May 25, 1964 | Volume 20, Issue 21

NATIONAL LEAGUESeldom have the underdogs had such a rollicking good week. Standing in the clubhouse in his thermal underwear after his NEW YORK METS (4-3) had knocked the Giants out of the league...

A year ago, when still in high school in San Bruno, Calif., Wally Bunker waited patiently for offers to sign with the Angels or Giants, the teams he most wanted to play for. Seventeen clubs made...

BOXING—Eighth-ranked Middleweight JOSE TORRES of Brooklyn hammered out a 10-round unanimous decision over Wilbert (Skeeter) McClure of Toledo in Madison Square Garden to extend his record to 30...

4—drawing by Dan Todd36—Frank Zagarino66, 71—Herb Scharfman74, 78—Werner J. Kuhn84—Jack Sheedy & George Long109—UPI110—U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Earl Smith, U.S. Marine Corps

Graham Hall, 21, a first classman at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., led his school to its first service academies sailing championship as he skippered his Interclub dinghy...

TIGER, TIGERSirs:Congratulations on Jack Olsen's excellent article on Al Kaline (The Torments of Excellence, May 11), a man who deserves a better team than the Tigers. Say, the Yankees.RON...

BAD SHOW

•Harry Craft, of the Houston Colt .45s, on rumors that he will be fired as manager: "It's one of the hazards of the job. If a man doesn't want to be fired, he better not manage. He should go in...

After Northern Dancer's brilliant victory in the Preakness, three happy men hold the trophies that signify capture of the second jewel in racing's Triple Crown—and look ahead to the contest for...

The perfectly machined Harvard crew that purred away with the Eastern Sprints seems an inevitable choice to go to Tokyo

For undiluted Americana, the May festivities at Indianapolis culminating in the 500-mile race top anything else by a whoop and a holler and a good many miles per hour. People eat fried chicken and...

Down in southern Florida, where the air conditioner is man's best friend, the 20th century has left a scar known as the Tamiami Trail, 260-odd asphalted miles of junk and hokum. Along the scar...

Strap a man in a fighting chair and hand him a heavy rod with a 12/0 reel. Let the sun blaze down on 50 fathoms of salt water. Let the fellow draw on the muscles of back, arms and legs until they...

Four weeks in which golf's leading money winner contends with oceans of rain, dozens of oysters, an uncharted sandbar and, worst of all, a balky putting stroke that keeps sinking his chances of...

Nicklaus ends his journal with a sensitive account of the prelude to the Masters, his defeat and how, for just a moment, he considered quitting for the year.

Hurrying onto the first tee of the posh Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) Country Club course at 6 a.m. one morning last week, efficient George Romney quickly put down three balls (the quickest way to get...

At address your hands and arms should be as nearly as possible in the position you would like them to be at impact. This duplication is difficult to achieve if your hands at address are placed...

Shaky in the early stages of the Olympiad, nearly beaten by Great Britain in the semifinal, Italy's masterful bridge team rallied to crush the U.S. in the final to win its seventh world...

The Italians played 624 bridge hands on the way to the championship, but two, more than any of the others, helped win them the title. One (below) was the dramatic last board in the semifinal...

The whales grunted mightily at the Coliseum Relays in Los Angeles and put the shot with commensurate effect as a grateful crowd ohhhhhed

The longest scrimmage field in the country this year is on the California coast, where jerseys bearing the numbers of National Football League stars are the latest craze among teen-agers. The...

Shuffleboard Champion Mae Hall wins by cutting down opponents' scores while building up her own