OCIATION .< \SS 4 \L ‘\ rf | \ 4 —, C ‘il NAT ’ 1940. FEBRUARY 17 NUMBER 4, \ 1 ad ATT B 1 MADE TO ORDER' BASKETBALL - WINNERS COME FROM OLD WAREHOUSE. Beodidivn - . It! Ss “just an old warehouse buried somewhere . -in the maze of ee Brooklyn! $s helter skelter. street | system but. it’s "the. campus" oy a. made- 3 to-order basketball team that's one of: the’ nations..best. 4 _. the old warehouse -is Long Island University... : Consider that thé little school's fanous Plackbirds. ‘gince 1935, -- have set up two winning streaks of more thaa 40. eames each. Consider that _. they have. played’ conference | winners RES the best: * " independents" zrQR: all over the comtry, Consider that after mapticlng on a fall floor better eae to junior hich school, teams, tong Island meets its top-notch opponents on the massive Madison Square Garden court where it's alndst’' a comtry mile from basket to basket, How can a team so ‘handicasped: sot w those amazing victory records? It's a natural question, The answer is 4 nervous little ian with ‘a menia for thoroughness in his basketball teaching who regularly presents an offense and a defense mede to order for the narticular ‘style-of play his. team is facing. Clair Bee, because most of Long Island's op»osition comes from dis- tant ‘points, Lay not know befdrehaad: what his toa! s going to be up against. He didn't know exactly ab out Oregon last year's N,C,A,A; chaups. Oregon swont Bee's comaratively inexporionced 1939-40 crew off the court “in tho first half, But the six men who carefully watched Bee move brightly colored spools around a minature court betwe en halves came back. and pulied out from behind a 13 point es to wih by a poiRt in an extra period, BEE GSTS THE MEN: : Osi» Boe’ s toaghing with his flair for Sebiasoning an ree ee 40 hit the opposition! s weakness are the’ chief reasons for 4 eg U's. great. court success, The other reason is his material — put Bee! S respons} 5G, for getting that material so the auswer is still Boe : Bee and Long Island wiversity corotianan, 850) make no: oe owt pulling | in. the best mon they can find. It's significant, though, that only -two of Bee's varsity. performers in the last oicht 3 rears have lived farther than ten miles - by Boo's estimate - from New York's Times. Square. - A Blackbird basketeer snends his freshnuan year chiefiy on mastering fundamentals. As a sophomore he gets seasoning with the reserves, To be a regular in his junior year his has to be 3) fancy basi cothait ‘player: who is a whiz at every phase of the game . -: d&g an exarmle, he must be a master of. both weitere, and zone defense, 5ce uses them both, drilling his team to switch from one to anothor. at irregular intervals during a Binge game. to COnaueS: the. enony offense. oy : . Bee looks for snocialists, chance Ho ree spocd but. will sacrifice it in one or two men for good set shot: artists. Ho's a firm believer in the set shot and stresses, in a manval he's written called "Basketball," that o cager should shoot any time -he has a chance to_ get. set. for the shot. Si Lobello, a six-foot, ‘three-inch forverd, is See's set-shot artist this. year, Dolly ‘King, a husky Negro, plays a hustling agsressive center. Cool Ossie Schectmann, young captain of the Slackbirds, plays .a forward, and the bulletpassing pepper-upper. Suter Schrartz. and Joe rake are the guards, Lou Simon, a speedy forward, is Joe's Wsnot- dae ma SEES. "DISASTROUS, SEASON"; Clair says He'll ‘be: Lucky. to escape’ with something short of a " disastrous season." Comting a disastrous season. as Bee does at four or five games lost, he's protably right. The accounting teacher's team this year hasn't the reserve nower that Cale from behind. to beat. Marquett te and the New Mexico Agzies last year. : op ‘aie he ol! Such ‘strength might have -beaten. Southern Californias, the tout thet 6nded LI .Uits winning string at 42 games. : He'11 have it ‘next yvear,. with this’ year's | six pest men edtumning: ‘and a bright freshuan crop coming un for reserve duty. Bee doesn't think; though, that 42-scme -winning streaks are ‘going to be ‘froquent: from now on. He says} “" "It usedto be that you had to worry only about | evory third or fourth ‘opponent. “The rest were just ordinary. Now. they' reall: pod and even the least eee ee when they’ re hot, can knod off the vest eens that! Ss. waligat~ ABTS EOD , Se See: ae * L * * * * oe * ee * Ke OR By FRANKLIN ARTHUR _ - Redlands; Jar. 20 (AP)--One afternoon alnbst a pale cobs a20 a youig athlete grabbed a ball and. tossed it into a peach basket, He and i7 _other youmg men~on tro: nine-man- teas were creating a’ “new ‘sport. a Was the first Basketball game. | The other night. that. seiie er ividuel, ‘now Te, watehicd a , Baiske tool “geome Tor es first tine as a sne ctator.. -waYEEM, TOO dp : 4 sé | * Soak Y Sis: -* was) Nsyell, " he pare with youthful-soumding ‘onthus3 iasmy but:it wasn't like the good ole days: when, ans -gathers ; beskotball one payors were all but synonoimous, | E. S: Libby, wadhashnssbdy sli. atly built and. brisk-stermiie, is a real estate man -in this Southern: California citrus community. But in nee he was studying secretarial work in the Soring field (Mass. ) T.M. Gedy Coleg when the lsie Dr. James Naismith "fathered". the idea of toss sang éfbek in to a couple of peach. baskets. His iemories of that first satiny: in. whieh he’ contained one squad. are “vivid. . Techmically, he recs lls, the neech baskets | ‘erent: Naismith's idea at all. The: janitor, sent out: for. som wething ‘to throw a bail | into, cane yack ' with the baskets. a 7 a FISHED our. BALL - OS. . “Ot “ni i They were attached to n gplle Ly r be scpoard in a 2 gymesian’ ‘used. eatiiied ‘for