develop finished pinning tastatque. The guard should alwys be on top of the
ball, and when he eaumot get St he should cover his opponent ina flashs

‘The boy who spends the greater part of his childhood ramping with a
playful dog may beome, in his college years, a star basketball guard, for
he bas learned fron the enim certain instinctive movmonts which will sid him
in diagnosing the fundamental movenants of his opposing formards end centers in
his future tasketball career. By learning how to neet these instinctive feints
and bomds of his early animal companion, the intuitive guard will in versity
competition be more able to divine the next movenents of his basketball oppon-
ents. ‘Same coaches describe this meanny sense of the guard as the sixth senses
Truly, it is an instinctive reaction which is developed to a high degres. These
instinctive reactions mst be stronger in the gusrd than in his opponents, or
he will not succeeds

Daniel Boone, Gevey Crockett, ‘hn Betdger, Kit Garson, Wild HID Hickok,
cod tani Hasere. These tommy fighters, when miture was in the sm, absaye
out=thought their opponents and beat them to the draw. It was necessary for them
to do this tc live. They understood the laws of mature and of primitive mame

So it is with a good guard. He outathinks his opponent and bests him to
position plays A successful guard imows his areas so well that he my intention-
ally leave @ position apparently unguarded, for the purpose of drexing his oppon-
ent into a trap. By having perfect confidence in his own strength and agility,
the gud will feign a certain inertia or Inssituie to encourage is opponent
to attempt a shot in supposedly uncovered territory.

| Viuch after the mumer of a ont lying near a ret hole watehing for the
eseape of the rodent doss the guard torment his opponent. The cat, thoroughly
relaxed end at @ distance fron the hole, will encourage the rat to attempt an
e5CADCe Being instinctively possessed with a confidence in her om poser, the

  

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