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,