that anything which spreads the defense, and results in more con-
tinuous action will remove the principal objections now hurled at
the game. At any rate I would like to see some of you coaches
experiment with this 30-foot arc proposition to find if it has
any value."

Time was up as we had to get ready for another clash
with the Jayhawkers, and we reluctantly bid good-bye to our dis-
tinguished visitor. My final thought as we parted was a fervent
wish that more coaches might meet this man, and I wondered if his
presence on our next convention program wouldn't help all of us.

OHIO BECOMING CLINIC CONSCIOUS

B.T. Grover, Coach of Basketball,
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

The state of Ohio is quickly becoming clinic minded in a
basketball way if the number and interest manifested in these meet-
ings can be taken as a criterion.

The feature this season was the county clinic at Chillicothe.
Ross County, December 8, under the auspices of the Ohio High School
Athletic Association. This meeting, the first of its asnect in the
state, was conceived as a trial and ended as a hugh success. Included
in the program at Chillicothe were illustrated lectures of the care
and treatment of athletic injuries; practical basketball; Officiating
and interpreting of the 1934-35 rules; individual offensive fundemen-
tals, tactics and systems of Dlay; various types. of team defense; and
sundry discussions on the game as a whole. H. R. Townsend, director
of the clinic and State Athletic Cormissioner, was highly gratified
with the success of the trial and stated after the meeting that sim-
ilar clinics would be held in every county of the state next winter.

On the night of the Ohio State - Carleton game at Columbus,
which Ohio State won, 24-13, a clinic was held previous to the game
in which officials and coaches. participated. The program on that
occassion consisted of demonstrations of out-of-bounds Plays, fast
break offense, and attacking of zone defense by the Ohio State
freshman squad; discussion of defense by Marshall Diebold, Carleton
coach; "Comparison of Southwestern Basketball to Mid-West Basket-
ball", by Francis A, Schmidt, Ohio State football coach; discussion
of officiating by Judge Townsend; rules discussion and questions
presided over by the officials, ™.C.Kriger and Harry Laymen; motion
pictures of the New York Celtics in offensive and defensive fundemen-
tals by Mr. Kerr, former Celtics coach, The meeting was vresided
over by Coach H. G. Olson, of Ohio State University.