May 09, 1955 | Volume 2, Issue 19

Toy Pitcher Bobby Shantz (crippled by injuries for two long years) miraculously regained his old-time form and sent 33,471 Kansas City fans home in a state of near-hysteria by beating the Yankees...

The balloon is an ancient and simple thing, but it is still so full of fun it is making new friends in Philadelphia

With the invention of the balloon man first mastered the air. Then he spent the next 100 years trying to master the balloon

To prove how good-natured a Tennessee Walking Horse really is, the sponsors of the First Walking Horse Spring Festival at Nashville, Tenn. loaded one up with small fry and managed to get seven...

In their never-ending quest for realism the motion picture companies travel to the ends of the earth for authentic locales and spare no expense in obtaining technical consultants to coach actors...

Arriving in Las Vegas last week, the touring golf professionals—all 21 of them winners of some big tournament during the past year—were fully prepared to drown themselves in a sea of celebrities,...

LAS VEGAS GOLF AND GAMBLING COMBINED WITH CELEBRITIES—THE RESULT: AN HISTORIC POOL

The world's most colorful and famous horse race is the roaring climax to a week in which Kentucky goes all out for sentiment and living in a delirious mood

It is minutes short of post time. The horses have left the paddock in a slow, cautious walk to the track. As they appear for the long parade-first to the right and down around the clubhouse turn,...

EVENT—81st consecutive Kentucky Derby

EVAN SHIPMANMorning Telegraph

TEAM—10 men to a side: a goalie, three defensemen, three midfielders, three attackmen

PART III:

How Tenzing tasted the sometimes bitter fruit of triumph; and traveled to England; and how he finally found happiness and peace in a new life

A digest of last-minute reports from fishermen and other unreliable sources

8—drawings by Milton Glaser14 through 16—drawings by Ajay21—contemporary print from Ballooning by C.H. Gibbs-Smith, Penguin Books, London 194828, 29—left, Per Olow30, 31—Mark Swain, U.P.36—Dick...

An english heavyweight has come over to the States for a visit. While he's here he hopes to win the championship of the world. He has a better chance of accomplishing that than Archie Moore, Nino...

Ten certainly didn't turn out to be the magic number for either the Dodgers or Boston Doge this spring. The Doge, who had beaten everything in sight until last Saturday's Swift at Belmont, went...

Although the Detroit Tigers ended their wonderful winning streak last Sunday (seven straight victories may not sound particularly wonderful to you, but a team that hasn't been in the first...

JIM CANGEMIE, Astoria, N.Y.Burgess Stable"The best tracks are Belmont, Hialeah and Saratoga. I like the wide, sweeping turns. Rails are easier to ride. The worst is Bowie. It's a narrow track with...

Nat Fleischer says Jack Johnson was the best heavyweight boxer of all time? Do you agree?

Forty years ago this week at the Polo Grounds a left-handed Boston Red Sox pitcher named Babe Ruth, hitting against New York Yankee Pitcher Jack Warhop, belted a ball into the right-field stand...

A golfing friend confessed the other day that he has always wanted to walk up to the first tee and, without taking so much as a single limbering swing, just smack the ball. Admittedly, this may be...

Golf, I keep reminding my pupils, is a two-handed game. To develop the muscles of the left side, the left arm, and the left hand which initiate and control the backswing and downswing, I recommend...

Two of the finest golfers of all time began their careers as skinny kids battling each other for the caddies' championship of the Glen Garden Country Club back in Fort Worth, Texas

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Sirs:The articles by Robert Creamer and Red Smith on the American and National Leagues are worthy of the highest commendation. I would like to know their choices for the final standings on both...

A salute to some who have earned the good opinion of the world of sport, if not its tallest headlines

Two features in this issue point out especially well, I think, how SPORTS ILLUSTRATED each week opens different windows on sport. Our SPECTACLE evokes the serene and almost timeless world which...