The doldrums which have becalmed professional boxing in recent years have had their inevitable effect on the reporting of the sport: the most important story on ring competition has often seemed...

TRACK & FIELD—U.S. trackmen continued to behave as if Russians were already in Philadelphia. At Compton, Calif., chesty Marine Lieutenant Al Cantello (see right), who had never tossed javelin...

BASEBALL—SOUTHERN U., Baton Rouge, over Omaha, 10-2, to win NAIA title, Alpine, Texas.

11—John G. Zimmerman12—A.P.13—Max Peter Haas, A.P., Julian P. Graham, Frank Howard, U.P.I.14—John G. Zimmerman, A.P.18—U.P.I.19—N.Y. Daily News, A.P., Francis Miller—LIFE, David Bier, Los Angeles...

Sally Moore, 18, the perky Californian who excited Wimbledon when she won girls' title in 1958, upheld U.S. prestige in Northern tournament final at Didsbury, England, upsetting Rosa Maria Reyes...

AMERICAN LEAGUE

All limes are E.D.T.

'When I reached up to pull down the garage door something hit me from behind. The blow drove me to my knees. I rose. Another blow dropped me again. I was kicked several times. I heard two voices...

The great slump ended when Mickey Mantle stopped playing ball like an $80,000-a-year resident of Easy Street. His blazing bat and fiery base running woke up the Yankees

In the broad society of marine fishes, the 300-pound lemon shark pictured on the opposite page ranks somewhere between garbage man and robber baron. The lemon shark has a reputation as a...

Symbolism in K.C.

Ingemar Johansson, on why he has been throwing so few hard rights in training camp: "What good is a sparring partner sitting down?"

•Ingemar Johansson is the beguiling young Swede who has a plan to win the world's heavyweight title. Artist Robert Riger illustrates the plan, and Martin Kane judges it.

The Federal Government of the United States, unlike the dictatorships of modern times, seldom concerns itself with the conduct of international sport except to extend an occasional good wish or to...

THE IROCIN PEACEMAKER

Max Conrad, in Los Angeles out of Casablanca, tells his own story of what has been called "the greatest solo flying performance since Charles Lindbergh."

U.S. track prospects are brightening in this pre-Olympic year—and Kansas is still the best bet for the NCAA title

Pictured on these pages in the poses characteristic of their performances in the field are the 22 most popular sporting dogs in America today. Each is an expert in his particular phase of hunting,...

Most hunters who have ever owned a gun dog agree that with few exceptions these dogs also make fine house pets. More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that many house pets make excellent gun dogs...

Part II of this series on field dog training will appear in an early issue. In it, Fred Huyler draws on his 70 years' experience to tell you how to train trailing hounds.

The crown roast, an old-fashioned dish as decorative as it is delicious, can be the crowning glory of a dinner party

Black Hills is the newest threat among the 3-year-olds, and he can prove it by winning this Saturday's 91st Belmont Stakes

It is difficult to overestimate the role of the responder in the selection of the final contract. In many cases he is able to make an immediate diagnosis, and at such times he should act with...

Big league baseball is no longer a novelty, but still the throngs spill into Los Angeles' Coliseum to watch the pennant race in the game's strangest but most exciting setting

BEGINNING the extraordinary story of Jack Johnson, the Negro fighter whose brilliant skill won for his race the first championship of the world, and for himself a life of spectacular excess and...

A purse that disappeared...A night with Rasputin...Havana, Willard and the fix—or was it?...A would-be spy in Spain...Return to America...Prison, the pulpit and the stage...A truck on Route U.S. 1.

RIDING: REQUIRED READINGSirs:My wife, my two daughters and myself are keen horseback enthusiasts and we want to congratulate you on having the foresight to publish the horsemanship articles (How...

'They found what they wanted'

John or Joe if he's a boy, but if he has four legs and runs, you can have a proper peck of trouble picking a proper name

JOHN A. MORRISBoard of Trustees, NYRANew YorkThe Belmont, because 1½ miles is a better test of a Thoroughbred. The race is older and has more color and background. Ruthless, owned by my...