19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

WHERE IS OUR CARROT-TOPPED BOY?
Sirs:
The sports fans in North Carolina and the Atlantic Coast Conference area are heavy-hearted these days. There are no bones to pick with anyone connected with the Olympic Committee, for regulations are regulations and they are as fair for one boy as another.

Morrow is a fine-appearing young man and a distinct credit to the track and field sport, but no one in this section would concede him or anyone else a better than 50-50 chance to beat a Dave Sime in condition. We have seen Dave really pour, on the coal too many times to ask any quarter.

Other fellows have had similar heartbreak, that is part of life and the test of a man, but there is still an empty feeling when we think of the boat sailing to Australia without our carrot-topped boy.
JOHN W. ROGERS
Durham, N.C.

DIGNITY IN DEATH
Sirs:
The photographs of the polar bear waddling across the ice and scrabbling up the pressure ridge were surely worth the doctor's trip (White Giant of the Icy North, July 9)....

Why encourage the public to gloat over a carcass lying in its life blood, and so take from a noble animal its dignity as well as its life?...
J. W. PENFOLD
Denver

PAINLESS DENTISTRY
Sirs:
You admire the polar bear—I like Fisher, the dentist-hunter. Before I knock out a front tooth and move to Bellingham, Washington, U.S. mind telling if he's married?
ANNE DENMAN
Victoria, B.C.

?Dr. Fisher is fair game.—ED.

THE BETTER THINGS OF LIFE
Sirs:
I am most upset that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should print a story about a man murdering a bear. Surely there are many, many better things to write about....
MRS. EDWIN G. GRELLICH
Pittsburgh

DOCTOR VS. DENTIST
Sirs:
May I offer a question for Jemail's HOT-BOX? "If animals were equipped with high-powered firearms and binoculars and airplanes, how many hunters would there be?"
ARCHIE G. KEIGAN, M.D.
East Braintree, Mass.

EVERYBODY IS READY AT ST. CHARLES
Sirs:
Since our situation is not of the ordinary, I thought you might appreciate a word of approval from the students here at St. Charles Seminary. We receive SPORTS ILLUSTRATED by mail and it really goes the rounds. Then when it has been duly read and digested, the controversial articles are rehashed, X-RAY is X-rayed, and finally (since by that time it is Thursday again) everybody is ready for your next issue.