Decenver 16, 1940

Mre Harold Claassen
The Associated Press

- Star Building as
Kansas City, Missouri

Dear "Spike";

_ I em sending the bulletins that you asked for, together
with some others on the subject and I trust they are sufficient fer you to
send on to Richmond, Virginia for the features Would you please tell
the fellow writing this that I would appreciate very much seeing it after
it is in print, or at least his giving me information as to where the feature
will appears Thank you very much, Spike. es :

the “lady's fan" beeause the new board is exactly the shape of a lady's folding
fame These modified tackboards are a benefit to spectators in that more oO

50% of the dead wood has been cut aways thereby greatly increasing visibility
tors for the Emelo . ee 7

_ | This new stream-lined affect presents a more neat appearance
| s the playing apparatus of the basketbail court is concerned, and yet

it retains all of the fertile spots on the board. Every bank shot that was

possible for a goal on the old board is still possible on this ones

shots on various sized boards. ‘They used small ones and large ones and
registered ry hit on a board, whether it was good or bade Then the next —
step was to chart hits on the board that were good for a goal and from every
angle and height. The people vest fitted to do this work were members of our
Research Committee in the high schools; namely, Mre Floyd Rowe, Chairman of
the Basketball Rules Committee, and Mr. HoVe Porter, Secretary of the National
High Sehool Federations

o _ Smaller boards than the present one and even larger ones

than the one we now have were tried oute I had a set of them here in the gym~
nasium and we used them for a years ie found on the smaller one that some shots
would hit on the edge of the boards therefore, we increased the size for experi-
mental purposes and continued our study. Ye tried the convex board, but the Rules
Committee turned it down because it was patented. We are using the board with
the flat, planed surface which can be made by everyone without much expenses it
can be made in the manwl training shops of the high schools.

The manufacturers conceived upon a plan of using @ pressed=
steel backboard and making it uniform for everyones Of course, a wooden or
a steel board is satisfactory as well as a glase board, if the glass is painted
whites The white paint is for the purpose of setting off the black ringe Many
glass banks have rather a bluish cast and they do not set off the black steel rings

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