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AN EA TO THE GROUND
By Ed Danforth,Sports Editor the
3 Atlanta Journal,
BASKETBALL OFFICIATING LESS STRICT;
More Open Games Fromised, wey

Less whistie’ blowing: ‘in basketvall games is a principle that

found favor with most coaches: aiid’ Hany officials who watched the
_ Southeastern championship tournament recently at knoxville,
“|, ‘Adolph Rupp, coach at Kentuckey, cam leAllister of Florida,
and’ Johnny, of Tennessee, were leading protagonists of, the theory
that. players prefer that officiais be jess of ficious, Everybody,
it seems, wants fewer fouls called and more’ action, even if it
roBDREPRPEPR.. the rough and PRES ES type that marked the Some, a decade
GLO. oe

_. Bowser Chest, perennial tournament official, -was quot ed on
the ‘subject as follows:

"There's no doubt that the open ce is favore’ 2 yy tine fans,
Cf course, we officials have to reach a happy meditm in our inter-
pretation Of the: rule S... Ue ane. trend Certainly is away from strict

“adherence,

ee 3 tse robust ‘sgentine a8, 1° Ports shout apo bvars No: one is
“likely to get hurt in these modérn basketball courts where tne walls
“are far back and ‘there is ‘a Caen) PR UF spectators bo Pal 1 or? SO
ist them Ta Des: 2 ae

Ho, hum , who ‘remembers those kriock- birt BA drag-~out fames
, they used _to play. in the little Atlanta Athietic Ciub <¢ym?’ ¢ohnny
Graves, Fie Weaver, Scrappy O'Sullivan end their -sang used io pitch
opposing forwards against tire wells ond catch | ‘them on first bounce,
or no. count. stg ot - Ae ee

* Jack Robinson, i ee s tricky sharpshooting forward is
1940 hign point champion. of the southern divasion, Pacific Coast
Conference, basketball race, With last” ye ars ee eet wer
“Veugnn,’ Ueoece forward, An second piace,

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= Tay PCRGCT "SUC ni vas ges oh FRG,

AT wo Baseball writers with the - lashing ‘ton ét we an ite

fe Crlendo camp forgot that "Bucky “ Harris, the ‘team manager, once
played pro besketball ... So ‘they challenged. "Bucky" ‘to ’-d:-free

_ thr owing contest ‘in an Orlando put: where the ‘athletes were taking
a ‘rainy- day workout, ecu aes tee freezing “day? Ay ere "Busky"

collected v.. . Or. the | ‘basebcll writers stil i owe.)

“By Al Wola: Western sports” ariter,

Have you noticed the i sappeara Ince - of orie of ‘paaketball's
best plays - the feint and guich ‘-break? One ofthe high school
“followers. point stout that “this néat. ‘ley “ain't what it ‘used to
bet because now'a ~tayer“with the ball selIdom‘dares to. make that
‘préak ‘with the es of old‘bééruse he's afraid-he'll be: charged
with committing a charging foul - - And the defending man is
afraid as well because in such a break he fears he'll be charged
with a blocking foul, amare ee

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