April 27, 1959 | Volume 10, Issue 17

BOXING—Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, not one to be stampeded into precipitous action outside the ring, got New York Supreme Court temporary restraining order against State Athletic...

BOATING—CRYSTALINER, 27-foot cruiser owned by Gordon Hoover, Miami, Miami-Nassau powerboat race, 185 miles in 8:04 to clip better than hour from record.

Cover—Leigh Wiener-LIFE11—Robert Kniesche-The Sunpapers12—Cypress Gardens, A.P., Lloyd Flowers-Columbus Citizen, A.P., Alfred Eisenstaedt-LIFE, Notional, Paddle Racket Assn., A.P.13—Herb...

Connie Der of Winter Haven, Fla., with an accomplished knack of keeping her footing on rough water, upset National Champion Nancie Rideout at wave-ruffled Dixie water-ski tournament in Winter Haven.

1875As a boy of 14 Matt Winn saw the first Derby from the back of his father's wagon and dreamed that some day he might run the race himself. Twenty-seven years later he was general manager of...

In many areas like the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, where shoals and shores serve to curb the wind and sea, skin-divers usually have easy access to their world. But in the open Pacific, any...

Sam Snead, bewailing and slightly exaggerating the extent of changes being made to toughen the Winged Foot course at Mamaroneck, N.Y., for the U.S. Open, an event he has never won: "Some of the...

A study of a deepening crisis in baseball: the problem of the pitcher. A healthy Bob Turley is worth half a million. But a sore pitching arm could leave him worthless.

Anybody who can read the standings and the box scores knows how right some people were to hope, how right others were to fear. Frank Lane's Cleveland Indians are having a happy time and the White...

Spring in Oklahoma is short and stormy," said Kester (Tractor) Trent. "You don't get much baseball in, but in a tournament like this you get quite a lot in." Trent, who coaches Dewey in the old...

Although not as kulturni, dialectically speaking, as Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet (Galina Ulanova & Co.), which is now playing to S.R.O. audiences in New York's Metropolitan Opera House, a jazzy,...

By now everybody knows that Japan's Crown Prince met and fell for his pretty young bride on a tennis court, but Akihito and Michiko were not the only ardent tennis players in Tokyo whose love sets...

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To get in a week of hunting a year, the average American must carefully plan his escape from the shackles of city living. In the dry rangelands of southwestern New Mexico, for Rancher Bill Miller...

Cash pours into 300 windows, at $25,000 per minute, between harness races at Yonkers Raceway where, last week, a world-record one-night handle off $2,531,060 was set. Within seconds after each...

Trotting's first International highlights a schedule of rich stakes from now to November

Nothing so infuriates the contract bridge aficionado as to hear someone say, "Let's play cards—bridge or something." At that juncture the standard operating procedure of the aficionado is to draw...

In which boxing's latest Ivy League promoter retires by request, without ever promoting a fight but with $55,000

The bunny wandered around County Stadium in Milwaukee, and the Pirates finally stopped the pitching-rich Braves

When you're playing your fairway woods keep well in mind that as long as you overswing you cannot have control over where the ball is going. Part, and parcel of overswinging, brought on by the...

Those Canadiens won another Stanley Cup, handling Toronto's Maple Leafs quickly and easily

This week the full story of Billy Talbert's dramatic career is published in greatly expanded form in the book Playing for Life by William F. Talbert with John Sharnik (Little, Brown and Co., $4)....

A doubles triumph...Marriage and a job...Davis Cup captain...My debt to tennis and how I paid it.

By presidential proclamation, next week, May 3 through 9, is National Youth Fitness Week. It marks the second year in a row that we have had one, and it comes less than four years after the...

Sirs:Your articles by Tommy Armour (SI, March 30; April 6, 13 and 20) are the most logical and interesting golf series that I have ever read.NICHOLAS M. BACCARIDetroit

'Seven kids who wouldn't quit'

DENNY SHUTEGolf pro at Portage CCAkronThey're two different types. Snead is a natural golfer. He always swings the same. Hogan made his swing, and he knows where the clubhead is at all times. He...

Outstanding tournaments, both pro and amateur, for the rest of the year