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You make up to | 58 $22 weekly during spare hours and get | Grow Burpee’s Double Hybrid | = STRAWBERRIES COUNTRY GENTLEMAN DUNKING ISN’T BASKETBALL (Continued from Page 19) pride in the locals, he described how, after losing the first game 40-36, the Blue Dia- monds had come back to take the second 30-28, and to swamp the champions 45-14 in the final. Those were the roughest games I ever witnessed or played in. The floor was concrete and the knees and elbows of the players were like beefsteak when the series ended. Our success in the last game was due to the quickly invented high, full-arm hook pass, which hadn’t been seen before. CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS FTER that I felt competent to coach a college team and I took the Baker of- fer, despite Doctor Naismith’s amusement. I not only coached Baker but I also took over the basketball post at Haskell, the Indian school at Lawrence, working with the Baker boys in the afternoons and the Indians in the evenings. In 1908 I went to Kansas University as basketball coach and we succeeded in win- ning two straight Conference champion- ships. The seven years following I coached all sports at the State Teachers College, at Warrensburg, Missouri, winning bas- ketball titles all seven years. In 1919 I came back to my first love, Kansas, as director of athletics and basketball coach. The gods of sports and Lady Luck have smiled on us here. Starting in 1922, when we tied Missouri for: the championship, we won the title outright during the five following years, running up a string of thirty-four consecutive Conference vic- tories before Oklahoma knocked us off in 1924. Our 1923 team was ever victorious. That year Minnesota University invited us to come to Minneapolis during the holidays to practice with their team and it was one of the most pleasant training periods I have ever known. We appreci- ated their invitation more, probably, than it seemed when we defeated them 32-11 in a game that wound up our stay. They didn’t mind losing that game, for it didn’t count, but they did go on from there, winning five straight games when the Western Conference season opened. WHEN STAGG RAN THE BALL HIS past season we won the flag in the Bix Six circuit for the fourth consecu- tive time. Strangely enough, when I think back through the basketball wars I can’t keep my mind off the 1928 season. It al- ways pokes its head up to‘torment me. That’s the year we lost Harry Kersen- brock, and just before the season opened our other center, Ramsey, broke his hand boxing. We were battered from pillar to post that year. We lost all but one of our Conference games; Notre Dame walloped us in both games we played them. We did get a grain of comfort in our intersectional play when we nosed out California by one point after they had whipped us twice. All the little schools around us had their day by lacing us good. The birth of basketball has been told many times, but possibly some do not know that Alonzo A. Stagg, who coached football at Chicago University for many years, and is now coaching at the College of the Pacific, in California, was captain and forward of one of the teams that played the first game at Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, in 1891. I mentioned CoachStagg’s name to Doctor Naismith one time and he shook his head with a smile. “Lonny was a great athlete,’ he said, “but he was a football player, and a grand one, and at first he wasn’t much good to a basketball team, for he would forget. himself and start running with the ball. In that day a foul put a man on the side- line for a time, just like a hockey penalty today, and a team had to play for a while minus one man. Incidentally, those first teams had nine men on a side.” Basketball was a child of necessity. When winter closed down and there were no more outdoor sports the students be- gan to chafe under inactivity. In an effort to check this restlessness—and to check downright mischief—the school authorities gave an assignment to the class to bring in some plan of a game that could be played indoors, and the next day young Naismith showed up with a soccer ball and two peach baskets and a plan. At first the baskets were nailed hori- zontally to the end walls, moderately close to the floor, but that didn’t work so well, and almost immediately Naismith offered the idea of nailing the baskets to the rim of the running track. That rim happened to be just ten feet from the floor. The hoops have ‘always been that height; I’ve wondered what would have happened if the rim of that track had been different— twelve feet, say. 18,000,000 PLAYERS FTER the start at Springfield the game caught on immediately and other schools in the cold winter country took it up with enthusiasm—Cornell with a little too much, at first. Thinking that teams should be big enough to accommodate everybody who wanted to play, Cornell tried it out with fifty men on a side. They were play- ing in a large barnlike structure—it may have been a barn. In a scrimmage some player threw the ball to the opposite end of the building and the hundred Cornel- lians charged after it like a herd of bison— and took out the end of the building. I do not swear to the authenticity of this tall tale. I have seen estimates that some 18,000,- 000 people are playing basketball all over the world. Our baseball and football, with few exceptions, have failed to excite the Old World. Basketball is gaining here in our country and abroad. Just this winter it has been made an Olympic sport. Ernest Quigley, the famous National League um- pire, wrote me from Japan one year that the game had taken an unusual hold upon the Orientals, almost as much as baseball. Quig is a basketball fan and an accom- _ plished referee. I’ve seldom seen an official equal him in keeping an exciting game under control. One year Quigley was working a game at St. Louis between Washington Univer- | sity and Nebraska. Ewald ‘‘Jumbo”’ Stiehm, the Nebraska football coach, also handled basketball, and he was up against a team coached by one of his former foot- ball stars, Dick Rutherford. With the teams tied and a fierce battle raging on the court, Quigley called a foul on a Nebraska man. Stiehm jumped from the bench and started for the floor to protest—a violation of the rules. WARMING UP THE BATTLE SLOGAN UIGLEY saw him start from the bench. With his finger pointed like a pistol the official halted Stiehm and said with deadly calm: “Shoot one for every step it takes you to get back to the bench.” And Stiehm, his anger dissolved, grinned and took two Brobdingnagian steps back to his seat. The penalty was two shots, anyway, so Jumbo didn’t harm his team’s prospects; but he didn’t charge out onto the floor again either. It’s winter again and basketballs are popping against backboards, and it’s sweet music to my ears. The baskets are ten feet high and two feet from the end lines. Field goals still count two points—but we’re not worrying about that. What we’re worrying about are Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Iowa State. We’ve got some old scores to settle with them. 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