September 12, 1960 | Volume 13, Issue 11

All times are E.D.T.

OLD GAME, NEW BLOOD

The victory of Germany's Armin Hary in the 100-meter dash helped make a gloomy Thursday for the U.S. But the next day Americans won six gold medals. Turn page for full Olympic story.

Germany's gold medal winner in the 100-meter dash is one of the most remarkable and controversial athletes in Rome. The quickest starter in racing history (tests have established that he reacts to...

Shotputter Bill Nieder, who won the U.S.'s first track and field gold medal in Rome and defeated his waspish archrival Parry O'Brien in the process, disclosed to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Artist Robert...

Soaring like a ballet dancer, Ralph Boston is caught by the camera at the peak altitude of a flight to lasting fame. As he flew, he flailed his arms and churned his legs for utmost distance, and...

U.S. swimmers shattered Australia's supremacy, but there was trouble afloat and in the modern pentathlon

All the medal winners of all the events in the XVII Olympiad, plus final evaluations of the performers and inside stories of how U.S. athletes won some events—and lost others.

Feel and crispness in the short game are all-important and also very closely correlated. To attain crispness, and thus gain feel, I find two techniques very helpful.

Sharp in Chicago, the new 2-year-old challenger now faces tests over distance

It now strikes anyone who has ever been editorially concerned with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as nearly incredible that there was once editorial concern over whether or not in all of sport enough took...

After a winless season, Joe O'Brien's Blaze Hanover took the biggest prize of all

Halfway to walking, the 6-month-old baby exercises mind and muscles together

Run off the land by their own bad manners, gunners in New York are getting a fresh chance

As the inventor of the 'unusual no trump,' " an indignant correspondent writes, "you are hereby beseeched to purge the miserable——! The thing has become a booby trap." Her husband, she reports,...

PASSING VS. POINTS

BOATING—DAVID MILLER, skipper of three-man Royal Vancouver YC crew, defeated Cleveland YC of Rocky River, Ohio, 45¼ points to 43¾ points to win the Sears Cup, emblematic of North American junior...

6—drawing by Marc Simont8—Terry Rice9—Jack Hourigan-Hamilton Spectator, George E. Adams-Dayton Journal Herald, A.P. (2)14, 15—Jerry Cooke16—John G. Zimmerman-Keystone18, 19—Robert Riger22, 23—John...

THE BUBBLE BLOWERSSirs:An interesting companion piece to the photo of "Best Bubble Blower" Pitcher Milt Pappas of the Baltimore Orioles in your latest issue (The Pennant Race Bubbles Along, Aug....

'Ponies and kids'

Dean McLaughlin, salesman for an Oshawa, Ont. grocery firm, scored ringers with 92% of his attempts in the qualifying and the playoff rounds of the Canadian Horseshoe Pitching championships at...