We continued to give the boys vitamins and told them to go to school
and forget basketballe We figured that they had learned fundamentals
during the regular playing season and we could better afford to give

_. them a rest and take a chance on their lmowing the play situations rather

then to slowly fatigue them in a short workeout for a post-season games

The fact that we only practiced twice in that nearly threeeweeks time,
shows we realized our boys were worn to shrewds end we desired to conserve
their health rather than to even win @ championship at their expenses

| I was a member of the Rules Committee when the elimination of
the center jump was mide @ rules I opposed it but wher the majority of
the Rules Committee were for it I ws not militant and seid that perhaps
basketball without the center jump would retain enough of its attractions
to mke it a fine and interesting pames

Runing, jumping, leaping, vaulting and climbing are the fundae
mental activities of mane We still jump for the ball on held balls, and
there is no possible way of equalizing the height when two men come in
contact with a held ball. By rotating the jumping process, as in the batting
order in baseball, each ecach would have a chance to list his jumping
order just the same as you list your batting order, for strength and strategye
It would be a very simple matter in the edministration of the game to handle
the jumping order from the scorer's benche If any player jumped out of
order he would suffer the same type of penalty as the batter who bats out of
order in basebelle We would have no trouble theres

I maintain that when they eliminated the eenter jump all they
did was to add another outeofebounds play without giving the players an
opportunity to sain their physical breath and also they do not allow the
spectators to gain their mental or emotional equilibrium or breaths
The game is entirely too exéiting for the spectators at the present times
We could still retain all the fine qualities of the game and not injure
our players merely on the pretext that it is e boxoffice attraction and the
public likes ite The public has liked it with the center jump, and with
any modification of the center jump it still would be a fine games

Certainly a better rule than the one now in force would be to give
the ball at the division line to the side scored upone Rut I have never been
much in favor of giving the ball out\ofebounds to the team scored upons I
am still one of those rugged individvalists who believe that when a team
scores by cleverness cr by its power that the opponent should never have the
ball, but both teams should have a fair and equal chance to gain possession
of the balle Mr, Naismith was exactly of the same opiniones 5

| I am not going to push the twelve-foot goal to any embarrassment
to anyone because I know someday it is going to be accepted, simply
because Dre Naismith tacked a basket on © running track that happened to be
ten feet high should be no reason why intelligent legislators should continue
to refuee to elevate the basket two feete We have done everything else to the