st & Park at West End,
Ingleside at” Marietta, Forrest Hills at
Chattahoochee.

BASKET HEADS
URGE OPEN GAME

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practice, but were impressed with:

“C)) The abolition of the 10-sec-
ond rule and an enforced man-to-
man defense, and
*=-(2) Allowing only four men on
defense against the five offensive
men, which would revive the old
“sleeper” play as the best means
of speeding up the game. Con-
demnation of the variations of the
five-man defense and the zone de-
fense that have come into wide
use and have.clogged the one-time
speed of the sport was unmistak-
ably strong. The coaches want,
‘tit. seems, a fast-moving, fast-
breaking game as indeed do most
basketball fans.

Specific recommendations to
the joint rules committee were to:

(1). Increase the time out. peri-
-|od from one to two minutes.

(2) Urge officials strictly to en-
force present rules governing the
huddle.

(3) That the official be required
to hand the ball to the man out-
side.

(4) That: a. ‘smaller ball be-
tween 2944 and 30% inches in cir-
: | cumference be adopted instead of
-| the 30-31-inch ball now in use.

(5) All front courts must be a
minimum of 40 feet long.

The coaches referred questions
of painting the ball black, of ele-
vating baskets to 12 feet and other
wroposals to. the research commit-
tee for further study.

Coaches reported increased at-
tendance in the Bast and Middle
| West and slightly decreased at-
tendance in the South, the latter
condition being attributed to in-
ferior teams, .