doxing and wrestling. - = — Tyo students: sat and ne tiontly. - pighod” tho: pall out for a half hour or “go béfore soneone hit on the idea. Of knocking ‘the: bottoms: out-of the basaets. It's a little amazing that, either by choice or accident, he di da't see “nea ame in all these years. For.one thing, they not jnfreauently go off the deep end hereabouts. over University: af Redlands’ cage squads, which have taken “pe Wei?” éozen titles | in recent years in a le nase vhich ‘includes: most of _ Sout! her California's iad Bos colle: ty YS ‘Por another, Liboy takes almost daily rorkouts in . the. Da C, AL nlunge and a gane often is. going. a fow doors. OWOY. x But. now, .after: breakine ‘the - ‘ice. ato . oh ‘sh between. Redlands ae Whittier cngers, “he: thinks he! bo &0 oftener 7 HASN'T CHANGED ee Se ee hae or Se Like it,"..wes his sumaing up as he. pashed his way. ipweree an exit. “It wasn't os rough ag it used to be, but it's faster and‘ 1'ii-surprised at ‘the boys" ie “It hasa’t chang od a a lot. . It's less crowded with only '‘Siye nen on a side. The baskets seem about the game height. (Actually they're 10 feet now, were 9 then.) The. boys still dribble. the. ball inet: can 't run with it. We had the center tin, too. 3 "But uy, how easy they uake it look, tossing it in with one hand--and not even glancing at the brsket," His reference to rougimess recalled Naismith's description of the early day custom of leaving 2 dressing room window onen, in case the after- game unpleasantness became so violent a handy exit was needec, "Yes, sir," Lipby musec, "they used to carry them out the way we played. it. e 1 1. ae ok oR oe ok ok ok oe ok ok OK kK Kk OK OR Ok THE BOY FRIEND My Hooner's practicing the ecbenin shot, He rushes up against the wall and jumps, I don't exactly understand the plot, But when his wenly head he soundly buns He sinks upon the concrete floor and sroans And I'm sunposed to rub his royal brow And Ep into hysterics between moans And slobber on the vliehter like a cow. ' Eidoa" + believe he's knocked out half the tine, | He's playin. ‘possum just to see if I ee Won't think his heroism is sutline And work myself into a nervous cry; I notice when I don't cry any more He nicks himself up quickly from me floor. E.R: ~~ Le FS % eh MOT MH EE SR Rete AGGIES HAVE UNIQUE DEVICE TO SIGHAL, END OF PLAYING TIME Fort Collins, Jan, 23,--An o ordinary brake drum — an automobile wheel has added zest to Colorado Agsies' home basketball eames. Instead of a barking gun echoing thru the gymasium at the half and at the end of the caze gaties, a low, musical note fills the air. The engineering. department decided that snectators, esnecially women, disliked the raucous crack of a gun, so several of the students rized. out a brake drua, They nainted it silver and cut slots in it to carry the note, When the drum is struck, e low, vibrating note is produced which bring nods of annoroval from feminine fearis, The Fort Collins high school denends unon an automobile horn for its si palling device. KOR Ok OK OR OK OR RK OK KR OK OK OK KK OK OK KOK FIRE DEPARTMENT BASKOTD: ALL Winslow, Ind., Jan. 24 (1) aatttae Qnicbands City-Winslow High School basketball game got hottest in the last minute 6f: ylay, The gymasium caught fire. Teams took time out until the blaze wes Spots under control end then finished the zane. Oekclané City % “ONs 22. t9 27, Overkeated stoves wore blemed for the fire. *e ek KK KK RK RR RR KK HR Kh KH By. cua Ba o The. bred ‘Lines in ‘Mow a curing the Vinter of 1930-22 wore ‘Toager than Favet elephant’ s memory. The dull, glazed rain of defoot shored in mén's eyes, and the desperate hunger shx "eR. in. their rveistlinos. There were no jobs, and there “as fio *b¥odd* | And then, because of a young snorts vriter's idea--but wait, we're Zet= ting ahead of our story. Danner Jirmy Walker was then the hoe of New York town, and he called on his fricnds, the nears writers, to help relieve the misery that: drenched the Gityiotiot% rc Nec. Irish:was a youn? ‘snorts: writer on ak “Mew York Telegram, ioalcing: forty dollars a week. During the Winter; he covered be sketball, and saw it mloyod in gymnesiums bailt for the seme, but not-for the soectators. Fach serson, the sweaty ams would te crowded to “capacity, then crowds woud de turned aray because “ae Lack of ‘sen ting snece. A promotor at heart, it hurt Irish to watch noonle with moiicy “in their hands turnéd ayay. wed knew that none of the colle: ees would willingly permit their basket- ball teams to corie. ints Madison. Square Garcen. to: nlay; becouse there is that aure.of professionolisn- apovt the lace, But: ‘in the naue of sweet charity, Irish sbacec. a baskettall trinle-hender at the Garden on January 19, 1921, with all New York teonis cotmeting. Tho Garden hed 18,210 seats for sale that night, and when = el) tickets “ere sold,‘Irisn knew he had his teeth into something...” wes colton f.. That nicht,. basket tball: Srechierved to the biz leemie of sroris. It took two more years to vring the collesrs eromd. to ne poms 6 regul. arly in "he House Thai Tex Rickard Built, sut finally Iri sh arranced a icuble~ head.r featuring Vestni aster: (Pa, ) Gslte: cvs. St. Joins, ona Jew cn University vs. Notre Dane. Notre Dane is'a aiAgdie mame in sports, and 17; 000 fans’ aaad their way into Madison Sauare Garden that nizht. When voe Sonhonore marched throuch thé turistiles with his eeome’ a more nationa poe y becouse the Western . edachios.. todk back: hase’ with then some idens ‘thoy icked’ wm by playing against. “us, and. thoy; in turn, left ‘sone things here *for-us, . a Baskettiall hes cone a long rey since its invention in 1 Springfield, “Moss. ’ ‘by Dr. Noisuith in 1991; It has “corie-an