19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Although collectors of figures have several magazines at their disposal, the war-game hobbyists are especially dependent upon two publications: Jack Scruby's Table Top Talk (P.O. Box 89, Visalia, Calif.) and Don Featherstone's Wargamers Newsletter (69, Hill Lane, Southampton, England).
GERARD DE. GR�
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Sirs:
As much as I enjoyed seeing a signpost to " New Canaan" and "Poundridge" in the photograph accompanying the article, I feel I should point out an anachronism. New Canaan did not exist before 1801. Up until then and including the Revolutionary War period, it was known as Canaan Parish. Upon incorporation as a town in 1801, a New was put before the Canaan due to the prior existence of another Canaan, Conn. to the north.
BARRY DE LAPP
New Canaan, Conn.

SWINGER
Sirs:
Having been interested in basketball for many years, I have wondered why my interest has lagged lately, and after some thought have come to the conclusion that it is the ease of scoring that makes it tiresome. When you compare it with ice hockey, football, baseball, etc., it seems sort of juvenile to have the scores up in the hundreds—and all too frequently the difference between the winner and loser is only two points.

My suggestion is to make it more difficult to score by having a moderately slow-swinging basket so that the player would have to learn to time his shot to the split second-when the basket is at rest or when it is at the low point in its orbit. True, this would require a radical change in the equipment, but why worry about this when it would inject a brand-new element in a game that now requires little science to score? The players would, I feel sure, welcome such a change, as they could devote their energies to a more scientific angle of play, and less to a mere marathon—debilitating to them and boring to the observers.
H. MALCOLM GILLETTE
Tenafly, N.J.

AIR WAVE
Sirs:
Robert Boyle's article, The New Wave in Sports (Dec. 21), was great—except that it failed to mention soaring. Until about five years ago, a lack of training facilities restricted this sport to a select few, but since then there has been a rapid growth in commercial sailplane schools around the country. Now several thousand newcomers a year are discovering the thrill of silent flight in a sailplane. The fact that the FAA approves of solo flight by 14-year-olds is eloquent testimony to the safety of sailplane flying.
WILLIAM B. CLEARY
Oklahoma City