JOHN L. GRIFFITH. EDITOR TELEPHONE ROGERS PARK 5074

THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL

6858 GLENWOOD AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILL.

June 9th, 1938.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Thank you for your basketball review
from your district.

We included this in our general Review
of the Year in Athletics which appeared in the June issue,

Yours very truly,

A. K. Griffith,

 
 

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very pleasant but short cecacions, were at the Kansas=
Missouri football game in lawrenge last fall, and et the
Big Six indoor track meet at Columbia. Soth were short but
pleasant meetings, and I am hoping te see you this Wednesdays

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May 18, 1938

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Phog:

I am happy to have your letter of May 4
concerning Joe Giannangelo and I would like very much
to meet Joe some time.

We might have a place where we could use
Joe in our training room and as an assistant in the
department for the coming year. The past few years
we have used some of our senior boys to help us in
such a capecity. These boys get a lot of valuable
experience but the remuneretion is limited to twenty-
five cents a hour with a maximum or one hundred hours
per month. Of course that amount goes a long way
in helping vay exoenses for a boy who attends school
here. If Joe would be interested in work along that
basis, I would be very happy to have him come down and
see me some time.

Thanking you for your kind letter, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Thr vitt
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F. G. Welch,
Director of Athletics

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Niagara Falls, N. ¥.

OFFICE OF
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

May 10, 1938

Mr. Forrest C. Alien,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Allen:

Thank you very kindly for the two auto-
graphed pictures of Dr. Naismith. They arrived
this morning. I intend to place one in a con-
spicuous place in our Athletic Office.

With kindest regards, I am

Sincerely,

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JIG: JD Director of Athletics.
 

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JOHN L. GRIFFITH. EDITOR TELEPHONE ROGERS PARK 5074

THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL

6858 GLENWOOD AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILL.

May 5th, 1938.

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Would you send me a brief report of Basket-
ball as played in your district this last year? Was there
__~increased attendance; what accounted for it; what was the
) ge effect of the rule; any comments on outstanding teams, etc.?
A , We should like to incorporate this in a general report on
bt the "Year in Athletics" which will appear in the June issue of
the Athletic Journal.

 

We should appreciate having your comments by

May 15th.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Yours very truly,
Qbie L thijfrck.
Alice K. Griffith.
AKG=MC
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS -- LAWRENCE-KANSAS

K.U. NEWS BUREAU

W. A. DILL, Director Pe ae a HoRACE MASON, Sports Editor

 

Sports News
For Immediate Release

LAWRENCE, Kan., March -~--Eleven University of Kansas
track men will go to Chicago this weekend to compete in the Armour Tech
Relays. They will be accompanied by Coach H.W. "Bill" Hargiss.

The men will compete in thrée relays, the 70 yard dash and
the 70 yard low hurdles. Paul Masoner, quarterback on the football team,
end iyie Foy will compete in the dash and low hurdles.

A mile relay team will be composed of Gordon Clucas, Maurice
Williams, Captain Harry Wiles and Marvin Cox. In trials last week Clucas,
a broad jumper, was first in the 440 in 52.6. Cox finished fourth in
the open quarter at the Big Six indoor meet.

| The two mile relay team will include Max Replogle of foot-
ball fame, Dale Heckendorn, junior letterman from Newton, Charles

Toberen and Joe Ryan.
The third relay team will be a sprint medley team which |

will be made up of Cox, 440, Masoner, 220, Foy, 220, and Ernie Klann,
880. Klann was second in the 880 at the Big Six meet and ran the dis-
tance in 1:58.8, fast indoor time.

Four large heating units have been installed in the indoor
track under the east stadium wing and training facilities are now far
superior to anything the Jayhawk track men have had before.

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LAWRENCE, Kan., March e---Basketball records at the Univer-
sity of Kansas reveal $9,678.70 as the Kansas share of receipts in games
the Jayhawks played this year. Last year the amount was 810,402.03.

Tais was despite the fact that Kansas played 21 games this
season as compared to 19 last season. The smaller receipts are attrib-
uted partially to sleet and Snow during the three days, Dec. 13, 14 and
15, when the Jayhawks were playing three successive home games.

| Attendance increased this season over last, 46,904 to
43,647, Three home games this year drew larger crowds than any home game
last season, the Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa State contests.

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' Major John Le Griffith,
Journal,

6858 Glemmood Avenue,
Chicago, Illinoise

Deas Major Griffith:

in response to your good letter of the 12th instant
a ee ee ee
state that I am enclosing an excerpt fran my new book, Better
Basketball, Incorporating Technique, Tactics and Tales. This
book is published by the McGraw-Hill Book Campany of New Yorke
Tt will be on the bock shelves the first week in December,

The subject of the article thet I have written is
"Prebehte Refeote of Elinduatine the Center Jun". This may be
entirely too long and exhaustive for you to rm, as you will
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you micht want to look it over and as I have
tides of the eitmtion for the renders you nigit fiw it interest
ing enough to mime

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president of the McGraw-Hill Company, telling him that I had sent
you au excerpt from the book on this subject. I have asked that
he write you, giving you permission to use the article as you so
desire. Of course, it goes without saying that I would appreciate
it if you could mention the fact that I am the author of this new
text, together with the fact that.I was the author also of "My
Basketball Bible”, which goes out of circulation with the incoming
of this new books 3

I am sending you @ mimeographed sheet thet I arranged
here to answer inquiries concerning the new booke I have so many
Se es ee ee eer She

and especially so since the book is not out wntil Decenber firste
The Techniques are the fimdementals, the Tactics are the execution
of the fmdamentals, and the Tales are stories of games that my
teams have participated in.