especially long way in a very few years if you remember that the first intercolle; “{ete Leame was. not. nerman- ontly.sot um wmtil 1911, Its »rozress ras re terded. to some degree ‘because of the citizens of one sient b=eonty- -third Strect, in New-York. Those citizens were young men who played under the team nane of " The Celtics". They were thé Best} so“it is only natural that whatever little tricks and bits of strategy they develoned were adopte? by other basketball nlay- ers. The Celtics rere, of course, orofessionals, but amateur basketball oretty well aned ever ything the oros did, thus making it natural that the somé 6vils should soring uw sitaltane casly in both tranches of the* gene, . The crowds - soon tired of the’ st: eLling ~ arid: rough ‘nLay. The. anatecurs “chan; ged; / thé oros didn't! -That's one reason why today you have in cesketball- ‘the one, the only; college snort not in any’ way rin rolled’ oy the ‘ondfosstonahs: ae Tho colleges did away with uch of the roughiicss by having the reférce call a lot of fouls. That became alist as bad on evil, for Ancrican sports fans hate a waistie. ~ There is the story Phog Allen, coach of tho Kansas team, tells avout the referee who called a foul on aoubayer. who neither neg. the ball nor 76 near anycody else on ‘the. court. _ "Foul!" sercanied. the nhayer..: What ‘dia: I goes Syae-% Nothing," answered tho ref, “but. I @etactcd evil in your, eyol! Another thing that’ made the gane winonular in many corners .was” — lack of scorinz.. That was becouse under ordinery ciz scumstances 5 only one man.» shot the dall- at. the basket. -.1 venember one‘evening in ‘1919, ‘when sthe Pexieaii: cure (7, Wa.) High. School. 4 cal wes winnins on “its ‘home’ court, 18 to 17, The choc. in therefores's: head. showdd 35 seconds ‘to slay when a young fellov named Clair Bee, Grafton's mmaing guard, i got’ his hhonds’ on the ball. He dribblod half way uo the court, and thon let ‘fly forthe be sket. comet ly the —_ ee sno: throuzi, ond Grafton von by that soint. ey oy “luckil;". tecause. as: i shot the ball I could near tise 3 gasos of. amaze a and co: nsternation ‘ftom iy team inotées, from my ‘couach,. and from the substitutes on our bench, af: that: tall hadn't rezistered those winning ~oints,-i'd have *een orally tarred ‘and feathered, “vecause | vunning euards | weren't sumosed ts ‘aot for the basket in those days. Good Godfrey, No! That was part of the set nlan and you can ‘see how dul I end dre use could secoue if a teaa wanted to stall efter it had the lead. In fact, stall- ing reached such nronortions that MMe “Foe, Homer versus oor setow, “invan Illinois district tournauont, énded vith ascore of 1 tn 0! Georeetomn scored on a foul carly in the. first nerioa, “end. stalled for the: Peuainder of the contest. It wasn't much. fim. . You know how many reople who saw that name’ cr red if they ever: sam anim other basketball game, don't you, | Commare that with the fifti noints ree istered ‘by: one ay § yer: is a regulo- tion gaue against Duguesne University o on dow Year! s Day, 193% BO ote ‘you: h.. ve some indication of hor much difference a few years have nade. Those fifvy noints were tallied ty the srentest basketball ‘player I ever saw, Hank - isetti, of Stanford. I never hone to” sce saether as creat, but if ‘ me I nray that he'll be vearinp 2 LeTeur tntfern.* * * Basketball B.G.. (Before. e Garden). wes, o, localized s ne. the? Ba Mlayed according to certain j — ee of thc FILES s the South i. war, ond the West still a third 78, . It wesn't until the teams from verious sections got to nlayins agninst each other that ba ldbeball became a reel national snort, Sy. ; Thore is still great cleave are between Zastern end Vestern styles of »lay, mind you, but that, I am certain, treces beck more to. om difforence in mater- ial than in coaching ide _ The Western coaches get big, ravboned kids who have grow un in the. "wide, oven spaces", The } cds have a v~hysical stamina thet is the result of ; soecail ica of hard liviny, Therefore, the Vestern coaches vase their geome on sheer speed, constant rumin. '» quick cutting, and long one hand shots. The Zastern schools slay a came based on short fast passes, and the set shot. This game is ofarbe om Dept: much more mental than the Yestern. We in the 3 East nlay it because zost of the memvers of our sauacs are from cities, instead of from omen snaces, ame are, therefore, smaller, lighter, and nossessed of less reserve’ ens _ Because there is no wmiiform size for a basketball court, the cases in a VWesti,, where space is there. for the taking, are very larse; here in the East, where ‘snace is at a nremium, the courts are much suniler, Thus both our courts and our slayers force us to nlay the style of — we Go, whereas the saie forces, in antithesis, make John Bunn and: the other Vestern .conches >lay the "hell and high water" game, 6 se Tt ag! mp: honest conviction that we nlay better basketball in the East, . Before: those of you west’ of the Big Muddy start’ slinging those rocks at my window, “let me insert a word of oxnionation. It is iy opinion’ that if’ the Western boys were taught the. i Bins vue of nlay, they: vould ne. swell nigh unbeatable. _ aa le gag outstanding contribution * lostern: basketball ployers to’ ghoir “sleeker, if ‘slower, brethren in ‘the - Stiaed is the one hand: shot. When used by a tall nlaver. (and when a Western cooch ‘gets’s olayer under 6 igi -he. farns him out. to the’ chess: team)’, ‘this shot is avsoltutely unstormak le. The great- .. 