Judgment Calls

[Thumps up]To the venerable Salem Country Club in Massachusetts for hiring the first woman head golf professional at a club in New England, Mary Wilkinson.

[Thumps down]To The Ann Arbor ( Mich.) News, for its demeaning classification of high school football recruits as "Prime Cuts," "Sirloin" and "Ground Sirloin."

[Thumps down]To baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, for this response to a question about Yankee owner George Steinbrenner's charges that Vincent is biased against him: "I can't think of anyone other than Saddam Hussein I'd rather have making these complaints." The tasteless comment only served to lend credence to Steinbrenner's accusations.