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“TO YOU LIKE THE CAM OF SASKSTBALL!

 

a By Georzé Basnor i"
“a. 2 ph So Pigg “Poul Pioneer. Press - - Jan. 14, 1940.

Dy: you ‘Vike is game tof! basketbal 1 Does’ at provide: thrills in’ proportion
: to, the cost and trouble involved in atten@ing gates, - «« +
se “Heason ‘for ‘the’ qhestion is-simoly this? A Lot of “fans: baliésevthere is

™ Sbawiaarante roo for inntoveiuent aiid’ suzost changes so’ radi eal: that , ify they

“were put into effect we might” haye another fine sport, “Sut - it w rouldea' be
basketball as we know it nov, . * A G85 Bony 226

In our opinion it would be difficult to inhala an argue: at that pasketball,

inperfect as it may be, is not a good game,’ lt still outirats the reat colleze
game of foo toall and by observation, provides anout as many Prgkoor ae as a person

“gould ask’ to-le “packed “in® am howl” of ‘competition.’ “°. .

. Sasketball, from a technical standnoint may b nicked to mheces,” elt may be
“sown, in Togieak: fashion , ‘that it is notia fair dst i that 4t micht be nade
far nore attractive: ‘fron a ‘spec ae oe int. Aad ,yvet, despite all :the crit-
icism, 12,000-or Hore’ fans cai: be De tod. into’ the Minnesota Ficld hoyse ‘to ‘sce

~- the lianesota Canbers meet a Piz teas ‘opmonent 2 200 »

“ The logic majr'show ‘one ‘thicic, miblic. Hithrest -S0rme ththa entire ir. different.
Any game that stands tons fron: “A poncrél = _ ettencance standpoint can't
eS! atirely wrong. ' : = = L500 CL Gs

: TAD ARE 17S aus?

fe This. A the ‘criticism soul heax phate a doseath fans ‘above’ eld othorsi Chott a
““pame 1: a which “2000 »lar is pena ait eidd: rather 4 than revarcdds: im 8) p44 ot
That is based orincinally on the point that: a, tea scoring. a Bade t jsust
give un possession of the ball” to the onnosition. Why, the critics ask, should
a, team ve put at a disadvanta; e after Going something for which it should de
commended? Pasketkall, they. seyy is the only snort in which this is done.
ee, oe @ Meter of f act, hat is uns jen St of bne eritici srs that ay be cir-
~ectéd azainst basket dell: !
It is-not-the ‘only: s6r8 that: wddies: to tea. ‘tating: even by putting at a
. disadventae thé “téan “thich hrs ‘dist unde a seord; Fodtball’ Coos voxactly that
when it provides that the team scored against may choose whether..to “xick.or
receive the next “kickoff; Golf does: exactly the > smc Then, in’ riaitch Stey, st
provides ‘that the player’ wintine a Kole must play first from the ‘next tee and
give his opnonent the advanta ant “ok gudg “ie the wisdom of-his choice of club.
| “Basketball would becoiis: ao farée if the téan“sedriic a basket were given
“the advan ta age-in the throv-out ’ ‘OF the hall for réesimption of play. Ie that * were
done a toon ‘that was only a “Tittte sunérior too its: ononsnt would become so
superior ‘as to déstroy the: corpetitive: ongle, Gar sos thet How sive the: cppaering
beau an advantage of a few points would -beeone utter robis? aa us 7h
+ 227% must’ te"adnitt bed: that” the element of Mucic’ often results’ teithe batter
basketball teom losing’ a: ‘elose® perme, But-is ‘thatoa situation “pevel ser’ to basket-
| ball? Would anyone suey eS t tha ts at Goesn' - ny yoni in: rysnee al Abs! “golf, hockey,
tees what % have yout 1 % roan 7 it 2E on oF var

cg aomnat ‘Be 9 aa btcony “to- Say > ERBAD tito 18 ion Ly” roo oe Tharseereht: in

> “BRE ‘But when’ the’ rules co: aiittee takes ‘un’ the natter of correction it

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¥ hg should renenver that: most’ of tHe’ things nor being erfticized ore -the rosult of

- oy Shanes. yer were. > dest ane: oct to. ‘correct what nreviously'r vOre San ears ir
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