June 08, 1964 | Volume 20, Issue 23

INDIANAPOLIS

•Avery Brundage, on the Olympics in general: "The biggest problem today is that the Olympic Games have become so important that political people want to take control of them. Our only salvation is...

Doughty A.J. Foyt (below) won his second Indianapolis 500 on iron nerve and matchless skill after a fiery calamity that took the lives of two drivers; the ill luck was persistent, reducing the...

The U.S. Open is golf's most exciting event to watch. Color paintings, a course assessment and a behind-the-clubhouse report on how it is run show what makes the Open unique.

In 46 years eight horses have worn Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown (right). Northern Dancer will join the list if he captures this week's Belmont

There is racing today in Lagos, Nigeria, where the track runs through the heart of the city, and in Hong Kong, Caracas and Rome. The fields go clockwise in England, counterclockwise in Mexico;...

Prospering mightily, U.S. racing is also developing in ways that dismay many who have loved it best and longest. E. Barry Ryan, highly qualified and unusually frank, here tells our turf editor...

Most people would agree that the seven pages of striking color photographs devoted to the racecourse at Chantilly in this issue are the work of an artist. One man we know would dissent. He is a...

Not all trainers take a pessimistic view of U.S. racing. Among those happily sharing in the game's bonanza is Brooklyn's Howard (Buddy) Jacobson, who last year led all trainers with 140 winners...

If anything of grace and beauty is to survive man's passion for functional perfection, it may well be the famed race courses or another day. Just as it did Snow White's wicked stepmother, the...

Before a crowd of 10,000 Mark Twain fans in Calavaras County, Calif., Tarheel Terror II, the splotchy dark green entry of North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford, soared a sensational 11 feet 9...

It is almost 15 years since Robin Roberts (top) and Curt Simmons did so much to win a pennant for the Phillies, but they are pitching superbly for different teams now

Navy beat Army for another national title, but the real loser was the State of Maryland, which can no longer claim lacrosse as its own

They may be no bigger than children, but the tough little athletes who sweat off ounces in a steam box and then steer 1,000 pounds of cantankerous Thoroughbred down the stretch are not playing a...

The brilliant pennants waving behind Jockey Bill Hartack on our cover duplicate the hues of actual owners' silks. Among those that are the most readily identifiable: 1) George A. Pope Jr., 2) Fred...

AMERICAN LEAGUEAs if following a Rube Goldberg blueprint, BALTIMORE used scraps of good pitching, chunks of clutch hitting, a dab of luck and a dash of trickery to build the best record (5-2) of...

In 1958, when Mike White was 19, he played in an Arizona intrasquad game with the Cleveland Indians, his first game as a pro. Mike, a shortstop, was completing a double play when the runner slid...

BOXING—Middleweight JOSÉ GONZALEZ, a Puerto Rican living in New York, knocked out Florentino Fernandez, the 11-to-5 favorite, in the eighth of a scheduled 10-rounder in Madison Square Garden.

Nancy Isaak, 15, a freshman at Kailua High in Honolulu and a tennis player for just four years, defeated Joyce Yee, the first-ranked Hawaiian woman, in the semifinals, and then outlasted Judy...

4—John M. Stebbins24, 25—Flip Schulke-Black Star26, 27—John P. Crozier-Indianapolis Star, Jack Wingert, Frank H. Fisse-Indianapolis Star, AP29—Tony Triolo30, 31—Thoroughbred Racing Association...

WAY TO WINSirs:I have just finished reading William Leggett's article about Frank Howard (The Dodgers' Troubled Giant, May 25) and I must say that I was quite distressed.

An invitation to the L.B.J. ranch is not the only reason for buying frontier clothes and high-heeled boots. A growing number of city people, remembering their Tom Mix days as kids, have...

Events in the East through June 27

Winners of the annual Kirkpinar, the World Series of Turkish oil wrestling, are all national heroes