“The Indians’? court,” writes Al-
len, “was fitted, with chicken wire
pack stops and instead of shooting
for the baskets the Indians fired
away from a disitance at the sagging
area in the wirg netting. Much to
the chagrin of their ‘white “man’
opponents the bai{l would drop dead
and fall directly, into the basket. —

“To complicate ‘matters further, i
the Indians’ gynmasium there were
six large, round, eel floor supports
located in the paying court. Th
Indians would dart down the court
feint to go one. direction, ther

‘clutch a post and swing off at al
unexpected angl# to elude thei
pursvers and recewe the ball at ar
uniooked for angle.”

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Somebody has “waxed industri-
‘ous enough to cjompile figures
tending to distgite the argu-
ments of opponergs of the game
to the effect that! basketball is
too strenuous. Jiost of these
statistics, it is reported, were
taken from an eintire season’s
play between Bigt Ten coliege
teams: :
There are a fptal of 108
interruptions in the average
basketball game.

Average playing ‘period with-
out interruption is {6.3 seconds.

Actual playing minutes of an
entire game are 29 gninutes and
a half. {

Lengest playing perieds with-
eut stops average tyo minutes
and 22 seconds.

Shortest playing period is one
second,

There are 22 fcwls in the
average game. :

There are 31 center jumps in
the average game. . ~

There are 19 jump balls in
average games.

Average: number of = irce
throws is 14.

Average number off out-of-
bounds plays is 38.

Field goals in a game aver-
age 18.