8st ‘exponent. df the shot (nerely because he yracticctk: throwing - it thousands hen? thousands of tines) Was” that dark visaged SCOURZE * fron ‘Stanford, Hank i Erase thie! . Fefore the invasion ‘of the Palo Ante Indice, I taught my boys never ..toa shoot for the: “vrisket- with one haad unless they were directly ‘under. the “hoon... The nenalty” for. ‘heaving the ‘ball wildly was being withdrawn frou the game and ‘relegated: to the bench, Along: Cale. iuisett and boom. went ee Long Island winning streak. a ; 0 I told my bovs after the. gone thet Thiaotts had- just aad a Motil nizht, but that the - way wo’ wore “Lyinz thé gna waa the right way. 2 foe might have kent thei convinced,’ excent that Stanford came back the next. year, and once aged’ ‘an Let. U. winning “streak ras’ just-a memory. After that second evening of proof: there was no'sensé in trying ito ae Sain: away the one hand shot). So we nicked it mw and used it. In return, We have seén'a fow. ‘of the Western teams: bake our ek | show method of offense and ack it in. their: bags: ‘atong ¥ with their: sweat shirts, sneakers, aud knoe susrds. : & Basetall ciains the conyricht on the se Was ati cial nostine", but _baskatball is. the soort that Gesorves the hs What other pastas can ay WOESS* (a) that it is ‘the only ‘snort which’ Amo rica, originated, and- vb) that it has 20 000; 000 mLayers sand &0, 900 , 000: neid ‘admissions onnually#r ak RRR kk °* RR Rk tek ok oe CS. m HE Or. Ba =D Mey: Boone? does ay got ech: ‘out of scknot ‘Ho thinks Aquinas is some kind of ‘drink ie really. Gon 't Lelieverthe noor:de whos -* Can use his’ broin tachiz very) to- think; 4 tole Hin ¢ about’ Soeratés one day ‘And in ‘the widele ‘of my soech he said? NT never heard ‘of him Where does he nay? _ Sore: girls were listening, ¢ end was ‘de “red. ioc think his aia is one bic tahini », With: nothing: much but. air on the inside. " Tt¢*decsn! t seem to tegister! at.all. ¢ ee fact + 1e doés his thinking with his hide; oHis varonts ‘think that he's a clever kid © - But they have never nrobed cen veath his lid. : | £ pre SeBs 45) eo ee ee ek a2. ‘ decoy Maulana | ~ KICKING GOALS, RINGING BASKETS CHIEFLY PRACTICE By BILL CORUM; International ews Service Snorts Writer . Basketball -has: changed. with. the VOOR te ote oto ek (Ba the late Dr. Naismith's: invention is played tocays it's a better gome to watch ond undoubtedly to mlay than in any ‘ine of what might be. called catch-as-catch-coukd basketball. Still, there's one new rule that 1'm ¢lod.cone oPyat my time, . “In school,.they used to let. me hang around on the fringe of the team. pecause I could drop. those fowl.shots in with considerable regularity. In those days. any vlayer on, the team could. take, the. yenalty shot. Nov, it's the man who's fouled. So: lL used to get in the games. now and then as a foul- shot epacealisiy ABE; as. 3 they. have kicking specialists in footb: all today. TH HOLE THING. is a matter of oractice... The sae. is true of atk points arter touchdown in footvell. Every fellow who. kicks a. football can't be Hyne leve ''s.-many: 1.0. Bearley Srick Loy... But nobody will ever convince me that any vassing ood kicker can't Learn throuzh natient..nractice to ee ck points after touchown with almost machine-gun accuracy, ... 5 ~/ That's how the incoxrmarasle Suzenne Lenglen. learned to nlay tonnis ' you know. By te coking a ra requet end a.counle of tennis, balls ond t bangin ng ‘en. against. wall hour after NOV Ba-i0:” | Footuall coaches don't catch their young “men quite as young as Suzic was when she bogen. Sut I'm convinced they could win ueny games they lose by singling out four or _— youngsters end freshmen who had a little natural anti — for kicking ind making them work at it wees at ten: st one developed into a Kicker who'd a miss that. seventh -oint.. That ay be a fixation with ne. ‘TIVO BEEN HARPING~ on As for years, bands SS never know goody to do it excont the late LeRoy Midis, .fr, Mills. did: better than tad with his ‘kickers, didn't hel So many teens, lack a. tonnotch kicker. Which is the one thing 1'n dead sure any teas. can have,. - still, my busine ss is writing about footba “not ecaching: i. fod,. by and. dorges I've always tried to stick to ny a to: the est... Which, for today, is: now, kok OK OK OR KR OK ORK kK BASKET: “ALL A oh — ARE wat Comersville, Ind, ; Sun 24 ~- Profossional nasketball as exonmlified in _ the double bill. at. the = ~utler, Ficlahouse Vecnes lay night wes something on the verze of. a tug-of-war... The passing, of.course, was vastly superior to the ordinary y run.of ball handling but. the manner in which the guar’|s kent the offense from taking a shot was strictly a throwback to the “CStahe nel enschmidt days. Players ‘geemed to onjeet. strenuously to the calling of perfectly obvious fouls and the officiols didn't seem to mind the stern attitude. of reproval.. There: was one lively setto with the fists.but it was rather harmless: and- the faas dida't mind it. Considering the weather there was’ % Large - turnout of cus tomers. sand no one wanted his money back. Tt wns eood competition tut it wasn't hizh school basket> all, Well, it wasn't in- tendod to > 2 KKK KK KOK KOK KOK KOK RK RK RK OK OK OH Sy 03 STS SES - Cronicle, Jon. 24--In the slorest’ thing this side of a, ‘timeout, Lowell marched triwmhantly. on the road. to dts sixth succissive ‘niin ted baskot- ‘eal chounidinshin yosterdny in Kearir ‘Pavilion by att aml} ng formerly, un~ defeated . Salboa, 20-10. SORES aia __,., Bevwas “so stow,’ $0 choriy: an porformax cé, stich’ inferior. Labor: that the _‘ student bodies either ‘slest,. cauhit uw on honework or wandered back and forth Across - the nawilion to exchanre ~sleasantries with’ chuas. from the rival - .school, The baskets All was n side issue to a*hapny, chat’ tering, noisy: crowd, ! The score indicates lorsided, superiority in the char sions" favor. rit “was definitely that. “But it wis ¢ained throuch such Icthsarsic ‘nétiod; so thorouchly unimmressive style thet it did anything but rahe =e. cnthug.astic rooters. out of Lovell students.. You ‘could ‘count the “ficla's als 9 on “the ‘finge rs. of eth: honds: and still as. 2 counle of scratchers © oft over. That tes due, reinly to Lorehh's une bearable” dotersination ' to lay cate: witil malt 50, domed Fs gone Cofense “for the standard rian-to-man.