Is it not high time that Authority placed a definite limit upon the golfer's insatiable greed for distance? Does not history teach that an art is ever ruled by a small intelligent minority? Why, then, pay attention to the ever-unthinking majority? Let them have their damn ball; but if they wish to enter the lists of the academy of the Amateur and Open Championships then they must use implements that will compel them to reflect in their play the best traditions of the sport that have been inherited from the past. And such limitations would be in line with the practice that prevails when it comes to contests of skill in other sports. MAX BEHR