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fact that it would be te the advantage of a player te sheet at the
basket frem a distance of 8, 10, er 12 feet rather than have the big
beys camp under the basket and jab er dunk them in.

The added height ef the basket would measurable clear up the
congestion that always exists under the 10 feet basket. The big, rugged
guard whe sets himself te bleek out the incoming man and the tall
mezzanine hurdler whe camps near the basket woul@ ef necessity have te
move back on aceount of the higher are ef dispersement of the bounding
ball from a 12 feet basket. Therefere, it would elear up that cengested
area, and it weuld give the sherter man a decided advantage because when a
bail is arehed for the geal, if by striking the basket the are of dis-
persement would eause a further rebemiding of the ball, the big man moves
baek away from the basket. Then the small man, should the ball miss the
basket and drep dewn te the fleer, could dart in and quickly steal the
ball before the big mam could cover this added space that he new protects
and reserves fer himself under this lewer basket. By foreing the defens~
ive man further back and away frem the basket it weuld naturally give the
sherter and speedier mau more area te eperate in without melestation. I
believe that you ean easily visualize this peint. It would alse strike a
blew at the zene defense.

Many ef these prepememts ef the 10 feot basket whe are eppenents
of the 12 feet basket remind me of a young shortsighted farmer eas of
Kansas City whe cemplained that his father was the mest shert-sighted
business man that he had ever seen. He left him five hundged acres of
the fimest farming land in Jackson Coumty that was werth a theusand
@ellars m acre. But the son complained that the father did net leave
him one darned thing te farm it with. That remind me of these basket~
ball ceaches the weuld much rather imherit a tall player after their
anaual imtensive search for mezzanine hurdlers than they weuld actually
ge te the trouble » install a 12 feet basket andtry the game out under
these conditions.

_ | believe that I can say witheut fear ef contradiction that not
ten per cent of all the ceaches of the United States have sema 12 foot
basket. Therefere, seme of these coaches whe have derived their life in- |
eome from the game have never put anything inte it but have been constant-
ly taking eut. They sit around and complain about their players geing eut
on four personal fouls, and yet they de neo mere about impreving the game
er cerrecting the difficulty /than this Jackson County farmer. )

We have twe 12 feet baskets in eut gymmasium, and have had then
installed fer fifteen years. We use them fer the purpbse of teaching our
players correct arching of the ball. And as fer the cost of raisinga ~.,
geal twe feet + that is a rare jeke. Mest goals are suspended from the
ceiling and all yeu weuvld have to de is sherten the pipe twe feet. The
bhll for basketballs each year double exceeds the cost of raising the
basket te 12 feet, se this plea fer economy is rare. These coaches speak
as if the cost of raising the baskets would come out ef their own peckets

and Juss try te get it from them.

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