° Falboa's wilt ing ness to oblige saved the” ¢ EAT from endin:: somewhere . spound 15-16. The scores Cali “S90 fast ‘you hardly’ tind tine ‘to finish’ Sea We wn The Wind betieen soints; Jshnnyy O-ens nailing a 80-foot set shot; Pavl Harless a free throw, (O'Rourke a “ash, sint : front witoz ‘the Suckot ard Owens a, charity toss... ' ae i: MDITOR'S COMTI? Oi? TH 2 TOTS Iron GAD oa P More games like this 20-10 which Sob Stevens descrined + 41 mut. bas'cct- ball back on its hind legs. looking for a.drink of w Oe ond hoping for some thinking man to get it hack to earth, | iny ten that, ‘comnst: score 30 -~wints a. gaie acoinst its equals. “ghould*:c throrn in “the rivor ‘and ‘drowned. © Caa you inasine a. teaa' $s seorins oni. 10 * ‘ints ond ivci¢c ‘entally just trying to keen the score (om. “OR, ‘Tet us : th ink SOOT, Hat of tke gnoctator: and“of the aI itself. A fer years aco we layed a tear and the | coach ‘instructed his tect: to just nley defensively and keep the scdre down. Score first half was 30-2, so the whole soeond } salf we went to our.office and did some we sk, instead of watching such a catasti -onne of a ae. Coaches sive us action and then some more pethotn.n . eee ee eee eet eee There's a erent onl of 3 alk ‘absut that’ zon, “Bevott: Dean: an Ste enford, Evon the coaches in other sorts ri eroumd tal: cing” about: hin They ‘say he started with practical Ty. nothing, boi the roy, of patorial.’ : x mK Ok ae ke OR eek Boe as y sere have bee n tines hon, te thoucht 7000, caliifors As tudon ts were going to swoon domm.on Conch "21 levator Sen Parry ina body as he would r! ar up, from the Sench and throw a. gless “or ‘water. on” ‘the floor | in’ disgust hecnuse of an official's “ecision. en eH FekeRKKHR KH KE KH HH January 20,1939 Dear Shootin’ 'Em --Something must »e done about Indiana basketball, It is too fast--imch too fast.. I long for the good old s when a fellow could take a good. ilagaz ine and a sack of apnles “(or a jus) to a basketball gene and really enjoy hin sclf, But now, alas, the noor spectator is left in a commlete state of ex- ~ haustion after a hard encounter; and he is lucky to be able to stagger home, The nortality rate among basketball fans must be terrific. Any day now I exnect Trester to nlant doctors outside all gates, refusing admission to all _ those fortunates possessing weak hearts, fatten ares or other sundry ail- ae ae The time was when many exceedingly & oatiful f#iondehi> ss were formed at these snectacles of snort. Only the other day I was at a game and I turned to gaze at a dizmled doll sitting just three rows and four seats northeast of.me, And what hapnened? I missed three buckets | and a free throw! What chence does a fellow havo? , _ As long as ye hardwood gladiators okt eS drive nell mell >ack and forth like shuttled relay mapethan’ dastmen' we will never get our sixtcen team finals back. The high tension and steam generated. from fifteen Gaines ot aan one ayr in such a short time would blow the whole state off the map! Yours for a band me the fieldhouse, ; SOSERT MORAT oes 6060066460600 688% From a mass of statistical information o1 individual scoring in Wes‘- ern Conference basketball submitted to Shootin’ ‘Bn by Hugh gardne: we hove culled this list of ae re have notched 150 or more noints in a season of . ; Big Ten commetition. follows? - fey 20 3. Carney, Illinois = ~=—s 1920 6O—iS—s«éd2'GQ ~ Young, Purdue 1928 69 .46 184 seoroey, a1 apoia- OS 1982 54°48 PF A Young, Purdue ~ : 1937 67° < -38 172 Minis “lO Sth pica ee | 6lUC(itiC SC Reiff, sorthwestern | 1939 = ES a. i Andres, Indiana © ; oe. CU Gai(i‘i‘ia Ctr . Kegsle r, Purdue na 1936 61 #38 160 Dirkhoff,..Shicazo~.~ <'" © ga"? 34 92 + 160 White, Purdue ° | _ ee = BS Ce Haarlow, Chicazo ose + 5h BA 156 Wooden, Purdue eis ee ooo 48 154 Haerlow, Chicago is & @©& ie Dehner, Illinois i? & 4 im Kessler, Purdue 1935 53 44 160 . You seo. so. many free throws we the names of Carney, Birkhoff and ‘White because in their day one man shot most of his team's free throws, it not being necessary for the fouled fellow to shoot his own, Andres, White and Wooden, incidentally, are the ovly guards on tho list. * kK KK KK KK KK KK KK KK KK HK OK OK K OK 10 BASIOTRALL VITHOUT UOARDS NO TUN -- ARTHUR SANPSON Trey eliminated the-vonrds..chind the bonrds bohine the beoskcts in Rew York the other night.ond the resultant moauntida in ees wos inter- estinz. dt wos, the eansensus, hovever, that the eliminntion of the tack- boards did. not aces wLish the dcsirod nurnose, narcly to give the snall pus nyer jsore chance and reduce the premiun. on heicht. it SOGAS that the teller »layors were still the move effective aroumd the Dasket in areas they ounis there wore off the rin, ‘anc occas- ionally agian 1d up ond intcreented shots whick failet.ts sail-throuch the hoon. What is more i wrtant, it was discovered. that the slarers had ore success with shots from a distnrce then thoy did thea .working the tals under the basket, The oninion.of.the got AN of the cyo-witnmesses was that the cliaina- tion of the beekboards. soiled. the. gaie. As one corctent observer re: ortod: tA SlosketrplL. game without vocxroords.1is. as uninteresting, ns A CUnsetrdl gane in which the | pitehsr tries in vain to cot the ball over the