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NOW THEY KNOW HCW THE SHORTIES FEEL

Cage Storks Crane - - Basket Up a feet

Seattle -(AF)- University - of Washington basketball players
-raised their sights to a basket 12 feet nigh Tuesday. They conclud-
' ed it was a pain in the neck, The altitude, tuat is; not the idea,
t The idea for the experiment camé from Coach Clarence S, (Hee)
Edmundson, Hec is-a member of the: National Basketcall Rules com-
retbehe t which meets in Kansas City March 31 to consider rules chang-

‘One of the suggestions to:come before the hoop rule makers will
ber to. waise.the: baskets from the 10 to-the 12-foot lewbig This is
‘to take the premium off tall players who camp under the hemp ‘and
make life miserable for pint-sized guards,

So Hec, in the interests of basketball science, decided to hold
a -casaba clinic, an@-used his ‘varsity as guina pigs.
a Sure enough, the stratospheric baskets took some of the prem-
. ium off «the tall. fellows, The rebound arc under the hoop was materi-
AIL BAZ y widened; end the. irgieandial had ae ‘bet bag chance to cneck the
storks,
Even the ‘tall fir owe came away pabis ap theit necks after cran-
ing back all afternoon and taking aim, Now they know how the little
fellows have felt ali along,

MITE Use. ee but ates not too» sold On at, 1 Edmundson said
after the: "Clinic.

“The big men are not “400 she6 Adve under the higher basket,
but oT still hold an advantage over the shorter men, And it seems
‘Lo be easier to male the long ‘shots,

ys df like- to. ‘try an -]1-foot “basket some’ time, Sut: berauss of
eXais -we — ” able tonde dtothiis vyeary Maybe = adhe foo-ers would
be the answer, vit: ait Ot

' HAPAC) REVISES ILLINIn RECORD BOCK

Dhahiesig bj. 4iaay Marth: & (AP)~ The end of Bill) Hapac's college
“late career found him in. possession of virtually every record in

oy the University of Illinois dnc EEA. woauolere are some of his
- achievements;

- Big Ten: Gwin ba cinere “piidhig 1s ‘game record of 34 points,
-Illinois: record of 582 points for a three- rye om season (all
eae
Illinois record of 244 points for a single season(all games),
Modern Illinois record ‘of 387 points for three years of Big
Ten play.
- vane Tliinois record of 164 petniae for a single Big +h

oo Tee apo, oi

Tied Chuck’ Satheyera 3 1920 LL dnots: reed of 60 fieid goals
for a Big Ten season,
to Big Ten: ne cb bes pit ia pfoain from Td 1am Ve since Carney
(1922) [A (m0o%: ;

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