19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

For years we have heard about these big, powerful football teams of the SEC , but by whose standards? They never (or seldom) play outside of their conference. How do we know if they could hold their own in the Mid-American Conference ? Well, at last we will get a chance to see what their basketball champs can do at East Lansing .
CARL E. RETZKE
Toledo

ROCK OF AGES
Sirs:
The article by Huston Horn on the 11 men behind Cassius Clay (March 11) really gave me a good laugh. Saying that these 11 men with their "hand-me-down family money" are in this to make sure Mr. Clay doesn't get the money treatment Joe Louis got is the best joke since Silky Sullivan ran in the Kentucky Derby .

The only thing on these guys' minds is that Telstar production that Limber Lip Clay is talking about, with an $11 million purse, which would give them $1 million each. Anyway, here's one former boxing fan who wouldn't give a green stamp to watch Limber Lip, Patterson , Liston and the whole heavyweight division. The Rock, at his present age, could fight all of them on the same night and not even work up a sweat.
JAMES M. KLINE
New Orleans

Sirs:
I hope that your fascinating article on Cassius Clay did not jinx his prediction in his fight with Jones. The article was particularly interesting to me because Bill Faversham is an acquaintance of mine. The plan was formulating in his mind when he was spending a weekend down here with some mutual friends a number of years ago. During the course of an evening I mentioned that I would like a "piece" of Clay also. I doubt that I would have been let into the syndicate, but I never followed it up and I have been kicking myself ever since.

To think now that a paltry $2,800 might be worth $150,000 in the near future makes me groan.

To Cassius I say as Brutus to his namesake:

You say you are a better fighter:
Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,
And it shall please me well.

All the luck in the world to Cassius and his 11 men.
ROBERT W. WOOD JR.
Princeton, N.J.

MATCH RACE
Sirs:
Since your writers have already conceded Candy Spots the Kentucky Derby , I would like to tell them about common sense.

Candy Spots, a notorious come-from-be-hind horse, has won five races by a total of 4� lengths and yet he is supposed to be a magnificent 3-year-old.