nlate’ and wolks; better: after.satter a! | As a result of this ores. it is unlikely thas eny wore veitation for the elinination of the backboards will be heard frou the Letie eien district, wok eK OK OK OK OK K kK OK OK OK ok OK Kk OK OK IT MUSTA STULEK En JOTET OUT fy DICK FRIBNDLICH OFF THD DACKEOARD ** That 20-18 thing the other nicht vctreen Crezon State and Linh is just the sort of stuff to send daskettall fans to the wovies. lrthe second half the “esvers scored six points and tho Venda! four. Youwuny call it-"2all control," but I cell it-sox office roison." Kk OK K K KK KR KR The conackes or moe southern division conforence teens, convinced that the — ing they ;et from the Leiths, BDailevs, Watsons and the rest Curing 1929 twas the. hed post tyoe outaine le, YOLUITEGRED to raise the ante fron $95 to 335 a sarorg The erocunte &: ene ms zofused’ to O.K. tho raise at the conference mecting Last: month. * ek KK OK K KOK KK Strom:'s Clo DAOPSs wo won the Pacific Associntion tourney in 1928, rihagy thoin, fia rete ¢ “we.of the scnsm on this, sive of the rater tonient, when they moet the ft tolien AJC. here ia nart of a dow.lo heater. Athons Club and Sank: of “shat snare te the Lill, . wok mK OR OK me Om Sure sign that the Stanford-Santa Clera, St. Mage! s-U.S.F, dousle head- oy at Kezar on Fedruary 2 will “e a sellout is the dJenend for free ducats. 4. M1. 4 fle . Rect epee lie San SAS acacia: aa as are 4 ae $ This denartment is loaded with thom richt now "(Requests not tickets, ey e ’ Cia * OR OK OK RK OK OK OK OR OK ah EVERY, SOY AT CARR HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS. ON UNDEEGATED CAGE TaaM Carr. Colo., Jan. agi Snaeesth alt: don't. ‘a voquired cot course at Carr high school, but. it might. gjust..as well‘ ie Twenty fu vils are enrolled in. the school, seven of whom are boys. ALL seven are on Coach H, B, Schacr!s Yaske thall squad, The thirteen girls make -up a "men! orsenization whi ch. amears: at overy same to give the tean. = sumort. Be. re bee Dut that's. not the half of it. Carr is GiaPesio€ this season, one of the few teans in the state with a nerfect record since the season onened., Carr won the castern division cha: vionshin of the North Central league Last year and is SURROsS ET AY javending, it this yorrs although one less player is on the roster,. 2 eee Pacing the school's cage ventures aro two >rothers we Jim Morrison, a junior, end Koith, . a sen ee din scot what was believed to te an all-tine scoring record for nortliern Colorads lest year by making 199 ~oints in ten eanes, tle has collected 66 in five snes thus for, while his brother has con=- tributed 35 points, | Carr wos defeated by Hoxtun in the state "DB" ‘senifindls in 1949, The towmm is so >asketball ~idinded. that residents took um a‘ collection at the beginning of the season ana raised enough. money. to reaovate the school's eyimosiuia. ee PILL SHASDLER'S- HOOP AR Ww ORTLD, ! OP PTOVAL free, THRO, HAUNTS 4™ MA Lyre 1 fs nm, 26--(1 AP)- “Sill, Che endler, oe ea hecuare one Uf hin smartly coached Marquette thavers? ty basketball teams won a game by a deliber- ate foul, snonsorec. a change in the frec throw ites "edt his 1940 squad. turned that to its odvanta;e, too. ks This is the ruling which.ner:its a team, when fouled, to decline a free throw and instead take the ball.out of bounds, Ther's: the case history? Two years aco Marquctie trailed Coluit-ia Collese of Dubuque, Tay with a minute to: “lay. Ak; -arquette cager deliscrately fouled an opponent, and when . the nlayer missed his free yeroW, Merquotte: took the ball and nopped in the winning score, . : SO Sill, as oresidont of the Wational Association of - ~asketball | Coaches last year, fathered the rule chan-e. Cane the Norquette-University of Iowa same this season. The Horkcyes, “leone five. or six.points, declined three froe throws in the waning minutes, but 3ill' Ss ageressive quintet grazed. the bell often enough to tie the score ~ and. then win in an overtime noriod, Had Towa mnde ony of the three frec -tosses, it could have won in regula tion eh ee Wow Pill. says the new rule, while reducing deliberate fouling, shovld te modified tecause it has teen avused. He recently saw a team decline most of its free throw chances in an-cffort to.-contral -the Sal. "These tactics sloved un the caae," he said, "and if widely adopted, would ruin. the ae ¥ ee Se CCR ee le ew 12 PHT SLPHIA, IT'S UP T YOU Dear Shino) tan! Mys--Dike the Last of the Mohicans, er sumin’, tho last ofthe great. 2asketballcrs. are. in the pro, ranks. Habur'e replacoients witli! be as inferior as Jananese mnchinc fitting: | WO Con, attesnt..to fill the, shoes: of thdse © ‘rillimnt court stretecists who know defense. as well as. all tne theories of »utting the dell throuch the Lucket in the fowest aum.cr of trios? Man een metch the possing ability of tae Rerais sonece Five, or the 91d Celtics at Rot ore cuy--not 5, aca one!! For ali=tine teans, what Locerns have the ‘all-aroud azility of these fellows. named here on gy om nersonal suner-c yLossal ‘wonder five? All-tise All-Amcrica Alt-tine Sollesiamn F. heDoriott (Coltigs) | Yeudivicr (Franklin) F . Secki.an (cclties) att (Pitisoure) F Hickey (Celtics) Loise sttL (Stenfox 23) C Soonor (Reus : ee .Toensend (Michican ¢ Lanchick (Celtics). | Carncy (Illinzis) G Holnon (caitic 5 | 7 ita "(Puraue) G: dusta (Celtics oe Villian (sr MH eastisin) G-3are) (Ccltics eer (Hagodané Ko we OK OK KK OR OK OK OK OK ok KK OR ++, ts uatair, of course, +o-juam. at conclusions.on tac basis ‘ oF one ex merinent, but it would appear frou the results cf Aeendia Uaii's 3 saa: od- “Less basketiall: the other micht-thet, the acsexnce 2f a tancine surface Dchind the basket. affects, the gue in the followin’ “ays? © (i) Reduces scoring. - (2) Fneournces sot shooting: nliost to the exclusion of under-—tne- basket plays. On the negative sidc,-ib is giciificait that the ts aller nlayers sti 11 ontrolled retounts of wissed shots. Ono.of the srgments in favor of eli- pore oe thecnonrds wes that it recuccd the bis f ellos! advantace wider- neath. 