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But the trouble with your argument is thet there is no
penalty for a foul in basketball so.if you permitted an unlimited
number of fouls players could comuit them with impunity.

The only deterrent to foul play-in basketball is the knowledge
that each foul hastens the time when a player will have four and
will be out of the game. pigad REEL :

| Do I hear you say, “What about the free throws? Every time
a man commits a foul the other team is allowed one or two free
throws, Aren't those penalties?" He wo Lt

No, they ere not, oS eee 4 mS i 8s |

Every time the fouled team completes a free throw for one
point: the team that committed the foul is. given possession of the
bell and a chance to make two points. . Stam oc :

4a foe Lae, ey eee any statistics on basketball which show that
penalties work a-hardship on the offending team, More likely
statistics would show that a team has a slight profit every time it
commits a foul, egemlarnngs We ma X a POs

BASKETBALL AZBOUNDS .

Decision still Reserved as Court
Studies Case of Illegal Block Vs.
Legal Screen, ees oe
‘By Everett B. Morris. -

That hardy old. perenniel, the difference between a block
(illegal) and ea screen (legal) blossomed again “yesterday when
metropolitan coaches and writers. gathered at lunch to hear Tom
Haggerty, coach,talk about DeFaul's basketball team, Like the war,
this cute little enigma can be expected to start a rousing argument
whenever the conversation gives the slightest indication of lagging.

The entire question was catapulted into discussion when our
Everett B, Morris, who was feeling quite low anyway because he just
had a tooth pulled, innocently induired of Haggerty whether it wasn't
true the entire Mid-West had to play basketball according to the Big
Ten interpretation thereof, :That was all the boys needed, Haggerty
answered and went into a discussion of what constituted a blocking
foul. Neil Cohalan, Manhattan coach, jumped into the fray feet first
and asked the boys why didn't they get together and interpret the
rule uniformly. Whereupon Clair Bee, the Long Island U. coach came
up with arms swinging and used chairs, harmless writers who were in-
nocently drinking their coffee, and salt and pepper cellars to ill-
ustrate the difference between.the legal screen and illegal block,

‘JUMPS AND BUMPS.

At a late. hour yesterday, the ficcadilly lobby was still be-
ing stirred out of its mid-afternoon lethargy by the, sight of staid
coaches and. dignified. basketball. writers jumping in front of each

- other, bumping into each. other and asking "But. what's this?"