August 08, 1960 | Volume 13, Issue 6

After a pre-Olympic tour, Tex Maule presents a firsthand report on the European trackmen who want—and may win—gold medals

Horse racing's biggest spending spree turned into a bonanza for some surprising winners as bettors wagered $1 million at four of the country's tracks

Salt Lake City mechanic and driver Athol Graham, trying for a new speed record at 400 mph, was killed when a wheel flew off his homemade car

Encased in the cockpit of his new $3 million racing car, Bluebird, Donald Campbell starts its first test run in England. This fall Campbell hopes to drive the 30-foot, 4-ton gas-turbine racer past...

In the choppy waters of Long Island Sound, Ann Cox, 15 (left)", and Joan Waldron, 17, entrants in Larchmont Race Week's junior regatta, fight a losing battle to keep their Penguin, Elmo, afloat....

Nearly everyone in France, from small boys to tall presidents, turns out to watch the Tour de France as it passes through his home town. When this year's Tour reached the village of...

In Rome on August 25, with the world watching as never before, begin those ultimate tests of sport, the 1960 Olympics. For readers who will follow the Games at home, and for those traveling to...

Every Olympiad has its own special atmosphere, and this derives, at least in part, from its locale. The first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, took their aura from their setting in Athens—capital of...

For his assistance in the completion of this article, the editors and Artist Jack Kunz are indebted to Edward Migdalski, Ichthyologist of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory and the Peabody...

As played by Earl Buchholz and Chuck McKinley of the U.S. Davis Cup team (), who demonstrate the basic moves on this and the following pages, doubles is an extremely fast game requiring the...

Much of the strategy demonstrated in these pages by Earl Buchholz and Chuck McKinley appeared originally, but in somewhat altered form, in the book The Game of Doubles in Tennis by William F....

All times are E.D.T.

With competing costs down, more able skippers tried for the honors of Olympic racing

Sooner or later in a round of golf you come to a hole requiring a great deal of accuracy. The average player, anxious to hit a good shot in these circumstances, hits a bad one. I have found one...

Neither falling horses nor broken bones daunted an intrepid band of modern pentathletes in the Olympic tryouts

THE TEAM THAT ISN'T THERECaught subsidizing football players last year, Indiana U. was put on trial by the Big Ten for doing more or less openly what almost everybody else was doing clandestinely....

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz, for more than three decades one of the foremost tournament players in the world, will not be playing on the New York team when it meets Los Angeles next week, but he may be...

BALLOONING Weigh-off: to sail away in a balloon, a phrase to be used with great caution.

BOXING—BOB CLEROUX, bulky, 22-year-old Montreal heavyweight, assaulted Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas with mauling, whirlwind attack, finally trapped him in a corner during the fifth round and...

COVER: John G. Zimmerman4—Martin Nathan6—New York Times7—Greer Studio, Guy Hayes-Atlanta Journal, Alex Yackiminie-Hamilton Spectator, Tom Carbone, U.P.I., C. Richard Eckel-Hartford Times10,...

Penny Baker, 18, of Austin, Texas, participating in men's jumping event at Austin's Lone Star water skiing championships, broke men's national jumping record with 150-foot leap, surpassed the mark...

THE OLD ONE-TWOSirs:Who is this guy Walter Bingham? In his article Baseball's only Big League (July 25) he does nothing but run down the American League unmercifully!

'My daddy always told me'

A FREE RIDE FOR THE FEW

Alec Waugh has been a prominent English novelist and author of travel books and biographies for the past 40 years. His books include Island in the Sun and his latest, Fuel for the Flame. He...