“Phog” Allen to Lead Better
Basketball Clinic at YMCA

A Better Basketball clinie with Dr. F. C., Allen, famed
coach at Kansas university and members of his K. U. team tak-
ing part, will be the feature event of the fiftieth anniversary
celebration of basketball to be sponsored here by the Kansas
City Kansas YMCA, it was announced yesterday.

The basketball elinic will consist*

of a series of probably four night
sessions, it was said, with Allen
conducting the first session, sched-
uled for the YMCA gymnasium the

night of Tuesday, November 4.
The fiftieth anniversary celebra-
tion nationally is being sponsored
by the YMCA, since it was fifty
years ago this year that the late Dr.

James A. Naismith invented the
game while an instructor at the
YMCA college at Springfield, Mass.
Admission to all sessions of the
clinic will be free, but those wish-
ing to attend must secure tickets
from officials of the YMCA.
Allen, in is appearances here,

 

 

will cover the fundamentals of bas-
ketball playing, coaching and offi- |
ciating, following the outline of his |
latest. book, “Better Basketball.” |
The players accompanying him will
give actual play demonstrations of
various types of offense, defense,
fouls and play situations.

All basketball players; especially
high school players, of the two
Kansas Citys and the surrounding
territory, will be invited to attend
the clinic, as well as any others in-
terested,

Members of the committee in
charge of the program are the Rev.
Ted Stoerker, Nelson Sullivan and
A. M. Venne.