There is a move under way to
restore the center jump in bas-
ketball.

Given the ixnay about 10
yéars ago, this part of the cage
sport, if certain nationally famous)
coaches have their way, will be
put back into the game “to slow it
down.”

Those advocating the move main-
tain the casaba sport in the past .10
years has turned into a “rat race,”
that the desired results through
elimination of the jump have not
been attained. a

The emphasis now is on_ speed,
rather than good basketball, they
also maintain and by restoring the
center jump, the game thus will be
slowed down, more stress can be
placed on defense.

There never has been much fault
found with basketball as a specta-
tor sport even when the jump was
in vogue as it has been at the top
of all other sports as far as attend-
ance is concerned for many years.

But since that center jumping
move has been stricken from the
rules and the game opened up, more
and more people have packed the
hundreds of gyms around and abou
the country to take in the casaba)
tossing tilts.

Why not leave the rules as they
are? By restoring the jump, the
cage game will take a step back.
There is no comparison between
the sport today and what it was 10
years ago. Folks like basketball
because of the action and surely
they get it now by contrast to what