In The Netherlands, Golfer Gerard de Wit is in a class by himself, has won the professional championship five times. Last month he had his first look at tournament golf, U.S. style and lost.

In The Netherlands, Golfer Gerard de Wit is in a class by himself, has won the professional championship five times. Last month he had his first look at tournament golf, U.S. style. Back in The Hague last week, still a little dazed by it all, he told his countrymen about…

Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson had gone through three fight days since he arrived in Europe, winning from some of the best of Europe’s middleweights among them Dutch Jan de Bruin,

For the professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in…

A 30-year-old Dutch housewife, long-legged Mrs. Fannie Blankers-Koen, made Olympic history by winning four gold medals.

The kid from California was only 17, and almost unknown. But last week in Wembley Stadium, husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days’ grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still…

Nell van Vliet arrived in the U.S. to swim, but the question was raised whether she was eligible to compete. “Obviously because [Nell] was a sure winner,” an AAU official conceded.

When chubby Nell van Vliet, 22, a baker’s daughter, arrived from Holland two months ago, she waved her hand at the questions, ticked off U.S. women swimmers: “Free style? Yes, Ann Curtis, the best in the world. Your backstroke swimmers? Two or three good ones. But breast-strokers?” Nell wrinkled her…

A major feature of the Olympic swimming was the performances of Dutch girls. Netherlands’ equivalent of Jesse Owens and No. 2 celebrity of the Games was Hendrika.

In Lima President Oscar Benavides of Peru last week addressed an angry crowd. Said he: “I have just received cables from the Argentine, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico solidifying the Peruvian attitude against the crafty Berlin decision.” The crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen…