May 03, 1965 | Volume 22, Issue 18

MUMBO-JUMBO IN THE GUMBO

•Gene Mauch, Phillie manager, on the wretched early-season weather: "We had three days off in a week, and I would have given half my pay for a day off during the last 10 games of last season."

Half a dozen horses in this week's Kentucky Derby have the breeding, the class, the expert trainers and jockeys and the racing experience needed to win. They all have their convinced supporters....

Even in foul weather and on his off days Texas A&M's huge Randy Matson heaves the shot and discus so far that he has track coaches talking in superlatives and fellow athletes scrambling madly...

Against a Los Angeles squad depleted by injuries, the Boston Celtics coasted to their seventh straight world title and their eighth in nine years—an awesome, if monotonous, series of performances

Unbalanced pitchers are not unusual in the major leagues. Spectacular color photographs show what you miss if you keep looking at the ball after the pitcher has let go of it.

People like to read about people, and we at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED are not about to flout this fundamental rule of journalism. Every week we write about the heroes and goats who are directly involved...

What is 4 feet 11¾ inches tall, wears a pink sweater, black slacks and lavender sneakers and runs around the reservoir in Central Park at least once a week? An opera singer. Elaine Malbin (below),...

Colorful ice targets that can be quickly frozen may replace clay pigeons and bring down the high cost of trap and skeet shooting

Not Jim McElreath—he scored with the old banger at Trenton

And the somebodies of the pro tour can be excused if they are becoming peevish, for the nobodies are making the headlines and getting rich

Navy's 44-foot yawls (below) are really ocean racers, but they are enough alike to provide a brisk round-robin regatta for 10 college crews

In most sports it is considered the duty of the columnist who writes as an expert to give a frank opinion of the needs and weaknesses of the home team. In bridge, however, there seems to be...

P. Galore and 007 were in and out of the ribbons, but the two young shows that opened the Southwest circuit already have an air of class

AMERICAN LEAGUEMinnesota (6-2) flashed a new look—stout pitching, reckless base running and timely hitting—to win five straight. Harmon Killebrew's first 10 hits were singles; Jim Kaat (2-0) beat...

BADMINTON—Denmark's ERLAND KOPS, top-seeded and unbeaten this year, won the men's singles title in the U.S. championships, defeating champion Channarong Ratanasaeng-suang of Thailand 15-11, 15-7....

John Olagues, a sophomore right-hander at Tulane, struck out 20 batters as he pitched the Green Wave to a 7-0, one-hit victory over Mississippi. Olagues walked two men, struck out the side in...

21—Ray Woolfe Jr22, 23—Neil Leifer24—Jerry Cooke26—Dick Swanson-Black Star29—Jack Sheedy and George Long30, 31—Herb Scharfman32, 38—Phil Bath42-50—Brian Seed56—Wil Blanche, Central Press-Pictorial...

GOLFERS, A AND BSirs:Thank you for the shrewd article, All Alone at the Top (April 19), which presumed to prove conclusively that Jack Nicklaus has taken Arnie's crown. We look forward to similar...

Manufacturers of two-piece billiard cues," reads a sign on the wall of Isidore Rutzisky's little store at 198 Bowery on New York's ramshackle Lower East Side. The shop is hardly more than a stall,...

As those familiar with tennis already know, there is considerable controversy among the experts concerning the best approach to hitting the ball. Even the most eager novice soon finds himself...