BOATING—WINSOME III surged through spinnaker-ripping winds of 45 mph and some of the slickest competition around Puget Sound to take the overall title in the rough, 136-mile Swiftsure Lightship...

Billy Spencer, 12, of Sarasota, Fla. soared to a new national junior boys' water-ski jump record of 83 feet in the Jacksonville Open Jump Classics. The son of a water-ski-school operator, Billy...

20—drawings by Allen Beechel24—Jerry Cooke35—Simpson Kalisher-FORTUNE36, 37—Robert D. Huntzinger84—Richard Clarkson106—Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Karreno Photo109—A.P.

NATIONAL LEAGUEAn infection was spreading in Pittsburgh. It all began with Vernon Law, who did not allow a walk and won twice. Similar success spread to Harvey Haddix, who pitched his first...

THE CHALLENGESirs:Many times in the past I have felt the urge to compliment—or criticize—a magazine. Usually I have been able to resist that urge. This time I cannot!

The gray-green water off Marblehead, although still retaining the stored cold of winter, sparkled in the spring sunshine. Wispy hooks and streamers of cloud patterned the sky. Floats of lobster...

A classic challenge at a mile and a half, the Belmont proves trainers as much as horses. This year the men behind the entries are a colorful crew

When the Open, the biggest of all golf tournaments, gets under way at Pittsburgh's awesome Oakmont next week, audacious Arnold Palmer and his colleagues will be matched against a desert of sand...

College Rowing reaches a climax as 13 colleges meet in the IRA regatta on New York's Onondaga Lake. Six pages of color and a report on the participating teams herald the race.

They begin to arrive at the site of the 62nd U.S. Open this weekend, all those golfers with the famous names: Palmer, Player, Finsterwald, Casper, Nicklaus, Sanders, Littler, Bolt. These are the...

As Johansson lay in the ring through the referee's count at the Polo Grounds, Patterson almost literally jumped for joy. A year of torment and self-doubt was over. Dreary, exhausting hours of...

The charter captain perched high in his lookout tower scans the water beyond the wake where the baits are skipping. There is a sudden flash of sunlight on a dark sickle cutting through the...

"Whenever I think of fishing I think of great adventure—of tuna sounding deep off Nova Scotia's ragged coast and big marlin, like the one opposite, thrashing on the surface of the blue Pacific. I...

In the June 25 issue Rod Stephens Jr., marine engineer, America's Cup racer and one of the best blue-water yachtsmen in the world, tells how to get the most from a cruising boat under sail.

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•Sonny Liston, on Floyd Patterson's chances against him: "He won't last five rounds. I want to have more time to talk to the sportswriters. I have to be home at a certain time and I can't go 15...

The corps is Wilke, Watson and Ward, and they harvested the richest Indy through flawless planning and execution

The coolest look around this summer—and the hottest fashion gambit—is not ladies in Pucci pants, but ladies in Wragge shorts. While the silky, long-pants look from Italy has taken over the...

Manny Jimenez of the Kansas City Athletics has a perplexing name, an oddball style and the best hitting average in the league

The international championship will focus the attention of the largest audience drawn to a single contest

All fathers love baseball and were good at it when they were little. (The average lifetime batting average of the average American father is .800.) Mothers hate it, though they were even better at...