BASKETBALL REBOUNDS, Continued.

Tom Poudy, of St. Mary's j\eunts
fore jgeering cnd Referee Baiting,
- By Everett B. Iforris,

Every now and then the Coaches! association, or the N.C.
Aehe, Or Some university athletic council becomes annoyed at the
wretched behavior of college basketball crowds. Then follows the
usual routine- the situation is viewed with alarm and resolutions
are adopted, ‘condemning: in solemn language the Seen te Ameri-
can core ‘of booing officials and opposing players,

Having done this, the next step is to sit back a wait for
the students to curb their violent partisanship and supplant it with
‘& glow of sweetness and light of - such intensity that the sportsmen-
ship Brotherhood will be moved to. present scrolls to the penitents,
But, somehow, the students prefer their freedom of expression,

There is no demand for: serolls,

Now comes Tom Poudy, the dexterous word juggler who-is the drum
major of the St, Mary's College ballyhoo corps, deploring the fact
that there is not enough jeering at opponents and baiting of referees
at his college, He is ‘not concerned with the ethics of the situation
He #8 Worried about box office anemia and professes 10" think wae the
cure lies in spectator bad manners,

says pérrible Tom: "That™ booing ¢ at california and Stanford is
music. If we could only have ‘that kind of noise at our games we'd
pack the place. our Sst. Mary's rocting ‘sections cre - toc ‘Bind to the
officials, Wwe know the’ rules: Bou. well, T cuges,” _

Nuts, Ir. pouty. Kindness and bncebioee of the rules have
nothing to do with its. THe Pog ny of your crowds must have cther
origins. Here in New’ York our ‘college basketball crowds are as well
informed and as kindly disposed toward their fellow men as any in
the country. Yet they intimate by their behavior at games that all
referees shauld be sent to Alcatraz and that players opposed to
‘their heroes are guilty of” ‘crine’s that only can be expiated on the
guillotine, Basketball boving-is just a boiling over of the witch's
cauldron in-which is brewed thet strange * known as Lear
spirit. Or is it? |

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