October 05, 1959 | Volume 11, Issue 14

The only thing consistent about college football is its inconsistency. This fact was never more clearly demonstrated than last weekend when Oklahoma, Auburn and SMU, among others, were buried in...

Dartmouth vs. PennsylvaniaThe Indians must be better than their shocking loss to Holy Cross would indicate. Penn is improved but the choice is DARTMOUTH.

All times are E.D.T.

The Los Angeles Dodgers were the big story of the 1959 National League race. They rose from seventh place to pennant playoff on sheer drive

Eddie Arcaro's brilliantly executed ride in last week's $100,000 Woodward Stakes elevated Sword Dancer to Horse of the Year

At the start and at the finish and in those furlongs between, a horse race becomes a thing of beauty and harshness all in one A Contest of Horses and Men

Bill Stead, after surviving a 130-mph hydroplane somersault in the President's Cup race on the Potomac: "It's never been done before, I know that. But it isn't the kind of record Pm fond...

Frank Lane, general manager of the Cleveland Indians and the world's champion producer of adrenalin, has heedlessly let many a sun go down on his anger. But in all of his headline-courting career...

Believe it or not, runs the official word from Peking, Red China's athletes during the past eight months alone have broken 11 world records in international sport. Whether this statement checks...

As pro football begins its biggest year, the Baltimore Colts depend on icy, daring Johnny Unitas to keep their title. Burgeoning attendance breeds a new league, but its future is rocky

Next week the waterfowl season opens on the heavily trafficked Pacific flyway, to be followed by openings on the Central, Mississippi and Atlantic. This year there will be more hunters across the...

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The secret of scoring on the pro tour is getting down in two shots when you're about a hundred yards from the green. The average club golfer has more modest demands. He doesn't expect to get down...

Almost any quiz kid, asked about a pass that changed the course of history, would answer: the pass of Thermopylae where a handful of Spartans held off the Persian horde, or perhaps the 50-yard...

The winner of the Brown Jug will really celebrate his victory after he goes home

BASEBALL: SOLO PERFORMANCESSirs:Instead of rating pitchers by their won-lost record, I suggest rating them by the difference between their own won-lost percentage and that of their team. This...

HORSE RACING—Flying into the stretch in the $109,800 Woodward Stakes at Aqueduct, a race that, it was generally agreed, would settle claims to Horse-of-the-Year honors, came Hillsdale, Round Table...

4—John G. Zimmerman8—Russell V. Hamm, Fort Wayne News Sentinel, Eastfoto, J.P. Condon, City of Miami News Bureau, London Daily Express-Pictorial16, 17—Bill Wilson-Atlanta Journal (4), Dozier...

Jimmy Miller, a 37-year-old Fort Wayne, Ind. pilot who flies a homemade plane, captured the National Air Race title at Fort Wayne over 13 others by zipping around the 35 ⅝-mile course in an...

BASEBALL—HAVANA over Richmond in International League playoff, MINNEAPOLIS over Fort Worth in American Assn. Winners will meet in Little World Series.

'Sharpshooters are made, not born'

RICHARD M. NIXON Vice-President of U.S. As a spectator sport, baseball is still our typical game. However, as a participant sport, I think there is a danger. The major leagues have a real problem...

Larger and faster engines, and one outboard newcomer, vie for the big 1960 market