Basketball Rebounds, Continued.

Coach of Wabbly pitt Devises New
Attack to Spring on West Virginia
,  FPive:e BY Brores4 Be Morris.

Dr. Harold cliff Keiekean. bd tiabunc basketball coach and
,director of the university's. health service, has come to the con-
clusion that the repeated defeats of his court athletes indicate
that his. famous figure-of-cight offense is no longer an entirely
. dependable and adequate.methsd of attack, so the fiery, imaginative
doctor has devised simething new to spring on West Virginie tomcrrow

night when the jiguntaineers visit Pitt stadium fcr an Rastern Con-
copeage game ,
oe :

Just. what a 1S mo: ohé:.outside: of poe and his squad knows, He
conceived the idea early Sunday morning: when he was tossing around
in his:-bed trying to forget the upset inflicted upon his boys the
night before by Georgetown,. fioncay aftern.on ac -outlined it to his
players and they have been working on it cll week behind locked
doors,
Chet Smith,. the spurts.expert of. the Bittabore press," to
whem we are indebted. for this. information, says thet ae aon’ ee
know whether it is.going,: to be &@ burlesque or & revolution, but is
going to give it.a whirl, arg as

He readily adiaits that it sounds "whacky," but the doctor says
that the basic principles cf his new systen is. tae the offensive
“man assuines defensive tactics, "It tock my assistant, Dr. Paul
zehfuss, a half hour to discover what I wes talking About," he-
laughed, "so I don't expect any one else .to get it inside of a.
oepRte of weeks,

"They're ieieking about the. zone def énse, but this systen of
ours Will melt the zone. Joh Gney into a man-to-man and bier again
any time we want it a"

| Smith sugeested bo the coctor that perhaps ne had discovered

basketball's fourth. dimension, The coctor grinned, "—J wouldntt
know about.that," he replied.,-"[t may turn out to be tragedy or
comecy, joke or junk,..mirth or madcness,* but wetre going to -give i
a whirl, After all, the worst we can do is lose-= and-we've been
doing that,"

At any rate Carlson's experinent will de interesting, Any-
thing he dces usually is. He cells his new brain child the "elimina-
tion system," but he won't tell any one what ne is trying to eli-
minate, Probably defects,