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Show refined as to be seldom seen by a Park City spectator, your readers were exposed to the "Social aspects of Rugby . . . (as) the game's most appealing quality" in adjectives usually reserved for molestors andcriminals. Congratulations are due the Ladies for games against the National Champions "Cats" team well played! Was it subconscious, or an outright platant attempt to strip even more dignity from ruggers in your last sentence sen-tence describing the "Zulu Warrior" chant? In a misquote mis-quote that can only describe your article, you state the players chant "Cheap, Cheap Cheap!" when the actual words of the chant are Chief! Chief! Chief!" We have not seen the last of Women's Rugby in Park City, and we look forward to more insight, discretion and fairness on the part of the Park Record. And to think you could have used the space to praise the virtues of Garner Ted Arm-strong, Arm-strong, who was not even awarded an honorable mention men-tion this week in your newspaper. news-paper. Very Sincerely, Mary Sturges Park City. Editor's Note: The Sept. 26 feature story on women's rugby was certainly not intended in-tended to degrade the seriousness, ser-iousness, fine sportsmanship sportsman-ship and refinement with which both the "Muthas" and "Cats" played last weekend. week-end. The games themselves were not covered because a decision was made to report only on the final Challenge Cup match, because of previous pre-vious coverage. The article perhaps does not represent the views of a majority of female rugby players, but it would have been impossible to interview all members of both teams, and the comments quoted did seem consistent with the relaxed re-laxed and fun-lovingspiritof the match. This sp i r it, perhaps unique un-ique to rugby was the subject sub-ject of the article and should not be seen as in any way degrading the sport, or those who play it. We look forward to covering cover-ing future "Muthas" matches and apologize for any misrepresentation. Garner Ted Who? The Park Record Park City, Utah 84060 Dearest Park Record: Is it a faint hint of sensationalism sen-sationalism one detects in your Sept. 25th article entitled, en-titled, "Don't BurnYour Bra, Try a Little Rugby"? One could only hope that the first article on Women's Rugby in Park City might touch once on good sportsmanship, fine play, "A good time was had by all" attitude so commonly common-ly expressed in your previous pre-vious columns on Rugby. The ladies were not so fairly described as their male counterparts, instead of awed expressions over the learned Rugby finesse displayed dis-played by the "Cats" team, Rugby tactics so clean and |