19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

THREE CHEERS FOR THE BULL
Sirs:
...As I am a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, I realize there is nothing we can do about the peoples of other lands, but for Heaven's sake, keep this horrible thing out of the United States (SI, Jan. 17).

If you haven't already guessed, I and my colleagues are hopping mad! If you ever have a thing like this in your magazine again, we're going to throw it right out the back door!

THREE CHEERS FOR THE BULL.

Incidentally, the bulls are better looking than the matadors you selected.
MRS. JO MILLER
St. Louis

LOVESICK
Sirs:
I have always wanted to see a bullfight but wondered if my stomach would take it. I now know. Thank you for showing me this "wonderful and terrible drama" with the opportunity of being sick in private.

Fifty cents says this brings as much mail as your first issue. Love you anyway.
MARY KNOX BRUMLEY
Baltimore

SPORTS UNILLUSTRATED
Sirs:
I wish my SPORTS had been UNILLUSTRATED this week.
MRS. KATHRYN H. HAMMER
Sumter, S.C.

ONE FOR THE CONS
Sirs:
I wonder how many letters you will get protesting the article and pictures on bullfighting. Add this to the total.

Hemingway, with all his noisy heroics, has made the sport popular in this country, but it is still disgusting. If your writer had treated it in his article in a less romantic way, I wouldn't write this letter even though I am not interested any longer in a magazine that would print such a detailed article on sadistic butchery with such explicit and technically excellent pictures.

Grace the bullfighters may have, but why all this talk about courage? They might get killed, but they are well paid for the long odds against that possibility. The bulls honestly haven't got a chance, and they aren't brave either—they are just built that way.