4—Joe Consentino24, 25—Tony Triolo (3), AP26—AP27—UPI, AP28-30—James Drake31—drawings by Dan Todd32, 33—drawings by Marc Simont34—Robert Huntzinger45, 46—James Drake70, 71—Lynn Pelham from...

BASKETBALL—As expected, CINCINNATI took the Eastern Division semifinal playoffs from Philadelphia, but the series had to go the full five games. Each team won on its home court, starting with the...

Judy Wills, 16, of Gulfport, Miss., who at 3 tried to copy circus clowns by doing some back somersaults off a chair (she fell on her head) and at 6 was entered in tumbling competition, went to...

BATTING ANALOGUESSirs:Earnshaw Cook has written a book utterly detrimental to baseball (Baseball is Played All Wrong, March 23). If all the teams used his proposed system, each coach would know...

WORLD SERIES CONTINUED

•Doc Hayes, SMU basketball coach, on the rule that coaches must remain seated during a game: "If you've got 10,000 people seated in an arena and everybody's standing up and hollering and you...

An investigation of boxing by a U.S. Senate subcommittee reveals that the ex-heavyweight champion was generous to a fault with the kind of friends he was supposed to have given up long ago

Helped by a posse of Cowboys and Sooners, 130-pound Yo-Jo Uetake and his heavyweight teammate, Big Joe James, pinned the best wrestling teams in the land as Oklahomans won their 30th NCAA title

The defending champion, himself one of golf's great power hitters (see cover), analyzes the Augusta National Golf Club course and presents indisputable proof that the Masters gives the long driver...

No one is better able to assess the promotional value of major golf championships than Mark McCormack, business manager and legal adviser to the game's big three—Palmer, Nicklaus and Player. Here...

In a decade of devotion to golf, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has never presented a more complete package on the sport than readers will find in this issue. The occasion for such a display—some six elements...

A Masters gallery knows it is viewing a major sports spectacle, but it never realizes that it is a considerable sporting spectacle itself. When Artist Marc Simont went to his first Masters last...

Nobody sees the finish of a Masters in person except the innermost circle of fans and the cameramen who teeter to take such photographs as the one of Lema at right.

The big, drab room, about as appetizing as a dish of roach powder, is almost ail there is to the Fifth Street Gym in Miami Beach. From it, however, flows a ceaseless stream of champions, not the...

"I want to be alone," mourned Greta Garbo as she stepped up to the payoff window at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Or if she didn't she should have. Peering out at the assembled horseflesh from...

To back up the great left-hander, Milwaukee is committed to pitchers with unfamiliar names and unproved talent, a gamble inspired by the team's failure to finish in the first division for the...

A popular writer of mystery stories, Ross MacDonald is also a birder who keeps a not-too-private eye on people. The birds he watches are condors, and the people are advocates of a road along...

High-stakes players from all over the country attended the Las Vegas tournament, won by a stockbroker named Manny Rose

Thousands of golf followers are once more set to descend on this spoof of a spa. There they will happily retest the theory that it takes more sportsmanship—and courage—to face up to the challenge...

A new shop called The Tennis Set in Los Angeles is the In place to go for the latest in equipment, clothing and tennis conversation. Its customers include professional tennis players and amateurs...

Vic Niederhoffer brought a touch of Brooklyn rowdiness to Harvard and a traditionally genteel game