Connecticut

Pete Rademacher, shown here with knowing wink, may well be first amateur to fight for world heavyweight title if planned bout with Floyd Patterson in Seattle week of Aug. 19 comes off. No powder-puff puncher, Olympic...

•Wait Till 1958 At Toledo, after he had dropped out of the National Open with an ailing back, Ben Hogan was approached by a white-haired gentleman who told him: "I came all the way from Connecticut to see you play."...

AUTO RACING

New sports car race tracks like those at Lime Rock and Bridgehampton are springing up everywhere—a symptom of the big boom In amateur auto racing

Johnny Kelley, 26-year-old schoolteacher from Groton, Conn., overcame long-suffered lack of confidence to trounce strong foreign field of runners by almost four minutes, emerge as first American winner since 1945 of...