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It is reasonable to suppose thet most of these educational instutions have
gymmasian These gymasia are built and maintained by public tax moneye

The maintenanes of a basketball court is small and the equipment is inexe
pensives Due to the fact that no cancellations of basketball games oovur

on account of weather conditions, the games ean be played in all olimes at
vegulay tineds Basketball can be an individval game as well as a team games .
Children of practically a11 ages, therefore can play it without serious conse=

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In the words of the great inventor who said, “Basketball is a game
easy to play but difficult to master." The ball is always out in the opens
It ig not hidden from view as it is in football, when mes play is in the
orders Meny midwestern university coaches have told me that they have checked
every ablesbodied boy entering the university and have failed to find a single
active boy who has not played basketball tm high sehoole

(2) Perhaps ty sevident or ty yaeee of invention the game of baskete
ball has & real missionary significances At the international YelleCeAs College,
Springfield, Massachusetts, “the cradle of basketball", physical directors, medical
nissiousries and general secretaries were trained. These enissaries of good
will planted the geme early in our century in many foreign comtries and islands
of the sea, The United States soldiers, in 1900, introduced besketball in
the Philippine Islands. The American army of occupation taught it to the
German populace in 1919. During the Inter-Allied games in Paris, June, 1919,
the United States, France, and Italy played for the championship, which the
United States won rather handilys After tho Armistice was signed, two American
teans, by invitation from the British goverment, denonstrated basketball in
the British area of the war zone, ‘The British took to it readily.

Practically every foreigh couwrtry ims fashioned tts basketball rules
after our American game. ‘They look to us as the mother country of the sport,