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Register your Golden Ball Game -=- NOW!

Golden Ball Game returns are pouring in daily from all over the

er country. By the time you receive this announcement, more than one
fs thousand teams will have named one of their best regularly
scheduled home games as a Golden Ball Game, the receipts of which
Will go to the Naismith Memorial Fund.

 

 

Army-Navy, Pennsylvania-Cornell, Notre Dame-Washington, Tennessee=
Alebama, Fordham-Columbia, North Carolina-Washington & Lee, Long
Island U.-Springfield, Iowa-Minnesota, Davidson=-N. C. State, and
New York U.-Lehigh are examples of the type of contests which are
being designated as Golden Ball Gemes, In addition, hundreds of
high school quintets have registered games with the Naismith
Committee.

Small schools are showing the same enthusiasm as large institutions
whose student bodies run into thousands. Any basketball team,
large or small (whether 100 or 10,000 people attend its contests),
is eligible to play a Golden Ball Game. All the institution has to
, do is send in its name and that of its opponent, together with the
date and place of the game, to the Naismith Memorial Committee at

Springfield, Mass.

Never in the history of basketball, which in fifty years has spread
round the world, has a united effort been made such as this, to tie
together all the loose ends of the sport into one coordinated move-
ment to honor the inventor of the game -- Dr. James Naismith.

AND THE FOLLOWING IS IMPORTANT TO YOU

If your team has not already sent in its entry blank designating
its Golden Ball Game, please do so at once, in order that publicity
material and a press book can be sent to you.

Every team conducting a Golden Ball Game (by naming one of its best
regularly scheduled home games as such) will receive a handsomely
engraved scroll worthy of being framed and hung with athletic
trophies, indicating participation in the Naismith Memorial; will
have the newspaper account and box score of the game placed in the
archives of the Museum at Springfield; will have a picture of its
team with their coach in the Temple of Basketball in the section
devoted solely to Golden Ball Game sponsors.

The Hall of Fame, a long-hoped for dream of basketball authorities,
is finally going to be realized. And in it basketball will have a

permanent home where the immortals of the game will be forever
honorede

Register your Golden Ball Game NOW -= TODAY!

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