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

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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.

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