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Mr, L.W. St.John, Chairman, :
Nat'l Basket Ball Comm. of
. the U.S. and Canada, |
Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio,

Dear Saints

| | | phank you for your good letter of
the Z2list inst. ,

: I am sending you a copy of the let-
ter that I wrote to Roy mMundorff, President of the National
Association of Basket Ball Coaches and varsity basket ball
coach at Georgia Tech. ;

I still contend, Saint, that the cen-
ter jump is not the main difficulty. It is the tall, husky
boy under a 10 ft, basket that is causing. the trouble. If you
will raise that basket 2 ft., the center jump won't be the
a@ifficulty, I will wager.

You see, Saint, we will still have
the jump for held ball just the same and in many games the jump
for held balls exceeds the number of tip-off plays at center.

You know in our questionnaire this
year there is no mention of doing away with the center tip. I
believe that many of the people would consider it an inferior
bit of legislation, to strike at one of the old institutions of
Play without a definite and early discussion of such change.

r Sihede, that would not pAb Stud eLIn ewe ebaree, “Sich

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