PRESS COMMENTS ON. CONVEX BACKBOARD DEMONSTRATIONS } NewBackhoarg In Baskethal] 0 Get Tria] oO Show Convex Backboards | n in the Proviso Fieldhouse ae Experiment New B patente With Cone ae @" aie Oar basketball of the ‘hee igg High chool at Dento available in the Pro Friday PE An pers : school fieldhouse at 4: bike ‘est Of the new daopes backboard wl coe m i GSS ke 2 May further stp oe : fame of basket samline the co-opera ttee ketball Commi i : ie the new convex type 0 basketball packboards. i The date was chosen beca NEW YORK, May-2.—(?)—Members of the basketball rules committee have their heads glued together in a local hotel room at the moment, swapping stories and thinking up changes in the play- ing rules. f the fact that the Aimeseae eee Friday. St. Clair ‘Soy: an- The mere fact that basketball in its original and more-or-less lave will be held in ahaa erlt ball rules iain national back unabridged form has become in a the same date. The ee Lill had asked him Nine Said that group remarkably short space of time|/new streamlined backboards, one many coaches at the Relay € reaction .of the most popular sport in the|Of them boasting more curves than a roller coaster. Don’t be country does) rprised if the old familiar back- iy to view ‘ve them opportunly one ae packboards and perhaps not deter these two themselves. ard, eration of the oe &ssured Bod full ¢ e hot or secret BCA ¢ He board is dead as a shot duck by iy 44 rities are of Stary, Coach p rough its gentlemen. ; tomorrow night. Basketball ie cube change in Hag Texas State, ete Sha of aa we Mme The one that tickled the coaches the opinion f backboards must re- fe. pias backboard, mue sir y “|most. is a convex number. That the shape 0 wie which | } Hew in eet Dlanessype ee nated the cen-|;. ; . the new Yr 2 W in use, w Tlace board fer dum erick is, it bulges out toward the hoop sult from _ poards farther in- natiohil ec as demonstrateg t J ve di and curves back some four inches places the back , do away with St Clair cittee at its last m ee fay de ee t il to the outside edges. side the end line. a would result Prised at ps pas distinctly ga mourn, and The merit of this arrangement, the dead area whic 4 flat back- ruies commit POSSibilities Said ile complicated the| ceveals its inventor, is that it af- behind the standar types have'\f years head bask io for Sixteen shadings of le- ords a clear shot at the hoop poard, several new YPe f these |] and no aro all coach at SMU gitimate de- from o re pee of the court, been developed. ey card and | eouthwestern Conte teeny of the even where the cour -sha. es Tal pte Hk eae ai feet beyond the peor types, oe or convex |1 Agitation ie the oard takes a corpora-|**itfrequently does. With the pres- ' two ait’ © been erected in the |} when the commie MOdel started | . tance @ Corpora-lent flat bank such a shot is, of, boards, nevmanasium and will be |" extension of the a@iopted a twoct as W ¥ €T course, impossible. | roviso gymna s and|- of the ine =, 82d bo jee N t f P : student Play. dary ] ‘ 2 e con U. BASKETBALL BODY MEETS confidence, they are starting in Often i four-foot Permits freer ee ¢ }0n the basket and the backboard. t va i the bee Dlay from Nearly aly Permits Rules Committee to Announce | Since a little after Dr. Naismith, hous a corwded play immedi- fog thus relieves Si48S of Decision on Changes Today the game’s inventor, had his boys eliminates the basket. Ponents aie, SME lanes, 7¢ODS°S- i popping away at a peach basket, ately under increases tp Say that th S Ppro- With little in the way of impor- the target has consisted of a plain ‘rom oe 2 Space under the ppoard tant legislation on the docket, the iron re Pala against a flat, TCAGO HERALD Permits a ed may deat basketball rules committee of the ST. Loy Square Dacmooard. oF 939 & conges;, ‘Tr to escape United States and Canada opened Ma, GLOBEDEMOCRAT But last night the visiting rule) eS Piher Sales iglig under the nee its two-day annual convention at B30, 1939 surgeons sat with gleaming eyes t Sckboard e that is re a amlined the Hotel McAlpin yesterday. The through a demonstration of three “rset for the goal ok makes g better session was only for members and : and ee 8reater sia thus pro. the results of the committee’s de- B we t it, cause of/j°7 sho liberations will not be announced: a 3 move CHICAGO AMERICAN oe VY incre ~ tS Smal] et PU the election of Ce the next ee the back- May 3, 1939 ae t ae whe ee ty of the i officers for : ible d the Yr, ortun Among the proposals up for con- "center aroun Ma en a Seats chee sideration is that of Forrest C. ational Rp Lomnasi TS (Phog) Allen, University of Kansas t. Clair 5 th Pressed, coach, providing for the raising of impressed © National ¢ mini the basket from its present ten feet Oard, had a: ti, OSSibilities of th ittee, to twelve feet. This move is rec- With it this Uhorized o as moe ommended by Allen on the basis of its » and ation that it would reduce the tremen- 1939-40 Basketball Rules at the Woption would, Ft, He matter dous advantages now enjoyed by : es Th, ext annual] brought u teams which have skyscraping The National Basketball Committee of the United St. Laie Made ce players. States and Canada met during May to formulate boards By Behe ee nts cal baskbocnin ef aden donee rules for the 1939-40 season and to outline plans for we'll fing Be clinie in py ce these were tested last night at New York the 1939-40 season and to outline plans for the co f them. mar Texas coaches ays : ae 4 waeenon collection of statistics and the coordinating of ex- ave Es . Southwest thay ® @ first for the benefit of the rules arate. perimental work for the new season. In the course The bat L Be ahi the boards tee. One of the new banks is con- of their meeting they attended a demonstration of Mond ¥ morniy Schoo], Which 9 ed ia on is ceatac hs modified backboards which had been erected at the ee ee feature Cl through others are designed io eliminate | New York University Gymnasium by the Fred € faculty iersit ue d - space that is seldom used for shoot- Medart Company of St. Louis, Missouri. are : Ore ¢ fad of ing, with the idea of increasing ais : a “*Pected to nie Coaches spectator visibility a rns ” end DALLAS MORNING NEWS June 24, 1939 NEW YORK TIMES May 3, 1939 ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE — June, 1939