19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Sirs:
Why not adapt a variation of the typical weekend-golfer scoring procedure? Instead of having just one player keep score, however, have both men, or three in the case of a threesome pairing, keep a running scorecard. Each man must then exchange (verbally) his score with the other and mark down the scores of all members of his group.

As long as each member of the group must keep a scorecard, it certainly would be no more trouble to mark down one or two more scores. And it would surely prevent further incidents such as occurred at the Masters.
RICHARD G. GYLLSTROM
Decatur , Ill.

HELL BENT GREY
Sirs:
Mr. Robert H. Boyle 's article (The Man Who Lived Two Lives, April 29) on the life of Zane Grey was pleasurable reading. Mr. Boyle actually resurrected the man and poured life into him.

Zane Grey was, I actually believe, as great as any of the characters he invented and which he so well portrayed. Yet one of his characters who might have equaled him I shall never forget. And that was Hell Bent Wade, the hero in one of his Westerns. Even to this day, that man seems to me to be completely real.

Mr. Grey 's adventures as a fisherman leave me cold. But I'll have to take my hat off to him for one thing; he took on fish that outweighed him as much as 5 to 1. What a contrast this is to the picture one often sees of the overgrown fat slob who has outfought a five-pound bass.
EARL B. COYLE
Washington

NO.'S 1 AND 2
Sirs:
In your article on the Penn Relays (The Mighty Burner Blazes On, May 6) you made the point that Larry James , who ran the fastest 440 ever clocked when he ran his relay leg for Villanova 's mile-relay team, was only No. 2 on his high school mile-relay team. You might have pointed out, too, that Aaron Hopkins of the University of Toledo , who set a new NCAA record in the triple jump at the same meet, was not the best triple jumper ever at his high school. The best? Larry James , who was a couple of years behind Hopkins at White Plains (N.Y.) High School and who still holds the Westchester County record.
ROBERT SANQUAHAR
New Rochelle , N.Y.

SPORT AND POLITICS
Sirs:
Now that the International Olympic Committee has reversed its stand on the admission of South Africa to the 1968 Games (Switcheroo from Yes to Nyet, April 29), I'm sure there will be many who will deplore the unsavory mixture of politics and sport. But let's face it: had South Africa participated in the Games, the mixture would hardly be more savory.

Politics has to do with the way people live, the way justice is administered. No social activity can ever be completely free from politics—or should be. People who fondly hope that sport can exist apart from political realities are the same people who believe that religion should exist only for the Sabbath. These people live compartmentalized lives in which basic principles are suspended to let them live comfortably in the workaday world. If we are going to be conscientious human beings, we simply cannot suspend our sense of justice and play games with a country that is systematically destroying the rights and lives of our brothers.
DONALD F. BROPHY
New York City

Sirs:
Do you remember the days when we had world Olympics? They probably did more to foment understanding and good relationships than the League of Nations or the U.N. Now they are extinct.

Politics is emotion without reason. Before this the Olympics used only reason. Germany had the Olympics even when Hitler was in power. But now South Africa has been eliminated. Next the republic of Ireland will be eliminated by the Protestant countries. France will be eliminated because she quit the North Atlantic Treaty Organization . Israel and the Arab republics will be eliminated because they are running across each other's borders. And the United States will be eliminated because the Cowboy and Indian movies prove that all Indians are villainous and should not be allowed to enter the Games.
HAROLD P. GROVEN
Pompano Beach , Fla.