April 25, 1960 | Volume 12, Issue 17

It may be that Grandma, that accommodating old darling of the expedient demise, need no longer bite the dust in the baseball season. Instead of pleading her funeral in order to manage an afternoon...

Henry LeBlanc, president of the Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas, on the need for safety at sea: "Statistics show that most drowning victims lack life preservers."

FIRST PLACE: TWIN INBOARDSHull of winning boat Moppie (large drawing above), designed by C. Raymond Hunt, has four underwater strakes on each side of bottom which resist rolling action plus a...

Giant fans happily crowded the turnstiles in a rousing welcome to Candlestick Park

The ring death of Charlie Mohr, a star of Wiscosin's team, gives a probable coup de grâce to a declining college sport

Just judging from the attendant frills (champagne dinner, dulcet ensemble music), the opening of a "Sport and the Horse" exhibit in Richmond's Museum of Fine Arts was an august occasion. On hand...

People were busting out all over last week, but one of the biggest spring bargains of all was indoors—the New York International Automobile Show. There, for the price of a movie ticket, you could...

As SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's photographer, who just happened to be in the Mövenpick restaurant in Geneva, Switzerland, last week, watched and snapped, the boy and the girl sipped on a mutual soda...

•A preview by Whitney Tower of the 86th running of the Kentucky Derby and, in color, a portfolio of brilliant Churchill Downs paintings by Artist Morton Roberts.

Designers Jack and Helen Lazar and Anne Fogarty top the voting for the year's fashion awards

Eighteen sportswear designers were nominated for this year's SIDA awards. For the second year in a row-designers from abroad were among those honored; for the first time a ski-wear-designing team...

The first woman for golf, so far as its dim early records reveal, was Mary Queen of Scots. "She played golf openly, gave it her blessing and the sport advanced thereafter," says The Encyclopedia...

Each February for almost a century and a quarter, small groups of British and Irish followers of the greyhound have gathered near Liverpool for the Waterloo Cup, one of Britain's classic sporting...

Future officers compete in an average of nine team sports apiece under the Air Academy's fitness program

Montreal's strong Canadiens skated quickly off with their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup

A Georgia haven for golf provides an idea for a fine, fresh-tasting hors d'oeuvre

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Directors of the fabulously rich track are battling for control of the Strub heritage

The huge turnout of bridge experts that swarmed over hospitable Jackson, Miss, last month had dwindled to six teams in the 11th and final day of play for the Vanderbilt Trophy and the National...

John Temple Win-Burn, 18, Kansas City high school senior who first began collecting marksmanship awards in 1955, was given National Rifle Association's highest junior honor, the Distinguished...

With the joy of a captive set free, or the rapture of one who has returned from a living tomb to bustling life, I inhaled the precious air. But my thoughts were chaos. My brain refused to work. I...

When we saw Major Jacky Gore in "The Challenge," the first installment. of The Haunted Major, published last week, he was trying to learn to play golf. Incensed by the rapt attention which the...

All limes are E.D.T. unless otherwise noted

BASEBALL—CLEVELAND'S voluble FRANK LANE, singularly quiet as Indians prepared for American League opener Tuesday, suddenly set tongues to wagging again when he traded home run slugger Rocky...

Cover—Ernst Haas-Magnum4—Hy Peskin (2), Fred H. Powers6—A.P.7—U.P.I. A.P., The Gleaner, William Klender-Baltimore Sun12, 13—Nassau Bahamas Development Board14—Jarvis Darville-Bahamas News...

UP 29TH & CRENSHAWSirs:The Sportsman Club, located at 29th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, was considered to be in a non-"rundown" area in Los Angeles, until Thursday, March 17,...

'Since the sixth grade'

PAUL RICHARDSManagerBaltimore OriolesI think that the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians are the most improved. It's a tossup between them. Al Lopez got the punch he needed in Freese,...