Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the
Joint Basketball Committee

University oF PENNSYLVANIA CLUB,
New York, N. Y., Apriz 20, 1929.

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Joint Basketball Committee
was held at the University of Pennsylvania Club, 35-39 East Fiftieth
St., New York, N. Y., on Saturday, April 20th, 1929.

The Meeting convened at 10:55 A.M. L. W. St. John, Chairman,
presiding.

Chairman St. John:

Gentlemen, the Annual Meeting of the Joint Basketball Rules
Committee is now in session.

As a very brief preliminary statement, the Chairman would like
to say that this organization has been having what I would term,
perhaps, some growing pains, and after pretty thorough considera-
tion, with an evidence of a good deal of cooperative spirit, we
believe that the growth and development of the Joint Committee has
been proceeding along satisfactory lines.

The Executive Committee of the Joint Basketball Rules Com-
mittee had what I would term a very satisfactory session yesterday
morning, discussing still further the problems in the development
of this Committee, and this Executive Committee is ready to report
to the Joint Committee here and now on some principles of growth
and development of this Joint Basketball Committee.

Before I allow the Executive Committee to make that formal
report, I feel like making this very brief statement; perhaps, that
as a result of what I should say, study of the fundamental considéera-
tion of basketball rules, basketball development, basketball control,
I am convinced that the college interest which had been to a degree,
I might say, a sort of disturbing factor in the happy relationship
are today—and by the college interest I mean the eight districts
through their representatives over the United States—I don’t par-
ticularly include myself in that, because I have throughout been per-
sonally very desirous of maintaining the cooperation, harmonious
development that has been in existence for so many years in this joint
arrangement. But I feel that at this moment these representatives
from all over the United States are pretty definitely committed to
the cooperative joint arrangement of the original groups, having to
do with basketball, continuing in this cooperative and agreeable
relationship, which is in my estimation absolutely for the best
interests of basketball, not only in the United States but in the
adjoining countries—in Canada in particular—in the foreign coun-
tries, where basketball is growing and developing, but thinking of
basketball as a game and in the broad sense. I think that the college