It 48 reasonable to suppose that most of these educational institutions heve
Gymnasiae These gymasia are built end maintained by public tex money.
the maintenanee of « besketbell court is small end the equipment is inox-
pensive. Due to the fact that no cancellations of basketball games occur
on secount of weather conditions, tho gomes can be pleyed in 011 climes at
reguler times. Besketbell oan be an individuel game as well ae a team games
Children of practically 011 ages, therefore ean play it without serious conse
quenses. |

in the words of the great inventer whe said, "Basketball is a gome
easy to play but difficult to masters" The bell is alweys out in the opens
it is not hidden from view as it is in football, when mass play is in the
order. Many midwestern university coaches have told me that they have checked —
every able~bodied boy entering the wiversity and heve failed te find « single
active bey who has not played basketball in high school. ,

(2) Perhaps by secident or by place of invention the come of basket~
ball has « real missionary significances, At the International Y.lisG.ie College,
Springfiold, sesachuetts, "the oradle of basketball", physical directors, medion!
missionaries and generel seoreterios wore trained. These emissaries of good
will plented the geome carly in our century in meny foreign countries end islands
of the gots The United States solaters, in 1900, introduced begsketbell in
the Philippine Islands. The Amerioon army of cecupation taught it to the
Ge-man populace in 1918. During the Inter-Allied games in Paris, Juno, 1919,
the United States, France, and Itely played for the championship, which the
United States won rether handily. After the Armistice wes signed, two American
teams, by invitetion from the British government, demonstrated basketbell in
the British ares of the wor cones the British took to it readily.

Prooticelly every foreign country hes fashioned ite besketbe1l rules
after our Amerdean game. They look to us as the mother country of the sport,