19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

"We questioned Bette briefly, then left of our own volition. Neither Roy Nickerson nor anyone else asked us to leave. At time, Manager Bilbao was not suffering heart attack. He was under doctor's care in own room down hall, suffering high blood pressure. Heart attack occurred much later that night.

"3) Sure, Bette Ford fights bulls with shaved horns, fact we did not deny, but untrue in case of Patricia. Substitute Bull No. 82, which belonged to another breeder and which almost gored Patricia, was definitely not shaved or otherwise doctored—fact which assuredly reflects credit on Patricia McCormick. Our records show Bette Ford did not fight larger bulls in Plaza Mexico. She and Juanita Aparicio carefully selected bulls weighing 225 to 250 kilos (100 kilos less than standard novillero bulls, 100 kilos less than Tijuana bulls)."—ED.

BEAUTIFUL TYPE
Sirs:
On page 54 (SI, July 30), in a story by Alice Higgins, you set the words "Morgan Bred" in a beautiful but unusual type. We would like to use this type....
ARON MATHIEU
Publisher
The Farm Quarterly
Cincinnati

?The name of the type is 48 point Horizon Light, and can be secured from Bauer Alphabets, Inc., 235 East 45th St., New York.—ED.

SOME MAN FROM VERMONT
Sirs:
Your article Morgan Bred was great. When I was a boy in Exeter, N.H., my father had four or five Morgan horses. Morgans were very common. Doctors used them for making calls, they pulled the Macks (cabs) and grocers' delivery wagons.

Have you seen the account of a man in Vermont who bought up a number of Morgans when they were nearly extinct and developed some 150 of them. Then they were bought by the U.S. Government. I have tried to find the information, but have been unsuccessful—I remember reading it a year or so ago in some national magazine.
CAL G. TYLER
Dixon, Ill.

?The man from Vermont was one Colonel Joseph Battell, who spent the better part of his life and fortune collecting Morgans in order to perpetuate them as a separate breed. The true Morgan blood was diffused by being absorbed in other light breeds until Colonel Battell started his farm of some 400 acres in Middlebury, Vt. He established Morgans as a properly registered breed. Then in 1907 he donated his farm and stock to the U.S. Government, which continued to maintain a stud of from 60 to 100 head of purebreds until 1951 when possession of the farm was transferred to the University of Vermont. The article which Mr. Tyler has in mind is probably the one by Harland Manchester on Justin Morgan which appeared in the January 1955 issue of American Mercury.—ED.

FEARLESS BETTOR
Sirs:
In my opinion, the Braves have the best pitching staff of any team in the majors. Don't be amazed when you watch the Braves beat the Yankees in the World Series. They're running away from the rest of the N.L. now. If anyone beats the Braves for the pennant, I'll buy a five-year subscription to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
PETE ROUSSEL
Houston

?You mean if the Braves win we lose?—ED.

UTTER SIMPLICITY
Sirs:
Gil Stratton's article (SI, Aug. 6) concerning the modern outlook of a baseball umpire is remarkably good.