August 11, 1958 | Volume 9, Issue 6

Never in the history of track has an athlete performed so well as Rafer Johnson in Moscow

THE MANY MOODS OF SUMMER

Bob

Senator Estes Kefauver commenting on the testimony of Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty, latest of the sports figures to lighten a senatorial investigation: "I hope you have a great season,...

This issue marks the fourth birthday of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Four years ago when we started out we could not be sure of much. "But," we said in the announcement of our publication, "one thing is...

Last week, being the week in which alert guardians of public morality succeeded in barring children from witnessing Thoroughbred racing in New York State, seemed to be a good time to look around...

Leaves, cool and green in summer-time, riotously colorful in fall, are the stuff of which nostalgia is made. But in the imaginative hands of Artist Tomi Ungerer they become an inspiration for...

HOW TO DRIVE A LOBSTER CRAZY...MANTA RAYS AND SINISTER CITIZENS...A SQUIRRELFISH'S MISTAKE

•Therugged young man smiling on his porch is after Floyd Patterson's heavyweight title. Joe David Brown tells the lurid story of Roy Harris; Martin Kane previews the fight.

Ignition trouble bothers the champion as he trains for the Roy Harris title fight

Sweden triumphed again in the 10-hour Little Le Mans race for foreign passenger cars on a day marked by persistence and ingenuity of an unusual order

A childhood challenge in a new version helps adults achieve all-round fitness

Court Tennis and the portrait conversation piece were both very much the vogue in 18th century England, and painter Arthur Devis' rendering of the unknown player on the left is as much an example...

Hope of graduation from the Brigade stirs eternally in the dew sweeper's heart

The most difficult thing for the average golfer to do, in my opinion, is to stay behind the ball. He has a tendency to move ahead of the ball with the body, and in doing so he develops an...

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It is sometimes my province to criticize a play, but I am rarely called upon to praise or pan the histrionic ability of the players. Just this once, however, I am going to be a drama critic.

So says Bill Muncey, twice victor in the nation's biggest hydro race, and a man who despises the idea of finishing second

TRACK & FIELD—AMERICAN MEN, undismayed by 800-meter split-second defeat of Tom Courtney, Olympic champion and world 880-yard record holder, and world-record performance by Poland's Jerzy...

Slight of frame and long on energy, some of the 1,000 Detroit children turned out for Metropolitan Youth Fitness Day scramble in relay race, later did their competitive best in dashes, hurdles and...

THE LONG VIEW:WACHT VS. HANDICAP COMMITTEESirs:Alas, that Mr. W. W. Wacht has withdrawn his lawsuit against the handicap committee of the Pines Ridge Golf Club (E&D, Aug. 4). Whether he...

2—Mark Kauffman4—Marvin E. Newman, Richard Meek6—Detroit Dept. of Parks and Recreation, U.P.I.7—U.P.I., A.P. right, U.P.I., Bob Tamaska-Dayton Daily News, A.P., Larry Obsitnik, Doug...

'At least make the kids safe'

BOATING—HENRY VOGEL, JACK SALMON and HARRY REEVES, national championships in National Limited Hydroplane races, Seattle, for 225, 135 and 136 classes, respectively.

Gordon (Buddy) Baker, steady 17-year-old South Carolinian playing his third year of golf, won the USGA National Junior tournament in St. Paul, by beating Doug Lindsay, Bethesda, Md., also 17, 2 and 1.

As the British challenger for the America's Cup boards a freighter bound for the U.S., Sports Illustrated presents an exclusive first look at its inner workings

TOM YAWKEYOwnerBoston Red SoxLane is wrong. The people paying these bonuses are good baseball men and good businessmen. This is not the road to the poorhouse although there might be a time when...

Bull's-eyes without trying may be the handgunner's claim with a new radical concept in grips