Cage Jubilee Celebration
Starts at YMCA MCA Tonight

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The Kansas City Kansas part in the fiftieth anniversary
‘celebration of the invention of basketball will get off to an

‘auspicious start tonight at Dr. F, C.

‘*Pho’’ Allen, famous

basketball coach at the University of Kansas, presides at the
\first session of the Better Basketball clinic sponsored by the
YMCA. Allen will be here with a group of K. U. basketball
players to explain and demonstrate basketball fundamentals

and technique.

The free clinic will be held at
the Junior college gymnasium, Ninth
and State, starting at 7:30 o'clock,
it was announced by A. M. Venne,
YMCA physical director. The site
of the clinic was moved from the

YMCA to the more spacious Junior
college gym when it becathe evi-
dent that attendance would overtax
the YMCA. Reservations now total
about 600,  Venne said, with many
more expected to attend.

Tonight's program will be started

with a dinner at the YMCA, at
which Allen will be the principal
Speaker. Many members of the
YMCA, prominent alumni of K. U.
and basketball coaches and fans will
attend the dinner, at which Mau-
rice L. Breidenthal,
U. alumnus and Kansas City Kan-
Sas banker, will serve as rapaarans!
ter.

well known K.:

 

 

The program sponsored, by the
local YMCA is a part of the na-
tional anniversary celebration to
be held under YMCA leadership
this winter. It was fifty years agu
that the game of basketball was in-
vented by the late Dr. James A.
Naismith, then a YMCA _ physical
director at Springfield, Mass. The
game _ (first attained © popularity
under YMCA sponsorship and since
then has grown to a point where
it is considered the most wide
spread and popular indoor sport in
the world.

Other sessions of the local clinic
are planned for the next three
Tuesday nights at the YMCA. Vari-
ous well known local basketball
men will conduct the other sessions,
with Coach Ashley Islbl of Wryan-
dotte high school presiding uext
week,

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