Chairman, L. W. St. JoHn Vice-Chairman, RaLpH MorcGan Secretary, GEORGE T. HEPBRON Treasurer, A. E. METZDORF
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1106 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 105 Nassau Street, New York City 97 Elmdorf Ave., Rochester, N. Y.

JOINT BASKETBALL COMMITTEE

OswaLp Tower, Editor

ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS
ten

time out was a rare occurrence. We usually played the
entire game without interruption for rest, psychology,
or injury, and substitutions were infrequent, I played
four years of college basketball, every minute of every
game during the last three years, and asked for time out
for myself only once in all those games. And there was
no delayed offence or zone defence;it was man for man
all over the court. Is the present game so strenuous
that each team must use three or more time-outs, making
six two-minute interruptions in the majority of our

games?

I am not one of those who think that hockey
is going to super§ede basketball, but we can learn some-
thing in this respect from hockey. Saturday night on my
way home I saw a professional hockey game in Boston.
There was not a time out for rest in the entire game; if
& player was injured he left the game at once, returning
when he had recuperated. Sixty minutes of actual play,
and two intermissions of ten minutes each spanned less
than an hour and forty minutes from start to finish.

My suggestion about personal fouls is prompted
in part by this same trouble as well as a desire to make
our penalties fit the crime, Probably my present solution
is not the best one, but it is something to shoot at.

Pardon me for intruding on your vacation. Whether
you can give these matters any thought or not before the
meetings next week, we shall be glad to have your views at
that time. Don't bother to write an answer to this letter.

With kindest regards to Mrs, Allen and your-
self , Iam,

Sincerely yours,

Gant’ “Sewer.