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Crawfordsville ‘Ina, ‘ Saiki 23 -- 4s - Posh H,T, McCullough's 1940
| ies s will play the first basketvall gane in Crarfordsville High School's
new $250,000 gymnasium Wednesday evening against Washing ton High School of
Train cies. Crawfordsville claizs to te the birthplace of basketball in
Indiana, and indeed, in the Midwest, for more then forty-five years ago the
first gaie was “played here, The high school’ has a new, fully equipped sytie
nasium, The building. will ‘be ; dedicated later in the secson. ae

, “Basketball: vas introduced to Oiuirt6i sasville: in ‘tie ‘spring: of: 1898 Dy
a Mokoy , a Presbyterian minister, who had just been appointed secretary
of the ¥,M.C,A, suilt here ebvout 1890. In preparation for his work as secretary,
ho attended the Y.M,C\A, trainins school for secretdrics and physical directors
‘at Springfield, Mass. “Thero: he saw the néw gane invented by the late Ines 4
Naismith, played with a round léather ° vall and: a couple bf daskets ‘huse up at
the end of the gyrmmasiui floor, —

Assuning his duties here in March, 3 McKay: procapisiey told pies boys about
the newly-inve: ated gaze he had seen at: Springfield, The boys rigged up baskets
in their new gyre, and a round leather ball was iuade, somehow, with ‘the result
lor 3 the game was introduced and played hore the first tine anywhere west of

New ™ Bnzlend, ag ere’ f Scat BA cance aeiaiat data migitan

PLAYED Ii! FIRST GAME,

Dr, J, B, Griffith, now a practicing physician of Cray: £bidowii le. and
a Wabash bie graduate with the class of 1€95, narticipated in the first
basketball fame ever ployed hore when he was a sophomore in college. Right
from the start both the colleze and hiph school boys — to the epi. .e- which
today is the nos% ye ‘lar indoor eovie: throughout ‘the state played in eve-y
village and hamlet with a school larze enough to have a dozen or usre bors
enzo lied. vrawfo rdsyille Hizh School, first. vlaying the eine more an -—
years agp, von the first stc te hig a school chandonship back: in a .

TEE BOY F ard

Loy svinds dosen't: got much out of sclino} |
He th inks Aquinas is some kind of drink,

Lt really don't belicve the noor ididhingl
Gan use his brain machinery to think;

I told hiz azout Socrates one day

And in tho niddle of uy speech he ‘said? ©

"I never Heard of hin. Waere does he play?

Some sirls were listening a, and was 1 red.

i think his head is one big besketball
With nothing such put air on the inside,

it doesn't scem to registcr at all,

In fact he does his thinking with his hide;

His parents think that he's a clever kid.

But they have never probed beh eath his iid,

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