May 04, 1959 | Volume 10, Issue 18

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Edna Lafferty, attractive wife of Bermuda-based Air Force captain and onetime New York junior golf champion, was at her best against Mrs. Isabel Ridler, winning 10 and 9 to take Bermuda Amateur title.

4—Waller Daran10—A.P., Roger Smith-Bermuda News Bureau, John G. Hemmer, A.P., Kemsley Picture Service, U.P.I., A.P.16, 17—Des Moines Register18, 19—George Bailey-louisville...

BOATING—BERMUDA, over Long Island Sound, 4-2, Intl. One-Design Class for Amorita Cup; HARTLEY WATLINGTON, Bermuda, Intl. 14-ft. dinghy series for Princess Elizabeth Trophy, with 96½ pts.; FRANCIS...

Two Kentucky Derby trials fail to produce a definite favorite for this week's classic, so the race remains a wide-open affair

1 First Landing2 Sword Dancer3 Our Dad

Palm Springs has erupted into a congress of golf courses to inspire one of the nation's gaudiest real estate booms in the no-longer-lone prairie

Douglas Macarthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, on his fishing during a stopover in Okinawa: "I feel certain I have established some kind of world's record. I caught a fish no bigger than the end...

The recent Associated Press survey of the state of the newspaper sports page—as viewed, often wryly, by the managing editors of 100 U.S. dailies (SI, April 6) has drawn a response, in letters to...

•Here is fabulous Las Vegas, gambling's booming, neon-splashed, star-studded glamour town, shown in color photographs by Jerry Cooke and a report by Kenneth Rudeen.

In 1953 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's great gray stallion, Native Dancer, captured the public imagination as have few other Thoroughbreds. Now he has given his name to George Balanchine's new ballet,...

At Home in his Sagamore Farm, Maryland paddock, Native Dancer seemed laughingly unaware last week of his eminence in one of the higher art forms. Now a husky 9-year-old, the Dancer has added 200...

That this team can do anything, even play hockey, is understood," wrote "Our Hockey Correspondent" in a British newspaper, "...for are they not Americans, [i.e.] a bunch of crazy, mixed-up kids."...

In a salty do-or-die boast, the windjammer skippers of yore promised to "sail her in or sail her under." As these pictures of nautical catastrophe show, Skipper Raymond (Sandy) Bourne of the...

Donald Campbell, C.B.E., the dashing Englishman who has traveled quite a bit faster on water than anyone else, made a leisurely pit stop at a New York hotel last week en route from Utah's...

For almost five years now, since the first issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I have had frequent and pleasant occasion to introduce different people to you in this space. Some have been writers,...

A high proportion of the best golfers today use the reverse overlap grip—the index finger of the left hand laps over the right and rides in the channel between the small finger and the third...

Barnaby Conrad's San Francisco bar offers bullfight atmosphere, wonderful appetizers

An appealing idea for do-it-yourself cookery at home is the miniature hibachi, identified more exactly in Japanese as a konro, meaning portable stove. Made of cast iron, it has a grate for...

Today's 20-game winner has a good chance of having tomorrow's newest sore arm

The Tournament of Champions gets a new winner in Souchak and a new high in calcuttas

It seems some smart money went astray when the Honeybear tried to regain his title

These strange playmates on the lawn of the home of Morgan Bulkeley, at Mount Washington, Mass., caused friends and neighbors to stare in astonishment. The Bulkeleys adopted and hand-fed a fawn...

It is too bad that the late, deeply lamented Damon Runyon was not a bridge player, because it's a dead sure thing that some marvelous bridge stories would have come from his typewriter. I wish...

The story of Billy Talbert's career has just appeared in greatly expanded form in Playing for Life, by William F. Talbert with John Sharnik (Little, Brown and Co., $4).

THE SPORTS PAGE (CONT.): LETTER FROM A SPORTING NEWSHENSirs:As the wife of a sportswriter, the friend of many others, a former newspaperwoman, the first to crack the sanctity of Denver's press...

All times E.D.T.

'A family affair'

CECIL SMITHTen-goal playerSan Antonio, TexasTommy Hitchcock Jr., a great hitter who had everything. He must have learned to ride before he could walk, because he and his pony were one. Most great...

Factorylike Jamaica, which may shut forever this year, flourished in a proletarian air