Before the heat of summer strikes, the veterans are having their fling

TROUT: MAINE: Ice is out on Moosehead and other key waters such as Rangeley, Fish River, Chain O'Lakes and Grand Lakes. WT low with FF, but early anglers have target in Guide Jim Heath's 17-pound...

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Mighty Calumet won another Derby, but the nation still wonders what happened to its beloved Silky Sullivan. Did humidity cause the horse—and the dream—to fade?

Tim Tam's win brings as much joy to the historic Greentree Stable (owned by the U.S. Ambassador in London, J. H. Whitney, and his sister, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson) as it does to Calumet. Sire...

Far from the madding stadiums and congestions of the big spectator sports, participants on quieter fronts of sport were pursuing goals of their own. The schoolboy miler strained for the tape, and...

The melting snows of spring swelled Vermont's West River into a cold, tumbling torrent that lured a rugged breed of sportsman—the canoe slalomist—to Jamaica, Vt. last week for the third annual...

Churchill Ups and Downs

Stan Musial, 37 and leading the major leagues last week with a batting average of .509: "Baseball is a game you can play as long as you still have two things—desire and the ability to concentrate....

•Part 5 of Big League Secrets reveals outfielding and base running techniques as described by Richie Ashburn, the fleet-footed center fielder of the Philadelphia Phillies.

France's consul general in Los Angeles, Ro-main Gary, is a man of many talents but, as the pictures above plainly show, hurdling is not one of them. It is even conceivable that Gary is the worst...

Baseball's form chart rode off in all directions. The Cubs led in the National League, the White Sox trailed in the American. A fellow named Cerv was outhitting Mickey Mantle

This week when you come to PAT ON THE BACK in its customary place on the last page, the name that you read is likely to be more familiar than the face that you see. The whole country knows Musial,...

The outdoor track season heads for its climax in a dual meet between the U.S. and Russia in Moscow this July, but many records will be shattered before these giants collide

Lacrosse, fast spreading through the East and Midwest as a spring activity to balance athletic schedules, approaches its climax with a key match next Saturday between Johns Hopkins and the...

The purpose of a psychic bid is to steal something belonging to the enemy by issuing a form of propaganda that will create a false impression in his mind. But the practical advantages of bluff...

A lesson in high-speed diplomacy was taught last week when representatives of almost two score of the world's golfing countries formed a new international organization

The women's pro golf tour: compact, resilient and steadily progressing

Many golfers, in learning to play, were taught to hit the ball with the left hand and let the right hand go along for the ride. In the last few years we have heard the conflicting instruction to...

Familiar device makes a balance board for some backyard stunts

Pictured above is a Doberman pinscher in two of the moods which have earned him a reputation as one of the most controversial breeds in America. To some people, he is an elegant, well-mannered...

Whether it's Churchill Downs or Longchamp, the special and wonderful excitement of a horse race never fails to inspire those who seek it out. In the 1870s in France Edgar Degas, more generally...

RECORD BREAKERS—EDDIE SOUTHERN, U. of Texas powerboy regarded by some as nation's finest runner (see page 45), buzzed around two turns in rabbit-quick tempo, sprinted 440 in 46.1 to break...

Happy wanderer Nat Lofthouse (right) shouts for joy after booting ball past sprawling Manchester United Goalie Gregg as Bolton Wanderers won 2-0 in English Cup Final before 100,000 at Wembley.

In the first of his reports on the classic sailing contest which culminates off Newport in September, a noted yachtsman-author analyzes the men and the ships contending for the defense

L.A. TO N.Y.: THE SEASON CONSIDEREDSirs:Well, everyone seems to have had their fun. The New York magazines, sports-writers and newspapers have blown off steam because the Dodgers and Giants pulled...

BOATING—SYRACUSE, over Cornell, Navy, by 2 feet, in 9:16 for 1¾-m., Goes Trophy, Annapolis.

Ernestine Russell, Michigan State sophomore from Windsor, Ont., as pretty a miss as ever turned a handstand, held firm balance when Defender Muriel Davis fell, won AAU gymnastics title at...

Sixteen hundred miles from his St. Louis home after his first game on the West Coast, Stan Musial stared thoughtfully at the locker room floor and considered his son Dick. "Having a well-known...