THE STURDY GRAY LINE

•Gene Autry, Los Angeles Angels' owner, on the Dodger president: "There's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Walter O'Malley. There's nothing he wouldn't do for me. That's the way it is. We go...

When Sonny Liston meets Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship, he will pit one gun—a left hook—against an arsenal, and common sense predicts he will again lose

A. J. Foyt got sore after a crackup in practice, tied a bandana around his jaw, Jesse James style, and in one of the Ford-engined racers now dominating Indy grabbed the pole for the 500 with a...

Indy champions Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones talk candidly of the exhausting demands and lethal dangers of America's biggest, richest and most brutal auto race, the 500.

A brilliant foreigner whom most American horsemen doubted—although Europeans thought him the greatest—vindicated himself in the Preakness when his sons finished one-two, just a neck apart, after a...

He is Angelo Dundee—the incomparable manager, chief second and cut man to Cassius Clay. Dundee conceives of his job, which he insists is no big schmier, as that of a combination psychologist,...

According to Webster's, it is no longer correct to use the verb "illustrate" to mean "to enlighten or illuminate." With all due respect to the philological heirs of Noah Webster, the editors of...

Deploring the coercive—if not illegal—methods used to force American League owners to approve the CBS purchase of the New York Yankees, Bill Veeck discloses that one key voter happens to be the...

In Part 3 of The Hustler's Handbook, Bill Veeck reveals the secret of Horace Stoneham's success as a trader. He also explains the mysterious firing of Alvin Dark as Giant manager.

Though it conceivably could—and does—annoy the Phillies' other announcers, their perfectionist colleague Richie Ashburn just can't keep quiet when someone muffs a high pop fact. If a colleague...

The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame (nautical division) have a long way to go before they catch up to Harvard's oarsmen but, if tenacity and enthusiasm mean anything in crew, they are well on their way

As recently as last August the colorful stripes that embellished athletic uniforms had to be earned by playing the game, and the most cherished possessions in a man's wardrobe were the jerseys and...

Arizona State, just about the best team in college baseball, swept a three-game series last weekend from arch rival Arizona, and now the Sun Devils have their eyes on the collegiate world series...

In Stockholm, Floyd Patterson humbled Texan Tod Herring with the hit-and-run style he now admits he should have used against Liston

If a beatnik is one whose life is devoted to enjoyment of the here and now with no thought of past or future, the yachtsmen of the Quai St. Pierre in Cannes should be called boatniks. Like Frank...

Cluttered Mediterranean harbors like this one in Cannes and the sweet life that they encourage turned a lifetime sailboat man and ocean racer into a shameless stinkpotter

Nearly every big port and fashionable fishing village in the Mediterranean has yacht agencies ready and willing to charter cabin cruisers. Their prices range from $2,000 to $10,000 or more a...

AMERICAN LEAGUE"Ten, 9, 8, 7...the pitcher starts his wind-up...6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...contact!" DETROIT (6-2) players tried to have the countdown, aimed at rattling the pitcher, reach "contact" just...

BOATING—U.S. Air Force Captain RICHARD TILLMAN won the North American Finn Class championship and Texan BOB MOSBACHER took the English-Speaking Union Cup for Dragon Class boats in two weeks of...

4—Gene Fenn22—Fred Kaplan23, 24—Herb Scharfman25—Fred Kaplan27, 29—James Drake30, 31—Jerry Cooke33—Fred Kaplan59—left, Louis Goldman from Rapho-Guillumette60—Art Shay66—Phil Bath95—AP96—Dwain...

Harry W. (Skip) Cutting III, who pedaled the 4,000-meter individual pursuit event for the U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo (he placed 16th in a 24-man field), won the 25-mile road race at the Western...

ARMS, LEGS, AND THE MANNSirs:What have you got against the Dodgers? First you say Koufax can't pitch anymore, therefore, they can't win the pennant. Well, now he is pitching as good as ever and...