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Hank Inuisetti (continued)
"I've always been a good listener to stories concerning Hank because
I've looked up to him as a world champion, a ‘natural’! in anything he's ever
done, But here's the point and I thought you could use it in col. form today,

"It's timely because of his return to the courts after a three-year per-
iod of obscurity, And this is typical of the Luisetti I followed in high school
and the champion I cheered at Stanford,

"During the psst month or so Hank has been continually practicing, get-
ting into perfect physical shape with the hope the A,A.U. would reinstate him,
He's never done anything halfway so its reasonable to assume the Iuisetti who'll
play tonight for the Olympic Club against Stanford is the same Hank, just a lit-
tle older edition, who shattered scoring records on the Farm,

"Now, last Friday, while Galileo was practicing, Hank kmocked on the
gym door and asked Tommy DeNike, who first coached him as a scrawny, spindly-
legged 120-pounder, if the preps were working out,

"Sure, Hank,' said Tommy, 'want to come in and watch?!

"Hank said he'd like to work with them if DeNike would permit it, DeNike
told him to hustle downstairs and get into a suit and come up and play, the kids
would get a terrific thrill out of working with him,

"'tBut,!' added DeNike, 'We're only working on fundsementals today,!
"That's just exactly what I want,!' answered Hank,

"And there it is, the greatest basketball player the Coast has ever pro-
duced, perhaps the most amazing the Nation has ever produced, eager to practice
fundamentals with a high school team,

"He said he needed the fundamentals too, So he donned a suit, practiced
with the kids, listened attentively to DeNike as he gave pointers to the preps
and actually tried them out himself, After thst he went to a vacant basket and
worked for two straight hours on pivots, feints, lay-up shots, dribbling --- the
whole pattern of offensive basketball,

"He helped some of the preps, too, patiently answering their questions an
laughing when, after he'd micsed the easy ones just like us,"

"The next morning he was out at George Washington high working with Lloyd
Leith's kids, answering the same questions, and going through the same practice
schedule, he's religiously stayed with ever since he was an obscure prep.

"That, Bill, is why Luisetti was so great and may be even better now, He's
never figured himself so polished he couldn't listen to pointers from high sch-
ool coaches, And he's the same Imisetti I knew at high school, a little on the
bashful side, unaffected by the buridreds of superlatives that have fallen at his
feet from the time he could lift a basketball,

"Iuisetti isn't just an athletic champion,"

EDITOR'S NOTE---A crowd of 10,000 witnessed Inisetti's debut, follow-
ing his reinstatement, The king of the court scored 20 points, as
his Alma Mater, Stanford, scored a 52-48 victory over the Olympic
Club,