19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Walter Byers should forget the NFL and AFL, count his bowl game millions and go back to clubbing the track-and-field athletes into submission in time for the 1968 Olympics. After all, that's more TV money.
ARLIE W. SCHARDT
Indianapolis

Sirs:
I would like to take an opposite position regarding the contract just signed by Joe Namath of Alabama. What justifies such a contract? Our Joe DiMaggios and Mickey Mantles, our Stan Musials justified their contracts the hard way—by adding to the gate, promoting baseball, boys clubs, etc. Has Namath yet done so? No. Nor has he proved he can make the jump from college football to the majors.

He will be getting more money than his coach! As much as the President of the U.S.! Yes, there are movie and TV stars who have received more, but they have proved their worth at the box office. Joe Namath has not.

Surely a "ceiling" must be put on such contracts—for the good of football, for the good of sport and for the good of the individual.
ROGER S. PHILLIPS
West Falmouth, Mass.

MISS BYU
Sirs:
Your article on Brigham Young University (Land of Cuties and 12 Tall Cougars, Jan. 4) was superb. Bob Ottum must have spent months at BYU or have a special gift to put in words an honest picture of the BYU student body and basketball team.
ROBERT OLESON
Roy, Utah

Sirs:
Hooray for BYU's girls, their basketball team and your article.
CHRISTOPHER T. JONES
Provo, Utah

Sirs:
As an ardent girl watcher for many years, I wish to take exception to Bob Ottum's statement that Brigham Young University has the prettiest girls in the world.

Utah girls are cute, to be sure, but classical beauties are actually quite rare. I have traveled extensively through 49 states, and there is only one university worthy of such a claim. From the standpoint of sheer quantity and quality, the University of Arizona has no peer.
EDWARD B. HILEMAN
Salt Lake City

BATTLEFRONTS
Sirs:
We of the International Federation of Model Generals Clubs, whose membership includes most of the states of the Union as well as chapters in Canada, Puerto Rico, England, France and Algeria, should like to express our appreciation for the excellent article on Connecticut Charter Member Charles Sweet's war game (A Little War Can Be a Lot of Fun, Jan. 4).

It might be of interest to your readers to know that the most important figure in popularizing war games is H. G. Wells, whose book, Little Wars, first published in 1913 and now a collector's item, provided the initial impetus and direction for most of the rules and activities characteristic of the hobby today.