19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Mr. Strantz is not an autocrat. He is not sole ruler of TID. He has made some mistakes, we do not always agree with him, but he deserves no such blasting as you are giving him. Some of our TID directors like ducks, too.

Game hogs are becoming a real problem. Hunters in trailer houses, accommodated by the Fish and Wildlife people with toilets and tables, hunt and hunt and hunt. The local people, who have some work to do, cannot compete.

Quail, pheasants and even two ducks were shot in my yard this year. A bullet hole in my den window proves it. Local hunters? Oh no!
DOROTHY STAUNTON
Tulelake, Calif.

YEAR-END ISSUE: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Sirs:
To an amateur collector of baseball memorabilia, your story The Babe Ruth Papers (SI, Dec. 21) proved most interesting. Part of my collection is centered around the 1927 Yankees, including a check of Babe Ruth's for $12,298.74, his salary for the month of July 1927.

Here is a reproduction of the original transfer contract of Leo Durocher from Hartford of the Eastern League to the New York Yankees in 1925. This transfer for the sum of $7,500 in addition to being of interest to baseball historians is also documentary proof that a dollar went a long way in those days.
RICHARD W. CANAVAN
Westerly, R.I.