John Bentley

The cars lacked professional polish and so did a barefoot driver. But the SCCA championships at Daytona were a fine, all-round success

AN ELOQUENT PLEASirs:The article by Wallace Stegner, We Are Destroying Our National Parks (SI, June 13), is greatly appreciated.

THE MASTER ON THE MASTERSSirs:I recall that I wrote in the preface to Herb Wind's book, The Complete Golfer, that he was a "fine, sensitive writer on the game" of golf. Certainly no better proof of this appraisal...

In this country, 1954's active season of dirt and concrete, closed ovals and open roads, peeling treads and fading brakes has ended for almost all the racing drivers and the growing hosts of people who watch them.

PEN-RAISED QUAILSirs:...In my opinion your article, "Pen-Raised Quail" (SI, Sept. 6) by Hart Stilwell, is a great disservice to the quail hunters of the country....