19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

PLEASE TELL ME...
Sirs:
Will you tell a bewildered subscriber—and there must be scores of your readers similarly puzzled—why no mention is ever made of a bout between Floyd Patterson and Archie Moore, or a match between Patterson and Hurricane Jackson? Archie can get down to 175 for a light-heavyweight championship match and Floyd can take off less than ten pounds. Let Patterson win the light-heavyweight championship first before taking on the Rock. If Patterson's present weight is his trained poundage and there is not much left to take off, what is wrong with an overweight match with Moore?

If enough valid reasons for not fighting Moore under any circumstances can be advanced, then a Patterson-Jackson fight is in order. I admit Patterson is good, but he has yet to prove himself good enough for a heavyweight championship fight with Marciano. And most assuredly so must that clowning nature boy, Hurricane Jackson. One of them should eliminate the other.

I do not think the boxing writers on our Los Angeles papers have any superiors anywhere, and our radio announcers are tops in the country. Yet none of them have ever suggested, to my knowledge, elimination fights between Patterson, Moore and Jackson.

What's all the conspiracy of silence for? Hasn't SI something to say?
FRANK W. SIMCOE
Torrance, Calif.

SIRS:
LAST PARAGRAPH "THE CASE AGAINST THE IBC" [SI, April 23] ANSWERS MY LETTER. VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU PIONEER JACKSON-PATTERSON-MOORE ELIMINATION FIGHTS FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHALLENGER TO MARCIANO. KEEP PUNCHING.
FRANK W. SIMCOE
TORRANCE, CALIF.

THIS IS BEYOND ME
Sirs:
The Olympic basketball team that will represent the United States at Melbourne this winter is not made up of the 12 best men at the tryouts held in Kansas City two weeks ago. Missing is the second best basketball player in the nation, UCLA's Willie Naulls.

How Carl Cain of Iowa could be selected over Naulls is beyond me. Naulls out-scored him 42-14 and outrebounded him at a six-to-one ratio. Cain didn't score one point in the final game in which the College All-Stars lost to the Phillips Oilers.

I don't know if there is any connection in the fact that Cain's coach, Bucky O'Conner of Iowa, was one of the men on the board that made the final selections.
JERRY MEASER
Los Angeles

?We don't know of any nefarious connection, but we'll take Naulls any day.—ED.

NAME DROPPER
Sirs:
The selection of Olympic squad members with Willie Naulls left out has been named the Great Daylight Robbery.
LARRY DOUGHARTY
Charter Oak, Calif.