HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE

A half century ago two peach baskets altered
the courses of sports history -- two peach baskets
in the provident hands of an able, courageous and
far-seeing man named James Naismith. Today, the
product of his athletic genius occupies in whole-
some endeavor millions upon millions of healthy
young Americans engaged in the game of Basketball.

What the late Dr. Naismith originated in
Springfield, Mass., in the Winter of 1891 has come
to be the nation's leading syort in point of com-
petitors and spectators with a brilliant history of
constructive physical development wherever it has
been played. Launched among Y.M.C.A.'s, colleges
and schools, basketball rapidly spread to the re-
creation departments of churches, clubs, social
agencies, industrial concerns and even won over
the wholehearted interest of the women, who now
play an important role in the affairs of the game.

No better time could exist then right now to
pay homage to one man who brought so much joy into
the hearts of Americans without worldly benefit to
himself, while elsewhere about us other men are
exploiting humanity for their own selfish gain.
Dr. James Naismith has taken his place among the
Immortals of Sports and the idea of perpetuating
his memory and his vital contribution to the
American scene in the Naismith Memorial at Spring-
field should receive the wholehearted support of
every red-blooded player and fan in the country.

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