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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,
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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

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