3 The low scores "hee Jeaiea aécrems Scat the Mrooklyn Dod-ers, 25 to 21) nrgaa ably ¢ can be attributod to the fact that the teens were ¢s Bai ePRtive in their shooting as they. wore inaccurate. Undoubtedly, they found it ciffi- cult to "Fr the ra nig without the ic ackeround, . Since the combatants vere ~roress POREOY who are trefitionclly loath to oo. under in attcints to score lest they ~ naivee in the ~rocess, you moy argue with sone renson.tnat the, ¢ ‘'isnari i ptroon ye shots and seoring ef- forts made on the nove. was only to de. Oxnectec, The tears took 9, total of -: only eizhty shots, sixty-five oF them set. “aes cacec only fourtcen, and of these trelve wore set. In other words, only, tro cools rere made by players cin motion towerd the wool, ff tong. is ann neal lost. HOOSTER GETS’ TOUGHEST 5 03 Knoxville Tenn., January 22 (AP) Coach John be er, of the University of Tennessee basketball team, =. he always assis Gilbert Huffman, of New Castle, Ind., guard and centein, to "the toughest forward on the omosing teen," In nine gomes, Huffuen kes given uw only 2% points and has held his men without a field gos1 in eig:t of the nine, while himself scor- ing 63 »oints. ne "JUST RAISE THE BACKBOARDS?"! by Bob Hamilton "No City College team ever lost four in a row under Nat Holman's regime put the current Beaver squad is going to lose many more games unless it learns that the fundamental idea of basketball is to put the ball into the hoop. City executes intricate passing maneuvers with speed and accuracy, out all of this serves merely to get the ball farther away from the goal," This ig-an excerpt from the colwm of a well-knowm basketball writer which eh appeared recently in a Metronolitan paper. The almost complete collapse of Eastern basketball teams against "outlanders" today revolves around their failure to recognize the fact. that "the fundamental idea of basketball is to put the. ball into the hoop," It is the difference between the so-called Eastern and Western styles of basketball... Gk Eastern methods were provably derived’ from the system used by the old — Celtics with great success years ago. Indiana, or Western basketball, never . had the "benefit! of seeing the old world's. chammions in action and, therefore, they simply continued to throw the ball into the basket without regard: to so~called pivot and screen plays. It is being definitely demonstrated today that the score is raised two noints after the ball anes throuch the hoop, with or without benefit of "razzle-dazzle!'. Since the principal idea is to obtain-more. . . . points than the opnosition, the simple conclusion is that the ‘team, which throws the ball through the basket more often wins the game, The sooner. that destern: collegians learn to shoot from any nosition or spot on the floor, the sooner: they will give Western teams better omosition, sort. ag rH It was my lot tc have learned the gome in the Eastern style. of passing .«: and set shooting. Unfortunately ! was forced to sit on-the beach, wate ngyove many gevss at Sotre Dame, until 1 had learned. to throw wae ball from ay position without getting "set". For years the axiem of Western coaches when playing.an : Eastern college was ‘watch their fet - when they start draving them together. step in close and block the throw", Therafter the Western coaches bothered: . no further with defensive measures other. then to teach their players to "switch"! on the defense when the onnosition used pivot plays, etc, : Y BCRIOT OF EE After warming the bench for one year and then playing fo two witha... Notre Dame team which won 60 out of 66 games and the Western championship twice 1 returned to the East, Through the efforts of Arthur Donovan, the well-know referee, an oprortunity was given me to try~out for the N, Y, A thletic Club five. This team ultimately consisted of ten players, nine of whem had been captains - of their respective college tears, most of then Easterners. lt was at once... apparent that those who had learned the game in the West and‘ those who. had’ learned in the East could not coordinate their resnective systems, namely. a wide-open: game.and a short- pass, pivot geme, However on individuel merits this. tean won the Eastern Athletic Club chammionship the first. year. Eventually, after a lapse of four years and a change of players had taken place, ther evolved ;too separate and distinct teams. One srow was comprised of players from Indiana, ; W. &dJ,, Oregon and Notre Dame; the other of players from W.Y.U.,. Fordham, Man- hattan and Columbia, . S Theso two teams were distinctye wmits and in my opinion it is no exagseration to say that primarily the offensive play of the Western team was responsible for winning the Eastern Athletic Club championshin and Metronolitan Club cha:mionshin in 1934 and the E astern Club Chammionshin again in 1930, There is. no denying the fact, however, that the man to, man defensive goOtTa YY. of the Eastern group was greatly responsible for keeping the score of the opnosition down to:a ereat extent. However, observation during this period of time conclusively proved that the Eastern style of play was already out-moded and it was no surprise to me that shortly. after Ned Irish oncned up in Medison Squarc Garden’ with: big-tine baskets sal that Western teans consistently, Apfnates. 