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It may well be explained here that the losal Olympic committee of any country
chosen to be hese to an Olympied has the right to choose one national sport for
demonstration at the games, end, after sounding out the majority minds of competing
foreign countries, my edd one foreign sport for demonstration sport et
| Olympic program. Lacrosse, which had been ineluded as & denonetration sport at
the Iy Olympiad et Amsterdam, was again included et Los Angeles se the international

‘It may well be explained heres too, that Olympic programs ere always full,
and it is next to impossible te carry out their scheduled programs within a fort-
nighte Basketball was only one of many ee yet unrecognized sperte in Olympic
genes thet was clamoring for its plece in the sun. In California, lawn tennis
tall end badminton and a1) kinds of shooting and billiards and many other American
sports were pleading along with basketball to be recognized.

Seores of American basketball teams were anxious te participate. Mexico,
could have been erranged at Los Angeles.

“However, again we eould not eount our four years of effort lost. Ground
hed been gained. For four years the word "basketbell’ had been appearing incess-
antly on the pages of sorrespondence and had been reverberating in the ears of
the powers behind the Olympiad theene. These echoes were being heard round the
world.

Se we went to the X Olympied at Los Angeles with our eyes on the XI Olympiad
to be held in Berlin, in 1936.

At @ @inner at that time with the Japenese Olyspic Delegetion in Los Angeles,
ir. Sohalu P41 of Waseda University, Tokyo, told us that annually in Jepan they
hold what they eal the Far Bastorn Olympics, which include basketball tournanents