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ROTATE THE CENTER JUMP

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In a world monopolized by jeep drivers, machine gunners, parachute squadrons bathe |
and bomb throwers one might seem a bit picayunish in opening a provocative

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discussion of a iheend in the competitive sport of basketball e were it

not that the permanent health of our great army of young basketball players is

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bag 20% Recent farm studies made in various parts of the United
vent oa ins t m there —_ serious physical injury being done to adolescents,

In view of the fact that

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there are millions of participants in this is te y Me are = rage i Whore, {

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8,000,000 people ail over the world were playing théSgame iui before
the sommanbulistic New Yorkers were awakened to thi® fact by Ned Irish's Madie

son Square Garden giant double-headers,

Multitudes of physicians and health officers are protesting against hasrier-
basketball” By eliminating the center jump the game has been speeded up from

20 to 30%. These able men contend that the gme was already fast enough for the

physical welfare of the participants; and further, that no matter how carefully

checked these boys are there will be some whose hearts will not stand the ;

present strain. They go further and say that the att etssie of presente