3 those of tue Fast. : The first Metronoliten bie time tean ae in ny op inion, has tamed to Weste ern methods is N.Y.U. », and, i ‘believe that their record this yoaor is conclusive proof that the style, of nky is the winning style. Howard Cann, avle N..U. coach has seen the handwriting on the wall ond: has revised. his systom accordingly. Ford han, under the’ canable Ba Kelloher,. is turning: to this met shod end their young sop- homore tea is showing ur mach better. than far nore experienced ommonents ho cling to the old style of conservative play. 4 don: te believe it. will be long before almost all Hastern tos: will akope +t he Mide- open. gan A recent achveke in the: Saturday. ao pet ee by Sin ley Frank, has cranes a great. | r aout of controversy, in -be 2sketbo all cares es, Frank quotes Coach Mooney, of Golwibia, to the effect that : the. best wey to prevent ‘lial titucenous"™ players from ruining the cane is to ronove the tack-bo oe end extend the out-of-bounds lines four fect behind the basket, He further stated that this was the.system used in the old New . State League, Ho forsot to mention, however, ‘that | ‘in the- State League, hue Jifis h: nets" ‘surrounded the basketoail court so that: in ‘effect the | bali could nev: of... out..of Lounds, Uoless a simiter provision’ is siggested to giinmlonont. Moonoy'! Ss: “sugestion, it OGeurs 4G me tnht tthe spectatavs willbe handling the -b ball as "often as ‘the. players... i? such <« suge:stion is made, ther ‘are bound. to. sé. Justifiasle objections. raised in. regard to the efféct of the player s health, Loud and long were the squarirs raised Dy maeny of our foremost coaches when a ‘rule was put through to give the o-mosition the tall out of bounds after a score had been. mole. They cleined. thet this spceded tha gare up to the roint were the player's heart wicht te affected, Should. it be necessary to use " fish néts".. “tris obvious that wore vould de absolutely no chance ofa player getting a. nozents rest. bee CUS. there. would. be no out-or-. sounds plays. The nost gonad bis: and. locical: sus-estion for ate sination the premium being placed on the use of extrencly tall olayers seems. to.be to raise the baskets to twelve feet; If tho running track at. the. old Stringfield "Y", where the gane originated, | had. been twelre foat. avove: the: floor,. that:is the point at which the "reach: baskets" would have been. placed ond no cont oversy would ever have ar isen: The architect of. the “puilding, | however see fit-to put -the track only - ten feet'nbove ‘the floor, end that is. the only reason wiy the rules todey contain a provision: that. the baskets. should be ton. fest a nove. the floor.: There is no doubt “in my mind that the ultimate solution tia. in. simmly roising the basket two feet. Why penalize a player because he hapnens to be tall- let him enjoy the sport too- just put the basket out of his reach, ’ Od MILTON COLLEGE Milton, Wisconsin Geo, H, Crandall Athletic Hinectbr I on proposing a basketball rule: change which I believe vould serve as & check on tho. nresent race-horse style of game end also restore some of the desirable cloments of the criss-cross and screen without tho defensive dis- advantage against the sient nivot man, : This proposal is made on ‘the assumption that. the fast-break system is on) outerowth of the nresent 3-second mile rather than from climination of the center jump; also shat the fast-break my ets (1) is too mach of a strain on the nlayers; (2) leads to wore fouls by path tears, particularly those allowing two free throws on basket attermts; (3) makes the gone more difficult to of- ficiate satisfactorily; (4 often decreases sre ectators! interest through too much scoring; (5) disco uraces ‘valuable ‘training in technical skills foot~ work end ball-handling found in the more deliberate +; ype of gene; (3 maces the geme more éifficult to coach with ony certainty of method. the: proposed rule assumes, that return of the center jump would not solve the “problem and that handling of the ball oy an official after successful goal vould de pre- forable’ to abroszation of the rule eliminating the canter: FWD The rule which I an sugresting is as follows? Omit all of Sec, 12 Rule 14 and soeklbete: in its lace! E Sec. 12 = score - & gool after romaining in his»orm free throw area continuously more than 3-seconds. ee Penalty - gool if made not to céuhty the ball to te awarded to the omornents cut of bounds at the ond of the court wooere the foal'was illerally made. be ens By I believe such a rule would disprove the pase for these x ie (1) It would make it possible for thé tcam on offense to center its attack around the arca in front of the basket.and thus restore better finesse in ball hondling, footwork:ond short shots... . (2) It shovld disco ourage the zone’ de ense, which now has the edvantage with a forbidden center. aren taat needs:.less: erat anidey thus: forc- ing the ylay towards the side lines.: © aoe (3) Rolian ce unon the fast-break ‘style of offense vw ould Lo discouracc od through a decrcase in-use of the zone defense, which itself.is fun- dnsentally a’sct formotigy for ofa ast »sreak, ond thus, clininate largely the urge wien the offcnsive teas 2 80 veab wy 18 siiariind pacl, to..the other end of the floor. . : (4) It would foster botter ball hea mdling - ond a be tens oe caine fad ridis ore through the elinination of thé need of hurried passing from the frec throw area. (5) The defense would not be placed at any. particular -disadvantaze jnasmmuch as the ball handler insthe frec-throw ation raya NO% shoot and thus could be left alone tamorarily as defousive players. snifted _. to defend against screén or criss-cross. (6) Heicht would not be essential-