suppose you are aware of the faet that you have three fouls charged
against you--be earefal." With no hesitation whatever he turned to me
and said, "You be earefal." It is the alert mind like this which makes
the suecessful athlete. Many times a player laeking in physieal ability
will make up the diserepaney in mental alertness. So should the official
be alert to all situations.

One of the most helpfal plans I would suggest is that the younger
offieial make a study of a suecessfal offieial and endeavor to take
into aecoant his various positions in different situations. You remarked
in your book of the ability of Ernie Quigley and in my locality we have
an offieial whom may acknowledge as one of the best. You have probably
seman or heard of Pat Kennédy of New York. Pat was my pattern in my
first days and I endeavored in erery way to study his work. Just as
a successful coach will watch the professional or well-eoached eollege
teams, so ean the young official study the suecessfal arbiter. Although
I have never had the opportunity as yet of acknowledging my indebted=
ness to Kennedy, I hope to work with him in the near future.

I liked your poem, Courage, included in the chapter,Esprit de Corps.
I believe it is that spirit more than anything that has made Ameriea:
and American sports so sueceessful. I know 'tis true for I have had to
battle my way to the place I hold today in offieiating. I made the elimb
in three short years, but they were years in whieh I often faeed dia-
appointment and lomliness. Nevertheless I had set a goal and with de-
termination I began to realize that I was making rapid progress. Through
independent basketball to the American League is a road which was rough
but I managed to survive, and surviving gathered strength. My American
League debut is in the future but the faet that my nmme is on the prob-
ationary list is satisfaetory knowledge to me that I will be a regular
man soon.

You did mention the American League in your book and although we
do not have the high-salaried men of past years nevertheless the East
is a hot-bed for professional basketball. In a professional game.last
year I had an amusing incident happen whieh might have meant my failure
if I had not known the rules. Hazleton was playing at Pottstown fin the
Tri-County League of Pennsylvania. Hadeton presented the tallest player
I have emer seen, a eenter-man standing 6' 11". A Pottstown man shot
for his own goal and the ball was direetly over the hoop about to enter
when the tall eenter reached over the top and politely plucked the ball
out of the air. I immediatedy blew the whistle and awarded a goal to
Pottstown. Of eourse a great howl went up from the Hazleton players,
ealling me "homer" and a few other ehoice phrases. But I stuck to my
decision whieh I knew to be right and the goal was scored. Strangely
enough the final score read: Pottstown 31, Hazleton 30. After the
game was over the Hazleton eaptain, who incidently was an assistant
coach at Hazleton High Sehool who were the Penna. State Champions,
ealled me over and congratulated me on the game I handled. Later I
officiated at the State semi-final High Sehool game in which Hazleton
was eliminated from competition,through the efforts of the assistant
eoach's intervention. Later I also officiated the play-off games in the
Tri-County League. It was during these play-off games that my name was
mentioned for the American League.

I have not written to merely get glory to my name for I do not wart
that, but rather to corroborate many of the traths you have so ably
stated in your book.

There are many other stories I eould tell of my experiences even as
you can as a coach but I shall not take your time here to do so. I
would like to express however, in closing, my triad arrangement of