TEST OF GAMENESS.

JOHN PESEK, named a coupl
of months ago by the Nationa’
Wrestling association as its
world’s champion, apparently has
a press agent who knows how to
get the ‘Nebraska matman’s name
in the papers.

. Among the blurbs sent out by
the press .agent recently is this
one:

‘A. ¢hap-who didn’t like: John}
Pesek once met him on the sreet'
and questioned his gameness.

“You can beat me wrestling
but I'll bet a thousand dollars
you can’t stand up with me in
any test of gameness, and I'll let
you pick the test,’ he said. © *

“‘O.K.,’ replied Pesek, TH put
my finger in your mouth and you
put your finger in mine and we'll
start chewing: As soon as we
chew off one finger, we’ll put in
another. We’ve each got ten fin-
gers. The man who quits first
loses the bet.’ ;

“youre crazy!’ the challenger
said as he hastened away.

“BETTER BASKETBALL.”

DR. FORREST C. (Phog) Allen,
successful University of Kansas
basketball coach, is the author of
another book, “Better Basket-
ball,” which is just off the press.

Several years ago Allen wrote
“My Basketball Bible,” ‘but the
present book is entirely different
and is modern and uptodate in ev-
ery way.

It is divided into five parts
devoted to Peace
nique,” “Tactics,” “Athletic
juries and Emergencies” and most
interesting of all to me, “Tales
of Yesteryears.”

In the latter part the author
presents some of the highlights of
‘games his teams have won, “not
with any thought of capitalizing
my contemporary ‘competitors’
misfortunes,” he explains in the
preface, but “to recount them in
their relationships to winning
strategies.”

Much of the author’s work is
technical and designed expressly
for coaches and players but there
are parts that will be extremely
interesting to the fan.

The book, which sells for $4, is
published by Whittlesey House,
McGraw-Hill Book Co., New
York, NYY