ss Even with the center jump virtually eliminated for the 1938 season,
ball pee still possess enough thrills to enthrall her tuliewrs. The advocates of t
4 tiem of the center jump contend that the game will be further speeded up, that ¢
TF i lll Aw eden to cena dita Wig 008 ed, with sleepers laying back
surprise shots after goals by opponents, the fast break will be enhanced. They further
that only © few toams ever possessed tall centers so that the game will now be more ©

 
   
   
    
  
  
  
  
   
   
    
  
 

i that scores will be higher; and that the center, who heretofore aid most of the jump:

now reserve his strength for better team and floor plays Fouls will be decreased, they
 - the officials will be rid of much of that troublesome bugaboo of throwing the ball
many additional thrills to the game. Drs dante Vadenktth, the erighebor Ot thee ipilly,
attendance at a meeting of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, asked a gro
which of the following situations gave then the greater thrill: (1) When the ball was 4
air about 2 ft. above the baskets; (2) when the ball went throughs — os

   
 
  
  
  
 

the cylinder of the basket and you wondered, ‘Will it go through or not?'™ —
fe “And so with the tip-off," says Dr. Naismith. “When the ball is tossed up at ¢
2. there is the same intense interest and the seme parallel questi

 

  
 

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= the game, not at the center tip-off but rather under the oftenstve - et :
ot, and that the elimination of the tip-off will have no bearing on the tall pla;