Ye used the Riddell eight-pound new model ball in:our
Sumner School basketball course, Ye Llikec it very iawel,” Dirt
hesitated to use it less the _ difference in resiliency
and ease of ball handling would "throw.us off" in: games played
with, other types of ball, pennkiy, tT tiked the bail-and have no
personal* interest in’1th

Permit me at the very opiset to. ‘State $aa tok otic ve anode col

study of this ball and’ hdve fotnda it extremely. wiseteyt.e Lory.
Ly observeti ons: have been thas ay bovs. séen,:iornfiad bicexenise
difficult an making. Leng ‘passes, Fur theriaor 6%: gad canwot obtain.

that finger- tip. contrel which is so essentiar to accurate Shoah
ing because of :the smoothness of ithe ‘surface, AS a result, Qur:
graduate manager of the College has informed ail .of- the: ‘teams. :
that wé are’ to pray’ that we will not use that wa bES this season,

 

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1, Bail is perfect sphere ; :
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3, Tested by-thachine and driven at velocity: of pide te
Af ter -325, 006 blows it ehanee 8/28 | of an -irioh in cir-
cumferenice:. ye

~ Ball dropped 6 fob rebounded 4 feet 8 inohes., Laceless
report 4 feet. eh in¢nes - - feet. 3 inches. and 3 Seen, 2.

inches’ all datterent. x 3. s ow tO $:.

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Art eeattay, “penial- adfeonalig “Of. ah oen chi vena ty. providence, a2:
R.1., writes that; ne believes: the: new: basketball rules are ab- :
solutely 0O.K. and :issure™ ‘the basketball public will go for then
one hundred percent, He asserts that the court fans crave. action,’
and with the abolishment of the;centre tay, ne predicts thet: they Ses
will get all the excitement ‘and nee soe they crave in sone prepamea f

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Colby pullcse : :1s  tollomnane ‘ane trend of the Maine ponerer =.
by adopting a basketball schedule this year with its first. —
taking up play under Coach Ed Roundy. .The facilities “for the ge
previously inacaquate, abe being realized with the construction
of ‘a: new Hoard f1 dor: in’-the’ field house,,