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

than exhibitionisms, - they were both attendance and participation
sports. : .

Again I ask when for years basket ball
over the United States has been both a fast growing attendance and
participation sport, why you utterly ignore it as either? However,
I note that you concede basket ball to woman-compétition. This is
some concession,

Of course, you. can be exeused for your
undue liberality toward tennis. Perhaps you can say the same thing
for me concerning basket ball.

You mt cht be interested to know that
at the University of california, Prof. Clifton Price, a tennis and
not a basket ball enthusiast, in his letter to me of Jamary 7, 1955
states, "That we have only 12 tennis courts for 11,750 students at
Berkeley." In contrast to this they have built a new mammoth field
house for basket ball at Berkeley, which seats over 8,000 spectators
for basket ball.

Most of our mid-western state univer-
sities have field houses which accomodate from 5,000 to 15,000 spec-
tators at their conference seni-weekly shaipioashi> basket ball games.

The legislators and school board men-
bers are the realSports aap ial of Basket Ball. With a thorough
working public school system, requiring compulsory physical training,
one has the explanation of the astounding growth of basket ball
throughout the United States,

Every new public sehool building is

equipped with a gymnasium outfitted for basket ball. And most of the
private schools have them as do many churches,