 
 
 
JOHN L. GRIFFITH, EDITOR TELEPHONE ROGERS PARK 5074

THE ATHLETIC JOURNAL

6858 GLENWOOD AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILL.

November 12th, 1937.

Dr. Forrest Allen
Basketball Coach
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas.
Dear Phog:

I would like to run an article in the Athletic Journal
giving the impressions of some of the outstanding coaches regard-
ing the no tip-off rule. Would you be good enough to send me your
candid opinion of the effect of the rule on:-the game - its advan-
tages and disadvantages.

Yours very cordially,

Gok L hruof frh

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PROBABLE EFFECTS OF ELIMINATING THE CENTER JUMP

Bven with the center jump virtually eliminated for the 1938 season, dovetiess
basketball will still possess enough thrills to enthrall her followers. The advocates
of the elimination of the center jump contend that the game will be further speeded up,
that about 6 or 8 mine will be added to its actual playing time, and that, with sleepers.
laying back for long surprise shots after goals by opponents, the fast break will be en»
hanced. They further contend that only a few teams ever possessed tall centers so that
the game will now be more equalizeds that scores will be highers and that the center, who
heretofore did most of the jumping, can now reserve his strength for better team and
floor plays Fouls will be decreased, they say, and the officials will be rid of much of
that troublesome bugaboo of throwing the ball up high enough and straight enough to allow
both centers a fair jump and tap for the ball.

The proponents of the retention of the center jump contend that the tip-off
added many additional thrills to the game. Dr. James Naismith, the originator of the
game, in attendance at a meeting of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, asked
a group which of the following situations gave them the greater thrill: (1) When the ball was
in the air about 2 ft. above the baskets (2) when the ball went throughe

Most of them said, “When the ball went through the basket.” "You are wrong,"
quoth Dr. Naismith, "Your highest pitch of expectancy or interest was when the ball was
just above the cylinder of the basket and you wondered, ‘Will it go through or not?"

"And so with the tip-off," says Dr. Naismith. “When the ball is tossed up at
center there is the same intense interest end the same parallel question is ested, Will it
go tb:the!-team cont#olling the tip-off or will the opponents get the tip-off from the
controlling team?

On the other hand, under the new rules, when a field goal or free throw is scored
one knows just where the ball is going in so far as possession is concerned. It will go to
the opposite team. Heretofore, many have contended that under the eliminated rule the tall
player won the game, not at the center tip-off but rather under the offensive or defensive
basket, and that the elimination of the tip-off will have no bearing on the tall player's

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But the proponents of the center jump contend that the rule makers have placed a
premiun on mediocrity rather than upon excellence. Nowthe team scored upon automatically
secures possession of the ball out of bounds, whereas heretofore both teams had to fight
for possession at center after each goal and free throw. The weaker team will now have a
better chance to hold the score dow, for with the ball in its possession it will have the
option of either driving dom rapidly or delaying the offensive to suit its play situations

As a result of this new ruling, scores should be higher, not necessarily on account
of faster play, but because 6 or 8 mins of action will be added to the actual playing timee
Previously, there were letups in action on the center tip-off playse These additional
minutes of playing time in this already strenuous game may prove too great a physical strain
on the heart and the kidneys of the players. Heretofore, the spectators had an opportmity
to relax for a few seconds while the ball was being brought back to center for the tipeoff
after an exciting field goale Now, only strong hearts that can stand longesustained. _
excitement should venture out to the games. Sow

There will still be held balls during the game because research has shown that,
in games played with the tip-off in use, there were held-ball plays for every three tip-off
playse In the future, the jumpers will be players of wmequal heights, whereas the center
jump invariebly brought together the tallest men and the best jumpers of each team.

The proponents of the elimination of the center jump contend also that the team
having the shorter center fought harder for possession and control of the ball, and thereby
added fight to the dete team, while the team controlling the tip-off usually, because of
a tall center, couted too much on its height advantage and weonseiously loafed on the jobe

"Just a lot more of out+of=boimds plays at the end line added to what you had be-
fore," is the analysis of one coache The defense will soon learn to drop back fast enough
to thwart any somcalled quick breake And as for that rapid-fire offense allowing sleepers
to work against then, there still will be a premium on good ball handling and on all-around
fundenentalse Any time that a sleeper, awaiting a pass from his teammates, tries to drop
out of the defensive picture, he will discover to his sorrow that the added man on offense

 
 

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Gone perhaps is the thrilling last-eminute finish of the game-winning goal-erush,
for the defense will now have possession of the ball as soon as the offense scoreSe
The elimination of the center jump has denied this old thriller to the crowds of the
futures Formerly with two or three minutes remaining to be played, a team behfnd in the
score would capture the ball after each tip-off end sametimes shoot two or three field
goals to win end to send its follows away hysterical. This camot happen now, because
possession automatically resides with the team scored upone And, too, there is now a
rules provision which prohibits a team behind in the score from fouling intentionally

after a successful free throw, in order to gain possession of the balle