The members at large are Col. L. McC. Jones of the U. S. Military
academy, Norton Prichett of the University of Virginia, Dean L. K.°
Neidlinger of Dartmouth, Prof. H. C. Willett of U. S. C., Prof: L. W. St.
John of Ohio State, Dr. Harry A. Scott of Rice and Capt. John E. Whel-
chel of the U. S. Naval academy.

' Its executive committee is composed of our own President T. J.*
Davies of Colcrado College, Prof. William B. Cwens of Stanford, Ogden D..
Miller of Yale, Prof. Karl E. Leib of Iowa U., Wilbur C. Smith’ of Tulane’
and ‘Clarence P. Houston of Tufts.

Asa 8S. Bushnell of Princeton is its acting divestor.

Mighty men—mighty names, these!

This association has a creed—a code to which every basketball coach”
in every one of its schools subscribes.

I quote from that creed:

“I believe that the proper administration of this sport (basket- .
ball) offers an effective laboratory method to develop in its ad-
herents high ideals of sportsmanship; qualities of co-operation,:
courage, unselfishness and self-control; DESIRES FOR CLEAN,
HEALTHFUL LIVING, and respect for wise discipline and’
authority.

- “{ believe that basketball has an important place in the gen-:
eral educational scheme and pledge myself to co-operate with others’

in the field of education to so administer it that its value will never

be questioned.”

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URELY none of the gentlemen named above, or anyone else, will be»
S so beld as to say that the experiences—remember, we are leaving
“Phog” Allen completely out of this picture—of the Rocky Mountain par-

ticipants in N C. A. A. activities in New York, tended to, as the creed
puts it, ‘“develop—a desire (on the part of college boys) FOR CLEAN,
HEALTHFUL LIVING.”

What, may I ask, were the “dicks” doing guarding their doors?

Why were the telephones cut off?

Here’s one the N. C. A. A. can’t walk away from.

T MAKES not one iota of difference, the way we see it, what may or.

‘may not have occurred in the past, relative to the “throwing” of
games. If, under the setup, as described, not by Allen, but by the
sympathetic Carver in his article of this date—his picture of the scene:
at Madison Square, with the Broadway mob dominating that scene—
games have not already been “thrown” the greater the surprise.

Who are these kids who have to be guarded, by detectives, in their -
hotel rooms; whose telephones have to be served; who, despite this,
receive calls offering them money? Go back to the colleges from which
they came. Many—the great majority, I would say—are what can best
be called ‘poor men’s sons.” “Rich men’s sons,’ for the most part, do
not attend the colleges whose teams, over the years, have played in
Madison Square, and the big money tournaments. Many—a great, great
many—are boys working their way thru school. We've been into that
before, out here. We can name names, for anybody who wants them,
of boys, playing on college teams, within our own Big Seven conference,
who have gone into contests actually hungry. We know kids who have
lived, thru athletic seascns, when they could not devote time to jobs and
still keep their places on the athletic units, who lived on hamburgers—
and there were times when they didn’t have the price of even these.