1¾ m. in 9:27, Annapolis.

Margaret Edwards, pretty English miss with formful backstroke, got into record-breaking swim in winning meet with Germans at Cardiff, wind-milling 100 meters and 110 yards in 1:12.4 to break two...

6—U.P., Bill Beebe-Mirror-Daily News7—U.P., I.N.P., Wilmington Morning News, Charles Dixon-Boston Globe, U.P., Dennis Stock-Magnum, Hank Cohen, U.P.8—John G. Zimmerman, Steve Wever-Miami Herald18,...

In May of 1897, the year Dick Baxter was born in Melrose, Scotland, Louis P. Bayard Jr. put together a sharp 91 over the rain-soaked links at Ardsley Casino to take the first intercollegiate golf...

The two co-favorites for the 84th Kentucky Derby may not have the race all to themselves; one certainty is that, win or lose, this will come to be known as Silky's Derby