i ioneers on Dais

With them on the dais were T.
Duncan Patton, of Toronto; Wil-
liam R. Chase, of New Bedford,
Mass., and Lyman W. Archibald, of
Warren, Pa., members of Dr. Nai-
smith’s original team; Ray Kaighn,
a New ~vorker who had the distinc-
tion of being the game’s first cas-
ualty—he cracked up a knee in the
first scrimmage—and Dr. Lawrence
Locke Doggett, president at Spring-
field from 1896 to 1936 and a leader
ae early propagation of basket-

all,

Nation-wide observance of the
game’s fiftieth birthday by the play-
ing of “Golden Ball” contests by
college, high school, club and insti-
tutional teams will be tied in with
the efforts to raise funds for the
construction of a basketball Hall of
Fame.

The first of these special events’
will take the form of a tournament
in Madison Square Garden Nov. 19
‘and 24, involving four outstanding
A. A. U. teams—the national cham-
pion Twentieth Century Fox quin-
tet, of Hollywood; the 1940 title-
holders, Phillips Oilers, of Bartles-
ville, Okla.; Ohrbach A. A., rulers of
the metropolitan district, and the
Roanoke (Va.) Legionnaires, cham-
pions of the Southern area.

All-Star Game Set for Chicago

Out in the Mid-West the drive for
funds for the memorial will receive
its impetus from the second annual
“Chicago American” all-star game
in the Chicago Stadium, Nov. 29.
Even at this early date, it was an-
nounced, 150 colleges and 115 high
schools have scheduled “Golden
Ball” games. Hundreds of others
have signified their intention of so
| doing.
| An architect’s drawing of the pro-

leasels in the luncheon salon. It is
[the committee’s hope to erect a
|building which not only will contain
ja model playing court and spectator
\facilities, but a Hall of Fame and
‘museum in which may be enshrined
‘records, souvenirs, documents and
curios of the sport.
“Dr. Naismith gave us a complete-
ily democratic game,” Mayor Putnam
\said in his talk, ‘one which knows
neither sectarian nor national
boundaries. It is played everywhere
by men and women of all races and
lereeds. We want this building to be
a universal memorial to a man who
was loved universally for his contri-
bution to competitive athletics and
democratic traditions and

game, Springfield’s role in its devel-
opment and turned over to Mayor

Putnam a deed for the ground on)

which the memorial is to be erected.
Then he introduced the game’s first
players and Dr. Doggett.

Basketball in this area was rep-
resented by Clair F. Bee, coach of
Long Island University; Nat Hol-
man, C. C. N. Y. coach; Jacques
Coffey, graduate manager at Ford-
ham; Captain Edward Messinger,
basketball officer at West Point;
Harry Henschel, head of the met-
ropolitan A. A. U. basketball com-
mittee, and Jerry Ohrbach, presi-
dent of the Ohrbach A. A.