develop finished guarding techniques The guard should always be on top of the
tall, and when he camot get it he should cover his opponent in @ flash.

| The boy who spends the greater part of his childhood romping with a
Playful dog may beome, in his edllege years, a star basletiall gant, for
he has leamed fron the enim] certain instinctive movements wach will aid him
in diagnosing the fundmental novmante of his opposing forwards and centers in
his future taskettall career. By learning how to mest these instinctive feinte
and bounds of his early eninel oomanion, the intuitive gani will in versity
competition be more able to divine the next movenents of his basketball oppone
ontse Sone coaches describe this uneanny sense of the guard as the sixth senses

Truly, it 4s en ingbinetive reaction wiieh ic developed to a high degres, these — i

ingtinetive reactions must be stronger in the guard then in his opponents, or
he will not succeeds |
| SRE Fae Coy Cena, ne ERE ae ney SS Ee

cna tenth inhi; akin cemiey tachi Sits mantis wae in tn sng ts
outethought their oppanunts and bent then to the drew. It was necessary for then
to do this to live. They understood the lews of nature and of primitive mine

So it is with a good guards Tie outathinks his opponent and bests him to
position play. A quocessful guard Imows his areas 90 well that he may intention
ally leave « position apparently unguarded, for the purpose of drewing his oppen-
ent into a trap. dy Inving perfect confidonee in his om strength and agility,
the guard will feign a certain inertia or lassitude to encourage his opponent
to attempt « shot in supposedly uncovered territory.

imoh after the mumer of a ent lying near a rat hole watching for the
escape of the rodent does the guard torment his opponents The eat, thoroughly
relaxed and at © distance from the hole, will encourage the rat to attempt an
escapes Baing instinctively possessed with a confidence in her om power, the