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BY JACK Vs FOX

UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT
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DENVER, FEB. 16--(UP)--EVERETT SHELTON, VETERAN COLLEGE AND

AMATEUR BASKETBALL COACH, JUMPED INTO THE CURRENT ARGUMENT ABOUT WHAT'S
WRONG WITH THE CAGE SPORT TODAY, DECLARING A PROPOSAL TO RAISE THE
BASKETS 12 FEET FROM THE FLOOR WAS “PURE NONSENSE.®

SHELTON, WHO COACHED THE DENVER PIGS IN 1937 AND 1938, LED WYOMING
UNIVERSITY TO THE NATIONAL COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR
AND WHO NOW IS COACHING THE DOW CHEMICAL AMATUER SQUAD OF
MIDLAND, MICHe, SAID RAISING THE BASKETS WOULD ONLY MAKE THE GAME
MORE DIFFICULT FOR ALL THE PLAYERS AND LESS ENTERTAINING FOR THE FANS»

RAISING OF THE HOOPS HAD BEEN ADVOCATED BY PHOG ALLEN, COACH AT
KANSAS UNIVERSITY, WHO DECLARED IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO ERASE THE
‘ADVANTAGE HELD BY THE EXTREMELY TALL PLAYERS.

SHELTON SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE PRESENT REGULATIONS
AND SAID THE SMALLER PLAYERS SHOULD LEARN TO SHOOT WHEN THEIR TOWERING
OPPONENTS WERE OFF BALANCE SO THEY COULD NOT PREVENT THE BALL FROM
GOING THROUGH THE HOOP. ~

THE DOW COACH DID CRITICIZE PRESENT REFEREEING, HOWEVER, DECLARING
THAT AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BRAND OF BASKETBALL WAS PLAYED IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF THE OFFICIATING.

SHELTON SAID THE GAME HAD DEVELOPED INTO “LITTLE SHORT OF MAYHEM"

IN THE MID-WEST WHERE REFEREES WOULDN'T BLOW THEIR WHISTLE UNTIL
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SHELTON SAID THE GAME HAD DEVELOPED INTO "LITTLE SHORT OF MAYHEM"
IN THE MID-WEST WHERE REFEREES WOULDN'T BLOW THEIR WHISTLE UNTIL
MATTERS GOT TOO ROUGH TO IGNORE. -HE SAID GENERAL TACTICS WERE FOR
TEAMMATES TO ACT AS BLOCKERS TO “OPEN A HOLE" FOR THE MAN WITH THE
BALL.

THE SOLDIER TEAM AT CAMP GRANT, ILL., CAME IN FOR HIS PARTICULAR
CRITICISM. |

"I ONLY HOPE," HE SAID, “THAT IF CAMP GRANT ENTERS THE NATIONAL
AvAsUs BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT THIS YEAR, THEY WEAR THEIR FOOTBALL
UNIFORMS SO THEY WILL BE DRESSED FOR THE KIND OF GAME THEY PLAY.

ON THE OTHER HAND, SHELTON CONTINUED, BASKETBALL IN THE EAST IS OF
THE MILQUETOAST VARIETY WITH REFEREES SO STRICT THAT THE OFFENSIVE
STYLE HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY CRAMPED. THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND FAR WEST
TEAMS PLAY A TYPE OF GAME SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THOSE EXTREMES, ACCORDING
TO SHELTON. ,

HIS DOW CHEMICAL TEAM PLAYS THE UNBEATEN FORT WARREN SQUAD AT
CHEYENNE, WYO., TONIGHT AND THEN RETURNS TO DENVER TOMORROW FOR A
TILT WITH DENVER'S AMBROSE-LEGION TEAM -- THE CITY'S HOPE FOR THE
AsAeUs TOURNAMENT BEGINNING NEXT MARCH 19.

DOWN THEN MOVES ON TO SALT LAKE CITY FOR A PAIR OF GAMES AND
THENCE TO LOS ANGELES. THE TEAM WILL RETURN FOR THE AsAeUs TOURNAMENT.

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