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In a frank discussion on intere-collegiate versus professional
basketball, William (Chuck) Solodare, the famous Newarl: official, says:
f There is no comparison. Intercollegiate basketball s 0 atnnnl lad

streamlined, It's. not, but a hard running game. Té best conditioned:
and also the luckiest tean often wins. To ne, college ball: iaeks the -
oomph of pro basketball.
The elimination of the centes. tap has nian a lot” of gies ed
spay fron the . game; - The euys who. can shoot: with’ one hand Rave the edgo
on teams: that must. get. down. into the scoring zone and get set to shoot.

. Look what. Butler. aia to L.I. U. the other night as compared with Syracuse

against New York University. Butler had one of those small ball clubs but
the kids could run and flip. that basketball. one handed fron an off-balance
position, 4.1.U. was much taller and luckier. They von out by to mere
points,

"Syracuse,. on the ove’ ‘hind nad a nice club but it must get around
the scoring zone first and- then get set to score field goals... N.Y.U.
presented the so-called Mid-West tyne of Hall, It played for and got the
~ ball and shot fron all distances, short, and Yong and many of their shots
were one-handed, They garbled - nore often and ‘won eAsily.

"As compared to. pro. basketball, collese ‘doesn't stand one-tvo or:
even three, The pros have the jump, set plays, and. the ‘scores aren't 9s
mountainous as. the . college type. . Their ball isn't a marathon race, - but
skill," says Solodare, "ho nov ‘and then officintes college cme* but
concentrates on pro league | FANes. .

Chuck, by the way ‘will be back in the Thtorintional eseue as an
unnire again during the 1940 season, His hopes? -. =e to be in ‘the
big leagues as an umpire, if only | for a year. ~~:

"Onty then. will I feel’ that 3 have made the “grade, nm S78. the sewarker,

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Boost for Panzer nnd Seton Held,

NT tye ‘looked at aS many as 10 to 12 seatiere ¢ gutsed. vii sagages says
San Klugman, an old basketbsll tosser, hinsel?. "Bat I think we got two
great teans right in this area in Seton Hall and Panzer, I'd like to see
_.them get into the so-called me time. Shay} run Alot fs the. —

é big-wigs rageec,

"Panzer has a creat forward in -. boy netsh Bercer:.: He. is the class
of. the field. He rarely loses his head and is never in pack of the.ball.
He knows’ what is going on all the tine in this high ‘speed aan.

"Seton Hall. has a flock of food ball players... You- can't single out
an individual star, It is a combination. of all-stars and that's the way
Honey Russell wants, his team to be rather than have one key player. 7s
team could deat: tvo-thirds of ‘the high class ball clubs in the ‘country, !

says Klugie, who is with ‘a top notch ball club, the Hebrew ‘Club.
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Columbia Mentor Sugrests.

| Paul Mooney, C Gotunbia Univeraity basketball cau seems 6" agree with
Chuck Solodare that: college basketball is } nothing. bul a ae of hard, fast
foot-work and. lacks real skill, ag
Sel Mooney is for eliminating the. sistencetes, te ‘oat Be eo. see the
collegians shoot ‘at open “baskets as the professionals once did,

* "Only then will you seé science ané skill replacing sheer- luck. and
height as the riore important factors in the game Paaey 5 For a — to