and expeet our guidance in formulating their rules and in shaping their
ideals of the game.
In an official check-up with Dr. Naismith, we found that 49
nations and territories are now playing basketball; Africa, Alaska,
Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ceylon,
Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, England, France,
Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hati, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, India, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay,
Persia, The Philippines, Poland, Porto Rico, Portugal, Rumania, San Salvador,
Siam, Spain, Seiticrtand, Syria, Turkey, the United States,and Uraguaye
Portugal, which introduced the game in 1927, went mad over ite In
less than two years 24 basketball clubs were in existence and matches were
being played every Sunday end were well partonized. Competition in the game
was so keen that a team immediately begen training for the European champion=
ship competition. This team was confident of victory because some of its
players had learned the game in the United States and had figured in some
important contests here.

In America, according to the All Sports Book for 1935, basketball

 

outdrew all other sports with a totel of 80,000,000 paid attendances. Base~
ball was next with 50,000,000; football third with 40,000,000.

The author of this article, working with Dr. Karl Diehm of Berlin,
Germany and Sohaku Ri of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, had the pleasure
of having basketball placed on the Olympic calendar in Berlin in 1936. Prior
+ this action, The National Association of Basketball Coaches, through their
President, William Chandler, sold to the Basketball-conscious public of the
United States the idea of giving to Dr. Naismith and his family an honorarium,
so that they might go to Berlin to see basketball in its great demonstration

before the nations of the earthe Since Dr. Naismith had never made a penny from