#5 Mr. John R, Tunis
February 23, 1935

gh 1M pe ek ball is inexpensive to the
player, The state pays the overhead. The expense to the player is
a cotton gym shirt and a pair of tennis shoes or sneakers. One
basket ball will last a whole season.

, Golf, tennis and baseball grounds re-
quire maintenance. Even a school boy must pay to pley golf ona
public course. That same boy can play basket ball all winter in his
school or church for nothing. And, in summer with a pair of hoops
nailed to an upright 10 ft. from the ground, in his own backyard, he
can continue the development of his health and skills with this very=
wivectils game. In a tournament in Indianapolis alone, 600 teams
engaged in basket ball. In the same city, 15,000 people paid admis -
siondeach day for a high school tournament, lasting three days, and
the doors were elosed while hundreds were turned away. :

I am sending a recent copy of "Health
Rays" of tine: K.C. Missouri Publie Sehools, showing marked spaces de-
seied to basket ball. Please refer to page 3, wherein it states that
2,300 adult players have been playing bas et ball recently. In one
of the high sehools alone, thera, the Paseo High School, Kansas City,
there are 112 organized teams of basket ball.

I am enclosing a sheet from Iowa State
College Daily Sports Service wherein it states there are ninety intra-
mural teams, ~* Also, you will find enclosed the December issue
of the Kansas Eehlete, pege 5, wherein it shows, there are 644 organized
competitive teams of basket ball out of a total membership of 657
senior high schools in the State of cincis. Mr. E,A. Thomas, Executive
‘Secretary of the Kansas State Hi gh School Athletic Association, esti-

mates that there are 16,000 high school boys and 4,000 high sehool
iat