The Golden Jubilee of Basketball has no provincial barriers. It is
a nation-wide undertaking, because we feel that this distinctly American sport
-- jn the sense of origin «- should prompt all its adherents to participate in
honoring its founder.

The backbone of the campaign will be a chain of Golden Ball Games to
be played by colleges, high schools, A.A.U. clubs, professional teams, and
Y.M.C.A. organizations from coast to coast. Part of the proceeds of those
games will be donated to the Naismith Memorial Committee fund. These games are
not extra scheduled contests but are merely regularly scheduled games which
have been designated as Golden Ball Games by various teams. Each team that
plays a Golden Ball Game will have its picture and a record of the game pre~
served in perpetuity in the archives of the Hall of Fame.

Already our early invitations to play Golden Ball Games have met with
a most gratifying response. Teams and institutions everywhere have manifested
a surprising enthusiasm and the willingness to lend their full cunt.
Hundreds of acceptances have come pouring in. Teams and institutions that have
a policy prohibiting any of their athletic receipts from being allocated to any
benefit funds have almost unanimously declared themselves willing to make a
separate contribution to the Naismith Memorial Committee.

I am convinced that basketball as an entity will profit tremendously
by the impetus which it will get through the Golden Ball Games and through the
Golden Jubilee National Campaign.

And finally, may I say that while the Naismith Memorial Comnittee
feels that they have a challenging and worthy cause, an idea, and appropriate
machinery to set the Golden Jubilee of Basketball in motion, our Committee is
also definitely aware that to go through to a successful conclusion, it will
only be possible through the untiring efforts of sports writers and commentators,
When this campaign is completed we will have a Hall of Fame for Basketball as
a Memorial to its inventor, Dr. James Naismith, and a full appreciation of the

part that you men have played in it. Thank you.