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New Rules, New Game

Harry Levine, who once ran for Classical and later
dipped his bill into the rich educational viands offered
by the university of Kansas, dropped into this cultural
center the other day to tell of the new face Phog Allen
was planning to paint on the game of basketball.

Levine’s attitude toward races incidentally, was
the same as that of a moralist toward skirts—the
longer the better. A mile meant no more to him than
a stroll across. the avenue. When he got up to
about five miles he felt as much at home as an Eng-
lish heavyweight on his back. His most notable
dash; I understand, was a romp after a holdup man
which ended with a flying tackle near the Item build-
ing while police bullets buzzed around him like flies
over a fish head.

Harry knew Allen well at Kansas add has haat cor-
rectly tabbed as the most progressive net coach in the bus-
iness, with the possible of Frank Keaney of Rhode Island
State, who would like to see the game opened up like an
appendicitis victim.

_ In his private capacity, rather than as chairman
of the national basketball research committee, Allen
seeks to cut half an inch from the circumference of
the ball so it will get through the opening of the
basket more easily; wants to raise the baskets to 12
feet and also yearns to take some of the air and
bounce out of the leather bubble so that it won’t
pop out of the basket like an oath from a golfer.

But that’s all mossbacked, conservative stuff com-
pared to the new Allen version of basketball demonstrated
at the Boston Y the other day. The game is played on a
circular court with one basket—in the middle. Teams can
consist of five or more men, and since the ball seldom goes
out of bounds on the cir cular court the game is faster than
@ snappy comeback. oye) - +--+

Just to make it. more. ‘eonbuliniy there are two zones
on the floor and a shot from the back zone counts an addi-
tional point. If that sounds clear, one of us is smarter
than I suspected.