19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

UNCOVER GIRL
Sirs:
I received my January 18 issue of SI today and was shocked at the cover and the article inside (The Nudity Cult). I am a teacher and athletic director at a local high school and exert a big influence on a lot of teen-agers, I hope for the good. I encourage them to read good sport magazines, both to get them to read and keep up their interest in sports. I have always thought highly of your publication, but this issue really let me down. If I want my boys to read "girly" magazines I'll buy them for them.
REV. ROBERT OBERMEYER
Springfield, Ohio

Sirs:
Is this your idea of stimulating the healthy American boy's altitude toward athletics?
MRS. GLENN MURRAY
Pelham, N.Y.

Sirs:
Sue!
Wow!!
W. A. BARRON
Verona, N.J.

Sirs:
Tell your cover girl Sue Peterson she is beautiful. I love her. I want to marry her.
RICHARD RIEG
Granville, Ohio

Sirs:
One thing bothers me about Sue and that suit. How does the red belt shown around Miss Peterson's waist manage to hold up the trunks in back, as your story says it does? After taking a wide survey of campus opinion, we found no good theory for the possible functional arrangement of this belt.

Can you explain or illustrate?
WARREN T. GREGORY
The Bronx

?We can (right).—ED.

IMPROVEMENT
Sirs:
Mr. Gillette's suggestion to improve basketball by having the baskets swing slowly from side to side (19TH HOLE, Jan. 18) is an excellent idea. But let's not stop there. In hockey, let's have the goal equipped with French doors so the goalie could rest and watch as electric-eye beams slam the doors shut on slap shots.

In baseball, let's put coasters under first and third and mount home plate on sliding rollers. This will cause ulcers in pitchers, but it will cut down on the number of strikes.

In football, mount a sheet of glass between the uprights, and then watch the fun as field-goal and extra-point attempts bounce off and reduce the number of points.
MICHAEL JAY KALTER
Iowa City, Iowa