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Denver Honors Father of Basketball

De has as its honored guest in the National A. A. U.
Basketball Tournament Dr. James A. Naismith, the inventor
of the game. What the committee hopes was a fitting tribute was
paid the “father of basketball” opening night. None was more
deserving of the honor than the only living inventor of a major
sport, one that has swept the world and is being included on the
Olympic program for the first time this year.

We hope this has been a happy homecoming for Dr. Nai-
smith. You see, he coached the first championship team ‘in the
Rockies at the Denver Y. M. C. A. in 1897. That was just a few
years after he invented the game at Springfield Y. M. C. A.
College in 1891. So we trust his return to the scene of early
triumphs will revive pleasant memories.