August 04, 1958 | Volume 9, Issue 5

•As much as the total cost to the U.S. of World War I

UNITED STATES $15,000,000,000

HORSE RACING $10,738,589,000 LOTTERIES $1,440,618,000 FOOTBALL POOLS $452,864,000 CASINOS $369,692,000 primarily Baccarat and Roulette

AUSTRALIA $160.

Moments of great tension in baseball do not always depend upon situations alive with dramatic appeal. With a runner on base there is a moment of tension before every pitch. It is the moment when...

Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox outfielder, after $250 fine by American League President Will Harridge for spitting at a Kansas City crowd: "I'm sorry I did it, and I'm principally sorry I lost...

In forthcoming issues are two contrasting examples of how SPORTS ILLUSTRATED fulfills its pleasant obligation to report the contemporary scene. Ten years ago the subjects were only in the distance.

Frankie Carbo, living symbol of all that has been sordid in professional boxing, stands under indictment at long last. A New York grand jury, acting on evidence painstakingly assembled by District...

In faded T shirt and dungarees at the helm of his Luders 16, Golden Arrow, he could be any summering metropolite. But he is in fact Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, diplomat under three presidents,...

Satellites swirl around practically every torso in southern California these days as the latest gadget to take the nation by storm sweeps into orbit.

The further adventures of Playwright-Congresswoman-Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce in the underwater world begin in the first of a serial in two parts, The Heaven Below.

In Maimi Beach this week some 2,000 of the country's top players are battling their opponents—and, in the natural course of bridge events, their partners, too—for trophies representing the...

BASEBALL—BALTIMORE'S fluttery Orioles lit momentarily in second-place tie with skidding Red Sox for best showing since entering majors in 1954. Red Sox' preoccupation with previous week's bright...

First mount for Bill Hartack, nation's leading jockey turned steeplechaser, was Mielaison, who won 10-fence event at Monmouth.

Lightweight Champion Joe Brown retains crown despite leftish plot

The kingly muskellunge taxes the patience of anglers who try to catch him and of conservationists who try to hatch him

2—drawings by Ajay4—Turfotos, A.P., Neil Clemans-Mirror-Daily News5—A.P., David Kitz, Central Press, USAF, Canada Pictures, Joe Wissel-Daytona Daily News, Toronto Telegram8—Howard...

Wedge shots, whether from hard sand or soft, must not be forced. They must be played with an easy, lazy swing in which the sand is used as a buffer to poofff the ball out. And, of course, to get...

ARCHERY—SIGRID JOHANSSON, Sweden women's world championship, 11 points over New Jersey's Ann Corby; James Caspers, Racine, Wis., 50-meter world title; Sweden's Stig Thyssel, men's world...

Barbara McIntire, pretty 23-year-old Jupiter, Fla. golfer, covered last eight holes of women's Western Amateur 2 under par, was able to beat Medalist Ann Quast 2 and 1 in 36-hole final at Chicago...

Joey Jay, first Little Leaguer to make the majors, has pitched the Braves to the league lead

In the Empire Games the runners from down under swept everything from the 880 up

Mark Harris has written three baseball novels, the best known of which is Bang the Drum Slowly. The story of Fibber Hirayama is the byproduct of a Fulbright Scholarship, which took Harris to the...

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NO TIME FOR SWIMMERSSirs:Your article on Chris von Saltza ("I Like to Beat 'Em," SI, July 21) was really great. I am one of many American swimmers who feel that swimming does not get enough...

'It's sort of like flying'

That special American dynamism diagnosed by Parry O'Brien couldn't quite stop Russia in a bitterly fought track duel