19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

Also, where did you get the information reported in BASKETBALL'S WEEK that the two basketball players who rejected the bribe attempts are from SMU? They aren't. We are sure that even our friends on the UT newspaper know that the players involved in the attempt at bribery are from Rice University .
ROYCE KNOX
WALLY GROFF
College Station , Texas

?The bribe attempt did indeed involve Rice players, not SMU.—ED.

Sirs:
As a matter of fact, according to all Texas papers, there were only 200 Texas A&M students at that particular game. Now if that number of Texas Aggies saw fit to take on some 7,000 U of Texas students attending the game, that's the sort of mankind spirit we need to defend our country.

It is also rather significant that no such "disorders" occur when a visiting team plays Texas A&M at College Station , regardless of intense rivalry.
W. H. HARDY JR.
Galena Park, Texas

KITED KITES
Sirs:
As an old Massachusetts kite flyer I was momentarily startled to read (SCORECARD, Feb. 25) that three lads from Tacoma, Wash. had so far and so easily surpassed my childhood efforts. As I read beyond the first paragraph, however, it was plain that the boys have deluded both themselves and your reporters.

In my experience a single dime-store kite cannot attain an appreciable altitude. After a while the kite moves farther from the attachment point, measured horizontally, but gains no appreciable altitude.

My experience is borne out by that of the professional kite flyers. The Encyclopedia Americana tells of the Weather Bureau raising instruments to 23,835 feet with 10 kites and 8.5 miles of wire on May 5, 1910. The kites were spaced, on an average, less than a mile apart on the line. Also the altitude per kite was about 2,400 feet. Even granting one dime-store kite the altitude capability of two Weather Bureau kites, the altitude could not exceed 5,000 feet.

Conclusion: The boys should have measured the altitude instead of the length of the string.
FREDERICK CYRIL GRANT
Newport News , Va.